Well I made the girls leave and Ben and I actually talked a little, instead of just making out, and we finally came to an understanding about the dance. Then he had work so we made plans to catch a late movie and grab some takeout instead of going to the beach for yet another party. I was pretty excited to spend some Ben and Kayla time, but I think the girls were even more excited to hear about it.
"So you're dating Ben?"
"Yes."
"But going to the dance with Andrew?"
"Yeah."
"Are you cracked?"
"Possibly."
"Is he okay with this?"
"Who, Andrew?"
"NO, Ben."
"Oh. No, not really. Not at all actually."
"Well, speaking of Andrew, how does he feel about this?"
"Don't know."
"Gonna check?"
"Think I should?"
"Small plain cheese, small white pizza?" asked waiter, breaking up the interrogation.
"Yes, thank you," I said to him, and then the conversation proceeded.
"Could you pass me the pepper?"
"Yeah, here ya go."
"So ya wanna call him?"
"Ben?"
"Andrew."
"Andrew?"
"Yes! He's your date after all! Ben's gonna kill him!"
"Ben will not kill him."
"Ben might kill him."
"Ben will not kill him."
"He could if he wanted to."
"That's true."
"Side of mozzarella sticks?" asked the waiter, looking wide-eyed at us.
"Oh, perfect, thank you so much."
"Guys, we need to stop eating so much," I said, and Emily nodded her agreement.
"All we do is eat and talk, we're starting to frighten people."
Just another typical lunch with the girls.
So Ben came over that night and he brought over a couple of lobster rolls for dinner and I took a couple of my dad's Belgium beers, which are apparently the only thing to drink with lobster rolls and we put on Top Gun. I remembered watching it with the three Hunter boys for the first time, like, 10 years ago, and I figured it would be a good way to bring up the topic of Patrick, if Ben felt like talking about it. Which, apparently, he did not, because he didn't bring it up for the entirety of the movie. I didn't want to push the issue, since it was clearly why I had picked the movie anyway, but I will get this boy to discuss his feelings with me if it's the last thing I do.
In other news, he said he'd drive me to church in the morning, which means I'm a big girl that doesn't have to show up with her mommy and daddy, but rather with her boyfriend. The same boyfriend who is debating who his date to the dance is going to be, since it's usually a short notice type thing, what with school not having even started yet. I'm not going to help him choose or anything, but I told him I'd send him a bunch of pictures of my dresses that I'm trying on, just so he can give me opinions and the like. It's kind of an awkward way to start a relationship, but we've known each other for forever and it's taken us this long to get together- what's a little school dance?