chap. 2

MPOV

Kathy and Jackson both had some sort of work to do so it was just Ben and I hanging out. The more I got to know Ben the more I liked him. He came over to our house and we decided to go for a walk. He started talking, “So Mindy, are you busy on Sunday afternoon?”

“Uh, I don’t know, why?”

“Well…um…I wanted to know if you would…uh…go to the beach with me for a picnic.”

“Sure Ben, I would love to go out with you on Sunday.”

“Okay, so I’ll pick you up at your house at 5 and we can go from there.”

“Okay, why don’t you tell me more about your family?”

“Okay, so my parents are divorced and my mom ended up in Madison with Dan, Neil and I. Dan and I went to Interlochen and we met Jay and Ben and the rest of the lost boys. I moved out here with Jackson and we’ve been working in acting and music since then. Tell me about yours.”




I went on to tell him about Pennsylvania, my parents and my brothers Jeffrey and Jeremy. “My parents are still married; I’ve lived in Pennsylvania my whole life until last week. Kathy and I met in ’06 thanks to the band Family Force 5. I miss my family, but being with you,” I bumped him, “helps that. I know Kathy feels that way about Jackson.”

“Speaking of them, do you think we could not say anything to them until Saturday, I think Jay has something planned for Kathy tomorrow?”

“Okay, but I think I’ll only be able to hold that we’re going out on Sunday until Saturday.”

“Okay, we’ll tell people then, I just don’t want Kathy jealous that you go to go on a date with this piece of hot ass and she doesn’t. Okay, truth be told, I think Jay’s going to ask her out tomorrow. Don’t tell either of them I said that. By the way want to hang out tomorrow night?”

“Sure, how about at our house cause I think that Kathy and Jay are going to be at yours.”

“Okay, I’ll bring over my favorite eighties movie with and we can watch it.”

“Okay.”




We made it to my door again, said good night, hugged and Ben left. I stayed up until Kathy got home. We talked about our days and the kids we nanny. Thankfully she didn’t ask about what Ben and I did. We went to bed, I dreamt of Ben, like I had been for the last 4 days.



BPOV(Ben’s point of view)

Oh my Mindy said she would go out with me on Sunday night. I was so excited about it. We were going to hang out tomorrow and watch a movie. When I got home Jackson was back from the audition.

“Yo Jay, what’s up?”

“Uh not much, have fun with Mindy tonight?”

“Yeah, we hung out and tomorrow we’re going to watch Revenge of the Nerds at their house. How’d the audition go?”

“I think it went really well, I’ll know in a couple weeks if I have the part.”

“Well I’m going to crash; long day tomorrow with the studio stuff and then hanging with Mindy like you asked me to be out of the house tomorrow night, last night.”

“Thanks man, I have something planned for Kathy,” he said confirming my suspicion.

“Okay, I’m off to bed, night.”

“Night.”



I went to bed and dreamt of a beautiful girl named Mindy. I was so excited about the next few nights. I had our date all planned out, the picnic and then walking along the beach barefoot, I would tell her to wear flip flops or something. I got up around nine the next morning, showered, dressed and was ready by ten to head to the studio to write and record some. It was a long exhausting day that ended at about six, Jay and I left and went home. I grabbed Revenge of the Nerds and started to walk over to the girls’ house. I saw Kathy on the way and said, “Hi, have fun with Jay tonight, I’m headed over to your house to watch Revenge of the Nerds with Mindy.”

She replied, “Okay, you too Ben, and Mindy love that movie, so you’ll be good with it,” and she smiled hugely. I walked the rest of the way and walked into their house for the night. Mindy had popcorn made and practically screamed when she saw I brought over Revenge of the Nerds. We settled on the couch to watch our favorite movie.