"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 he cared what Ben thought and now he knows that Ben only thinks of him as a violent person.
The next 2 days everything felt like it was back to normal, no one talks to Mackie and Ben is with his friends. He didn't tell his friends about what he saw he's staying focused on spring fling "we should get ready at my house tomorrow night and just have the guys pick us up from there." Ali suggests