Henry Wilson!
If you've found this story please do read Let Them Eat Cake, Connors Journey, Runaway and DoubleFace first.
This could be read standalone but the principal characters do follow through the series.
Happy reading!
As they waved their goodbyes and Ed and Kieran followed, Henry hung about, George and Aiden gave each other a knowing look as the pink haired girl, minus apron and name badge having finished the lunch shift, came out and joined the ginger haired man.
Opening the door of his fancy Maserati and helping the girl into the seat, Henry grinned as he closed the door and waved over at them, "seeya Henry, take care, don't do anything I wouldn't do" George laughed.
"That gives me a pretty big range of stuff" Henry winked again, "bye both" he laughed as he got in and the car roared away.
Confirmed batchelor Henry Wilson has found himself in love, how?, he's not quite sure himself, but the pink haired Sophie seems to have stolen his heart.
"Well, I never thought I'd see the day" George laughed to Aiden as Henry and the pink haired Sophie wandered over to them in the pub, joining them at their table.
Hand in hand and all smiles they looked the perfect pair.
"So, finally someone won the elusive heart of Henry Wilson eh?" Aiden chuckled as the ginger haired Henry blushed, the pink haired girl giggling and jigging in her seat.
"Looks that way" Henry smiled as the girl clung onto him like a sticking plaster making him grimace slightly through the smile.
Sophie was a sweet girl, pretty, cheerful, chatty, in fact so chatty that she was seriously starting to give Henry a headache.
He was smitten with the girl, really he was, but soon as she opened her mouth and got talking she had a serious case of verbal diarrhea.
Still, she was a great girl, specially in bed, acrobatic and sensual, just how Henry liked his women, she was demanding and he loved it, most of the time.
But lately he'd felt something was missing, he didn't know what, just something, he expected to feel excited, content, settled, but it wasn't happening.
"So.... Henry?!" George smirked as the girl left to go to the loo, "when you gonna put a ring on it?".
Henrys eyes popped, his pale green irises blowing wide at the thought of settling down with the girl.
"Well.....um......um......." he flustered as Aiden laughed loud and George simply shook his head.
"Bloody hell Henry, don't tell me you haven't thought about it?" he sighed at his ginger haired friend, "how long has it been now, six months?, that's got to be some kind of record for you" he laughed.
"Well she was a waitress, maybe it was the smell of food that kept him interested" Aiden chuckled.
"Speaking of food".
Henry leapt on the chance to change the subject and rubbed his slim belly, "we're off for dinner shortly" he smiled over at the pink haired girl returning to the table.
"Hennnrrryyyyy my darling I'm so sorry" Sophie scooted quickly up to the table shaking her phone in his face.
"What's up Soph?" Henry looked worried, "I've got to go baby, mum is sick, she's throwing up everywhere, I'm so sorry baby I've got to go home", the girl looked at them all one by one as a look of disappointment crossed Henrys face.
"But.... But, what about our reservation, at the restaurant?" he sighed looking fed up.
"Oh baby, sweetie" Sophie picked up her bag, "I'm so sorry, maybe take the boys?" she simpered, looking over at Aiden and George.
Waving over her shoulder she disappeared at an incredible speed, before Henry could even blink she was gone.
"Well well well what have we here?".
The deep rich tones of Nick came through the air as he and Steve appeared each one pint in hand, Connor and Blake following along behind.
Pulling up extra chairs they all squeezed around the table meant for 4 people.
"Don't believe we've met" Nick extended a hand to Henry.
"Yes, yes we have, at George and Aidens wedding" Henry shook the offered hand, Steve nodded, he remembered the ginger haired man now.
"Ah yes Georges college mate, the food critic" Steve chuckled, "you spent all evening trying to find fault with the food at the reception haha" he grinned over at Henry, "yeah and I couldn't find anything that wasn't excellent" Henry laughed.
"That cake was stupendous, so light and it tasted mwah" Henry smacked his lips with a ok sign.
"That's my amazing husband for you" Steve said proudly pulling Nick into his side snuffling his hair and planting a kiss on his temple.
Nick blushed crazily, "Steeeeve gerroff" he huffed as his husband grinned widely.
"So Henry, was that your lady love exiting rather rapidly?" Connor took a sip of his beer, "she looks nice".
"Yeah yeah she's a great girl, it's just her mum is sick again so she's had to go" he sighed taking a huge mouthful of beer and gulping it down.
"Oh that's a shame" Blake shook his head, "women.... so unreliable" he muttered as the others all laughed.
"And you would be an expert on women would you?" Connor quirked an eyebrow at his love, "there something you're not telling me eh.... HUSBAND?".
Blake spluttered into his beer as Connor laughed at his flushed face.
"No, no, I'm just.........oh shut up" Blake chuckled as Connor smirked.
"You know I only have eyes for you my love" Blake crooned, leaning over taking Connors hand in his he planted theatrical sloppy kisses all over it, "eeewwwww" Connor huffed wiping his hand on a tissue.
Henry watched and laughed at the silly interactions of the two men, he didn't know them well at all, only having met the four at the wedding, but he admired them a lot, for being themselves and not afraid to show how much they cared about each other.
He and Sophie rarely did things like that, just messing about, laughing, joking, small talk, just having... fun.
They went out yeah, but not usually off the cuff, it was nearly always booked and arranged, well when she didn't let Henry down or disappear at the last minute to run after her mum.
It was eat, sex, watch TV, more sex maybe then she would stay over but always be gone first thing.
"So what you going to do about your dinner?" George piped up breaking through his musings.
"Well I guess I'm gonna have to cancel the table..... Again!" Henry sighed.
"That's the third time now" taking a mouthful of beer he looked thoroughly fed up.
"Well, we haven't eaten yet" Nick said, Steve, Connor and Blake all looked at each other, "we haven't either, we were going to have dinner here" Connor replied as Blake nodded.
"Why don't you join us Henry?".
The ginger man looked around the table, six pairs of eyes looked back in expectation.
"Yeah, why the fuck not" he pulled out his phone, calling the fancy restaurant and cancelling the reservation he grinned at the others.
"Steak and chips it is then" he licked his lips with a look of ecstacy.
"Can't beat steak and chips at the pub" he patted his belly again.
Seating themselves around a more suitable table and pulling out the menus they sorted their orders, "fucking thing isn't working again" Connor grumbled, tapping furiously on his phone, "the QR code reader ordering system?" Blake looked over as Connor nodded.
"Yeah Chris said they were having issues, I'll just call a server over" Blake scanned the area with his eyes, gaze settling on Kaine, a newbie that hadn't been there long.
He was good though, great with the customers and Blake was pretty sure he swung the same way as himself.
Catching Kaines eye the young man sauntered over, "hey Blake isn't it your night off?" he chuckled, "can't keep away eh?" he winked.
"Hey Kaine, you've met Connor, Steve and Nick, and George and Aiden" Blake smiled sweeping a hand around the table as the young man nodded.
"Yes, great to see you all", Kaines face burst into a million watt smile as his gaze caught Henrys and he stopped dead in his tracks.
"Oh yeah, Kaine this is Henry, a friend of ours" Blake smirked at Henrys pillar box red face, and Kaines complete shut down as he stared at the amply framed red head.
"Um...... Good to meet you" Henry stammered averting his gaze, licking his dry lips nervously.
"And it's very very nice to meet you Henry".
Kaine oozed lust, you could almost smell it as the young man smiled, just the very tip of his tongue peeking between his pink parted lips.
Running that tongue along then biting down on his bottom lip you could feel the tension in the air, Henry gulped, his pale green eyes once again returning to the young man and fixed on those luscious lips.
