and around and around we go

"I know that if I were to fraternise in the engine with anyone, it would be you. So. I’m offering.”“You’re offering.”“I’m—” Melanie looked up, a smile dancing around her lips as she searched for the right words. She didn’t know that Ben was all in. That Ben was in love. That Ben had felt like they were on the precipice for five years and was just waiting for her to fall with him. “I’m opening the conversation to change the current dynamic of our relationship to one that is also sexual, and meaningful, and true.”He got it. He got it all.“You’re my best friend, too,” he said, because he had never told her that, and the moment the words hit and her lips turned down because it sure sounded like a rejection, he leaned forward and kissed her.It was like turning on the perpetual engine a thousand times over.-OR: Ben and Melanie and Alex get to be a family. They also get a happy ending.