Sincerely, The girl who left words Unsaid

23. Old Friends_Ben Rector

They finally were together. 

Alberto, Benjamin, and Shane finally met after months since the former two left the city to pursue their higher education. They came back for the weekend and he wouldn't miss meeting them for the world. Their mothers prayed daily apparently they never met only because meetings for them meant one thing only.

"Where are our drinks?". Benjamin was furious already waiting for his order that he gave just two minutes back.

"Shut up dude, we weren't going to drink today right?", argued Alberto knowing the fact that that can never happen if you are going out with Benjamin.

"I am going to have only one drink dude," said Shane hoping it would be true this time.

"Shut up both of you and don't spoil my mood before the first sip already," said Benjamin.

Benjamin Buckles was the white king kong who looked furious but was secretly a sensitive kid in his heart. He was over 6 feet and wore size 11 shoes which he had to get tailored-made because he never found his size. He had a bushy eyebrow and plateau hair then before he turned bald. He wore round spectacles and dressed expensively. His family was well to do but he always wanted to make name for himself. He had taste for luxury. Many people boast about their lack of feeling emotions and expressing themselves just to look cool. That's the sad part of this world because being cold was literally considered cool. But these people always broke when bent and had so much to say. That was not the case with Benjamin, he never could understand how to express his affection for anyone. Shane and Alberto might be the only two people who knew how he showed his love for them. Two basic things by abusing them with all his heart and by taking the bullet for them.

Alberto Knightly was just the opposite. He looked like the youngest of them till the time he got beard before Shane did for which he bullied him forever. He had a taste for life better than the rest did. He had a sense of humor that became his best quality. He had a face like Jim Carrey, the attitude of Adam Sandler, and a natural persona of the legendary Charlie Chaplin. He could be funny without even uttering a word. This rare quality often made people misunderstand him as someone who wasn't serious. He spoke sometimes about his emotions but listened every time anyone wanted someone to speak to him. Who could believe that at some point in his life he didn't have enough friends for himself and now was the one who mixed in every group?

It was nostalgia sitting in one of the oldest places they knew which served the cheapest liquor that they could then afford and played the songs of their era from Greenday's 21 Guns, Poets of the fall's Carnival of rust, and Linkin Park's Numb to Red hot Chillie peppers' Californication,  Owl City's Fuzzy blue lights and Jay-z's Forever young. They began to talk.

"Oh, your best friend's birthday is coming right?", Benjamin teased Shane about Rachel.

Rachel Grey moved to their country and joined their school in her fifth grade. She was a woman even when she was young. She was someone who could portray Elizabeth Bennet from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. She was so graceful. She had an oval face with short hair which grew over the years to be wavy.  She had been a woman that men could fall for in a split second. There was something about her elegance and simplicity that made her unique in ways many couldn't comprehend. Rachel had evolved Shane to be a bit wiser. Female powers of persuasion? Shane always had an inferiority complex with Rachel. Maybe, that's what pushed Shane to be a better version of himself, every day. 

"You mean Rachel?" 

"But obviously!", Benjamin joined in.

"Yeah, her birthday is around the corner."

Alberto asked, "And?"

"And what?", Shane was confused as to what game they were playing.

"Idiot, tell us what are you planning to get her," Benjamin was curious.