Levelling the Playing Field (HD&D Sequel)

Chapter 4 - Emphasis!

The next day, the four were back in the car. This time, Bennett was still driving with Naomi sitting shotgun and Declan and Jordan taking the backseats. As it seems to be from now on, the conversation was on nothing but the girls. Bennett was getting tired of hearing about them, and it must have shown on his face because Naomi, ever the insightful, detected the small changes in his reaction.

"Hey, you alright, Bennett?" She asked him, watching the way his knuckles tightened around the steering wheel as soon as Jordan mentioned the word "wife".

"Nothing, it's nothing,"

"It doesn't seem like nothing," Declan came into the conversation.

Bennett sighed. He didn't want to mention anything to his friends now.

"Aren't you excited? I thought you'd want to know the person you're going to end up with?" Jordan asked.

Again Bennett sighed. He didn't know how to go about telling them what he felt. Truth be told, he was torn. On the one hand, he felt this giddy force in the pit of his stomach every time he anticipated what the future had in store for him. On the other hand, he hit his wife with a table. How's he supposed to mention that to them casually?

Oh yeah, I had previously met Davina at the gang raid on Sunday when she went to meet associates of the Lost Boys, and I hit her with a table - what a terrific meet-cute.

It was eating him up, the guilt, the giddiness- it was over-.

"Bennett, watch out!"

He managed to swerve out of the way of the oncoming car.

Nothing but panic took over everyone in the car. Bennett slammed on the breaks, having the car come to an immediate stop, lurching everyone forward in their seats. They all sat there dazed, considering what had just occurred.

The other car, a familiar white Mercedes, was stationary too, having swerved the other way.

Bennett looked up and into the driver's side of the other car. Shockingly green eyes stared back. He almost flinched, and then realisation dawned on him, on all of them.

Ah shit, not again.

Davina's mind was all over the place, she was still going over last nights events, and it didn't help that Tessa and Arya were arguing over nonsense in the car.

She saw the other car coming, of course, she did. Thinking he would give way, she didn't realise the other driver was just as out of it as her. Both of them had their minds on other things.

You know, just soulmate things.

It was only when Tessa screamed. "Car!" Did Davina snap back into reality and narrowly avoid the collision.

They sat there in shock. Davina felt as if she was okay. The other two were fine, just a little shaken. She then turned to the other car, and sure enough, she was met with startling blue eyes.

It was as if the air was taken out of her all over again.

Bennett.

The boy mirrored her look of shock, but then it seemed to settle into a look of well...nothing. Davina didn't know what to make of his reaction. It seemed like he didn't care for the almost hitting her and her friends as well as his own.

She resisted the urge to glare at him. It was his fault, well, most of it anyway.

Seeing that everyone was seemingly alright, she mirrored his blank look as she reversed her car and left.