Beautiful Silence- Chenry

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Charlotte's POV-

Later that night Henry got an unexpected visitor at his house.

"Char, hurry up and hide in the closet."

He whispered, shaking me awake.

I turned on my side and squinted at him.

"What?"

I lazily signed before closing my eyes again.

"Sorry Char."

Henry picked me up and placed me in his closet.

"Henry what are you doing?!"

I signed with full force, now completely awake.

"I know and I'm sorry... But my boss Ray is here and he wants to talk to me so just stay in here and don't make any noise."

Henry signed back urgently. I rolled my eyes, well that was gonna be easy.

"Just keep quiet okay? Ray is here and I if finds you in my room he'll tell my parents."

Henry quickly signed. Oh. Now I get it. I nodded solemnly.

When Henry closed the door I chewed on my thumbnails in the dark. What if somebody found me in here? What if Henry's parents found me and made me go back to Mrs. Perry?

I shrank farther back into the closet and prayed Ray would leave soon.

[Henry]

"Why are you looking like that?"

Ray squinted at me while popping peanuts into his mouth.

"What? Looking like what? I-I don't know what you're talking about."

I sat down in a chair and kept my mouth closed, trying not to appear as nervous and guilty as I felt.

Ray gave me a look but didn't say anything more.

That's when my parents decide to walk in. They look kinda stressed out and that made feel even worse.

"Hello Mr. Manchester, how are you?"

My mom smiled and held her hand out.

"Fine thank you, Mrs. Hart it's always a pleasure seeing you."

Ray replied with a smirk.

My dad being totally oblivious to this, was studying a security code manual with vigor.

My parents were still a little shook about the robbery and my dad insisted on having an alarm installed as soon as possible.

"I wonder what UHL means?"

He thought aloud.

"Uh, Henry I gotta talk to you in private for second."

Ray said, suddenly turning to me. My stomach jumped.

"Me? Uh, yeah okay... We'll just-"

Ray was already climbing the stairs to my room.

I slowly followed after him. I had to think of something fast.

"You can stay for dinner if you like Mr. Manchester!"

My mom called after us.

"No, he cannot mom we don't have enough!"