Chapter 2
As the sent filled her nose Emma did her best not to sigh. Ben Harrington was one of the best looking boys she knew and thus had been harboring a secret crush on him for over a year. She felt a presence near her shoulder and she knew he was standing by her side, she turned her head and looked up into his warm brown eyes and gave him a smile.
"Hey Benny, how was your weekend?" She asked calling him by the nickname she had used as a child she knew he hated it now but she still used it out of habit and to make him a little irritated he just look so hot when he was moody.
"Good and how was yours I miss I don't answer my phone?" Ben asked teasing her
"How do you know I didn't answer my phone?" Emma asked staring at him as she opened her locker.
"Well for one thing I had to listen to Squirt over there complied insistently for the whole weekend and I texted you when I saw creeper Joe riding his bike down the street at one in the morning and you never texted back"
Emma laughed out loud
"You really saw him? I haven't seen him since school started"
"Well your no longer over at our house at all hours of the day seven days a week like you were over the summer" Ben said flashing her a grin as he leaned against the locker next to her.
"Ya I guess your right but" BEEP BEEP BEEP the bell sounded drowning out what Emma was going to say. "Sorry I have to go if I'm late again for first hour I have a Saturday school, bye Benny" Emma said as she picked up her back pack and walked off down the hall but as she was walking away she herd Ben above the crowed yell
"See ya m's"
Emma smiled to herself as she walked down the hall towards her first class (which was calc AP) she couldn't believe that he remembered creeper Joe the old guy who would bike around at wired hours of the night that they could see from Ben's balcony that was attached to his room.
Over the summer she had spent a lot of time over at the Harrington home but it was the first time that she had spent a bunch of time with Ben mainly due to the fact that he had a lot free time on his hands since he was no longer dating Libby. One night when Emma was spending the night she couldn't sleep so she was going down stairs to watch TV until she fell asleep. But as she was walking down the hall she noticed a light on in Ben's room. Normally she would have just continued going down stairs to watch TV but she was curious why was Ben up at four in the morning when he had said good night at one. Tentatively she knocked on the door, but when she heard no answer she pushed to door open and peered in. Ben was stetting on his bed playing guitar hero with earphones in his ears plugged into the TV so he could hear the sound but no one else could. Emma walked over to him and tapped him on the shoulder. He jumped up obviously she had scarred him. He dropped the plastic guitar he was holding and ripped the ear buds out of his ears
"Jesus Emma, you scarred the shit out of me," Ben said breathing hard and clutching his chest a little.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you I though I herd me come in" Emma said apologetically
"Its ok" Ben said as he ran his fingers through his hair making it stand on end.
"So why are you still awake?" Emma asked while she walked across the room and sat down on the window set that Ben had in his room.
Ben smirked at her " I could be asking you the same thing"
Emma grinned at him and he walked over and sat down next to her on the bench looking at her expectantly to tell him why she was still awake and in his room
"Well Nat fell asleep right away after we finished the movie and I couldn't sleep so I was going to go down stairs and watch TV but then I saw that the light was on in your room and I decided to investigate, so why are you still awake?" Emma questioned mimicking the look that Ben was giving her
"Well I was planning on going to bed after I left squirts room like I told you guys but when I got to my room like you I couldn't sleep and so I started playing guitar hero and I just got into it."
Emma smiled at him and he smirked back. It was then that they herd the sound of bike peddles floating in though the open window. They looked curiously at one another and then Emma climbed out the window and on to the balcony the was connected to his room (something that they discovered later in life was very handy for sneaking out late at night) and looked out on to the road when Ben arrived he quickly did the same suddenly under a street light they saw a man dressed in wired clothing riding a bike. As soon as they couldn't hear the tires or the mans singing they both busted out laughing.
"Well I best be getting back to Nat" Emma said ones they had both calmed down
"Ya I've got to get to bed" Ben agreed nodding his head
They climbed back in though the window and Ben walked over to the TV and turned it off
"Night m's" Ben said using the childhood nickname with out realizing it
"Night Benny" Emma said back and Ben snapped his head up
"What was that?" he asked
"I said night Benny"
"I know what you said I was more wondering why you said it, no one calls me that anymore because"
"You hate it" Emma fished for him
"Ya, but then why did you say it"
Emma could tell he was frustrated and a little agitated she knew he didn't like the nickname any more but she didn't realize how much it irked him to hear it.
"Well you called me m's and I guess it just slipped out sorry hearing it took me back no one calls me that any more"
"Sorry I guessed it slipped out to I haven't been out on that balcony with you alone when we went sneaking out since we were nine and we dropped water balloons on the people below at the party that my parents threw"
Emma laughed out loud
"Ya, I remember that good times, well I better get back and go to bed, I'm sure Nat has something crazy planned for tomorrow night since your parents will be gone. Well good night Ben"
" Night Emma" Ben said
Emma sighed. Reliving that night was Ben was ten times better then math class would ever be. After that night something changed between them she noticed it and every time she spent the night (which was often) she would always wait until Nat fell asleep and then would go hang out with Ben. She remembered all the nights that they sat out on the balcony looking up at the stars and just talking but nothing ever happened much to her disappointment, although she thinks that he felt the attraction to. Every night they continued to see the man on the bike and by the end of the summer had given him the nickname of Creeper Joe.
Emma giggled to herself thinking about all the Creeper Joe sightings
"Ms. Fisher is their something you would like to share with the class?" Mr. Allred her math teacher asked
"No, nothing" Emma said blushing. Her brother Ryan was in the class with her and he turned around and smirked at her. When the teacher turned around she flipped him off.
Ryan stuck his tongue out at her and Emma smiled sweetly back at him.
When the bell rang Emma took off but Ryan caught up to her
"So Em what was with the giggle in the middle of class?" he asked
"Nothing I was just thinking about something that happened over the summer"
"Oh and what would that be?'
" Don't you have some book you have to go read while you pretend to ignore the girls flocking around you?" Emma asked clearly growing irritated she hated how to every one else Ryan was the quiet studious stud, but to her he was just as big of a jerk as Nate.
"Ouch that hurt but your right, about the book part, but not about the girls I don't pretend I do ignore them" with that he walked away leaving behind the sent of his bvlgari black cologne.
As Emma walked to her second class she saw her brother Nate chatting it up with a girl who she didn't really know.
Another one bites the dust, she thought to herself as she recognized the tell tail signs that the girl was falling for him even though she could tell that he didn't like her that way. Through the crowed of jostling students she smelled the sent of Natalie's perfume.
But when she turned around Nat wasn't there but she saw her glossy head bobbing away in the distance walking up to one of the younger girls on the soccer team with Sam following behind her dragging a very good looking red headed boy by the hand.
Seeing this Emma rolled her eyes but this was an every day occurrence she didn't know why she still got annoyed with the fact that Sam was dragging Chris every where. With that thought Emma called out her friends names and walked over to them leaving in her wake the smell of her perfume.
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