Hey guys, its been a while since my last story. I was planing on writing a sequal to "Bennett's visit" but this kinda poped into my head and well.. It was a lot easy to write. I'm still working on the sequal so look out for that some time soon.
Anyways, Hope you enjoy the first chapter!
Disclaimer: I don't own dollhouse, all rights go to Joss Whedon and Fox.
Bennett walked into her dorm room. She was slightly tired but her expression soon turned to anger once she saw her dorm mate Caroline sitting on the bed. "You didn't show up to party."
Caroline was lost in the paper work she had sitting in front of her, she soon scooped it all up and put it away once she saw Bennett. "Yeah. Sorry about that, I had a few issues to sort out."
"You could have at least called; I was standing by the food table all night looking like a fool getting hit on by a bunch of drunken idiots." Bennett said, walking over to her bed and taking off her high heeled shoes.
"Again with the sorry." Caroline finished putting the papers away into a large box and put in down at the bottom of the closet. "We seriously need to find you a boyfriend; I can't go to these parties with you all the time."
"I didn't really want to go anyway. I much rather work on my studies." Bennett took the pony tail out of her long hair.
"Benny, why are you so against finding you a boyfriend?" Caroline said, sitting back down on her bed.
"I'm not, just... all of the guys here aren't my type. Plus being single gives me more time to expand on my work."
"You're making up excuses. You know what? Tomorrow we're gonna look around campus and find you a guy"
"Tomorrow? But-" Bennett was soon cut off by Caroline.
"Ah!" Caroline held up her hand to stop Bennett from talking. "No buts. Tomorrows the day."
Bennett and Caroline were sitting in their usual seats eating their lunch while watching boys go by.
"He's cute." Caroline pointed to a tall brunette guy who walked past their table.
Bennett shook her head. "He looked like a jock, jocks don't like girls like me..."
"Girls like you? Bennett I think you're being too picky." Caroline said before taking another bite of her sandwich.
"Him." Bennett pointed to a blonde who had dropped his lunch tray and was quickly trying to clean up the mess it had left.
"Him? Okay, maybe I shouldn't have said not to be picky." Caroline joked as she and Bennett watched the blonde.
"Oh! Here he comes! How's my hair?" Bennett said once the blonde had gathered up with dropped lunch and started looking for a table.
The lunch area was fairly full and with an hour and a half of Caroline telling random people that their table was taken; she had made the perfect chance for Bennett to meet her new crush.
He walked over to their table which had a spare seat. "Ah... Hi? Anyone sitting here?" The guy spoke.
Caroline smirked and nudged Bennett in the arm signalling her to start talking.
"Oh. N-no. No one's sitting there." Bennett managed to say. She looked down at the four half eaten plates in front of her that she and Caroline had got to make it look like they were still using the table.
"You hungry or something?" The blonde said as he sat down at the chair next to Bennett.
"I... Ah." Bennett mumbled as her face turned bright red.
"It's for an experiment. It's very cool, and secret." Caroline quickly piped up.
"Cool. The best experiments are the food kind. This too was an experiment." The guy said, poking his dropped food with a fork.
"Oh, I just remembered I got that thing that needs working on. I'll catch yous later." Caroline got up from her seat leaving the nervous Bennett to get to know this guy.
"C'ya!" The blonde waved goodbye. He turned back to Bennett who was still looking down at the plates. "So, what's your name?" He asked.
"Bennett, Bennett Halverson. And you?" She said turning her attention away from the food.
"Christopher Brink, but my friends call me Topher." He said.
"It's nice to meet you, Topher. I don't believe I've seen you around the campus before." Bennett said, watching him taking a drink of his juice box.
"Yeah I just moved here from L.A." He said, putting down his drink.
"Oh. I see. And what are you studying?"Bennett asked.
"Nuro-science, what about you?"
"Same! I... Ah study Nuro-science, too. You're going to love the class, we have a great teacher."
"Awesome! First day here and I already found a study buddy." Topher grinned as he watched her blush. He couldn't believe a hot girl was talking to him. He looked down at his sweaty hands and quickly wiped them on his sweater vest. "So you are heading back to class now? You mind showing me where to go?"
Bennett quickly nodded. "Certainty. It is a big campus, you can get lost easily." She said as she got up.
A week later, after their class had finished for the day Topher and Bennett walked down the halls of Tucson Tech...
