Chapter 10 Ben’s house, the day after the show When Ben opened his eyes, he still felt the pleasurable sensation of the taste of victory, in that semi-dreamlike state somewhere between fantasy and reality. Almost immediately, his mind associated that sweet sensation to a high school experience he had when he had woken up in bed next to Barby, the most beautiful girl in the whole school… n***d and still asleep. He couldn’t remember every detail because of the amount of alcohol he had consumed, but being there in that moment, beholding the gorgeous girl from head to toe as if she stood on an impossibly high pedestal (at least that’s where all of her friends and everyone else put her), made him feel as special as Peter Parker, the day after he had discovered his secret Spiderman superpower

