"So may I help you, sir?" Mr. Yuan asked Cray. "Not at the moment." Cray responded glancing around at the shelves of dusty bottles. "Well in that case I will be back in a moment, I need to check on my inventory in the back. If you need me, you only need to call. Oh, and today we have a special deal. The first ointment is free for new customers!"
"Wow! Thanks!" Cray said.
"So what are you doing here?" Guy asked Cray as Mr. Yuan disappeared into the back room. "I was looking for something for back pain," Cray said, "everything else I've tried hasn't really worked." "Back pain?" Guy said, "what from?"
"Working out, for some reason it starts to ache after my workouts." Cray replied.
Thinking quickly, Guy got an idea. Guy wanted to know what it was like to be in the observers' place when someone was having their muscles inflated, as Mr. Yuan was when it was happening to him. Glancing quickly down the dark aisle Mr. Yuan had led him down the day before, he knew he would be able to pick out the exact same ointment Mr. Yuan had given him.
Turning to Cray, Guy said, "I know just the thing actually, I was in here yesterday with joint pain and Mr. Yuan gave me this great ointment, it worked right away. He said it works for any type of pain."
"Really?!" Cray said excitedly, "well where is it??"
"This way." Guy said, leading Cray down the dark aisle. Guy, coming to the shelf that housed the ointment that had made him grow uncontrollably stopped and pulled a bottle off the shelf.
"Here it is!" Guy said handing the dusty bottle to Cray.
"You sure this stuff works?" Cray asked looking incredulously at the little bottle.
"Of course it does!" Guy responded, starting to feel a bit nervous of being outed by Mr. Yuan, or by Cray's own skepticism. "Well, if you say so." Cray said, starting to walk back towards the front of the store.
Guy realized this was the critical moment in his plan, if Mr. Yuan was back from the back room, he would inform Cray of the ointment's resulting properties. Luckily for Guy, Mr. Yuan was still no where to be seen. "Where is he?" Cray asked, raising his thickly muscled arm up to scratch his head. He was about to call Mr. Yuan out from the back room when Guy called out to him instead, saying, "We found what we are looking for, Mr. Yuan! Thanks so much for your help!"
"Ok, Guy! Have a good day!" Mr. Yuan called out.
"So you hungry, big guy, or what?" Guy asked Cray as they walked from the store, Cray still looking at the bottle of ointment in his hands.
"Sure," Cray replied still turning the bottle over in his thick hands, "you wanna grab something to eat?"
"Sounds great!" Guy said, "And you can try your ointment too!" Guy's mind was reeling just thinking of what was to come.
"Alright sweet!" Cray said as they walked up the street towards his favorite burger place.