Ben arrives first, to the place that Allison had specified - just an unused set of rooms in the living area. He and his sister had briefly discussed just doing their little makeover in their quarters, but the realistic likelihood that Klaus would be able to restrain himself from heckling (in a loving sort of way) seemed so low that this option was better. Besides, in a way it is neutral territory. A blank canvas, where Ben doesn't have all the trappings of his life and the person he thinks of himself as all around, making him hesitant of change.
He is nervous as he waits there for his sister and his friend to arrive. Ben has really very little experience having friends. It's something entirely new, the process of introducing a friend of his to a sibling, and introducing some of his family to one of his new friends. It doesn't help that he keeps thinking about the inequality of how much they will come in knowing about one another. He'd told Allison about the fact that Cho is a marine biologist, that they'd bonded over getting attacked by zombies, that her family were super rich and had a fish corporation (well he hadn't worded it quite like that). As for the other side, Ben had tried to do the same amount of giving basic biographical details: that Allison is a super-famous super-glamorous Hollywood actress, divorced with a daughter named Claire, and he'd of course warned Cho that Allison would be using her device to communicate while she's healing from an injury to her throat.
But, of course, that's not all Cho knows. There is plenty more that she will probably be able to guess and infer, because Ben and Allison are siblings, and Ben and Cho have had some fairly intense conversations about his family and upbringing. So Cho will be coming into that room also knowing Allison had been bought as a baby, that she has powers, that she was a part of the Academy, that she had been raised in the same isolated, loveless, abusive situation that Ben was.
So he is thinking about that, and also about how much he's going to be the center of attention for the next however long. That's never exactly been his favorite thing. But it's just Allison and Cho. That's not so bad, all in all. And he is at the very least sure that neither of them are going to try to pressure him into wearing something he hates.
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He is nervous as he waits there for his sister and his friend to arrive. Ben has really very little experience having friends. It's something entirely new, the process of introducing a friend of his to a sibling, and introducing some of his family to one of his new friends. It doesn't help that he keeps thinking about the inequality of how much they will come in knowing about one another. He'd told Allison about the fact that Cho is a marine biologist, that they'd bonded over getting attacked by zombies, that her family were super rich and had a fish corporation (well he hadn't worded it quite like that). As for the other side, Ben had tried to do the same amount of giving basic biographical details: that Allison is a super-famous super-glamorous Hollywood actress, divorced with a daughter named Claire, and he'd of course warned Cho that Allison would be using her device to communicate while she's healing from an injury to her throat.
But, of course, that's not all Cho knows. There is plenty more that she will probably be able to guess and infer, because Ben and Allison are siblings, and Ben and Cho have had some fairly intense conversations about his family and upbringing. So Cho will be coming into that room also knowing Allison had been bought as a baby, that she has powers, that she was a part of the Academy, that she had been raised in the same isolated, loveless, abusive situation that Ben was.
So he is thinking about that, and also about how much he's going to be the center of attention for the next however long. That's never exactly been his favorite thing. But it's just Allison and Cho. That's not so bad, all in all. And he is at the very least sure that neither of them are going to try to pressure him into wearing something he hates.