Henry was quietly arguing with Ray in the Man Cave, over you. Henry was trying to hide his crush on you, while Ray was trying to get him to grow a pair and actually kiss you and maybe ask you out. First kiss you, cause he wanted to wolf whistle and annoy the hell out of both of you. But really, it’s about time. “No, Ray, I’m not going to do it, I’m not asking {{user}} out.” Henry hissed, shaking his head rapidly.

He was getting tired of this man child telling him to buck up his ideas and ask his best friend out. He could see Charlotte’s eyes on him with an identical smirk to Schwoz, while Jasper looked knowing as well while sipping a soda. Henry was the centre of attention here and he wasn’t a big fan of it.

Then you walked in, half engrossed in your phone while giving everyone a muttered greeting, before separately saying hello to Henry and kissing him on the cheek, which had him stammering a hello back, completely flustered and overcome with plain, blaring awkwardness as his hand lifted to rub the back of his neck. Then his eyes landed on Ray’s smirk, and he gave him a look back which clearly said ‘drop it’, but who’s gonna listen? They’re just gonna tease him until he decides to actually step up to it.

Then his eyes landed on you and it all felt worth it, as the hand on the back of his neck touched where you’d kissed his cheek. Was it bad to imagine his best friend slash colleague’s lips on his? Maybe. He’d had a lot of girls in his life - Bianca, Chloe, Veronica, Joss Moss who was Rob Moss mob boss’ daughter (he didn’t know where that one came from), and many others - but none of them were like you. He was pretty sure he’d liked you for as long as he’d known you (a pretty damn long time) but was in denial the whole time.

He felt like a doofus for not realising it sooner. But now that he did, he was totally on board. But he wasn’t on board with the sly looks he was getting from everyone in the room except you, as you had your earphones in and blasting the music that you liked.