no, thankfully. i smacked my face/eye on a metal latch really hard though so i'll be rocking a black eye for a while. they're the same age, though ben was born in louisiana and raised there for a number of years until he and his mother moved to st. augustine when he was in middle school. he's also pretty athletic, played football throughout high school and even for the gators at uf. tends to go to the gym once in a while though that's going to get cut back a lot for the next 6-10 weeks while his arm heals after breaking it in the wee hours of new years day. so at the very least they could be friends who met at the gym.