William and Henry had spoken a few times over the telephone to try to set up a time to meet up to look at different locations where they could build their new restaurant. It seemed like Henry had already started saving up quite a bit of money for the new restaurant. Finally the time had come when Henry and William were able to find time in their schedules to meet up. William would be working late that night so as long as he and Henry met earlier in the day he would have time to meet up with Henry. William and Henry both agreed to meet back up at the library and then look around the city to see any possible locations.
William left to get ready to meet with Henry in hopes that he would be able to quit his job soon. William then saw Henry waving at him energetically from across the street. It surprised William to see someone who was genuinely happy to see him. Henry smiled as William got closer, "Are you ready? I've found some different locations we can look at for potential sites."
William smiled, "Yes let's go."
They walked around going to different locations. As they passed through town, lots of people gave them strange looks. William had gained somewhat of a reputation. He never talked to anyone and if he went anywhere he was always alone and if people talked to him he only responded with a single word or the nod of a head. Hurricane was a small town so everyone got along with each other and knew everyone except for William. Nobody knew anything about him so he was considered an oddball and everyone stayed away from him. Nobody even considered that possibly William wanted to talk to them but just didn't know how. While William was angrily pondering his isolation, Henry tapped him on the shoulder. "Here's the next site."
William looked up and saw that this was a very isolated part of town away from all the stores and other restaurants. It was a clearing surrounded by a beautiful clearing of flowers and it was far away from anything that could upstage their restaurant. It might be away from the other places in town but as long as they advertised the restaurant effectively this might be able to work. "This just might work," William exclaimed. Henry smiled.
"I'm really glad that you like it. I think it's a great place for the restaurant."
"Yeah." A thought just occurred to William.
"What do we do now? I have no idea how running a restaurant would even work."
Henry frowned slightly. "Well first we need to acquire this land, and then we'll have to hire people to build the restaurant, but before we do that we have to come up with blueprints. I'm afraid this was the easiest part of our plan."
Henry looked down. William put a hand on his shoulder reassuringly. "Hey don't worry about it. It's good to think ahead but we need to take one step at a time. Now that we have a location we want we just have to acquire it and then we'll work together to figure out the blueprints and our plans for the restaurant. I know if we do this together we'll succeed."
Henry looked at William shocked. "I think that's the most you've ever spoken to me." Henry then laughed while William looked away embarrassed.
"Thank you William."
Henry and William both said goodbye and promised to meet up again later. Henry told William to make sure he starts saving a lot of money as they were going to need as much money as possible. William smiled feeling hopeful for his future for the first time in a while. He then checked his watch and saw he still had a few hours before he had to be at work so he went home and took a long needed nap.
