The moment is broken, and I sink back into the numbness that envelops me as Other Hayden eats a lunch of cardboard with Sarah and Daniel.
“Would you mind cleaning up again, sugar?” Sarah asks him.
“Not at all,” he says.
He stands and moves over to the coffee table to take the plates, but Sarah says, “Before you do.”
She stands and wraps her arms around her neck before she kisses him. She slides her tongue into her mouth as she looks at Other Hayden and catches his eye. Sarah slides one hand down from Daniel’s neck and into his pants. He moans loudly as she begins to stroke him.
She breaks their kiss and pants, “Do you like that, sugar?”
“Mmm, yes,” he moans.
She glances at Other Hayden to make sure he’s watching, then looks back at Daniel. “Tell me how good it is and how much you love fucking me.”
“Oh god, it’ssogood,” he tells her. “There’s nothing better than burying my cock in your tight, wet pussy, and fucking you until you milk me dry.”
She strokes him faster, but when he throws his head back and scrunches his eyes shut tight, she looks directly at Other Hayden instead.
“Do you wish I was on my knees in front of you, sugar?”
“Fuck, yes,” he groans. “Your mouth around me, sucking me until I come down the back of your throat.Oh, fuck!”
His eyes fly open, and Sarah whips her head around to look at him as she keeps stroking him.
“That’s it,” she murmurs. “Come for me, baby.”
The nausea breaks through the numbness, and I retch when she uses the nickname she’s been using for me. Daniel doesn’t seem to notice as his body shakes while he orgasms.
Sarah pulls her hand out of his pants and licks his sticky cum from her fingers. “You taste good.”
She kisses Daniel again while my stomach roils and the need to puke becomes overwhelming. I’m still fighting it when Daniel walks into the kitchen and leaves me alone with Sarah, who sits on the sofa next to me.
“Did you enjoy the show?” she asks.
“I thought you were going to give me time,” I say, pulling the numbness back over myself like a welcome blanket between us to keep me safe.
“I will, baby. I just thought you might like a testimonial.”
She opens the laptop and puts a movie on for us to watch, but I don’t take anything in. I wait for Other Hayden’s time alone with Sarah to be over, and I hope it’s soon.
The film has only been playing for a short period of time before there’s a yell of “FBI!”
Daniel appears at almost the same moment, and I notice he’s wearing new pants as he rushes over to Sarah with the gun.
“What do we do, bunny?” he asks, sounding panicked.
“There’s only one way out of here,” she says in a calm voice as she cocks the gun and presses the barrel of it to Other Hayden’s head.
This is it.
He’s going to die, which means I die as well. I’ll never see Tati again. Never get to marry her. Never get to see my friends. Never get to finish the tour. Never get another drawing from my niece. Never get to enjoy my abuela’s enchiladas at family dinner.
It’s all over.
There are crashes of noise all around, but I sit with the cold barrel of the gun against my head and don’t move.
“Don’t come in, or I’ll kill him,” Sarah calls out right before the sound of a gunshot rings out.