Miriam's POV.

What did I do wrong?

The same question kept on bouncing around in my head till I got a headache.
I reached the garage shortly after with a pounding headache.

"Hey Ben" I greeted him as I dragged my feet into the garage.
"Miriam! You won't believe this but..." His voice trailed off as he finally looked at me.
"Mimi? You okay?" He immediately rushed over to me like a mother hen to make sure I wasn't hurt.

"I'm fine Ben" I said as I gently slipped my arm out of his grip that he had been examining for injuries.

"No you're not. What happened? Was it Cho?"
"No..."
"Who? I will put my hair gel in they're clean underwear!"
I grimaced in disgust of the thought of putting on your clean underwear only to feel that gooey stuff.

"Ew. That's gross. Please don't."
"Okay fine. I'll think of something else. But who was it?"
"Nobody Ben... Tao just said something that bothers me. That's all"
Ben scrunched up his carefully plucked eyebrows.

"And that was...?"
"Be careful who you let break down your walls Miriam."
I quoted Tao.

"Okay **** work. You need a night out"
"Language" I glared at him.

He sighed.
"sorry. So I was thinking we could-"
"I've got a massive headache Ben. Maybe some other time."
"Oh... Then I'll hang out on your couch in case you need something." And he began locking up the place, not giving me any time to object.

***

Ben pulled up in front of my driveway with his red truck.
"You don't have to-"
Ben held up a hand.
"I want to" he silenced my oncoming objections.
I sighed in defeat.

I unlocked the door to my small three room apartment and held the door open for Ben before shutting it behind him.