Half Crazy

It was a little bit over a week later when I had officially gotten myself moved into my dad's place. I didn't know how well our cat would handle the move, but it seems like she enjoys the new house better. Henry was on his way over today to pick me up for work. I was extremely excited! It's his first day at work! Hopefully, when he gets here that things were not as awkward as the last time I talked to him. The conversation went a little like this:

"Your mom called after prom wondering where you were," he told me. "You didn't answer any of my calls. Where were you?"

"With Logan," I said, sheepishly. I knew that Henry wasn't a really big fan of Logan. In fact, everyone, including Haylie, had their qualms about him. Henry raised an eyebrow.

"Oh? What did you do?" he asked, curiously.

"Nothing much, just ate at a diner and went to the beach," I said, shrugging.

"And?" he asked, elongating the word as if he knew something else had happened.

"I was with Logan," I said, with an emphasis on the word with.

"Oh, I see," he said.

Then there was an extremely awkward silence until I suggested that we go out and grab some lunch. I laughed at the memory. When I heard a honk, I went downstairs.

"Hey, Henry," I greeted him, while getting into his car.

"Hey," he said, smiling.

For the entire car ride, we were refrained from talking. Instead, we were singing (me, badly) along to "Airplane" and "Forever Young" when the songs came onto the radio. I got a couple of stares while I was dancing to the music in the car.

Henry and I were busy chatting when we walked into the store. We were interrupted with Haylie practically jumping into Henry's arms, giving him a hug. I rolled my eyes.

"Henry! I'm so glad to see you!" she said in a sickeningly sweet voice and batting her eyelashes at him. "It's going to be so great with the three of working here, right Courtney?" I gave her a slight nod.

After Henry and I both clocked in, I was showing him how to use the register with Haylie hovering nearby to eavesdrop on our conversation. Jasmine came out of her office to check up on us.

"Haylie, can you go do inventory in the stockroom?" Jasmine asked her. I could tell that Haylie didn't want to leave the two of us alone in the store and she grudgingly went into the stockroom. "Good job, Courtney, keep up the good work." She smiled at me and went back into her office.

"I thought Haylie was going to hover over us the whole night," I told him, sighing. "I think she likes you."

"She's with Luke," Henry said. "It doesn't mean anything. She's just jealous."

"Jealous of what?" I asked him.

"She's always been jealous of you, Court," Henry told me.

"No way," I said, softly.

"She took Logan because she was jealous that she couldn't have that relationship when she was with Steve," he said. "She faked a pregnancy so she and Logan could get married and have a happy family so she could, in theory, 'one up' you."

"Ok," was all I could muster.

No one was THAT crazy, right?

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