Ben's POV
She loves me? I smile wider than ever. I stand and lift Rey up in the air, spinning her as she giggles.

I bring her back down and kiss her again passionately. She smiles breaking away. "I love you too Rey." I say back.

"I know." She smirks and replies. There's a knock at the door. "I'll get it." She walks over and opens the door. "Hey Poe!"

Rey's POV
"Ready for dinner? Some of us are meeting up and the General says she has an announcement for everyone."

"Sure. Ben, let's go to dinner!" I call over my shoulder.

"Ben?" Poe asks confused.

"Yeah, before he was Kylo Ren he was Ben Solo, so he's going by Ben now."

"Yup." Ben says from behind me slipping an arm around my waist.

"Okay, do you guys maybe want to change?" We look down.

"Oh yeah, that'd probably be best." I say. "Want to come in and wait?"

"Sure." I open the door wider and we all go back in. I grab the box from the couch where I tossed it as I was distracted. "Whoa, this is your guys room?"

"Yeah." Ben smirks. "Isn't it amazing? We haven't even looked around."

"I think the bedroom is this way." I say. I walk down a hall spotting an office room with a bay window, a bathroom, and a dinning room that leads to a kitchen which I believe there was an entrance from the living room. At the end of the hall is the bedroom. "Found it!" I set the box down on a vanity and pull out a pair black training pants for me and the men's verison for Ben. I also pull him out a black shirt and a red shirt for me. I begin changing when Ben walks in. He turns around and I pull off his cape. "Sorry, I already did mine."

"You owe me a kiss then." He leans in closing his eyes and I put the side of my fist to his lips. He begins to kiss it then opens his eyes and I burst out laughing. "I'll get you for that."

I finish getting dressed. "Oh sure you will." I undo my hair in the mirror and grab my lightsaber, clipping it to my pants.

Ben dresses and he walks up behind me in the mirror placing his hands on my hips. "Oh I will."

I smirk. "You can't even catch me without using the force."

"Is that a challenge?"

I turn and look at him. "I make it to the dinning hall without you catching me I win."

"And if I catch you?" He looks down at my lip and bites his lip. "What do I get?"

"Bragging rights." I smile.

"So winner gets bragging rights? That's lame."

"Why are you worried about my prize Solo?"

"Oh that's my prize scavenger." He smiles.

"Rules. You can't use the force."

"Okay." He nods and we smile at each other. I take off running and go through the dinning room.

He's on my trail within secs and has me cornered at the kitchen island. We run around for a second and we both freeze and I'm giggling uncontrollably.  Poe walks in. "Okay cuties. Let's get going."

"She challenged me and I'm not backing down."

"Oh really?" Poe smirks and raises an eyebrow.

"Yeah I have to catch her before she gets to the dinning hall to win." Poe takes a step forward towards Ben and I see my chance. I run behind Poe as he's in front of Ben. "No fair!"

"Later!" I yell as I run through the door. I heard running behind me and glance to see Poe running after me with Ben close behind. Poe is knocking on doors as we run and I knock on Phasma's door twice before sprinting off. Ben is getting close when I turn and freeze him in place.

"Cheater!" He shouts as I take off running and he breaks the hold. I see the dining hall and hear him breathing heavily right behind me. I push myself and start going faster like I'm running from stormtroopers with Finn back on Jakku.

The doors are open and I fly in colliding into Chewbecca. We fall and I land on top of him laughing. He moans at me. "Sorry Chewie. Ben and I had a bet going and I just won." Chewie laughs as Ben runs in.

"You cheated!" He states. I stand and help Chewie up.

"No the rules were you couldn't use the force."

"What?" Ben says. Chewbecca laughs again. "Laugh it up, fuzzball."

Poe runs in and crashes into Ben and they fall on the floor. They begin laughing then I hear a tray slam down. We stop laughing and look over to see Finn stomping over. Ben and Poe get up as Phasma and two other pilots come in.

Finn walks up to Ben and gets in his face. He stares him down and Ben has a neutral expression. The whole dinning hall is watching them. "You wanna fight?" Finn says. "Outcast." Finn pushes Ben.

"No." Ben says and takes a deep breath.

"What was that freak?" Finn gets up in his face again.

A door creaks as Leia walks in. I can see her expression change from thinking to shocked in seconds. She stands there watching as do the rest of us.

"I'm not going to fight you Finn." Ben says in a neutral tone.

