"Whatever guys, we can talk about all that stuff later," Ben said, taking stock of his other classmates' reactions to each other. Brianna and Vartoogian seemed even more cautious than when they thought Ben was ten seconds from beating them up. It was kind of stupid, since Ben knew he could...

Ben's father used to call the lottery an "idiot tax". Big winnings, with next-to-impossible odds. Ben hadn't really believed it himself until he tried buying a ticket for a student council 50/50 draw in his freshman year. He was a lot more stupid back then, but it taught him that the major...

Ben kept a close eye on Vartoogian as the other boy put the knife away. Not in the smartest place, but Ben wasn't the one who might be in danger of having his balls cut off by putting a knife too close to it. He watched Brianna make her way up into the bus. Vartoogian's invitation still hung in the ...

Ben could hear the threat in Vartoogian's proposal. If that girl hadn't shown up with her two pennies, Ben would no doubt have stayed his ground and shown the faggot that he wasn't going to be talked down by a punk with a knife. Ben hadn't missed the ease with which the other boy had slipped into a ...

"That a threat, Vartoogian?" Ben rumbled. Did the faggot really want to start something right now? Not even six hours here and he already was trying to pick fights that he couldn't win. This kid was an idiot and deserved every bad thing he was going to have to live through on this island. ...

((B036: Benjamin Ward - BEGIN)) This spell causes seven shimmering, intertwined, multicolored beams of light to spray from your hand Ben shut the book and rolled his eyes. This game was stupid . He could wrap his head around having stats like Strength and Intelligence, and Fighters being tough badas...

Ben watched as the stool flew true and hit Jaquilyn. In the chaos, his companions started to run out of the room, and Ben could tell quite easily that Jaquilyn was quite shaken by the impact. That was a damn good throw. He didn't have long to bask in his accomplishment. Jaquilyn yelled at him, and B...

By the time Ben found his voice again, things had gone to shit and Jesse had tackled Fletcher and Fletcher had run away like the little bitch he was. Harlin started shouting something, but Ben didn't care because Chris Harlin pretty much never had anything smart to say. Jesse evidently was thinking ...

((Ben Ward continued from Welcome to Summoner's Rift )) "Those fuckers..." Ben muttered as he climbed the stairs to the clubhouse balcony. He'd only asked them to wait like five minutes, because sometimes, a guy needed to take a shit. Especially with those awful food bars they'd been given...

There wasn't much Marcus could do to make somebody really open up to him. Being a patient and supportive guy only went so far; the rest was really up to the other person. There were some people that were introspective enough to handle themselves mostly without outside intervention. It was something ...

At first, Marcus thought Joe was just going to use his newly procured book to pull the same stunt of covering up his face. Given the skittishness of Joe at the moment, it was a wonder he hadn't run off already. Which at least meant that Marcus was making progress somewhat. Always a good sign. Joe fl...

Whatever Joe had mumbled back to him were definitely not words. At least not English words. The only word he could make out was "fine" and by the looks of it, that was the one word he probably wasn't using to describe himself. Except maybe if he were saying he wasn't fine. Of course, now J...

The bigger boy had managed to get in an extra kick or two before a teacher showed up to break up the fight. Not that Marcus would have really called it a fight: it was a bit too one-sided to warrant that description. Not in any way the biggest or most violent fight he'd seen at Aurora either. Not on...

Marcus never saw the punch coming. He had just been sitting down with some books, working on some math homework that had been assigned in the morning. Getting the work done early gave him more time to study for next week's test. It would also give him a little more spare time he could spend on a cou...

((Ben Ward continued from Variables... )) History used to be one of Ben's favorite subjects. He got to learn about awesome people doing awesome things like winning wars. Also, he didn't have to put up with Connor's habit of making class discussion a regular event. No, Ben didn't want to hear all of ...