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4. Morning
The sun was streaming through the window onto Jessica's hotel bed as she and Hayden lay there together, still completely naked, Jessica exposing her neck to Hayden's lips and running her hand over his chest.
'Move down now, baby,' she ordered. 'Kiss me in the spot right under my throat. Mmm, that's nice. Don't kiss my tits yet. You can touch them with your hands.'
Hayden broke their kiss to ask, 'Do you want me to touch them with my hands?'
'If that's what you want to do,' said Jessica. 'Sorry, baby, am I being too bossy? This isn't supposed to be all about me.'
'No, please, keep on bossing me,' Hayden said with a grin. 'I really like your take-charge attitude.'
'You do, huh?' said Jessica, a feline smile creeping across her face. 'Well, in that case, I have an idea.'
'Another one?' said Hayden, laughing and flopping over onto his back as Jessica jumped off the bed and headed for the door. 'God, you're not going to expose us to the corridor, are you?'
'Would you like that?' Jessica asked teasingly over her shoulder. Two white hotel-issue towelling robes were hanging on the door in front of her, and she was easing the cord out of the loops of one.
'Actually, I don't think I would,' said Hayden.
'Well, don't worry, because I'm not really into that,' said Jessica, turning back to face him with the dressing gown cord in her hands. 'I'm going to do something, but tell me if you're not okay with it and I'll stop.'
'Um... all right,' Hayden said cautiously.
His penis had been slow-rising that morning due to the amount of activity it and his testicles had seen the night before, but the sight of Jessica's naked body snaking across the room suddenly woke them all up completely. When she reached the bed, she got on by throwing one leg over Hayden so that she was straddling his abdomen, then bent down to kiss him on the lips.
'Mmm,' he said approvingly, reaching up to stroke her mass of curly hair. She let him do this for a second or two, then took both of his hands in hers and eased them towards the bedhead.
'Oh, wow!' Hayden said in surprise, pulling out of their kiss when he realised that she was tying his wrists to the bedpost.
'Is this okay?' she asked gently.
Hayden looked up at her and found that her breasts were swinging directly in his eyeline as she made sure of her double knot. He stared at them and said croakily, 'Yes, fine.'
'You like this, huh?' she crooned, sliding down his body and taking care to lift herself over his rock-hard cock without touching it.
'Yes,' he breathed, as she kissed her way down his abdomen.
'Seriously, though,' said Jessica, rising suddenly onto her knees, to Hayden's disappointment. 'We'd better have a safe word.'
'Why?' asked Hayden. 'What are you going to do to me?'
'You'll have to wait and see,' she said. 'It's nothing painful, I promise... not in the traditional sense, anyway.'
'What?'
'If you really, genuinely don't like it,' Jessica went on, 'you can stop me by saying... well, what would you never say when you're really enjoying something sexual?'
'Lars,' Hayden said at once.
Jessica laughed, and he watched her breasts bouncing with the action as she said, 'All right, good one. So, unless you say that word, I'm not going to stop or change what I'm doing no matter how much you beg and plead and protest. Okay, baby?'
'O-o-okay,' Hayden said shakily, staring up at her curvy body as she ran her hands over his chest and abdomen, making the faces of a woman in the early-to-mid stages of arousal.
'Do you wish you could put your hands on me?' she said.
'Um... yes and no.'
'Do you like my hands on you?'
'Oh yeah...' he said, as she slid her palms down towards his dick.
'Are you sure you don't want me to hit you?' she asked, smiling humorously, wanting him to know that she wasn't being serious about that.
'I'd rather you didn't.'
'Oh,' said Jessica, bringing her hands to a halt just before they made contact with his rigid shaft. 'In that case, I'd better be very careful. I think maybe I'll just stay all the way over here where I can't hurt you.'
'What? Oh my God!' said Hayden, half laughing and half protesting as she climbed off him and took herself to the far corner of the bed.
'I've had a wonderful time with you, you know,' she said, kneeling beside the footboard and running her hands over her body as Hayden watched, his eyes wide and the tip of his cock oozing pre-cum.
'Me too,' he said hoarsely.
'I love how your cock feels in my pussy.'
'Me too.'
'Mmm... I really need to touch myself down there.'
'Me too.'
