Chapter Six: Uh-Oh

"Oh oh oh it's magic, you know. Never believe it's not soooo~" Ethan had repeatedly been singing, coincidentally, 'Magic' by Selena Gomez the entire car ride home and refused to let any other song play. Benny didn't know what kind of whack job spell he used, but it was getting on his last nerve. He felt like he was an elevator and the spell had managed to press every button. Occasionally flirting was okay, but listening to the same cheesy Disney song over and over and over again was borderline insane. With everything that happened that day, it was a wonder that Benny hadn't combusted already. He was holding up rather well.

"Thank God," Sarah uttered to herself as they pulled up into Ethan's driveway. Sarah wasn't too bothered by the mishap. It was funny to watch Benny struggle with an enamored Ethan. He had enough trouble as it was with girls and guys didn't seem to be in his range of skills either. In her opinion, Benny should suffer with Ethan for longer. If the last time hadn't ended up dangerously, she would've made him figure it out alone. Stupidly, Sarah agreed to aiding the fool. She would have to sneak in a few photos, for hilarity's sake, and for potential blackmail. The mind of a genius was always a plentiful one.

"Let's get this over with," Benny said as he turned off his grandmother's car and rushed to his front door. Thankfully, Jane was in school and his parents didn't get home until the late evening. There was enough privacy to return Ethan to his normal awkward self before his family even noticed anything was out of the ordinary. If Jane found anything out then they'd all have to chip in some dough and promise to do some awful chores for a month. Benny didn't know whether to curse her or admire her entrepreneurship.

They all shuffled into his room and plopped Ethan onto his bed, hoping that he would stay still. His room was filled with science books and space stuff that only he and his nerd squad understood. Posters of his favorite TV shows were spread on his walls and a secret bikini model magazine was tucked away under his bed. Medium sized nightstands protected both sides of his bed and were disheveled with books and papers with chicken scratch handwriting. His computer was the most normal thing in there, Sarah took note of.

"Wait," Ethan got up and typed away on his computer, logging on to Friendly Face. "For you," he said as he smiled up at Benny and changed his status from 'single' to 'in a relationship' with Benny's profile tagged underneath. Great. Now the entire school was going to gossip about their fake relationship. Benny loved attention but not this kind. Getting girls was hard enough, it would make it impossible to get a girlfriend if she thought you were attracted to Ethans. It wasn't that Ethan was ugly or anything, he actually would be the only guy Benny ever would consider dating. Seeing Ethan in that way just wasn't possible for him. Hopefully he could take it down before anyone noticed after he reversed this spell.

"I guess it's official now," Sarah said with a smirk, watching as Ethan added hearts to Benny's page and spammed each of his photos with overly cheesy comments that made even 'The Notebook' cringe. 'The love of my life looks so good in stripes! 3' was only one of the many embarrassing comments to flood his Friendly Face. A few people had already started to direct message Ethan with 'Congratulations!' and 'I knew it!' He was pretty proud of himself and hoped that Benny was happy to see how much effort he was putting into their relationship.

"Well it's about to be officially over," Benny announced, flipping desperately through the pages of the book before he found the spell that he had bookmarked. This had been one weird day, one that will scar him forever, but thankfully it was going to end after a few seconds. "Amor in ruinam!" Benny exclaimed as he hit Ethan with the spell. He held in his breath, still unsure whether the spell actually worked or not.

Ethan looked at the two of them puzzled and quiet. They were staring at him as if they were waiting for something to happen, but he didn't know what. It was odd. Benny and Sarah exchanged looks, both unaware of what to do now, and continued to wait for a reaction.

Spells and reactions varied frequently. Usually it was instantaneous. However, 'amare' seemed to work on its own schedule that just so happened to not be convenient. Benny was close to just interviewing the clock on the wall.

"Sarah, can you leave? Benny and I need some alone time," Ethan said breaking the silence in hopes of seducing his boyfriend into some more romantic activities that didn't involve a third wheel. His bony fingers crept onto the male's thigh and squeezed it tight, a grin slitting his face as he endearingly admired his adorable man.

"Benny, you said this would work!" Sarah was more aggravated than ever that Ethan was still hitting on Benny harder than a truck going seventy miles per hour. This meant that sweetie Ethan was about to be hostile Ethan within the next few hours or so. There was no way she was going to deal with that mess. Benny would have to figure that out on his own.

"I said I was almost positive it would work. It doesn't matter. I have the 'Eternity Cage, I'll just lock myself away from him for the night. Everything will be fine," Benny attempted to assure Sarah not to sweat it. She wasn't someone that was easy to convince and was fixated on Ethan's problem.

"I'm not dealing with this anymore so you better hope that cage works," Sarah said, warning Benny that his fate of surviving tonight rested on a role playing cage. The whole role play thing was a concept she'd never truly understand, mainly because it just sounded like teenage nerd code for playing dress up. Last time she checked, her license said '17' on it. Ugh, age. Now that it came to mind, she'd be seeing the number 17 for the rest of her life. Hopefully not but most likely.

"Thanks for the support," Benny said sarcastically.

"No problem," She retorted.

"Sarah," Ethan said impatiently, giving her a death glare with laser eyes.

"I think that's my hint," Sarah said, glad to leave the situation already, and turned to head out the door.

"No, wait, please don't go! Don't leave me with...him," Benny wanted any chance he could take to avoid awkward circumstances and prevent "Ethan" from pressuring him into doing things like kissing his cheek again or worse, canoodling! Sarah was his greatest beam of light and it was fading away.

"Have fun!"

A minute passed. Ethan acted rather casually, to Benny's surprise. The more time he spent with Benny, the more at ease Ethan became. Gradually, they were at a point where Ethan rested his leg across Benny's lap as they played video games and he didn't say one weird thing for thirty minutes. Slip ups happened, but they were far and few between. Benny couldn't figure out if was the spell was wearing off or the intensity of Dark souls. Either way, the day wasn't ending too badly.