Transmigrated Into A Billionaire novel Chapter 61

　　"Shall we all get dressed, it's almost four and we have to be there for the red carpet…" Rachel said.

　　She turned around to face Ricky and Ben but already found Ben staring at her weirdly, it made heart skip a beat, and no not in that way, but in a way of being freaked out. He was staring at her boldly now, he really wasn't even hiding it this time around.

　　"You can stop staring when ever you have had your full," Rachel said, smiling a bit not to come off as completely attacking or like she had a problem with him.

　　"Sorry if I made you uncomfortable,"

　　"You did make me uncomfortable," Rachel deadpanned. The air was getting tense from both of them staring at each other for a few seconds that felt like a very long minutes.

　　"I'm sorry if I made you uncomfortable but you really talked like someone I knew in highschool but that is impossible since you know...You are a billionaire and stuff…" Ben trailed off. He badly wanted to make a good first impression to Ricky's friends but it looked like he had already fucked it up from the start and it was all in the gutter.

　　"Is everything ok??" Ricky came back from making sure Amy actually drank the milk and not something else. Both of them looked tense as hell which made him curious.

　　"Do you guys have a history or something?," Ricky asked folding his arms.

　　"No we don't, he just reminded me of someone I knew and I think he had the same reaction," Rachel said. Her heart was beating a bit because he looked like he was slowing recalling her even though she was not Rachel anymore, but she wasn't surprised that he would recognize her energy. When they were in highschool, she was friends with Isaac, they had the same history class and they bonded over they intense dislike for history and their love for English, they remained friends even after he was outed, or though he lost some of his friends especially his closest male friends, so she made it her goal to try and stick by him even though she was not as close to him as his other friends were. She still didn't know what happened between Ben and Isaac, he never told her, all she had was just rumors which couldn't hold water. She defended him a few times from Ben's intense bullying and when she dropped some courses to take courses she failed due to issues at home, she and Isaac only got to see during lunch and each time they saw, there was always a fresh wound or a fresh black eye.

　　"So….You don't know each other then?," Ricky said.

　　"Nope, but he's hot...You got good taste" Rachel complimented Ricky before leaving them to check up on Amy who was still sipping milk on the stool in the kitchen area.

　　"Hey, is there any problem for real, you guys looked tense like there was some bad blood between you guys," Ricky asked, touching Ben's arm. His forehead head had creases which meant he was in thoughts or something was disturbing him.

　　"Yeah, I'm fine...She's just really intense and I was worried about making a good first impression since they are the people you spend most of your time with. But I guess today is not a good day," Ben spilled out not completely telling him everything how Araceli was so much like his ex classmate from highschool back when he was a first grade asshole and lost his rockers when he was found with his crush then when he took him for Ice skating.

　　He had always known he was gay, but due to the home he grew up in, he couldn't let them find out except he was dead so that they could spit on his grave. His father was incredibly homophobic and his mother was a religious figure in church, so she was equally homophobic. He was sure his father and mother bonded over their sheer hate of homosexuals, they went ahead to have three sons bug God decided he had other plans for them and therefore blessed them with a gay kid.

　　He was raised to be homophobic, it was all he ever knew. His brothers didn't fail to follow their parents hate for it, they dispised a gay man their neighbor and when they were old enough, they beat him up to pulps till he moved away, he never even pressed charges. But all this changed when he was fourteen and the new kid transferred to their school. What caught his attention first was he was intentionally named after a famous scientist, Isaac Newton, which was his full name. They took geography and history together and got to be partners on a project.

　　They became close friends and started hanging out after school. They went to watch movies together and skated, and he would go watch Isaac skate in the park on Saturdays, he thought they were just becoming close friends till it was a friday and they got together to watch a movie at Isaac's house. It was a sleepover and Isaac ended up kissing him and he couldn't believe it, he couldn't speak after that because he realized that he liked it and panicked, but Isaac told him he wasn't gay, just curious. They ended up exploring each other till some of their classmates caught both of them Ice skating together and told the whole class that they were dating. He knew they lived in the closed up part of town where information moved around before words got to his parents, it was only about time that his brothers confronted him about it and he denied it and denied being friends with Isaac. Meanwhile, Isaac agreed to it which made him get the tag "faggot", he tried to talk him out of it but Isaac was always outspoken so he stopped hanging out with him even though it hurt him like hell.