'Aw, that's too bad,' Jessica smiled sweetly at him, as her hand slipped between her thighs and she began stroking her clit. She closed her eyes and rocked her hips, murmuring, 'Mmmm, that's good.'
Hayden watched her jilling off for a full minute and a half, his balls tightening more than he had ever thought possible as she moaned softly through her pleasure. Then he said weakly, 'Jess...?'
'Oh,' she said, opening her eyes and smiling at him, 'you're there – I almost forgot.'
'Thanks!' he said, with a strangled laugh.
'I was thinking about you, though. I was thinking about how greatly my hot tub experience was enhanced with your cock inside me.'
'I wish it was inside you right now,' said Hayden.
'Yeah?' said Jessica, putting her hands down on the mattress and then crawling towards him. 'Well, I feel like something a little different. Something we haven't tried yet.'
When she reached him, she smiled at his glistening cock-head, said, 'Mmm, so pretty,' gave it the briefest of butterfly kisses right on the tip, and then moved on. Hayden let out a roar of frustration while his cock twitched and strained in protest.
'Quit complaining,' said Jessica, as she spread herself over his neck and shoulders. 'I'm horny.'
'Right, okay,' Hayden panted, determined to avoid the obvious answer. 'So... can I help?'
'Of course you can, hot stuff,' said Jessica, and she positioned her pussy right over his mouth. Then she ordered, 'Lick it!'
Hayden lifted his head and obliged her, seriously thinking his cock and balls might pull themselves apart as she cried out and bucked her hips, her breasts swinging freely above his eyes as he traced circles on her clit with his tongue.
'Use your lips too!' she gasped, bracing against the headboard as her pleasure mounted.
Hayden did as he was told, licking and kissing her clit until she screamed and screamed and hot, sticky love honey gushed from her pussy onto his chin. Jessica's climax lasted thirty seconds or more, and when it was over, he waited patiently while she recovered. She held onto the headboard with both hands, fought to get her breathing back under control, settled back onto his chest for a few moments with her hot, wet pussy directly over his hammering heart, then said suddenly, 'Well, that was fun,' dismounted and started walking towards the bathroom.
'Oh, come on!' cried Hayden, finding himself straining at his bonds and starting to lose his sense of humour about the whole thing, but by no means was he tempted to use the safe word. He wanted to find out what she had planned, and he was sure that it would be more than worth it in the end.
'Hold on a minute, honey!' she called cheerily, deciding at the last moment actually to go all the way into the bathroom. She realised that she was starting to need to pee, and if she got it out of the way, it wouldn't threaten to distract her during the next stage of the proceedings.
'Okay,' said Jessica, smiling at Hayden's discomfited expression as she sauntered back out of the bathroom. 'Seriously, baby, that was incredible – thank you. And I'm going to redress the balance now, I promise.'
So saying, she climbed back onto the bed and straddled his hips, meaning that his cock was directly in front of her. She wrapped both hands around it, and he let out a noise of immense relief and enjoyment as she ran first one hand along his shaft, then the other. She alternated hands, each sliding again and again off the end of his dick, then going back down to the hilt. Hayden moaned long and low all the time she was masturbating him, and she smiled at the expression of ecstasy on his adorable face.
Very soon, the noises caught in his throat and his testicles started to twitch madly. When she judged he was close to blowing his load, she withdrew her hands and sat back on her heels to watch his reaction. He grunted, waited a moment for her to continue and then snapped his eyes open.
'Jess, stop buggering about!' he said.
'It'll make it better in the end,' she said, crawling across the bed to lie down beside him. She stroked his face and kissed him softly on the lips. 'Don't you know by now that I don't do things by halves?'
'Fucking hell!' he said, panting heavily.
'Just be patient,' she murmured, and kissed him again.
After a minute or so, he pulled out of the kiss and said, 'Please touch it again, Jess.'
'Not yet,' she said.
'Please!'
'Just a little longer,' she said, and kissed him sensually for a further thirty seconds.
His breaths were coming more easily as she moved her kiss down to his chin, his neck, his chest, his abdomen and finally his cock. She planted kisses on all sides of the shaft as he moaned his appreciation, then gently massaged his balls with her right hand as she took the whole of his cock into her mouth.
