I Really Wish It Was Only Me And You [BENNY RODRIGUEZ]{BXB}

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Two years later
Harley's POV
I say "I miss you" and Benny says "I miss you too, love, hows school?" I say "it's alright, lots of work" yawning as I talk over the phone with my man from a college dorm room. He got signed as a free agent as soon as we graduated high school, so he is in LA playing for The Dodgers while I'm doing more school work in college for journalism and history. Benny says "what kind of work?" I say "I have a two several page papers due in a few days, for my history and journalism courses, so I'm writing, what have you been doing?" He says "practicing, working out, eating, sleeping" and I chuckle saying "so what you do all the time?" He says "yeah, kind of boring" and I say "do you want my work?" He says "maybe, I'm dying over here" and I chuckle saying "I'll mail it to you" rolling my eyes and he says "I heard that eye roll" and I say "you can't hear eye rolls, weirdo" and he says "I can hear it in that pretty voice of yours." I smile and blush saying "I love you" and he say "I love you too" and I say "I'm going home this weekend, what are you doing this weekend?" He says "I have a practice both days" and I say "damn, I miss you, it's been a few months." He says "I know, I'm sorry, gorgeous" and my roommate, Jordan, walks in and I say "the man of the room is here" and Benny says "oh no" and we laugh. Jordan flips me off, laying on his bed and I say "when are you free?" Benny says "most Mondays and Fridays, why?" I whine saying "I'm deprived" and Jordan chuckles quietly and I say "babe, Jordans laughing at me, I wanna see you soon or I'm gonna have to take a piece of him" and Jordan says "I'm not against it." I say "you're literally a twink inside a jock body, shut up, I wouldn't be able to take you seriously" us laughing and Benny chuckles. I say "ok, I love you, I'll let you know when I can hang out I guess" and Benny says "I love you so much, yeah, I'll talk to you in a couple days, ok, love?" I whine saying "call me gorgeous one more time please" and he chuckles saying "I love you so much, my love, I'll talk to you soon, ok, gorgeous?" I bite my lip saying "love you too, bye" quietly and we hang up and Jordan says "you're really desperate" and I say "he knows I'm desperate, he would've left if it mattered to him." He says "you sure?" I say "we've been together for two years, I'm sure he would've left long ago, I've been here a year, he would've broken up with me if it was an issue." He says "fair, is he hot?" I say "yes, he's hot, do you like The Dodgers?" He has posters and baseball cards for The Dodgers, so it's kind of rhetorical but that's fine. He says "of course I do" and I point at a poster with all of The Dodgers as of two years ago that got drafted on the side of his room saying "that's my boyfriend" pointing toward the corner of the poster. Jordan turns to the poster then back to me with his jaw on the floor and he says "your boyfriend is Benny 'The Jet' Rodriguez?!" I say "yeah" smiling and he says "you're bullshitting!" I say "no, I trust you, you're my best friend, well, other than the guys I met when I started hanging out with my man but that's why I'm telling you this, he isn't even out to his parents." Jordan says "say something that only like his friends would know, not the public" and I say "he'd always wear the same thing a couple years ago, PF Flyers, cuffed jeans, a tee shirt or baseball tee and an oversized button up over the top and he still does. He busted a baseball, umm, his moms an asshole and I'm the one who brought the name Benny 'The Jet' Rodriguez to life" and he says "you came up with the nickname?!" I say "I did" biting my lip and he says "tell me more" and I say "we had this group of friends that would always play baseball, they would play, I'd watch cause it was nice to watch my man sweat, you know how it is." We chuckle and I say "anyway, heard of The Great Hambino?" He says "let me guess, ex boyfriend?" I laugh saying "no, that kid was the funniest kid I've ever met, when all of Bennys friends would play ball they all played one position and Ham would play catcher and I'd sit against the fence behind the plate. I taught him how to get in opponents head while they're batting and he'd always call me a princess cause I'd sleep in when in reality they'd get up at seven in the morning and get out there at eight. I'd get up at like ten, he's the funniest guy" and we chuckle and he says "what did The Jet play?" I say "whatever position that was empty, he played everything, they had nine people, one of them would bat then Benny would take whatever they were playing" and I finish my last paper. He says "so he's always been great?" I say"yeah, he's always been amazing, he's just a nice guy, Jordan" and he says "he seems like such a dreamboat" and I say "if you ever meet him, don't fall in love." We laugh and he says "he's yours, you already got him" and we chuckle and I say "that's right" us chuckling. I bite my lip saying "are you from around here?" He says "no" and I say "so you haven't heard of The Beast?" He says "you're nuts" and I say "I can't do the story justice, I gotta make a phone call" and he chuckles saying "alright." I call Squints and he says "yo, whats up, homie?" I say "hey, Squints, could you tell the story of The Beast?" He says "why?" I say "cause I don't do the story justice like you do" and we chuckle and he says "alright" and I put it on speaker and he says "ok, the story of The Beast goes back a long time, Mr. Mertle owned this junkyard and he needed something to keep thieves out of the junkyard. He brought home this new pup from the dog pound and he started feeding him flesh and he grew big! And he grew mean so he could protect the junkyard with only one thing on his mind! Eat everyone who broke in! He did and The Beast liked it, he was the best junkyard dog to ever live! He was a true killing machine but later the cops started getting phone calls about all the missing thieves, the ones The Beast had killed. It added up to 120-173 guys. Its true, they never found a single body, some think they got away but we really know what happened to all those theives, The Beast ate them bones and all, the cops said The Beast had to be retired because he was too good at his job. My grandpa, Squidman Palledorous, was police chief at the time and he ordered Mr. Mertle to make his backyard a fortress so The Beast couldn't escape with him chained under the house so he could never get out to eat children. Thats where the beast has been for twenty years and that's where it'll be for the rest of his life. Mr. Mertle asked them how long The Beast would have to stay there and my grandpa said until for-ev-er, for-ev-er, for-ev-er, for-ev-er. That's the story of The Beast!"