By the time school wrapped up for the day, yet another success/failure since I'd failed to really learn much, but succeeded in not harming myself or anyone else, I'd almost forgotten about Benjamin and my weak sort-of promise.

That is until I found myself crossing the threshold into Johnny's and saw him sitting at a booth, smiling at me.

Oh crap. The last person I wanted to talk to, really.

"I'm going to head home." Just looking at that smile made my head start ...