Chapter 51 - P, R, N, D.

Jasmine

Raina sat next to me again and Benjamin opened my passenger door. He reached for my hand and I took it. His hand felt warm and I felt the need to come closer, I reached for the material of his grey vest, but then dropped my hand.

Benjamin pressed his lips together and I could not read his eyes. Without speaking, he gestured for me to get in the driver's seat.

In a monotone voice he showed me what all the lights on the dashboard meant. "As you can see the poke has several letters on it." My eyes darted to the poke. "P, R, N, D." I read out loud. "The P is used when one wants to park. The R is used for reversing the car. The N stands for neutral and the D for-" I wanted to finish his sentence.

"The D is for driving." I smiled. "Yes." He said. With an teeny bit of a smile. I held the poke. "Now shift it into D." He said as he wrapped his hand around mine. Then he guided my hand towards 'drive'. I burned by his touch.

I looked at him, but he did not look back.

At first the way I drove the car could be best described as 'rocky', but eventually I got the hang of it. "Now park the car again." Benjamin murmured looking at his phone. I was starting to get annoyed by it.

I wanted to smash the car against the wall, just to get his attention. I sighed, but followed his orders anyway. I concentrated heavily and parked the car in one try. "Yes!" I shouted. Raina applauded.

"You did well." Benjamin congratulated me. "I was in utmost concentration." I grinned. Benjamin shook his head. "I could see that." He said clearly holding back a laugh. "You even stuck out that pretty little tongue of yours."

He smiled crookedly, taking my breath.

"I did not." I stubbornly said. "You did too." He smiled.

"When you just did so, your body stopped communicating between your tongue and your brain. In doing so; it frees up brainpower so you could concentrate on the task I gave you." Benjamin mused.

"Huh, I did not know that. Really?" I asked baffled.

"Really." Benjamin beamed. "When complex tasks involve your hands." He said as he reached for one of mine. My body shivered. "It will trigger the connection in the brain and that will make you stick out your tongue involuntarily." He chuckled.

"That's awful." I said making my eyes big. He pouted his lips as if he pondered on his words and then finally spoke. "You looked cute though." He said looking out his car window.

So he did notice me still. I didn't why, but I kind of liked the idea of that.

When we got home I took a shower and went to bed early. The excitement had worn me down.

Saphira

During the last movie Sierra and Lynn has fallen asleep. I had been awake all night, because Ben was still texting me.

After the girls were asleep Ben called me again. I tried to remind him he had unfinished school work to do. Benjamin said that, this was the whole reason why he didn't call me in the first place.

He blamed me for being 'such a distraction.' Whatever that meant. I didn't mind in the least to be his distraction anyway.

I loved hearing his voice. I don't know when the poor guy slept, because we were texting each other all Sunday as well. And if we weren't texting, we were on the phone. It seemed as if all my worry was for nothing. I felt silly now. I always overreact, I thought.

At school Zachary seemed to pick up my good mood. "Hey there, most beautiful lady in the world." He said like he was talking to his girlfriend. I narrowed my eyes, watching him suspiciously.

"You know it's true right? That I find you the most beautiful?" He said trying to smolder me with his green eyes.

"If you say so." I answered coolly. It seemed like he was flirting with me all day, but I could be imagining things. He picked up my books. Walked me to each and every class. Even the classes we didn't spend together.

Maybe he thought that I was going nuts. He didn't know that this time around, I was really happy. Not just nutcase happy. Maybe he was just worried. Yes that must be it.

When school ended he offered to hang out with me again. It wouldn't be nice to buzz him off now, just because Ben gave me some attention again. That would be mean right?

We spend the day, doing homework together and he asked if he could stay for dinner. Mom loved having him around, so it would be okay. "Have the two of you already picked out a color to wear at prom?" Mom asked while taking a bite from her lasagna. "No, not yet." Zachary said smiling brightly.

"You kids just got one more week. Maybe you can shop together. "Mom suggested. I thought that through for a minute.

Would Ben find that okay? I made my promise to go to prom with Zachary when I was still mad at Ben. I probably wouldn't have said yes if that weren't the case. But it would be cruel to just blow him off like that.

"That would be awesome! "Zachary answered my mom before I had the chance to react. I didn't t say anything. It couldn't hurt right? I mean; we were just friends. Zachary understood I was only Ben's.... whatever I was of him.

"Sure." I agreed not that enthusiastically as Zachary hoped. "You don't have to, if you don't want to." Zach said with a hurt voice. "No, it will be fine. Great I mean." I said trying to convince Zach. "Good, we'll make it a date.." When he put it like that, I wasn't so sure anymore. He was just kidding right?