Into Insanity

7| Slippery mask

Emily and Jeremy came towards Henry, holding hands together. They were giggling and smiling. Emily was a curly, dark-haired girl with a petite body and beautiful smile. Her eyes were jet black and pointed at the end, she was shorter than Henry by a few centimeters. Henry thought that, every single movement of her made him itch himself and feel that energy radiate from him. He wanted to tell her, oh he wanted her so much. He smiled too and this smile was real, full of emotions, for a moment Henry was a normal teenager. He gently patted his pocket in which the poem the lay.

They met and hugged, Henry expressed how good he felt after hearing about them and they went into the place and sat down.

Henry straightened up on his seat and cleared his throat,

"To Emily and Hen-, er, To Emily and Jeremy, it's my greatest honor to see you two holding hands and getting into this wonderful relationship. It is also my greatest pleasure to be the person who brought you two so close. Jeremy, my brother, I'll always be there for you. Nothing can break brotherly love I feel for you, whenever you need something, you just ask. And Emily, know that I will never leave you because you were there for me too at the time I felt really down. You too, can talk to about anything you wish and call anytime, I won't hesitate to help you."

"Wow, you made it look like were getting married." Emily said and laughed, Henry's face darkened but he held,

"Well, Let's hope that happens too!"

The rest was normal, they talked, and they ate. Henry kept looking at his watch with quick glances. They all looked like teenagers having fun, discussing love, studies, growth, famous celebrities and so on. Teenagers never run out of subjects to talk. Henry waited very patiently, to say like a tiger for its prey would be evil, no, Henry waited like a person who knows what's going to happen next, like a peaceful monk under a tree.

The car came and stopped, Henry glanced at the window and then turned back. Soon the headlights turned on. Henry excused himself to bathroom, he went in and called Roddy and asked if all of his people were in position, Roddy replied, they were. Henry quickly took out a bottle and opened it, inverted it on a napkin and threw the bottle into the toilet bin. Then carefully wrapped it and placed it in his pocket. He came outside.

He proposed to leave now and also told Emily that she must go and study. Jeremy agreed and they got up, they caved in the money equally and left place. Outside it was full dark, no stars. Roddy had turned down his headlights and he waited patiently in the car. Henry didn't look at him at all, he avoided any eye contact. The three of them talked in front of the restaurant and slowly they began to walk away from Roddy. Roddy was starting to get worried if this was all a hoax and they actually called the police to arrest him, his fingers trebled on steering.

Henry was careful not act suspicious, he walked with them and talked too. Both of the happy couple had no idea what was going to happen. Then Henry stopped, he looked at them and the couple turned back.

"What happened?" Jeremy asked,

"I- I need to talk to you, privately, right now." Henry said, Jeremy looked at Emily and she nodded.

Jeremy came towards Henry and Emily got busy sharing pictures on her socials. Henry turned around and walked back and talked,

"Listen, I know you have this beautiful thing going on, but you must know that I..." Henry paused, he was actually looking if they were far enough from Emily.

"That I still love Emily." Henry revealed, Jeremy stood still gawking at him.

"What?!" He spoke. At the perfect moment, Henry whipped out his napkin and placed it on Jeremy's mouth. Henry held him by the back and Roddy watch Jeremy slowly going down. He got out of the car.