Poe walks up to Finn placing a hand on his shoulder. "Let it go man. Ben has changed."

"Oh it's Ben now." Finn scoffs. "A name change doesn't mean anything to me when all I see is Kylo Ren." I clench my fist. Finn's not even giving him a chance. "The same guy who destroyed planets, commanded the First Order, and killed thousands of innocent people... The same coward behind the mask." I stand next to Ben and slip my hand into his. He grips my hand.

"I'm sorry you can't see my change, but I won't fight you to prove whatever you want." I give him a reassuring squeeze and he squeezes back. I see Leia smile over at us.

Finn scoffs. "Whatever Ren. I'm on to you." He looks over at me. "Scavenger." He growls at me.

I bite the inside of my lip, then Ben lifts my face my face to look at him as Finn turns to walk away. "Beautiful." He whispers and I  look into his eyes.

Don't you dare kiss me in front of everyone.

Why not give them a show? He smirks and I let his hand go and turn to go get food. Leia clears her throat and everyone's attention goes to her.

"As you may have noticed some new faces, we are going to have a ball in two nights to celebrate the safe return of Rey and Ben Solo, and the joining of Captain Phasma." She jesters to us and the three of us all give a slight wave. The two pilots start clapping and everyone else joins in. I smile back at Phasma and she walks over linking her arm through mine. "That is all." Leia raises an arm goodbye to me and nods. I smile and nod back.

'We did it.' She mouths and we smile at each other. I nod again and she turns and disappears through the door she came in before.

Phasma and I walk over to the trays and unlink our arms and begin grabbing food. I see Finn and Poe talking in the corner and Finn glances my direction, so I look away. I wish he would go back to the fun loving, easy going guy I met back on Jakku.

I go and sit down at a table with Phasma and the seats quickly fill around us. Chewbecca joins us, then Ben takes the seat by me. The two pilots I think Snap is one, but I'm unfamiliar with the other join us, but don't say anything. Luke comes over and sits. "I'm Luke and you must be Captain Phasma." He holds his hand out and she shakes.

"Luke as in Skywalker?" He nods. "Pleasure to meet you."

"Pleasure's all mine." He smiles. "Rey." He nods and I return a nod. "Ben." He gives him an emotionless look.

"Uncle." Ben says back and picks up a piece of bread taking a bite. Chewbecca groans.

"It's kind of hard to miss or forget you Chewie." He groans back nodding and smiling.

We eat having small talk.

"Direct hit!" The pilot says after launching a grape and hitting Poe in the chest.

"Yeah, but no damage!" Poe chuckles back then grabs Finn's hand and leads him over. He let's his hand go and I give him a weird look and he kind of smiles and looks down at his feet. "Mind if we sit here." He mumbles.

"Sure." I motion them to sit and they do. "So Poe, you planning on going to the ball?"

"Yeah." He grins.

"Taking someone special?" I wiggle my eyebrows and he chuckles.

"Why you interested?" He smirks and I scrunch my nose shaking my head.

"Poe you're a great guy, but I'm kind of hoping a certain someone." I nudge Ben with my arm. "Will ask?"

"Yeah Phasma, why haven't you asked Rey?" Ben speaks up.

She chokes on her water. "Excuse me?" We all begin laughing, except Finn who cracks a smile trying to resist. Everyone suddenly gets quiet and Luke has a shocked look on his face.

I look over at Ben who is now kneeling next to me. He takes one of my hands. "Rey will you go to the ball with me?"

"Yes, of course Ben." He smiles. I knew you couldn't resist this.

I gasp and take my hand back and force push him backwards. He slides about five feet back and I smirk. Phasma laughs and Poe joins in knowing what happened.

Ben comes over and sits. "So are you two a thing or what?" Finn says looking at me.

"Yes, we are Finn." Everyone looks at me except Phasma who casually eats her soup.

"I knew it!" Poe exclaims. "We totally called that Chewie." Chewie groans and high fives Poe.

"Congrats you two." Luke says and takes a bite of bread.

"Umm, thanks." Ben says and slings an arm around me. "I think we should celebrate." He whispers to me.

"I think you should keep it in your pants." Phasma whispers to us. I laugh nervously and glance over at Ben.

"I think you should get ear muffs." He says back and I hit his chest.

A/N: Hey! School started for me today, so I won't be posting as much, but I will still be posting as much as I can! I hope you all are still enjoying the book and I promise I still have many more chapters coming!