ELEVEN
Aria
"Okay, okay! I'll go to Junk N' Stuff with you!" I yelled after arguing with Henry about it for the past half an hour.
After I found out about Henry's secret, it brought me and him closer than we'd ever been. We've hung out a lot more than we used to, and I'm happy about it. I just wish Henry would've told me three years prior to now.
"Henry?"
He looked away from the tv, "Yeah?"
"There's something I need to tell you, although you might have figured it out already." I said, messing around with my fingers as I sat on my couch.
"You can tell me, I told you- well, showed you mine." He laughed, remembering when he wasn't slick about changing into uniform.
"I-I like you Henry, a lot." I whispered under my breath, my face staring down at my hands in my lap.
I felt Henry's body shift from the one side of the couch. Looking from the corner of my eye, I saw Henry moving over and sitting next to me. I didn't look up, in fear that he might not feel the same way as I do.
"Hey, look at me. Aria..." I looked up to be met with Henry's brown eyes staring back at me. His hands reached forward and put my hands in his.
My body acted strangely for the third time already, and it might be because of the effect that Henry is putting on me. It seems unlikely that Henry likes me back.
"I like you too Aria." Henry finally said, a small smile forming on his face.
"Y-you do?"
He smiled again, "Yeah, I do, and I have for a while now. I don't know what it is about you, but you keep me sane, you keep me happy, and you keep me smiling."
I bowed my head down, my face turning red from me constantly blushing like a crazy person. I'd never expected to hear that coming out of Henry's mouth, let alone saying it to me.
"I'm happy I do."
Henry wrapped his arms around me and engulfed me in a hug. I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled him closer to me, then moved my fingers up to his hair.
When we pulled away from our hug, our faces were inches apart from each other. Next thing I knew, we both leaned it and our lips touched.
It felt like heaven kissing Henry. I mean, I know I'm not the first girl he's kissed because from what Charlotte and Jasper told me, he's kissed Bianca and this Wall Dog girl named Veronika. It upset me, because I was hoping to be his first kiss too.
I pulled away and giggled, "Never thought my first kiss would be with you."
Henry laughed too, not answering back. His arm went around my shoulder, to where I bent down and rested my head on Henry's chest as he cuddled me. I had my right arm around his torso, Henry's other hand brushing through my hair.
"So...does this mean..."
Henry lightly laughed, "Yeah, it does."
I snuggled into Henry's chest, finally happy that I was with Henry. We probably sat on the couch watching reruns of The Walking Orange for an hour when Henry's watch beeped.
"Ready for the Man Cave?" He asked, looking down at me, ignoring his loud, beeping watch that wouldn't stop beeping.
"Ready than ever."
***
Henry
Aria and I walked hand in to Junk N' Stuff, Jasper working at the counter. I smiled at him while taking Aria to the back where the elevator is.
"Hey Hen- WHAT ARE YOU DOING?' Jasper yelled, running in front of me and Aria, putting his hands out in front of him.
I know why Jasper's freaking out like this. He doesn't know that Aria knows about me being Kid Danger. Neither does Charlotte. Or Ray. Or Schwoz. No one knows besides me. But now that Aria knows, I'm about to lose my job, but it was worth it.
"I'm taking Aria to the Man Cave." I stated, shoving past Jasper and pressing the button on the elevator.
"The- Henry...? Did you- does she know about you?" Jasper kept stopping his sentences short while raising an eyebrow.
"Yes, she does. She saw me changing into uniform, but that's not how I wanted her to originally find out."
Aria looked at me then at Jasper, shaking her head at him to tell him that what I said was true on every level. Jasper kept trying to stop me from going to the Man Cave, but Aria stepped in and had Jasper running back to the front of the store.
"You might want to hold onto me." I smirked at Aria, my finger hovering over the two buttons, then pressing the bottom one.
"Why do I need to-"
Aria's sentence was cut off by her ear piercing scream as she fell to the bottom of the elevator, her arms wrapped around my leg. I stood her up, my arm wrapped around her as we walked out.
Ray, Schwoz and Charlotte were facing the monitors, so they probably assumed that I was the one screaming the whole way down the elevator, which would explain why they didn't turn around.
"Yo guys, turn around. And don't freak, especially Ray." I said as the three of them turned around. Schwoz screamed and ran into the secret room. Ray and Charlotte were staring at me, their mouths open.
"Henry? What are you doing? She can't be- you told her, didn't you?" Ray asked, his teeth gritting as he walked forward to me. I nodded for Charlotte to drag Aria over to the control panels.
"She saw me, I didn't tell her until afterwards."
Ray screamed, throwing his hands up in his hair and pulling at it. He ran around the Man Cave, stopping to glare at me then continued to run until he became out of breath.
"Did you- how could you do this Henry? You broke the oath twice already, I can't believe you broke it again. I thought I could trust you. But I guess I can't. Pass over your gum and watch."
I sighed, taking the watch off my wrist, then pulling out the gum tube from my pocket. I sighed once more, then tossed them both to Ray.
"Goodbye Henry."
"No, stop." I turned around to see Aria pulling away from Charlotte. She marched forward and pulled Ray's arm until he fell off the stairs leading to the sprocket.
"Why are you firing Henry? This isn't his fault that I know about him. And I'm smart enough to know that you're Captain Man, Ray. Don't fire Henry for something that he didn't do. Let him keep his job, it's not fair."
Ray walked to the tubes and put his head under it. He released the tube, letting the tube smack the top of his head multiple times, each of them resulting in him falling to the ground.
"Yeah, I'm Ray Manchester, also known as Captain Man by the citizens of Swellview. Welcome to the Man Cave, located under Junk N' Stuff; the store I own when I'm not fighting crime." Ray sarcastically said.
"Well, what are you going to do about Henry and Aria?" Charlotte asked after growing impatient from standing around watching the scene.
"Henry can have his job back," I jumped up then saw Ray's expression, "but with Aria, there's only three things that can happen; we either kill her, give her a job, or erase her memory."
Aria gasped, running over to me and grabbing my arm forcefully. I winced lightly, then waited for Ray to pick the choice of giving Aria a job, rather than killing my girlfriend or erasing her memory.
"I vote giving Aria a job."
Ray groaned, "Fine! Aria can have a job here. Just don't let anyone else know about this, or you're fired...for good."
"I don't have any other friends, so I think we're okay."
Me, Aria, Jasper, Charlotte, Ray and Schwoz sat on the circular couch and put on Drake and Josh. Aria had her head in the crook of my neck, Jasper and Charlotte on either side of us. Ray and Schwoz were on the opposite side, laughing their butts off.
Now, I don't have to keep any more secrets from my girlfriend. Although I did keep the secret of me dating Bianca and Veronika, until Jasper and Charlotte blabbed to Aria about it.
I think that now all my friends know about me being Kid Danger, we can all go back to bring the best friends that we used to be.
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