☆𝐁𝐞𝐧 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐲 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬☆

"Can I?"

He was the popular guy. Mr. Boy if my dreams. Ben Jones Hardy. He did almost everything, captain of the football team, volunteer at events, I mean who wouldn't want to be the love of his life. I know I did. I've had a crush on him since kindergarten. He stole my crayon but I was totally okay with it, considering it wasn't even mine.

My best friend always teases me about having a crush on him all the time. I talk to him but only when he's behind or confused on something, or being paired up with projects, and you could take today as an example.

"Today, you will be making a political cartoon on what we've learned. It can be about any topic from civil war, the amendments, anything you think of with your partner," the class begins to get excited when he says partner. "That I will be choosing and you'll be presenting them in front of the class Friday" Mr. Coley smiles when their excitement is replaced with groans and eye rolling. I didn't mind being paired up with a random person because I feel like I'm doing the work by myself cause I do all the work.

He calls out the students who will be paired up so I tune out everything by drawing planets. "Y/n, you'll be with Ben" he does a nod and walks back to his desk. I can already see some girls eyes burning through me because they weren't paired, which is ridiculous because it's unnecessary but-

"Hey" I heard a deep voice interrupt my rant going through my head. I look up from my paper and see Ben pull over a chair and sit on it backwards resting his arms at the top.

"Hi. I'm y/n" I decided to introduce myself because why not. He smiles at me. He has the cutest smile.

"Thank you" he says out of nowhere.

"Did I say that out loud?"

"Just a little" I put my head in my hands and sigh of how I embarrass my own self. "Mine or your house?" he waits for an answer. "Mine I guess"

"Cool, I'll be over there today after school" the bell rings the sound of things clattering fills the class room and as they leave. He stands up from the chair and gives me a wave before leave the class.

"Y/F is going to flip her shiiit"

-

"AT YOUR HOUSE!" My friend yells as some people turn to look at us. I quickly walk away and head towards my locker. "It's not that serious"

"It's really serious. You don't know what could happen, you can probably lose your virginity"
I look at her with a face that says 'really.'
"I'm not doing that"

"Why not? He's the boy of your dreams"

"He's the boy of everyone's dreams"
She rolls her eyes at me. "Stop being lame" she whines.

"I'm going home now, bye f/n" I smile at her as I leave the building.

I walk down the sidewalk looking at my phone when a car pull up beside me going at my walking pace.

"Hey need a ride?" A familiar voice boomed out of the car. Ben was driving his car beside me. "No thanks"

"Aww come on get it. There's a spot saved just for you" he pats the passenger seat. He continues to look at the road and me to make sure not to crash into anything.

"You know you're going under the speed limit right? Illegal"

"I'm illegal just for you. Come on we have to get our hands to sketching" I stop walking and at the same time he stops his car. I walk over to it and get inside putting my bag on my lap.

"Drawing if just a few minutes. Thinking takes time...want some fro-yo?"

"Maybe" I say my face expression giving him my actual answer.

We hung out inside the fro-yo shop for a while. We told random stories that just went with the subjects of what else talked about. Talking to Ben was easier than I expected, and I thought that throughout this whole project that it was going to be awkward. He's very social and his personality makes you comfortable enough to where you can ramble on and on like you've been friends since you were little kids.

"—and he turns to me and so casually says 'shut the fuck up' and I was so shocked, I didn't expect that to happen at all and the rest of my night was just horrible. I got gum on my shoe, lost my keys for about an hour, and my phone died" I finish my story to him.

"Wow..if I was there I would've beat him up"

"Aww what a knight" I tease resting my head on my hands pretending to be adored.

[Time skip to when they're at her house]

"Is this you?" Ben takes off a picture off my mirror. It was me and my friend in kindergarten dress like thing 1 and thing 2. "Yeah, it was a Halloween party" I chuckle at the memory. "You're adorable" I hear him mumble. Maybe it wasn't for me to hear. He puts the picture back and sits on the bed beside me.

"I was thinking of doing monopolies" I suggest to him. "What do you think?"

"I suggest that we play monopoly"

"No, we can't we only have week" I laugh. "School days go by slow" he turns his head to me and raises his eyebrows.

He was right. This week has on gone by slower than a turtle. It felt like I've been with him for a year but really it was 5 days.

It was Thursday and we had to present tomorrow. You would think he would have left but he suggested we should hang out more so he decided we should to go to the beach.

It was 6 o'clock and the sun started to set. We sat on top of his car and watched the scene in front of us. Since Ben was so deep into it, I would glance at him at some points. The gold color shined on him and it made his skin perfect, well he is perfect to me. I never thought a crush feeling will grow more than mines did. I fell in love with him more over the last week but I knew it was useless that he will never feel the same toward me. He probably thought of me as an acquaintance  or even better a friend.

"I don't get to do this a lot" he says. "Why not?"

"I'm always busy with sports and never have time after school"

"Well you seemed very relaxed. You should take more breaks since you look stressed all the time- well from what I seen this week"

"I was relaxed all this week. Your voice relaxed me a lot. I never get to hear voices like yours very often. You should be voice therapist"

"A voice therapist helps people recover vocal damage and behavior"

"Oh, well you're a different one to me"
I giggle. "If I'm being honest I'm glad Mr. Coley paired me with you. If it was any other girl I would be bored and would drop out the project the first day"

"I am boring" I chuckle. "You may think you are but you're pretty fun to hang out with, you showed a difference in what these other girls are like. They would flirt with me and try to get with me but I can be with you everyday. I got closer to you faster than I've done in my life"

He takes his attention off the sky and looks at me.

"Can I kiss you?" His vice was a in whisper and he moved closer to me. I nod my head without a thought in my head. He puts his hand on my cheek and pulls me in for a kiss. The kiss was a slow one. His lips were soft and plump. Over it was amazing for my first kiss.

We pull away and I had a little smile on my face. "That was the best feeling I've had in a long time"

"You were my first kiss" i shyly look down. "Well since I stole your first kiss, can I make it up to by taking you out for dinner?"

"Of course you can"