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that was rude,” I stated as I stared at him.
    “I know... never again,” his voice was soft and low. I looked back towards
his car. “Vanessa, I am so sorry,”
“Don't forget the cupcakes,” I remind him again. “I forgive you,” I say in
monotone.
“Thank you,” he said sincerely. “I won't,”
     
I smiled and started slowly rolling down the driveway again. Ben started
towards the house to grab the cupcakes when he quickly turned around.
     
“Hey, Vanessa!” he yelled halfway up the walkway.
     
I pushed the brake and rolled my window halfway down. “Yeah!”
    “It's too bad you aren't feeling well enough to go to dinner with Jordan... no
worries though, he understood!” Ben smiled widely before turning to walk
into the house.
I am sure my face was priceless as I sat there staring at him with my mouth
open.
    “What the hell?!” I said aloud grabbing my cell phone then took a look at my
messages. Ben had text him from my phone acting as if it were me telling
him I needed to cancel due to my waking up sick.
    “I forgive you too, princess!” he hollered from his car with the cupcake boxes
in his arms. “No more secrets!” he put the cupcakes in his back seat and
hopped in his car.
    Damn him in all of his sexiness! I let out a scream of frustration. “I hate
him!” I growled as I angrily sped out of my driveway not paying any kind of
attention to what I was doing and wouldn't you know it- an oncoming car
honked frantically as it rammed right into the back side panel of my car on
the passenger side.
    I angrily took my seat belt off and stepped out of my car. A short, older man
possibly in his late fifties with balding gray hair and tan skin is going off in
some foreign language I couldn't understand as he pointed to my driveway
then the damage to his Cadillac.
“Sir, please calm down. My insurance will cover the damages,” I tried to say
but the old man kept talking and talking and talking.
     
“Sir, please,” I pleaded as all I want to do is rip my hair out.
     
“Vanessa,”
     
I turned around to see that Ben had backed his white BMW out of my
driveway and was stopped next to the wreckage.
     
“What, Ben?!” I yelled at him.
“It looks like you are riding with me, Princess.” he winked.

Chapter Two: Peek-a-Boo, I See You
    Thirty minutes later after Ben had taken charge of my little 'incident',
swapping insurance information and pulling my car back into the driveway,
we are on our way to my mom and dads house.
“Are you okay?” Ben glanced at me from the drivers side. “That wreck
looked pretty nasty,”
     
“Yes, I am fine,” I stared out the window at the gas station halfway to my
moms house that Ben was pulling into.
     
“Do you want anything?” he asked as he took his seat belt off. “I mean, I feel
partially responsible for your little fender-bender,”
     
“You know what? Yes, the biggest pack of cigarettes and bottle of wine they
have stocked in their store,” I clenched my teeth.
     
He laughed. “You got it,”
    I watched him as he walked into the store and I slightly smiled. Yes, he
makes me want to rip my hair out. Yes, I hate him. Yes, I want to kill the
sultry bastard... But, yes, I also have a soft spot for the asshole. Ben is
sending me through a whirlwind of emotions that I can't understand. One
minute I want to scream, and the next I want to
    Buzz...buzz. I looked down at the middle console and see Ben's phone sitting
in the drink holder lit up. I picked it up to find a text from that red headed girl
from Estrada's- Karen. I smirked taking a sneaky peek at the door to the gas
station, he is still inside. I opened the message screen;
It's too bad you had to cancel our dinner plans.
I hope you feel better soon, sexy...
xoxo Karen
    I scrolled up and had seen that he had sent the message to her explaining the
same thing he said to Jordan for me- that he had awoken sick. His message
was sent earlier this morning before he sent anything to Jordan, before he
even