Stranded | Ben & Xander
“No, no, no, no, no, no! C’mon, not tonight.”
Ben was pleading with his car. It had stopped, suddenly (for no reason, as far as Ben could tell), on the side of the road. He'd been working on it yesterday and he’d kind of sorta of promised Eli that it wouldn’t drive it tonight until his brother had had a chance to look it over. That wasn’t supposed to be a problem: he had a paper to write tonight and didn’t have plans to go anywhere.
That is until he got a craving for a midnight snack. The diner was only about a five minute drive from his house (no highways involved!) and he was positive that it could make it that far.
He’d been wrong.
He knew that there was a bunch of people he could call that would jump out of bed to help him (Eli included), but he figured he’d try Xander first. He doubted he had any plans to go to bed anytime soon.
“Hi. So ... my car just died. Any chance you could maybe give me a ride?” He asked, “There’s all you can eat pancakes on me if you say yes,” He added, with the sort of confidence that made it sound like all you can eat pancakes with him might actually be more fun than some girl who was probably ready to him back to his place.
