Chapter 8

"Why are you wearing shoes on my bed?" he looks at me his eyes unreadable and turns back to his novel. What?

"Are you always this arrogant? I am trying to be nice here,"

"Calm your tits sweetie," he answers while taking off his black Jordan shoes.The shoes are original so I can give him credit for it.

"Why are you arrogant towards me? We should at least try to be friends you know,"

"I've never come across anyone as irritating as you, Estella." he casually answers.

Estella. Oh he is reading Great Expectations.

That's not the point Becky. He just indirectly meant that you are cold.

My subconscious pitches in.

"I am not cold like Estella," I state.

Benjamin looks me straight in the eyes and says....

"Not granting someone comfortability is an act of coldness you know,"

I roll my eyes at him. "You have an ego bigger than the USA," I tell him.

"I don't care Rebecca."

"Do not call me that." I shift from the chair to sit on Fine's bed facing him.

"You shouldn't deny your name.Who names their child Rebecca anyways?" his face expression turns into disgust.

"And who names their child Benjamin? I don't like your name either." I fire.

He snorts.

"In fact I'm gonna call you Mena from today onwards. He becomes frustrated and I almost laugh.

"Fuck no!" I grin at him to show him that I'm not joking.

"Okay I'll call you Becky. Happy," he says. He thinks saying that will change my mind. No way. Beside I do not want to call him Ben.

"Sure..... Mena" his cheeks flush and I giggle.

"Where are you headed after Reform?" I ask. I bet in his mind he's irritated but I still want to know.

"Another learning institution," he answers. We are all going to other learning institutions. If he will not spill I will not push it.

"You? What college are you joining after senior year?" he asks.

"Maybe New York University or Washington University." I state. He laughs lightly.

"What?"

"I thought you were going to say Harvard," now we both laugh. Fine walks in to catch the air filled with our laughters.

"Oh look at you two finally less irritated by each other." She applauds and joins me on her bed.

Fine and I engage in a conversation giving Benjamin..... Mena his personal space to read his book. The two of us talk about movies and somehow end up arguing on Fast and furious 9. Mena pitches in our conversation saying that fast and furious is utter bullshit and the most vague film he has ever come across. He even says he did not like John Cena's role at all. We agree to disagree on his opinion because the movie was interesting.

I thought he would leave like he did the last time but he does not but stays till late evening.

It is 6:50 pm and we are still in the dorm room with Mena reading some other book he picked from the desk. It makes me think that he keeps his other stuff in our room. My roommate and I have been discussing what to eat for the past 20 minutes.

"Okay, Fine let's just go already. I'm so sick of all your noise. We shall order from the restaurant. I am too starved for your mela drama." Mena complains.He leaves the room so that we change as he waits outside.

We both open our cupboards at the same time and start searching for an outfit.

I still have some clean outfits so I pick out a black long sleeved bubble dress with an image of a tiger imbrued on the breast side pocket. The dress was long enough to reach my below my knees.

On the other hand, Fine dresses in navy blue short jeans, a white vest with a black leather jacket accompanied with black heels. She totally rocks the bad girl look even more with her short honey blonde hair resting behind her back. She applies enough make up to her face. I decline her offer on giving me a make over and only put lip gloss to my lips. I am only going to eat and knowing how Mena is he may explode if I delay.

"Fine your sweater," I give it to her.

"Keep it with you we're already late. Wait till you see Benjamin's face." She titters.

I put the sweater in my cupboard and pick out my purse. We head to the parking lot.

We stop next to a black Mercedes Benz Mena steps out of the exclusive car.

"Is this your car?" I ask.

"Yes." he replies coolly like it were so obvious.

"Cool," I reply calmly not wanting to show my shock and excitement while taking a sit in the passenger's seat.

Fine asks Benjamin where we were going to eat and he simply replies "close by" Where ever we were going can not possibly be as awe as the comfortable smooth grey seats of Mena's Mercedes.

"You look great today Fine." he compliments her.

"Oh thanks Benjamin." she replies.

What? Am I underdressed or too prudish looking? Or shabby? Or chubby in the dress? He does not compliment me at all.

He is doing this on purpose and there is no way I am going to complain about not getting a compliment from Mr. Attitude.

There is barely any noise when we enter the restaurant. It is a maroon themed restaurant with white walls and maroon cloth covering the tables. Maroon booths too. Fine's heels click on the sparkly clean cream tiles as she walks over the table. A waiter comes by our table to take our orders. He is wearing a maroon trouser, white long sleeved shirt and a maroon apron tied around his waist. I order a cold glass of mango juice and the two order order orange juice. We all order burgers and fries.

We chat for a bit as we wait for the food. The food comes in about 15 minutes. As soon as the waiter brings our food, my stomach growls from the aroma. Benjamin is the first to dig in to his food. He passes me the ketchup and mayonnaise and I put it on my plate.

The bells sound indicating new customers entering in the restaurant. A group of teenagers walk in. I recognize Jace and the lavender haired girl and some other boy who I do not recognize. The three of them walk over to our table. Since there were only two free seats Lavender hair sits on Benjamin's laps. She whispers something in his ears and they laugh, then she shoots me a glare. I can tell that she does not like me maybe because I do not fit in. Whatever it is I do not care after all I will see less of her anyways.

"Hey, you must be Fine's roommate. I'm Anastasia." She flashes me the fakest smile she can mater but I give her an honest one.

"Becky," I say. I eat half my food and my phone lights up with a message. The sender shows DO NOT ANSWER. It is Evans. I read his message anyway.

Hi please talk to me. I want to make things right. His message reads.

"Excuse me," I announce as I make my way to the toilets.