Babe.

8.

Benny.

Denise had officially lost her mind. I knew I wasn't perfect and I had more than enough evidence to prove she wasn't either but now she had lost the final screws that kept her sanity bolted into her body. She despreately needed them because it was such a flight risk. And tonight it had flown the freaking coop.

"WHY WAS SHE IN YOUR HOUSE?" She screamed her face reddening as she threw the flapjacks in our cupboard at me.

"Would you STOP THAT?" I snapped at her resisting the urge to throw the nearest baseball at her head, but I couldn't do that because guys weren't supposed to hurt girls and knowing Denise she'd probably try to sue me.  "She was only here to babysit my brother so I could go the the party YOU were throwing. I WAS WITH YOU THE WHOLE EVENING!"

Denise's eyes were bulging out of her head at this point, "BUT SHE WAS STILL HERE! Marking her territory!"

I choked on my spit, "you have got to be fucking kidding me. Marking her territory? ARE YOU INSANE?!"

"WHY DOES SHE GET TO BABYSIT YOUT BROTHER?" She demanded angrily as she moved on to throwing various items in her bags at me when she ran out of our limited supply of flapjacks.

"Who cares?" I asked incredulously, "you don't even like him! You've never even offered to babysit and I asked you!"

Ty scoffed walking into the kitchen, "like I would ever let you near me." he shot at Denise rolling his eyes, "psycho."

"SHUT UP!" We both snapped at him whipping around to face him.

Ty shot me an evil grin as he picked up a flapjack from the floor, "shut up." he mimicked scowling at my grilfriend. "You should be thanking Blanca for keeping me busy, you're the one that told me it would be easier if I crawled back into the hole I came from and never came out again."

Now I was furious. "YOU SAID THAT TO MY BROTHER?" I shouted at her crossing my arms. Yeah, Ty was a massive pain in my ass but he was still my brother and only I could say that to him.

"LIAR!" She retorted stabbing her finger at him.

I could see a much worse reply forming in his mind and I clamped my hand over his mouth to stop him from saying it, not that he didn't have a right to. "I'll see you at school." I bit out grabbing her things off the floor and pushing her towards the door.

"You're kicking me out?" Denise asked shocked as I pushed her out the kitchen.

"You picked a bright one didn't you Benny?" My younger brother quipped watching with glee as she marched towards the door heels clacking.

"Close your trap you little cretin!" She hissed at him before slamming the door.

I couldn't help feeling a sense of relief, I had an hour till I was meeting Yeah-yeah, since he and Nika were dating now they wanted us all to hang out together which meant the wicked witch of the chemistry lab would be there to shackle me to new outside of school study sessions.

When it was time to go I dragged myself down the stairs and grabbed the keys to the little moped that my grandfather had fixed up for me. I pulled on my helmet and put the keys in the ignition before calling to Ty, "don't burn the house down!"

He grinned sucking on a water ice lolly, "no promises."

Jesus this kid.

When I arrived at the mall everyone was already there including the ice queen herself. Her face twisted into a scowl as she saw me and turned to mutter something to Tilly who bit back a laugh. Both of them promptly recieved a glare from Nika before she waved me over, "Benny!"

I smiled at her and waved back, it wasn't Nika I had an issue with just her bestfriend who had recently tried to kill me in a car accident.

"Killed anyone in a driving accident recently?" I asked testily coming to a stop in front of them.

"Gotten a ticket for being the slowest driver ever yet?" Blanca replied breezily as I sat down at the table.

Kenny nodded as I opened my mouth to protest, "she's right you know, your fine on the moped but being in a car with you is like driving in slow motion."

I glared at the traitor, as Blanca said "or backwards."

My friend grinned at her and they clinked their milkshake glasses together, "cheers." Kenny told her winking making Blanca laugh.

"Backstabber." I told him rolling my eyes.

He clapped me on the back, "oh don't take it to heart buddy."

"What's up with you?" Yeah-yeah asked moving away from his girlfriend to come sit with me, "you looked pretty pissed when you walked in."

I shrugged, "Denise and I are on outs again." I told him shaking my head, "she lost it because Blanca was babysitting Ty."

He frowned, "but she hates your brother."

"I know." I answered annoyed, "she said something about Blanca marking her territory. Don't laugh I laready know it's fucking stupid."

"Doesn't she know the only person who hates Blanca more than her is you?" Yeah-yeah pointed out.

"You would think so." I responded running an exasparated hand through my hair, "she's insane but for some reason I haven't broken up with her yet."

"That's because she's hot." Squints chimed in before turning back to Kenny.

Yeah-yeah rolled his eyes, "don't listen to him he can only see one thing. She probably just hasn't done anything bad enough yet for you to really care."

Shouting at my brother was bad, but knowing him he'd probably said something particularly horrible to her beforehand. But was that really any reason to stay with anyone? But I was probably lazy and comfortable with what I had, there had never been any reason for me to break things off with her because I knew Denise well enough to know that this would have blown over and tomorrown I'd have a stunning girlfriend back.

Or was I just being an idiot?