章 23: Chapter 23: Easy Favor

“Oh Tres, I’m so happy to see you,” she said, “I was starting to think that you would never get here before closing time!”

She hugged him and whispered in his ear, “You are Tres, my boyfriend. Please play along.”

He whispered back, a little weak in the knees after that earthquaking kiss she had planted on him, “Faye asked me to check in on you. I’ll follow your lead.”

Henry had to acknowledge that there was a boyfriend, but he wasn’t happy about it. He sat the teddy bear in one of the chairs with the heart shaped box on the table before him and put the locket around the teddy bear’s neck. Lastly, he put the flowers under one of the big teddy bear’s arms. “Please excuse me. My name is Henry.” He fixed his glasses and asked, ”Don’t I know you from somewhere?”

“Tres. I am Tres and I am here to pick up my girlfriend, Rachel.”