Chapter Seven

The next day Tina and Ben decided to sleep in. When Tina finally woke up around noon she walked out into her living room and discovered Ben. “What a sight this is” she said as she leaned against the wall. Ben’s long body was streached out across Tina’s less than large couch, he was laying on his stomach and his face was buried in the cushion while his legs hung at least two feet off the edge. Tina was going to let him sleep but she found it would be more fun to wake him up the same way he used to wake her up when they were kids. She quickly moved across the living room and leaped on to him and yelled “Steamroller” as she rolled over him. Ben jumped to his feet and gained some composure. Tina laughed at his sleepy confused face and said “I don’t think your hair had it’s V-8 today”. Ben looked at her and huffed before he stomped off into the bathroom. Moments later he emerged into the hallway without a shirt on and his toothbrush in his mouth.

Ben: “Why are you so chipper this morning?

Tina: “Im not chipper, im normal. God you have a lot of tattoo’s”

Ben: “Not really only seven” he replied as he counted them then walked back into the bathroom.

Tina could hear him counting them when the door bell rang. She got up to answer it.

Tina: “Mom?!” was all she could say due to the shock of her mother at her door.

Ben didn’t notice his mother when he came out of the bathroom.

Ben: “No I was wrong, there’s eight” he confermed without looking up.

He then pulled down the side of his pants to reveal the red maple leaf on his butt. Tina’s eyes widened and she froze.

Tracy: “Benjamin Daniel, what have you done to yourself?” she spoke with utter disapointment.

Ben: “***** mom!” he shouted before running into the bathroom.

A minute later he came back out wearing a hat and a black hoodie. Maybe if she couldn’t see his tattoo’s and his hair she wouldn’t say anything.