Free Crystal Bella by Marty Christopher Page A

anyone else’s drama and remaining detached. Other souls also could see the light in another and naturally gravitate to be close to that warmth.
    “Sorry about that, ” Henry said observing who he had bumped into.
    “It’s ok ay,” Leroy said.
    “Flowers for the Mrs.?”
    “Something like that.”
    Leroy could have kept walking, but his path was slightly blocked by Henry and Henry jumped in with another question.
    “She likes those colors?”
    “Yes very much so.”
    “They are very bright and different,” Henry said, in a slow way trying to figure out what was not quite right to him. Then he continued and snapped out, “some things don’t quite add up here.”
    “ I have to go I have a beautiful man waiting for these.”
    And with that s tatement Leroy left in a walk more assertive and more gay than normal.
    “I knew it, ” Henry muttered under his breath.
    Elisabeth wanting to tone down the atmosphere gently asked Henry if he needed any assistance with choosing the flowers. Henry was polite and asked for a bunch of flowers, and suggested nothing outrageous and something suitable for his wife who was not feeling well.
    Elisabeth quietly picked some flowers and got a match that would suit his wife. Pretty, plain within the context of flowers with some warmth in the arrangement to give some hope and spark. As she quickly put them together Henry started talking.
    “I have a good hunch for those odd types. I knew straight away he was a bit different and I was right. He’s about to give those flowers to another man.”
    Elisabeth wa s unsure whether to laugh or be serious. She was somewhere crossed in between. She would like to take the piss, but knew she had to be nice to her customers also.
    “Yeah he’ s probably going to give those flowers to him, then follow it up with a good bang.”
    This seems to stop Henry as he wa s uncertain with what a bang meant and he didn’t really want to know. Elisabeth was like a machine today and finished in no time. Henry paid and then noticed Ethan standing around and decided to chat to him.
    “ You look like a cool dude, surely you find that kind of thing odd.”
    “ I didn’t really notice anything,” Ethan replied nonchalantly.
    “Oh I think you did.”
    E than said nothing more so Henry pushed further.
    “Too afraid to call a spade a spade?
    “No.”        
    “Then say what you mean.”
    Etha n didn’t really want to say anything more but as he had kept pressing, he decided to say something.
    “ Life can be multi-faceted with the people that walk here.”
    “ And...”
    “ Well, one man is happy, romantic and true to himself.”
    “ And...”
    “One isn’t.”
    “And...”
    “ Can you stop saying and? The other perplexed guy walks in with a fear, a judgment.”
    “ And...which man has the judgment and fear?”
    “ You know.”
    “ Huh?”
    “ The gay guy was the happy, truthful one. That leaves you as the perplexed.”
    “ Come to think of it you are a bit odd too.”
    “ It’s cool,” Ethan said taking another step closer to Henry looking directly into his eyes. “I do know this, what you give in life, life gives it back to you. You give judgment, judgment comes back, takes a while sometimes. My prediction is you will come back as a gay man in your next life, which is perfectly fine, could be beautiful. But you will get to see what it feels like…to be judged.”
    “ Is that so?”
    “ Yeah, that would be pretty fucken funny. Hopefully you come back like the guy who just walked out, pretty and handsome.”
    At that Henry walked off, he had heard enough. He left the store and headed towards the water. As he arrived at the waterfront he saw Leroy and his partner cuddling up on a seat across from the water. Henry muttered some bigotry’s to himself and was forced to look away and headed into another direction. He was agitated, his wife was not well and he seemed to be bumping into all sorts of weirdo’s today and getting no