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"So let me get this straight. I'm not supposed to see you. But you want me to pretend to be your... girlfriend?"
Henry looked like he wanted the floor to open up and swallow him whole. Or possibly crawl into a toilet and flush himself away forever.
"Yes-no-just with the boys," he said, flailing slightly. "If they ask you, you just say yes. That's all. Please, Patty. You'd save my life."
"I already asked Joyce," he admitted, "She said no. I didn't know who else to ask."
For half a second, Patty had been ready to say yes. Then it hit her. She wasn't his first choice.
"You asked... Joyce?!".
Just Henry Creel being in big trouble at school.
Inspired by the First Shadow play, but giving Creelby some justice.