The Bad Boy & The Mermaid
"No, there aren't."
She smiled, wiping her tears. "I'm happy Henry is alive in real life."
***
Alec drove us back home and stopped the car right in front of my apartment building. Blue was sleeping peacefully in the backseat, snoring softly. She was literally a child disguised as a woman.
He let the engine run, and we stared straight ahead. This was the moment where I told him where he and I stood in Blue's life.
"Look, Alec, I really appreciate you asking Blue to go out for a movie, she'd been wanting to for a while but I can't let you do that anymore."