I Am Yours, Mr Chevalier!
The Part 40
"Are you ready to continue your journey?" ben asked as soon as Laras got into the car and sat down sweetly. The girl nodded.
Ben started driving his car out of the motel yard.
Ben glanced at Laras' fresh-looking face this morning. With her perfunctory makeup that she carried in her bag, the girl looked beautiful. The knee-length white shirt he bought yesterday at the shopping center was combined with a long-sleeved sweater and three-centi-high boots from his ankles he had been wearing from New York.
"Your skin is white to a girl from Southeast Asia" Ben said.
Laras chuckles at hearing it.
"Do you expect my skin to be more exotic?" fashion Barrel.
"Oh no, no, no .. I like you like that!"
Barrel rounded his eyes.
"Seriously .. you look so damn good," praised Ben for making Laras' chest pound. But the girl tried to camouflage him with laughter.
"Casanova," murmured Laras.
"Hey .. stop calling me that!" ben grumbled as he grabbed Laras' head, and ruffled his hair with his right hand.
"Ben .. You're ruining my hair." The barrel pulled his head and tidied back his messy hair.
"Stop calling me Casanova or ...." Ben did not continue his words. The man thought for a moment.
"Or what?" challenge Laras.
"Or I'll rape you right now!"
Laras. Staring at Ben. The man's face looked very serious. Nyali Laras shriveling.
A few seconds later, Ben laughed.
"Look at your frightened face, funny," said Ben, pointing at Laras' pale face.
"Darn you, Ben!" hardik Laras while hitting Ben's shoulder a little hard until the man grimaced in pain. But then came back laughing.
"It's not funny!" gerutu Laras was upset.
"Do I look like a rapist?" asked Ben in his laughter.
"Slightly," said Laras still with an upset tone.
"Owh," murmured Ben.
Now it's Laras' turn to chuckle at Ben's reaction.
"You don't have to be a rapist because all the women will be waiting in line to sleep with you" Laras said.
"There's one woman who's not interested in sleeping with me." Ben tilted his slanted smile, quipping Laras.
Laras knows the direction of Ben's conversation, but the girl pretends to be stupid.
"really? who's that stupid woman?" asked Laras with a plain face he made up.
"He's not stupid, it's just that his head is filled with fears of things that might never happen." Baras' chest is pounding. The girl was silent. Ben glanced at Laras at a glance. Looks like he's been scaring the girl.
Ben pulled his car over and parked it on a path to the meadow.
"Wow .. This is going to be fun, a hippies society," Ben said. "Let's join them!" then shouted.
"Are you sure?" ask Laras.
"Come on Barrel."
Ben got out of his car. Baras had to follow him.
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Several men and women dressed in 70s style, complete with their bell vests and denim pants, were gathered next to a large cone tent. Cigarettes and beer bottles complete their warm conversation.
"Holly shit, am I dreaming?" strangle one of the men with a thick beard when he sees the arrival of Ben and Laras. While Ben looked a little surprised it turned out that there were only those who recognized who he was. Ben had hoped that the hippies would not recognize him.
At once everyone who was sitting in a circle turned to look at Ben and Laras.
They were no less surprised. Some women close their mouths hysterically.
"Benjamin Chevalier!" screeched them.
Ben scratched his head which was not itchy at all. While Laras chuckles beside him.
"Hello guys, can we stop by and join? Me and emh ...." Ben looked towards Laras. "My girlfriend was on a road trip and we happened to see you guys here" Ben said as he sat cross-legged among the men. Ben pulled Laras' hand and told him to sit next to him.
Baras gasped at the words of his girlfriend that Ben said. Chests rumbling.
"Wow of course Ben, of course," the bearded man replied still in disbelief.
"Thanks . own by the way this is Laras." Ben introduces Laras to them.
Laras smiled as he moved his palms to the left and to the right.
"Hi Laras, I'm David .. what a lucky girl you are" praised the man named David.
Laras raised his eyebrows and was about to answer something. But quickly Ben's hand grabbed his body and clasped it at a glance.
"I'm the lucky one" said Ben.
"Aww .. y'all so sweet," praised one of the longhaired women and wore '70s-style sunglasses. Ben smiled at the woman.
"Hey, you want a beer?" bargain David while offering two bottles of beer and the bottle opener.
"Owh sure!" ben said as he took a bottle of beer from David's hand. Uncapped the bottle and gave one of them to Laras.
"It's like a dream, Ben .. I really like The Rebellion, your songs are anthem for lovers of space cookies," David chuckled. Ben couldn't help but laugh at David's words.
The conversation was flowing warmly. Ben seemed enthusiastic to be among these people. Baras watched Ben occasionally and smiled. This man is so humble, his inner self. It does not show that he is a famous rockstar.
Laras could not focus on Ben's chat with those people. The girl only noticed Ben's body language while talking, laughing, smiling, the way he smoked a cigarette and drank his beer, then listened to his interlocutors enthusiastically, all making Laras even more fascinated. Either because of his feelings alone or indeed Ben's face looks radiant.
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