The whole time we were eating Benjamin kept glancing at me with a weird smile all over his lips. I had no idea if it was him trying to smile, or he was actually getting a cramp from pretending to smile this much. He couldn't be such a person, who would be smiling this much. I bet he was smiling only when he saw animals suffering! Or seeing the hoards of money he probably had. Or both at once. His personality wouldn't allow him to be so nice as to smile only because I was a person. Okay, maybe I was cute.
"Oh, by the way, Benjamin," Michael's mother tried starting a different conversation with Benjamin. Michael was still not joining us. Benjamin finished chewing, wiped his mouth, and turned to face her.
"We were wondering if you would be that kind as to give Sophie a ride home? She has al
