Chen doesn't actually like tourney. Never has, probably never will. He joined the team mostly because he didn't know how to tell their coach no and he stayed —
Well, he stayed for a lot of reasons, but mostly he stayed because of Ben.
"...he was very specific that my job was to make sure you were happy. I don't think he'd be awful about it."
"He was? That's cute. --But I don't know if he meant 'happy' in the sense of, like, kissing me. His dad was really mad when we were caught kissing."
"He was. — I don't know either, I just — think he'll care more about whether it affects Auradon than whether it's gross."
"I dunno. We were caught kissing and then his dad looked really mad and started yelling and Naveen, like, never yells, and then Asher never talked to me about it again."
Chen doesn't know what to say, so he hugs him instead.
"I'm sorry."
"I'm going to tell him because I love you and I am not ashamed of you and Naveen can yell as much as he wants."
"You aren't wrong. It just — felt like it needed saying."
Ben's face is extremely good and Chen is going to kiss it.
That sounds very much like an invitation to take Ben's shirt off.
Ben's mouth is warm and his skin is soft and Chen loves kissing him very very much.
"I love you — I've been stopping myself from kissing you for ages —"
"I kept thinking," kiss, "that if you knew you would never want to touch me — but you know, and you do —"
"I think even if I could only love girls and I knew that you loved me I'd still want to touch you because you love me."
He makes a little whimpering noise at Chen's 'please' and slowly, tentatively tugs on Chen's hair.