Parallels Intertwined

Chapter 3

Bri woke up at eleven o'clock, after refreshing herself she came out with earphones in and music blaring. Seeing that Harry wasn't up yet, she prepared breakfast for herself some scrambled eggs and toast. In the middle of her whipping the eggs, she would break in to dance. Shimmed with her eyes closed in circles followed by the classic disco move.

Then went back to scrambling her eggs on the stove, pushing them on a plate she placed the toast next to the eggs and turned around to keep it on the table when she was Harry leaning against the door, smirking and gawking at her. Pulling her earphones out wide-eyed ' since how long have you been standing there?'

The next thing Harry does is he mimics Bri by closing his eyes with a big goofy smile, shimmed on spot. As embarrassed as Brionna was she hinted it looked 'better when she did it.'

He smirked and joined her, "what are you gonna eat? 'Oh, nothing just yet maybe later on!' Bri nodded as a response since she had toast in her mouth. Bri is it okay if we leave in forty-five minutes just need to make some calls? "

"Yup! Sure I need to talk to Jean too, it's been a while, just knock on my door when you're ready." "Alrighty", he left and got busy with his phone calls, cleaning her dish she went to her room and called Jean who she knew since their diaper days.

She had a nice long conversation with her and Jean teased her about going on a mini-vacation with Mr.Fancy Pants. By the time Harry was done with his calls, Bri had changed into black shorts and a white crochet top, and the same beat-up sneakers.

A knock on her door followed by 'we can leave in five!', "Alright!" Bri spoke loud enough for him to hear. She picked up a smaller bag and went to the hall. He came out minutes later wearing blue shorts, a yellow shirt, sunglasses, and flip-flops.

She drove for ten minutes and reached the pathway created leading to the lake. She parked the car, she picked up her bag and they walked hand in hand admiring the beauty of nature, shades of green hanging off tall trees. There was a definite drop in temperature as they walked deeper into the forest. 'Why aren't we recording here? This place is so homely and breathtaking.'

"Oh, I asked around the first time I came here they had a law pass here to maintain its heritage to not have any sort of filming done here.", 'Pity isn't it?' She asked rhetorically. "Yeah! it sure is", He mumbled. They walked through the forest following the trail and reached the base of the lake.

"Woah!" He said gasping for air.

'I know right! Happy I kidnapped you now, aren't you', She elbowed him.

"Hell yeah! You can kidnap me any time you like! He exclaimed and hugged her.

He pulled his shirt over his head, dropped it on the side, and ran full speed into the lake and Bri just looked at him in shock and giggled out of surprise, and then walked to a nearby flat spot to sit and take in the sun. She began reminiscing about this place the first time she was over 'solitude' she thought to herself, she took her phone out and took pictures of the surroundings and him playing in the water. He called her in but she insisted that she rather stick to the dry side.

After a while, the splashing stopped so Bri Got up and dusted her shorts. She saw him floating looking so angelic she removed the selfie stick, attached it to her phone and took pictures of him and pushed a couple of flowers towards him, and clicked more pictures once she was satisfied with them, she placed her phone in a safe place and splashed water at him waking him up from his deep slumber.

"Come on Bri", he splashed her back and then he tried to pull Bri in but for once the gods were on her side and she got out of grip. He then stepped out of the lake and walked back to the spot where she ran back. She bent over and pulled out a small towel for him to dry off. He gladly accepted it and dried off his hair and then the rest of himself.

Now both of them were sitting soaking in the sun when Bri opened her gallery and nudged Harry and showed him all the pictures she took of him. Scrolling through he loved each and everyone one but the one he loved the most was him floating on still water with little daisies and other flowers accompanying him.

"Send it to me, will you?" He requested. 'Definitely!, She said, Harry then turned around and was now laying on his stomach and was staring into bliss. Bri shifted around and now was using Harry's back as her pillow, 'comfy there?' smiling to himself, he asked 'Very!' she replied and felt him chuckle.

They stayed like this for an hour or so then they changed their position, began to talk about the new material Harry had written for the new album. Which then led to her telling tales of Jean and herself and they talked about everything else under the sun.

By late evening they went back home and refreshed themselves then went to a small restaurant called 'Stake Out'. Ironically he ordered a stake for himself and she ordered spicy chicken with rice and veggies on the side. They made small talk as they ate, once they were done he paid and as they were about to walk back they met John.

Now John was a localite with a thick Scottish accent, he greeted Brionna a stranger by tipping off his hat, then went on to inform her to come with her friend to the pub tomorrow for dance night! And Bri excitedly exclaimed 'that she wouldn't miss it!' she inquired if Henry was still around to which he nodded and said he would be there tomorrow too. He tipped off his hat again and went in to do what he had come for. Bri now went on to explain to Harry about tomorrow's plan.

"So tomorrow we will be going to the pub obviously, where we need to dress up a bit hence the suit I asked you to pack. So men would be in suits and women in different dresses, it's all fancy you'll see what I mean she said all excitedly as she couldn't really explain what she meant. So it starts at around sevenish in three evenings and goes on till midnight and we can just walk up to it since it's two doors away. There will be drinks, a dance and Oh I hope we'll meet Henry's wife Rosey there. You have to hear the story of how they met, bonus points they have been married for around 40 years, and the little stories they have. Trust me! You're gonna have one of your best nights tomorrow.

Harry could see the spark light up her eyes as she jumped around explaining tomorrow's plan. He believed in every word that she poured out, he had a feeling that tomorrow night was gonna be an eventful one.

Once they reached home Harry went on to pour the leftover wine for both and sat on the sofa, watched a movie on his laptop, and then went to bed.