Hayden kept his eyes open this time, watching her mass of curls falling over his hips as her head bobbed up and down, almost wishing his hands were free so he could run his fingers through her hair. There were all sorts of things he'd love to do with her besides, but they could all wait; for now, he was finding that being tied up was fucking hot.
The next time Hayden was moments away from ejaculating, Jessica popped back up and gave him a pre-cum-slicked smile. He smiled weakly back, disappointed but not surprised. She went back up to the other end of the bed, lay down beside him and ran her fingertips lightly over his neck, then his pale pink nipples, then his neck again. He waited patiently, and he thought he could have held on for another minute or two when she said, 'Aren't you going to beg me this time?'
'I don't think I will actually,' Hayden said through heavy breaths.
'Oh, okay,' said Jessica, and she continued lightly fingering his upper body for a further two minutes. Then she said, 'Ooh, baby, you're good at this game.'
'Thanks,' he panted.
'You want me to touch it, though, right?'
'Yes.'
'Now?'
'Yes please.'
'Good boy,' said Jessica, and she kissed him lightly on the mouth before sliding back down to his lower body. This time, she stayed on her side and admired the view of his cock towering past her eyeline as she rubbed the flat of her right palm against the underside of the shaft. Hayden moaned his enjoyment, but it was only when she wrapped her hand around his dick and started pulling the foreskin up and down over the head that he became really vocal. He made the mistake of thinking she might let him come this time, and he let out a huff of annoyance when once more she stopped what she was doing and went to lie down next to him.
'So,' she said as she nibbled on his ear, 'how much jizz do you think we've brewed up so far?'
'A lot,' Hayden growled.
'You think so, huh?' said Jessica, reaching down to give his balls a quick squeeze, and he let out a squeal. 'Because, y'know, I'd really like to see a lot.'
'You will.'
'Think it would've been a lot if I'd let you come that last time?'
'Fuck, yeah.'
'Hmm... maybe this time, then.'
Hayden at once decided that he didn't believe her; on that morning's evidence, it seemed exactly like the kind of trick she'd play. She kissed his lips a few times, then slid back down the bed, trailing her fingers over his body and eventually sliding them along his shaft. Hayden moaned as if in pain, but still he did not say the safe word.
Jessica sucked him again this time, massaging his balls in her right hand and listening to his yelps and growls as a small fountain of pre-cum seeped into her mouth. His hips were bucking wildly as his balls prepared to release their enormous backlog of frustrated sperm... but he knew better. As he had expected, Jessica withdrew her mouth just as he was about to come, and he opened his eyes to glare at her one more time.
Then suddenly he felt one hand on his penis and another on his testicles. He cried out in surprise and ecstasy as reams of cum shot from the tip of his cock, while Jessica squeezed his balls and pumped away at his throbbing, aching shaft.
'Woah!' said Jessica, laughing delightedly as reams of Hayden's spunk shot towards him and over his head, splashing onto the wall behind the bed. She continued to pump his dick and he continued to roar, his cock rising higher in her hand, shooting more and yet more jets of spunk at the wall. Jessica looked up at it with joyful laughter as Hayden's orgasm finally began to slow, the last of it splatting onto his chest in two small spurts.
'Oh my God,' he said, his eyes tight shut and his chest heaving as he tried to recover. He was only just aware of Jessica freeing him from the dressing gown cord and then lying down beside him. He wrapped both arms tightly around her and exhaled heavily into her hair.
'That was absolutely spectacular, honey,' she said, lifting her head to watch the waterfall of jizz cascading down the wall and disappearing behind the bed. 'You're a machine!'
Like Jessica and Hayden, Kevin and Oscar had not yet strayed very far from their bed that morning. Oscar was lying on his back while Kevin straddled his hips and rode him cowboy-style; the two were looking into each other's eyes as they fucked.
When the moment came, Oscar roared bestially and emptied his balls into Kevin's anal canal. Kevin waited until he was sure that his companion had finished spurting, then he pitched forward while still on his knees, causing Oscar's now flaccid cock to flop out of his butthole.
Kevin shuffled up the bed and thrust his own cock towards Oscar's parted lips. Oscar was still fighting to get his breath back, but he eagerly took Kevin's swollen shaft into his mouth. Oscar's tongue worked diligently as Kevin's pleasure mounted by the second.