"Woah, I'm probably smarter then everyone in that class room... except you, but is it just me or was that a lot to take in?" Topher scratched his head as he followed Bennett.
"It's just a follow up to what we've been learning previously. I could bring you some of my old notes if you like?" Bennett asked.
"Yeah, thanks. I think I have a lot to catch up on." Topher paused, taking a deep breath. "Hey, ah listen. My new roomy is throwing a party tonight at his parents place... Since I hardly know anyone there I was wondering if you wanted to tag along."
"Sure. I'll bring Caroline, she loves parties." Bennett smiled.
"Great! Great..." Topher quickly got out a pen and ripped a sheet of paper out of his book. "Here's my number. I'll give you a call when I get the address." He said as he scribbled down his number and handed it to her.
Bennett smiled as she took the piece of paper. "Okay. I guess I'll see you later."
"Yeah. See you later." Topher took a step forward; he was planning to kiss her. But Bennett's confused expression soon made him take a step back. "Yeah, ah, laters!" He looked down embarrassed and hurried off.
Bennett stood there in shock as he walked away.
Back at the dorm Caroline was sitting on the bed with her laptop, she managed to look up as Bennett entered the room. "So... how was class with Topher?"
"Terrible. Well, great. But just terrible!" Bennett said as she set her bag down by her bed.
"Woah, Benny you're giving me lots of different answers." Caroline said, putting her laptop to the side.
"He gave me his number and we almost kissed." Bennett passed the piece of paper the number was scribbled on to Caroline.
Caroline grinned at the paper. "Way to go Benster! Wait you say this is a bad thing?"
"Not the number, the almost kiss. I think I freaked him out. He just took me by surprise and I... stood there shocked." Bennett looked down at her hands and started chewing her nails.
"Again with the way to go! He likes you! See, soon he'll be asking you out on a date and you'll get the kiss." Caroline handed back the number.
"He asked me to a party." Bennett said, taking her hands away from her mouth.
"What?" Caroline asked.
"I invited you to come; he's going to call when he has the address." Bennett quickly added.
"Wow, you're already exchanging phone numbers-" Caroline began to talk but was cut off by Bennett.
"Oh no!" Bennett shouted.
"What?" Caroline asked confused.
"I didn't give him my number. How is he going to call me?" Bennett ran her hands through her long brown hair.
"It's alright, you can just call him." Caroline said.
"Oh no, I can't." Bennett shook her head. "I was preparing myself to answer the phone. How will I be able to call him? What would I say?"
"Okay, stop over thinking it. Just call him in a few minutes and ask him where the party's at. Then we can go pick out outfits." Caroline reached over to the phone and handed it to Bennett. "Come on, dial the number. You won't get kissage if you don't." Caroline smirked.
Bennett smiled slightly and took the phone. "Fine. Here it goes..." She looked down at the piece of paper and typed the number into the phones keypad. Waiting nervously as it rang.
"Topher's world, what up?" Topher greeted as he answered the phone.
"Topher it's Bennett." She said nervously unsure what else to say.
Topher cleared his throat and began to speak again, but only this time he sounded less confident and slightly embarrassed. "Oh, hey Bennett."
"I know you said you'd call me when you had the address and time but I realized I forgot to give you my phone number."
"Yeah I was hoping you'd call. I feel like an idiot for not remembering to get it, I guess I was just distracted. ...You know with all the new work and all..."
"No, no you're not an idiot." Bennett quickly added. She saw Caroline watching her talking which only made her more nervous. "So do you know when the party starts?"
Caroline walked closer to Bennett. "Put it on loud speaker." She whispered.
Bennett grinned and pressed the loud speaker button on the phone.
"Um, I think six-ish. My roomys out at the moment, is this your mobile number?"
"Yes. Yes it is."
"Alright cool, when he's back I'll send you a text message with the address."
"Alright, it was nice speaking to you again. See you around six. Bye." Bennett said and hung up the phone.
"It was nice speaking to you again? You saw him like an hour ago max." Caroline said.
"I panicked. I have to find something to wear..." Bennett put down the phone and walked over to the closet.
"Right. What to wear on a first date?" Caroline tilted her head as she and Bennett looked at the clothes.
Bennett turned around to face Caroline. "So it is a date? It isn't him just asking me there as a friend?"
"Bennett, he almost kissed you." Caroline said.
Bennett turned back to look at the clothes. "A date..." She took out a sky blue dress. "What about this?"
