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*Mal's POV*
A couple of days later after seeing Ben I was lying on my bed watching an episode of the Simpsons when I heard my phone go off. I picked my phone up lazily and looked at my phone; and my eyes widened when I saw that Ben had text me.
"Hey Mal, how are you doing?"
"I'm fine; how are you?"
"I'm great thanks; I just wanted to see how you are after the other night"
"Well I still have a bit of a headache; apart from that I'm fine"
"Shouldn't you be going back to accident and emergency?"
"No; it's hasn't got worse"
"I see"
"Yeah"
"So what are you up to?"
"Really Mal; trying to distract me?"
"Maybe"
"Some things never change"
"Nah, so?"
"Well if you must know I am filling some paperwork in"
"Some things never change"
"Touché"
"I forgot how sarcastic you can be"
"Likewise Benny"
"Oh I haven't been called that in ages!"
"Really?"
"Yeah"
"Well if I am being honest you are the only one who does call me Benny"
"O...k; I don't know how to really react to that"
"Make a change"
"Cheek!"
I couldn't escape how easy it is to talk to Ben after all this time; it felt like the last year and a half hadn't even happened. Maybe having Ben back in my life wasn't going to be such a bad thing after all.
"So…"
"So?"
"When would you like to meet up?"
"I could see you at the weekend if you want"
"Yeah that's good; however it would need to be after six. Is that is ok?"
"Yeah that's fine; have anything interesting planned during the day?"
"Not really; just work"
"Oh right; which art gallery do you work in?"
"Main Street Art gallery"
"Wow!"
"What do you do there?"
"I'm a junior gallery assistant"
"So you give tours?"
"Yeah; also I do admin for the gallery"
"Have you worked there long?"
"Six months"
"I might need to get a tour some time"
"Yeah I bet Judith would love that!"
"Who is she?"
"My supervisor; if you walk in she would do your tour"
"No she wouldn't"
"She would; I can guarantee it. She wouldn't let me or Sam have a look in"
"Well I would ask for you?"
"And why would you do that?"
"Many a reason Mal"
"Like?"
"I will leave that for our date"
"So it is a date then?"
"I thought that is what it was going to be"
"It doesn't have to be if you don't want it to be"
I know that I hadn't seen Ben for quite a while; but I knew that he would be worrying in case he had upset me. In all honesty he hadn't; I was just anxious about hurting Ben unintentionally again.
"I don't mind; but can we keep it between ourselves?"
"Of course but can I ask why?"
"If people know we are dating they might get the wrong end of the stick"
"And what stick is that?"
"Well they will big it up and it will cause drama"
"True; I see what you mean. Let's see if it is going to go somewhere before we decide to tell the world"
"Yeah; we need to get to know each other again; you might not like the person I have changed into"
"Well it doesn't look like you have changed into a dragon with two heads, so you can't be that bad, can you?"
"And you aren't a beast with two heads; but we will have to see how we get on"
I couldn't help but smile at how playful we both are with each other; I started to mentally kick myself for hurting him. And as Ben's promise of teaching me the difference between love and lust started to echo in my mind; I let my mind start to wonder whether this was something I could see myself doing.