"Can I come in?" asks Jack
"Sure." says William
William leads Jack to his living room and they both sit down.
"How about I make us both a cup of tea?" says William as he gets up and heads to the kitchen,but is stopped by Jack.
"Actually, I'm fine and I won't be here long.."
"What's wrong?"
"Well-"
He is interrupted by a loud knock on the front door of Will's house.
*KNOCK* *KNOCK* "let me in!"
William opens the door to find a halve asleep Henry.
"Why are you here?" asks William "And why are you halve asleep it's already 5 in the afternoon."
"I would've slept the whole day if I wanted to,but he invited me here." says Henry pointing to Jack in the living room.
"You invited him here?"
"Yeah, I needed to speak to you both..."
Henry without asking permission enters the house and falls into one of the living room's chairs.
"When did my house turn into our gathering place?" says William slightly annoyed
"So, why are we here?" asks Henry fiddling with his shirt's sleeves
"Well everyone I..I'm.."
"Spit it out!"
"I'M GETTING MARRIED!"
"......"
"....."
"...."
"WHAT?!" said both William and Henry
"My aunt arranged a marriage for me.." said Jack clearly embarrassed
"Your aunt arranged the marriage?" asked Henry
"Yes,well you see I'm not that good with girls and I'm always busy so I can't really talk to one anyways" said Jack "My aunt's friend has a daughter and they are also very wealthy so my aunt thought it would be best for me to get married and this way my and her family's company can come together.."
William sits next to Jack and pats him on his shoulder.
"Is this really what you want?"
"Well,she's not a bad person she's actually really nice..."
"Sounds like your making excuses to marry her." says Henry looking back at Jack from his chair.
"No that's not it,maybe it's just for the best..." says Jack but clearly not confident in what his saying. "Anyways the reason why I wanted to speak to you both is that me and her are having a party before the wedding and your both invited.It's happening tomorrow."
"Wait if your having the party tomorrow that means your getting married in two days!?" says Henry
"I don't even know her name and she's marrying my best friend."
"Her name is Lily."
"Lily,huh?" says William "Well I can't wait to meet her!"
William seems cheerful but Henry is still sketchy about the whole thing.
"Oh look at the time, I got to go, me and lily are planning a few things for the wedding, I can't be late!"
"Wait!" says William grabbing on to Jack's arm before he can leave. "Don't you wanna talk about what happen with Sarah you didn't look too good when I last saw you."
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The Masked Man
Mystery / ThrillerThe year is 1890 in London when a strange case of murders have been happening by a man who wears a terrifying mask, nobody is able to find out who he is until detective William Benji and his best friend Jack Napier work together to solve the case bu...