LAST FRIDAY NIGHT, BENNY'S POV
My phone buzzed in my jacket pocket. I pulled it out and saw it was Ethan. Again.
WHERE R U? The text said.
CANT COME 2NITE. SORRY. I replied. I hit send and dropped the phone back in my pocket. I looked up and glanced across the empty school parking lot. I sighed, wondering when she would get here.
Suddenly, I felt two hand cover my eyes. "Guess who?" Someone breathed in my ear. I jumped forward and spun around, scared, even though I already knew who it was.
"Damn it, Erica! You've got to stop doing that!" I shouted. Erica laughed.
"Sorry, Ben." She smiled, stepping closer to me. "How's your geek-" She stopped, glancing at my stony expression. "How's Ethan?"
I smiled at the fact that she stopped calling Ethan a geek. For me. "Probably pissed that I'm blowing him off."
Erica slipped her arms around my neck. "Tell him it's for a good cause," she whispered, causing me to shiver.
I still couldn't believe that Erica, the hottest girl I knew, insisted on seeing me. The geek she'd always ignored.
"I have a question." I said, twirling her blonde hair in my fingers.
"Hmm?" She had her head against my chest, eyes closed. I wrapped my arms around her.
"Two, actually. One, why do you like me?"
I saw her smile. "Because when you're not hitting on all the girls in school, you're sweet and romantic. And, pretty hot."
I smiled. "I'd always thought you hated me. And now-"
Erica pressed a finger to my lips. "Shhh…" Hot.