Caroline shook her head, taking it out of Bennett's hands and back on the rack. "No, you're wanting more of..." She took out a light pink dress that was knee length. "...this."
"It would go great with my green cardigan." Bennett took the dress as Caroline handed it to her, grabbing the cardigan from the rack.
"If you say so, but you better get ready soon. You don't want to be late for lover-boy."
"I'll be back. Let me know if he texts!" Bennett shouted out as she hurried off to the bathroom to change into her outfit.
After Topher texted Bennett the location of the party she and Caroline drove to the house.
"This is it." Caroline said as she parked the car outside of the large house.
"Are you sure?" Bennett asked, too nervous to get out of the car.
"Yep. Number eighteen." Caroline said, pointing to the number on the letter box.
"I'm not sure if I want to go." Bennett said.
"What? Benny come on! You got all dolled up for this and from what I can tell you have the biggest crush on the guy. Why wouldn't you want to go?" Caroline asked.
"I do. I'm just nervous. Parties aren't really my thing." Bennett said looking out the car window watching others enter the house.
"Just give it a go. If the parties too fun for you then we'll leave. Okay?" Caroline asked.
"Okay." Bennett opened the car door and got out.
The two brunettes walked to the door and where Topher was waiting.
"Hey." He greeted them; his attentions were focused on Bennett.
"Hey" Bennett smiled coyly.
"I'm gonna go check out the party. Don't have too much fun without me." Caroline ginned as she walked off into the house.
Bennett looked down at her feet and tried to think of something to say.
"So I hear you're working at one of those famous Rossum labs." Topher said, breaking the awkward silence.
"Yes. It's great, the research that we do there is extraordinary." Bennett said, looking up at him.
"Yeah I was thinking about trying to get a job there." Topher put his hands in his pocket to try to stop his nervous habit of fidgeting.
"You should! I mean, if you want... It would help you improve on your medical and nuro knowledge. Not that you don't know a lot now! I-I'm sure they'd love to hire you." Bennett nervously stuttered.
"Thanks." Topher smiled. "I'll give it a shot."
Bennett smiled warmly back.
"Well... You wanna go check out the party; I hear they have lots of food. You know, in case you're still working on those food experiments." Topher grinned.
Bennett laughed. "Oh, ah no... I think I am done with the food experiments. But a snack would be nice."
"Alrighty, to the snack table!" Topher shouted as he and Bennett walked into the house.
The pair had made themselves comfortable by the snack table and were concentrating on their conversation when a tall brunette boy bumped into Bennett, causing her to fall to her feet.
"Hey! Watch it!" Topher shouted out to the guy. He helped Bennett up off the floor. "Are you alright?" Topher asked to Bennett as she nodded in reply.
"Shouldn't be blocking my path." The tall brunette said as he poured himself a drink.
"Maybe you should use your brain and look where you're going when you walk." Topher said, soon regretting speaking up as the guy walked over to Topher, getting in his face.
"Have you got a problem nerd?" The now angry brunette asked.
Bennett stepped back. "Topher, maybe we should go." She took his arm trying to make him walk away.
Topher didn't move. "Nerd? What are you a fourth grader?" Topher mocked.
That comment only made the guy more mad and his fist soon met Topher's face.
Ten minutes later, when Topher regained conciseness he looked up at Bennett and Caroline who were crouched down next to him. "Did I get him?" He asked.
"No... But he got you." Caroline said.
"Oh..." Topher sat up and felt his hurt face.
"Thank you." Bennett said, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"For what? I wasn't much help." Topher said, looking down at his hand which had blood on it after he touched the cut on his face.
"You stood up for me. That doesn't happen a lot." Bennett said.
"I just didn't like to see you hurt. Jerks like that shouldn't be allowed at parties... or in public at all." Topher said as Caroline and Bennett helped him up.
"Are you right to walk?" Bennett asked.
"Yeah, I think I'm good..." Topher said dusting off his knees.
"Good. Then I should thank you." Bennett smiled.
"Thank me? Didn't you already thank me?" Topher was soon cut off by Bennett moving in for a kiss.
Caroline looked around the party awkwardly as Topher and Bennett kissed. "I'll be at the car." She said, walking off.
The two broke away from the kiss.
"Wow." Topher smiled wide. "You're welcome."
Thanks for reading, please review and see you all next chapter! :)