MORE THAN FRIENDS/BENNY RODRIGUEZ/SEQUEL TO CLOSER THAN ENEMIES/

8/He's mine/

JASMINE'S POV August 27, 2020

            I feel the cold breeze drift through my open door, someone must have come into my room to get something. I shiver and look at my clock, it's only four in the morning, I stand up putting on my slippers, I grab my phone and turn on the flashlight. As I go to walk out I bump into someone and immediately go to scream but the person covers my mouth. I open my eyes after squeezing them shut, His eyes meet mine and I go calm, I feel safe. For some reason the fear hit me so hard I begin crying. Benny pulls me into my room soothing me and rubbing my head as I cry. I finally get a hold of myself,

"My love, I'm so sorry." I sniffle

"What are you doing in my house at four in the morning?" I ask angry, 

"I left my cleats over here and I have baseball practice at school." I raise my eyebrows,

"You got onto the baseball team." I smile wide and he nods, "I'm so happy for you." I hug him and he tightly hugs me back. I look back at the time and see it's getting closer to five, "Okay, time for you to go my love," I stand up and grab his cleats out of my closet, I turn around and he's face to face with me, he leans in and kisses me. I kiss back as the kiss gets more and more intense he places his hands on my waist. I crave more he turns me around and pushes me gently towards the bed, I lay down and he climbs on top of me, not placing any weight. The kissing becomes hot and sweaty, he moves his hands down to my pajamas and I stop him, 

"I'm sorry." He immediately says 

"No no no it's okay I'm just not ready." I kiss his cheek and he nods letting it go. I lay staring at the ceiling with him next to me, "Babe, you have to goooo." He laughs and stands up picking his cleats off the ground.

"Okay, I'll see you at school" I nod and smile as he leans down to kiss me. I gently kiss him back "Good bye beautiful." He walks out closing my door gently. Now it may seem weird that I didn't freak out that much cause he was in my house, but c'mon, he knows where the spare key is. I close my eyes to go back to sleep and drift right back to sleep. 

          I wake up feeling hot and sweaty, then I feel someone touch my forehead, "Jesus christ Jas, you're burning up." I open my eyes and see my brother Brian standing over me. I feel confusion as I wipe my hot forehead, "There's no way you're going to school." Then the sickness hits me, I jump up as fast as possible and race to the restroom, I slam the door behind me and luckily I made it just in time. I begin throwing up, the vomit rips out of my throat like acid. My brother knocks and I have no room to speak. So, he just walks in, Brian grabs my hair and holds it up while I vomit. Finally, as it calms down I can speak,

"I don't feel good." I groan out and Brian laughs,

"I could tell."

"Hey is- Jasmine whats wrong?" Jordan stands behind Brian trying to check on me and I nod,

"She's got the flu or something." Jordan sighs and rubs my head as Brian wipes off my sweaty vomit face. I stand up with the support of Brian and we walk back to my room. "I'll call Camilla to get over here with medicine and some soup." I nod sickly and lay in my bed still. 

          About an hour passed and finally Veronica shows up, it's already two o'clock and I know Benny's gonna be freaking out, but he hasn't texted me. "Hi hon" Camilla says with a pout on her face. I smile weakly,

"Hi." She laughs sadly and hands me two pills,

"Take these, they should help, then I made some soup I'm heating it up right now." I nod and close my eyes, I throw the pills in my mouth and chase them down with water. Camilla runs back down stairs to get my soup. I smile as she sets it on my dresser, "Just rest while it cools down." I close my eyes and just like that I drift off to sleep.

BENNY'S POV

           I didn't see Jasmine at all today. I'm super worried, she never misses school. As I'm walking to my last class I see Caitlyn, I've avoided her all day today. She meets my eyes and smiles, I ignore it and walk into my class, everyone was talking about the whole picture situation. I'm honestly happy Jasmine didn't have to go through it. I sit in my boring class worried about Jasmine, I hope she's okay. 

Finally, after an hour of that boring class I can go check on Jasmine. I rush out of class and towards the school exit. I hear people whispering everywhere, cheater this cheater that. I run towards the bike holder and grab my bike. I speed off towards my house not waiting for anything, I made sure to pick up all Jasmine's homework today, since I figured she would still wanna do it. As I pull up to my house and Jasmine's house everything is quiet. I leave my bike in front of my yard and walk to Jasmine's door, I knock lightly and my sister answers the door,

"Veronica? Is she okay?" My sister laughs at my fear,

"She's fine, she's just sick." I groan, I feel bad. I left her alone all day sick. I push past my sister and walk up to her room, I open the door silently and see she's not on her bed. 

JASMINE'S POV

I begin vomiting in the toilet as I heard Benny call my name "Jasmine?" I sigh and continue throwing up as he opens the door, He rushes to hold my hair back and rubs my back. I hate when he sees me sick. I sigh after I finish throwing up and Camilla hands me a water. I sigh and lean into Benny's chest, he smiles and kisses my head. I stand up weakly and walk back to my room, Benny lays me down and I curl up into a ball, "We were all gonna go to the sandlot, but we aren't going." I scrunch my eyebrows in anger,

"No, that's not fair." He shushes me and shakes his head,

"We are staying in so you can get better, now which movie should we watch?" I shrug bummed out because I haven't played ball in forever. Benny laughs and walks up to me smiling, "Scary?" he knows scary movies are my weakness with him. I smile and nod as he grabs the remote for the tv, He hops in bed next to me and begins looking for a movie to watch. Finally, we land upon the movie 'The Orphan'. I curl up next to him and snuggle into his chest. He smiles and the movie starts.

After about thirty minutes into the movie and I begin drifting to sleep, I close my eyes and fall asleep.