𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭

Chapter 3: the play

Hey yall, I know I'm extremely sporadic with my writing and I apologize, recently a lot of stuff has been going on with me and my parents so I had to delete wattpad off my phone 💀 anywho I'm back hopefully I can get chapters out faster. Love you, I hope you enjoy chapter 3 ❤️

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Henry's POV:

"Henry! Wake up, it's time for your shift to start"
I hear my father's voice echo down the hall, obviously by his tone he was growing impatient.
"Henry! I will not tell you again!" He warns,
"Coming!" I yell back, hopefully that will shut him up.

I lay in bed for probably about 5 more minutes looking at my posters on the walls, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, The Rolling Stones you name it I've got posters, vinyls, books. I'm a huge classic rock fan.

Once I get enough motivation to get dressed I throw on a sweater with some baggy jeans and the same converse Ive had since freshman year.
Once im dressed, I make my way down the stairs of our shophouse to the bookstore.

"It's about time," my father speaks in a condescending tone "get started on stacking these books," he slings a pile of books into my arms, "come find me when you're done, I'll give you another job." He says before going to check on a customer.

I start stacking the books when I hear the bell ring and a voice say "is Henry here?"

Anna

I resume stacking books until I feel a hand lightly tap my shoulder, I turn to see the very brunette I thought it would be, "Hi" I say with a smile
"Hi" she responds, returning my smile.

"What are you doing here?" I ask

"I came to invite you to Jenna's play tonight, she is playing belle and she told me to invite whoever I want so... I'm inviting you" she replied

"Oh well lucky me," I smirked "what time?"

"Um, 6:00 pm I think," she guesses "you don't have to go, I'm sure you have better places to be on a Saturday night-"

"Are you kidding me?" I interrupt her "no I would love to, do you want to ride with me? I could pick you up at 5:00, we could go get hot chocolate before the show and check out the vinyl store" I propose

"Um, yeah that sounds like a lot of fun actually," she sounded surprised "I'll see you at 5:00 then" she giggles a little before heading out awkward as always.

Adorable.

"What's that about?" Daniel, my coworker and also one of my best friends peaks his head around the corner with a smirk "you got a date with Anna Tuffin?"

"No, and do you job" I brush him off as I roll my eyes playfully "it's not a date, we're just two friends casually going to get hot chocolate"

"Yeah like Me and Nancy Porter just casually walking around town last year, we've been together ever since." Daniel walks away without another word.

Was this a date?

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My shift was finally over at 4:20 giving me enough time to freshen up and hit the road to pick up Anna.

As I pull up to her house I see her dad watering flowers in their garden, he notices me and walks up to my car, gesturing me to roll down my window.

"I know Anna is riding with you to the play so I want to make a few things very clear, no hanky panky, no drinking, to smoking, no misconduct, roughhousing or deviousness of any kind while you are together, if I catch wind of you hurting my little girl in any way, you will be on the side of the road. you get it?" He eyes me as I nod assuredly "alrighty buddy boy, have fun with the coolest cat in town!" He points finger guns at Anna with a silly smile as she walks out the door