"No we're not I spoke to Mr. Merrill and told him we both would rather work alone and he agreed. You're right, I don't need to be in your fucked up world so it's best if we just never talk to each other again." Ben walks away leaving him.

What Ben saw really frightened him and that's what Mackie was afraid of, the one chance to make a good impression in a school full of people who think he's a creep and he proves them right. Not that he cares what the others think, but for some reason ...