“What are you reading, Sam?”
I looked up from the book and glared at Ben, who interrupted my “personal time.” I held up the book to show him the title of the book; Twilight.
“Le gasp!” Ben said, covering his mouth as though horribly shocked. “I thought you said it was nothing but a load of crap!”
“It is!” I snapped, “I just wanna know what the big craze is. Why are girls going so crazy about this book?”
Ben shrugged and sat beside on the bench, wrapping an arm around my shoulders. “Girls are complicated creatures, my love. There is no use in trying to figure them out.”
“You make it sound like I’m not a girl,” I said, slouching a bit.
“That’s because you’re not,” Ben laughed and put his hands in front of his face as I leapt up. Before I could maul him, he quickly added, “You’re above them. You’re a goddess!!”
I grinned at that. A goddess, huh?
“Didn’t you already read that book, anyways?” Ben asked, as he took the book from my hands and flipped through the pages.
I nodded. “Yeah, but maybe I missed something. I mean, I’m a girl and I’m not crazy about it. But it drives me nuts when other girls are all, ‘Oh my god! Isn’t Edward hot!?’”
“You probably have no vagina, then.”
“…I’ll kill you.”
Ben put the book on my backpack. He smiled at my threat and wrapped his arms around my waist. “Don’t worry about it,” he said, laughing when I pretended to strangle him. Looking at the book, he made thoughtful face. “But I am kinda surprised you don’t appreciate the book at all.”
“And why’s that?” I asked, resting my chin on his shoulder.
“The book’s the reason we went out, remember?”
I nodded.
We were nothing more than partners in crime, making jokes out of one another. Then one day I said, “Hey, let’s go out, just to see the reaction on their faces.” I was referring to our group of friends. They often said we were the most incompatible couple.
“Yeah!” Ben grinned. “But you do know, that I have to be the man in the relationship, right?”
“You don’t have enough testosterone to be a man!”
We decided that to make it more unbelievable, he was going to ask me out in public and make it look like he just fell in love with me over some stupid reason. I was reading Twilight and when I finished it, I yelled, “That sucked!”
Ben was there and he said, “Really? Me too. Let’s go out.”
Needless to say it did kinda shock everyone, but not as much as we had hoped for. But we continued to “go out” until one day, Ben said, “…Hey, I don’t want to pretend anymore.”
“I know. Wanna pretend to break up instead?”
“Not, exactly. I want to go out with you for real.”
No one ever discovered that it was meant to be a joke, but as we went out for real, people noticed the difference. I would glare at just about any girl who got too close to him, and Ben had even once spent his whole allowance to get me a collection of books. He even let me in on a little secret…
I’m not saying I love the guy. I mean, come on! I’m just seventeen. But I have more fun around Ben than I do with anyone else.
Ben puffed his cheeks at me and gently blew at my face to snap me out of my little flashback. “Hey! Are you even listening to me?”
I frowned at him. “Sorry, I thought I heard God there for a sec. What were you saying?”
“I said,” Ben began, leaning his forehead against mine. “That I think I know why you might not like it.”
I rose an eyebrow at that. “You do?”
“Uh-huh.” He grinned widely and, for the first time in a while, I noticed his abnormally large fangs. “Cause you know what real Vampires would do in relationships.”
-End.
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