'Assistant' - Henry Wu x Reader - Book 1

C ~ II ~ Hot ☀️

Henry Wu: 'Hey, you don't care if I come over to your place, do you? It's way to hot for either of us to be outside.'

I slightly chuckled at this for some reason, sniffling right after.

Y/n: 'Yeah, that's fine. See you soon.'

Groaning and lying down, I pulled off my tanktop seeing as it was still fairly hot inside even with the ac on.

Every so often, Isla Nublar would experience major heat, like today. It had managed to reach 103° F, feeling like 105°; and the ac didn't help that much. It still felt pretty hot and stuffy even though it had been 78° with the ac on. I had thought about turning it off anyways but that'd make it hotter, so I left it on.

A while later, soft knocking was heard from my door, which once again made be jump but quickly walk over to it.

"Oh, hey Y/n!" Henry smiled as I opened the door.

I smiled back, closing the door behind him as he walked in. As he sat down on the bed, I started feeling a crushing like pain in my chest.

"You alright?" Henry asked, quickly getting up and walking over to me.

"I.. yeah, I think so.." I sighed, groaning slightly as I went to grab my tanktop to put back on.

I quickly put it back on, rubbing my back and closing my eyes.

"How long have you been wearing that?" Henry suddenly asked, walking over to me once more.

I hummed in response and turned to face him.

"Your binder." He said, my eyes going wide for a moment.

"Oh um.." I thought for a moment.

I didn't know when I put it on, so I must have had it on from yesterday and fell asleep with it on.

"since last night.." I mumbled, hoping he wouldn't hear.

"Could you say that a bit louder, please?" Henry sighed, crossing his arms.

"Um..Since last night.." I mumbled a bit louder, avoiding looking at him.

All I heard him do was sigh, right before he pulled me into a hug. I froze for a moment before hesitantly hugging him back. He just stood there, holding me close to him. I didn't know how to react, I was confused and shocked. Henry wasn't one to randomly hug anybody, or atleast that's what it seemed.

"You alright?" I asked, slightly muffled since my head was being pressed against his shoulder.

"I'm more concerned on whether or not you're okay." He responded, sighing and pulling me closer to him.

"Henry, don't worry-" I started but was quickly cut off by being pulled closer, our bodies practically pressed together.

I kept my head on his shoulder, my face probably red; I never ended up finishing my sentence but I could care less currently. Honestly, I didn't want this to really end.

"Can you please take it off.?" Henry softly asked, still holding me but loosening his grip slowly.

"Fine.." I sighed, lifting my head and looking at him.

For a few moments, we just kept standing there, looking into each other's eyes. But, he let go and walked the opposite way so I could take it off. I took off my tanktop then my binder, sighing slightly as I felt the relief of having it off.

"Alright, I'm done." I spoke, putting my tanktop back on.

Without turning around, I could tell he was practically behind me, once again pulling me into a hug; but from behind. I sighed quietly, leaning into his touch.

Even though it'd had only been around a week or two since we started working together, I gotta admit..I kinda did have feelings for him. But I never said anything because I knew he didn't like me back. Besides, even if he did, we'd have to keep it secret anyways; I highly doubt co-workers could date.

"Feeling any better?" Henry asked, putting his head on my shoulder.

I hummed in response, not wanting it to end, again.

We kinda just stood like this for a few minutes, in silence. Well, besides the sounds from outside and the kind of obnoxious pattering coming from the ac.

"Wanna play Uno?" I asked randomly, feeling him slightly chuckle against my shoulder.

"Sure." Henry replied, slowly letting go of me.

//time skip because yes 🤨💅\\

"Ha! I won again!" I yelled, setting down my last card.

Henry groaned at first but chuckled directly after. I picked the deck up, along with his cards, and started shuffling them again.

(not even gonna lie, I couldn't shuffle cards for the life of me -Jupiter)

"Wanna go for another round?" I asked, about to deal out the cards.

"Sure, I feel like I'll have a better chance at winning this time." Henry chuckled once more, picking up the cards I gave him.

(Spoiler alert, he didn't win -Jupiter)

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