Chapter 45: 10,001 piece puzzle
Jasper and I were throwing pieces, Henry caught them and put them in whatever the puzzle was. If we could have a Guinness record for what we had just accomplished, we would get it. Normally puzzles are finished in a month, and of course that depends on how much time a person puts into it, but when you have a friend with superpowers, super reflexes specifically, you can finish a 10,001-piece puzzle in just half an hour.
There were only a few pieces left to finish that puzzle. Meanwhile, Piper, Jake, and Kris were outside yelling at us to let them in... yeah, that wasn't gonna happen.
"Open the door!".
"Let us in!".
"There's no puppy truck!".
"Jasper, stop helping my son!".
5 pieces, 4 pieces, 3 pieces, I grabbed the last orange piece, threw it at Henry and put it on the puzzle, then hit it, it was finished, I'm not going to lie, I felt a certain satisfaction.
"Done!" Henry shouted.
"Let's go, let's go!".
The three of us got up from the floor and ran to the main entrance, Jasper unlocked and opened the door, letting Piper and Jake bustle in.
We were about to run away, when suddenly we were stopped by Kris, who had entered through the back.
"Hold it right there young men" she ordered "and Kai" I gave her a smile.
"We finished the puzzle" Henry said with a smile.
I nodded "it was fun".
"Good luck rubbing it in the Tetrazzinis".
"Everyone hates them" Jasper said.
"Bye!" we shouted in unison.
And without saying anything else we started running towards the Man Cave, leaving Henry's family confused by what had just happened; coincidentally on our way, we found a red truck with a sign that said, "Awareness Week", which was giving out puppies and puzzles to people passing by. Huh, who would have thought.
"Wait, wait, wait!" Henry shouted standing up, Jasper and I stopped too.
"What?" I asked him breathlessly.
"You go to the Man Cave; I'll go with Ray" he whispered.
I looked at him strangely "but if you don't have your gum-tube, what are you going to do?".
Henry looked at me with a smile, put his hand in the back pocket of his pants and took out his tube full of gum... of course.
"Oh, yeah" I smiled, he returned the gesture "okay, run, run".
But he didn't move, he just stood there looking at me, with a big smile from ear to ear on his face, I felt my heart race and a strange feeling appeared in it, it was like a kind of pang, but it didn't hurt, it felt good...
It was a moment when I could admire everything that Henry always was and will be for me, I loved these moments... BUT THIS WASN'T THE TIME!
I shook my head out of my thoughts, and I gave Henry a little punch on the cheek.
"Ah!" he blinked hard "What? Ah yes!... what?".
I rolled my eyes "Just go!".
"Okay" he ran again while he disappeared into the street "see you in... you know where, later!".
I turned to Jasper, who was looking at me with a mischievous smile, he had his hands behind his back and was slowly moving back and forth, by the look on his face and the way he looked at me, I knew he was thinking about what happened with Henry a few seconds ago.
Gave him a dirty look "What?".
"Nothing" he shrugged his shoulders and started walking "although I have the idea that you know what I'm going to say".
"Jasper" I said insistently.
"Yes, Kai?".
I licked my lips and shook my head slightly, damn it.
"You're a fool" I joked.
"I know" he replied proudly.
For many years everyone had teased me about Henry, about when we would become a couple, that we were made for each other, even if we were secretly dating, and all this time I always refused and refused, to everything they said, because well Henry was my best friend... he is, my best friend...
My heart sank the moment I repeated those words in my head... dang it.
(...)
We arrived at Junk N' Stuff calmer, Henry had left with Ray, there was no longer an emergency, they just had to free the Twittflash CEO and that was it, go back to the normal day.
Jasper stayed at store counter, while I had to go down to the Man Cave to see if they needed me or something, although I don't believe it though, it felt so incredibly peaceful, it scared me a little, there wasn't always that around here, although deep down I had a strange feeling about something.
It's when you have the feeling in your gut and no matter how hard you try you can't get rid of it, a feeling, and I had no idea why.
Henryway, I took the elevator and went down to the Man Cave, I was so calm feeling the emptiness of the elevator, that when I got to the top floor, and the doors opened, my serenity was... what the heck?
"Get out of the honey factory Ray! As soon as you hear this message!" shouted Charlotte.
"Henry, don't go, listen, don't go to the factory! When you hear this message, come back!" Schwoz "You're in grave danger!"
"It's a trap, Ray! You're walking into a trap!"
I walked steadily to where my friend was near the monitors, bewildered and without any idea of what was happening.
"What...?".
I opened my mouth to ask the thousands of questions I had, when my eyes rose to the screens, leaving me stunned by what was on them. They were full of images, images where some of Ray and Henry's missions were seen, I frowned in surprise, on them you could see a symbol, a symbol red circle symbol with black on the inside... oh no, no, no, no.
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