　　But that wasn't enough for his brothers, they wanted to be sure because they knew Benedict had been spending alot of time with a friend and had never really talked about being with any girl or talked about a girl he had a crush on. Ben couldn't do what Isaac did, be confident and own up to his truth, he couldn't take the hate Isaac took every day for just being himself. So his brothers finally thought about a way to be sure if he was gay, they made him pick on Isaac, He clearly remembered the day his brothers made him do it. He first told them that he couldn't do it and that was when tbey used the word faggot on him and it felt like he was spat on.

　　"Are you really a fairy??...A pansy huh…"

　　"Or are you a faggot just like that Isaac kid…" Jeremih, his eldest brother who was eighteen then. He remember how he flinched at those words, but he couldn't imagine hurting Isaac. So they did it for him. He found Isaac beaten up the next day in school and when he asks him what happened, he just ignored and walked past him like he didn't exist. Ben felt thug at his heart. When he got home, his two brothers told him proudly that they had beaten him up for him and he didn't have tk worry about the faggot disturbing him anymore and next time, he was going to be the one to beat up Isaac. He remembered crying that night bitterly because he couldn't help Isaac because he was a goddamn coward.

　　One day, On the last day of the semester into the summer, his brothers took him after school, they never told him where they were going but he still followed them regardless, but he recognized this route they were taking, it was the one he and Isaac took when they skipped classes and wanted to get chips for movies, he prayed to God that it was a coincidence, that Isaac wasn't the person they were after, he cried to God all through his journey, even though he wasn't a serious Christian, he still believed in God and prayed for this to not be an attack on Isaac.

　　"Where are we going, I'm hungry…" Ben told his immediate older brother, Robert.

　　"Oh stop it with your whining, we are almost there," Robert said, walking ahead.

　　His worst fear became reality as Isaac came out of the local grocery store just a block away from his house, and he looked at his brothers in dread and they had an evil smirk on his face that scared him shitless. He knew what was about to happen, they were going to beat the crap out of Isaac again, but this time, he feared it was going to be worse because it wasn't in school, they were outside and the street wasn't busy so all odds were in their favor.

　　They creeped up behind him and kicked him from behind making him trip and fall, hitting his head badly against the concrete and his head started bleeding immediately.

　　"Guys I think that's enough, he's already bleeding," Benedict begged them.

　　"Do you actually pity the faggot??" Jeremiah came to him pointing a pocket knife at him, horror came over him as he saw his brother had a pocket knife, he looked like a crazed monster holding his own brother at knife point.

　　"No, I'm just saying...he...he's already bleeding…" Ben stuttered.

　　"So??"

　　"Look Ben, we are doing him a favor, he's going to rot in hell anyways, we might as well make it quick for him," Jeremih smiled looking back at Isaac who was barely moving on the ground.

　　"What about the pocket knife…" Ben mentioned shaking.

　　"Ohh...you will see…" Jeremih said. Robert had stopped stomping Isaac on his and Jeremih tore open his buttoned up flannel shirt exposing his pale white skin in the sun, he could hear him groan from the force which Jeremih used.

　　The next thing that happened broke Ben and scarred him for life, it was Isaac muffled screams as Jeremih carved *FAGGOT* over his chest, when he opened his eyes, blood was all over the ground, after they were done, they ran and left Benjamin looking at a bleeding Isaac with tears flowing from his eyes.

　　"You are a coward…" Was the last words that came out of Isaac's lips before he went unconscious. He panicked and immediately called 911.

　　After spend over two months in the hospital for 4 broken ribs, a fractured arm and infected cut open wounds, Isaac moved away and Benjamin left his home to college and never looked back, necwr spoke to his brothers or parents and started his life in a different city before he came back to pursue his dream course after a degree in psychology.

　　"Benjamin, baby are you ok??" Ricky hugged him from behind and asked, after seeing him stand in front of a paintint for over ten minutes. He seemed lost in thoughts and knowing Benjamin, he would tell him later in the night, so he didn't pressure him, just waited for him to give his excuse.

　　"Yeah yeah, I'm fine" Ben turned around and gave him a peck on his lips.

　　"Just taking some inspiration," Ben said.

　　"Well the food is almost done, hope you got some appetite on you?" Ricky asked, touching his stomach.

　　"Yeah, I mean, we are probably just gonna be taking champagne and some silly little chops or what every crazy ass person eats at fundraisers," Ben laughed and Ricky followed suit.

　　"Well, I will be back"

　　"By the way, after lunch we get dressed in their guest room down stairs, wanna do a little prep to put us in the mood for tonight?," Ricky winked at him, touching his nipples through his clothes. "Oh you naught naught boy, I mean we would be checking off the bucket list of making out in both our friend's house, we already did it at Michael's, so this could be the second," Ben said, bending down to kiss him on the neck. "No sex in my guest room guys!!!"