"How about a little bet?"
"Okay"
"If I miss this putt, you and I kiss."
"Uh what?"
Charlotte swung her golf club and hit the ball on the opposite side purposely missing the putt.
"Oops"
She dropped her golf club to the ground and slowly walked towards Henry.
"What... what is happening?"
Charlotte kicked Henry's golf club and moved even closer.
"Quiet Henry, I'm working on something here."
She softly placed her hands on Henry's shoulders and leaned in to kiss him. But there lips never touched since Henry woke up.
He found himself lying in bed, in a dark room. The silhouettes were already more discernible, but they were only a short while before Henry gazed from the window; and at any moment the sun would kiss the orange sky, igniting a new dawn, bringing the chorus of the birds."You got to pull yourself together Henry. This has been the fifth time this week."
Its only been a week since Charlotte fell into the lions den and told Henry all about her dream. And ever since then, he never stopped having the same dream about her. He hadn't been sleeping well, and he's also been acting really weird around Charlotte. I mean, who can blame him. He's dreaming about kissing his best friend. The blonde boy has been thinking if he should tell her about his dream. Maybe if he told her, things would go back to how they were before; best friends who do not dream about kissing each other.
There were five minutes left till Henry's alarm would go off, and so he decided to spend the last few minutes thinking how he would tell the girl about his dream. He was nervous, it wasn't a normal thing to go up to your best friend and tell them that you're dreaming about kissing them. But there again, this was Swellview; nothing normal ever happens.
Those five minutes felt like seconds; Henry slowly got out of bed, and made his way to the bathroom. He decided to freshen up before going to work.
After Henry was ready, the boy went downstairs to leave for work; as it was already 07:30 and work started at 08:00.
"Morning Henry" his mum said.
"Morning mum, I'm off to work"
"Aren't you going to eat breakfast?"
"I'm not that hungry" he exclaimed.
"Henry, you look really tired."
"Yeah, I haven't been getting a lot of sleep latley."
"Is everything okay? You can always talk to me about anything."
"I know, I know. Its just, there's a lot in my mind. But I'm fine; I promise."
Henry approached his mum to kiss her on the cheek before leaving, he grabbed his bag pack from the couch and headed off to work.
* * *
Through the glass door, you can already sense that the store is filled with chaos and full of imagination. But when you find out the name of the store, not so much. The blonde had finally arrived to Junk n Stuff, the bell rang and fire came out from the T-rex's mouth. As he entered, he saw Jasper sitting behind the counter on his phone.
"Morning Hen" Jasper said.
"Morning Jasp. Hey, did Charlotte come to work yet?"
"No, not yet."