Benny Weir's grandma hired a babysitter to watch him because he was too childish and he wasn't happy about it. He could take care of himself why would he want someone else doing it for him?
As he was walking down the School halls, he heard a voice call out to him.
"Hey Benny! Hey, over here!" the voice said. Benny turned around and the voice happened to be his best friend Rory.
"Hey Rory, what's up?" Benny said to him, slurping loudly out of his juice box like the dork he was.
Rory replied, "Not much, but can you help me out because I'm playing this game and I can't beat it. Also I need a buck-twenty-eight."
Benny chuckled. "Sorry dude, I don't think I can't help you there. Maybe next time?"
Rory pouted. "Come on, man!"
Benny sighed. "Besides, I'm not in the mood."
"Why not?" Rory asked, slightly annoyed. Benny rolled his eyes.
"Grandma got me a babysitter," he muttered. Rory bit back a smile, but nodded sympathetically.
"Oh man, that's rough. Sorry bro," Rory replied back. Benny shook his head.
"It's okay," Benny said. "But, in other news, guess what I got last night?"
He pulled his backpack off his shoulder and grabbed some kind of glasses. Rory's eyes widened.
"Woah!" Rory yelled. "What are those?"
"These, my friend, are alien DNA detection goggles!" Benny replied, just as excited. "They're so cool, right?"
"Very cool!" Rory agreed with a goofy smile.
Benny turned around to look at what he could see through the glasses, but as he was turning around, he knocked into a girl with tanned skin and dark hair. Some of his juice from his juice box sprayed on her shirt. He blinked, and slowly took off the glasses — and she did not look happy to see him.
"You dork!" she yelled, catching the attention of almost everyone in the halls. "Thank you so much!"
As she walked away, Rory leaned closer to Benny and whispered, "Wow, that girl was hot."
Benny, however, wasn't listening to him because yeah, that girl was hot. He stared at the direction she left in, love-struck.
"Benny?" Rory's voice snapped him out of his thoughts. "Dude, are you okay?"
Benny blinked, but flashed a goofy smile towards Rory.
"Sorry, Rory, but I think I am in love," he said dreamily. "It's just...that girl was so beautiful."
Rory looked at him weirdly. "Right...okay."
Of course, he didn't really believe him. He was Benny's best friend — he knew him like the back of his hand. He also knew that Benny was a player, and that he hit on every girl that he saw.
He was about to say something else, but the talk between them was cut short by the bell. They walked to the cafeteria and got some food, before sitting down at a table and began talking about a new movie.
Meanwhile, a girl named Sarah walked over to her best friend, Erica, who was sitting at a table alone. She smiled and waved her over.
"Hey Erica!" she called out. "Hey Erica, over here!"
Erica saw her and came over with a grin.
"Hey, Sarah!" she chirped. "What's up?"
She suddenly looked down and saw her shirt. She frowned.
"Woah, what happened to your shirt?" she asked. Sarah sighed.
"Don't ask," she muttered, staring at the remainders of the juice from earlier.
"Anyway, do you have tickets to the Dusk premiere yet?"
Sarah sighed. "No I don't."
"Why haven't you bought them yet?" Sarah was about to reply, but Erica beat her to it with a knowing smile.
"You were busy with Jesse, weren't you?"
Sarah blushed. "How do you know that?"
"Sarah, I've been your friend for years — I can read you like a book," Erica explained with a smug smile. "Plus, if I had a boyfriend, I would totally skip school too."
Sarah looked at her, taken back. Erica frowned.
"What? I would!"
"Sure," Sarah said with a smirk. "Everybody knows that you're such a good girl."
"So are you," Erica retorted.
"Sure I am, but you never break the rules," she pointed out.
Erica rolled her eyes, and began talking about the Dusk premiere.
Back at Benny and Rory's table, Benny was looking in Sarah's direction, watching her talk about something with her friend.
Rory nudged him, sending him back to reality.
"Yo, Benny, stop staring at her," Rory said. Benny shook his head, distracted. Rory looked in their direction too and his eyes widened.
"Woah, no way," he murmured. "That girl you ran into is friends with her?"
"Who?"
Rory pointed to the blonde with a smug smile. "Her name is Erica, and she is the Princess Leia to my Han Solo."
Rory nudged him and added, "Hey, if any luck, that's your babysitter! You said her name is Erica, right?"
Benny rolled his eyes. "I don't think that's the same Erica."
Rory nodded. "Yeah, you're probably right. That's too good to be true."
Rory suddenly stood up. "I'm going to go find out."
Benny's eyes widened and he desperately whispered, "No, Rory, come back here!"
To his avail, his friend ignored him as he made his way to Erica's table.
"Hey there, sweetness," he said smoothly. "Are you by any chance babysitting the Weir's tonight?"
Erica looked at him, a bit flustered. "Um, I'm not. But my friend Sarah is!"
Sarah smiled kindly. "Yeah, why? Do you know their kids?"
"Yeah!" he exclaimed. "One of them's my buddy, sitting right over there..."
Benny ducked, hiding behind his arm. Rory grinned.
"He's a bit shy," he explained. "Anyway, see you around!"
He left and went back to Benny.
"So what did she say?" Benny asked him, a bit curious.
"I think she likes me!" he said excitedly.
"Really?" Benny said, surprised.
"Yep!" he chirped. "But she is not your babysitter. I met her friend. Her name is Sarah, and she is the girl you bumped into! Turns out she's your babysitter tonight!"
"Yeah, I don't think so," Benny said hesitantly.
"Believe what you will. But hey, if fairytales is what it takes to grab my future wife, I'm in!"
They both left the school at the end of the day. And Rory was reading a newspaper and nudged Benny.
"Hey, there's some crazy story about a boy that was eaten alive," he said quietly. Benny rolled his eyes.
"That sounds...interesting," he said boredly. "Absolutely fantastic. Anyway, you know these juice boxes are really good — you should try some.
Rory chuckled. "Careful where you point that thing, B. Wouldn't want to spray some other innocent person.
Benny suddenly then looked over across from them and saw Sarah and her boyfriend, Jesse. He elbowed Rory and caught his attention as the both of them watched the scene unfold.
"Come on Sarah," Jesse said. Sarah shook her head.
"No, Jesse, I told you that I'm not going to do it!"
"Seems like those two aren't the happiest couple, so you might have a chance!" Rory chirped excitedly. Benny frowned.
"I don't know...there's something not right about them."
"Eh, I guess," Rory said, distracted. He suddenly saw Erica walk towards Sarah, and he smiled dreamily.
"Either way, I'm so going over to your house tonight," he said, clearly smitten. Benny looked at him in disbelief.
"Yeah, good luck with that," he chuckled, and the two walked home together.
Benny couldn't quite shake the feeling that he felt with Sarah and her friends, but eventually, he shook it off as they walked home surely, everything was perfectly normal, right?