Oscar's left hand snaked between Kevin's thighs, grabbed his balls and gave them a fairly hefty squeeze. Kevin yelled, then he blew his load into Oscar's mouth. Oscar thirstily swallowed a huge volume of Kevin's spunk, then Kevin collapsed beside him on the bed.
'I don't want to go back out there,' said Oscar, nodding towards the door to the hotel corridor.
'I think we have to, really,' said Kevin.
'Can we just sneak down to the parking lot and drive off?'
'No. We need to pick up Jess first, for one thing.'
'We might as well get on with it, then,' Oscar sighed, dragging himself into a sitting position.
Kevin grinned and said, 'That's the spirit!'
Jessica was lying with Hayden wrapped in her arms, his head resting comfortably on her right breast.
'You seem very happy there,' she remarked.
'I am,' he murmured sleepily.
'So, honey... were you hoping this would happen?'
'Only in my deepest dreams. I didn't want to get my hopes up. We were meeting for the first time, after all.'
'Well yeah, but we've known each other forever. Half our lives, anyway. I had every intention of taking you to bed if you were everything you seemed from our online chats.'
'Then I'm very glad that's what I turned out to be,' said Hayden. 'I didn't dare to hope for anything sexual, but I was certainly hoping something would happen... a long night of baring our souls and then a kiss goodbye, perhaps.'
Jessica laughed, jiggling his head on her breast, and said, 'Seems silly now, huh? Well, we've already spent more than enough hours baring our souls to justify our kiss hello.'
'Mmm, and much more besides. Whatever I might have imagined, Jess, I had no idea you were so...'
'Kinky?'
'Adventurous.'
'I'll try just about anything,' she said, 'but there is stuff I'm not really into, like dressing up and role-play and stuff like that. Unless you wanted to try it – then I would, to please you.'
'That's sweet of you,' said Hayden.
They lay in silence for a few moments, then Jessica said quietly, 'I don't want to go back to New York and leave you here.'
'I don't want that either,' said Hayden, raising himself abruptly onto his elbow and looking deep into her eyes.
'How many days did you take off work?'
'The whole week. I'm staying 'til Saturday. Will you stay with me, Jess?'
'I don't know,' said Jessica. 'I'm working on a house right now; I told the tradespeople I'd be available this afternoon if they needed me, and definitely back on-site tomorrow.'
'You can trust them for the rest of the week,' said Hayden. 'You're too clever to hire cowboys.'
'Flatterer. Look, why don't you just come back with me?'
'Well, because... because I came to see Emilia; she'd be a bit miffed if I just naffed off after half our visit. And what about Lars – how can I leave him like that?'
'I really hope he's not “like that” after a good night's sleep,' said Jessica. 'And besides, Emilia took care of him yesterday, didn't she? They've still got each other if you come with me.'
'I really want to go with you, Jess,' said Hayden. 'I can't tell you how much!'
'So do! You'll see your brother again real soon, and you'll see your sister in the summer – it's really not that far off.'
'Mmm... which means it's not long at all until I'll have to leave you.'
'Then let's make the most of it,' said Jessica.
'All right,' said Hayden. 'Unless Lars is looking suicidal or something.'
'Well, I wouldn't expect you to leave him if he was actually suicidal, but I bet he's not. I really, desperately want to take you home with me, Hayden. Besides all the other reasons, I have something in my dresser that I'd like us to play with.'
'I'm sure you do, but I imagine it's something you can play with on your own.'
She laughed, gave him an admonishing slap on the arm and said, 'You imagine wrong! The game I have in mind is most definitely for two players.'
Kevin and Oscar emerged into the hotel corridor and ran straight into Lars. Kevin opened his mouth to say something, but Lars got in first.
'Guys, I'm really, really sorry!' he blurted out. 'Bloody hell, what must you think of me?'
Kevin and Oscar exchanged a look.
'I shouldn't have attacked you,' said Oscar. 'I'm sorry.'
'No, no, you were right to do it!' said Lars. 'I wish you'd punched my lights out, Oscar – that's what I deserved!'
'Do you want him to do it now?' Kevin suggested.
'Yes, if he still feels like it,' said Lars.
'I don't want to hit you, Lars,' said Oscar.
'Well... thanks,' said Lars, with a small, tentative smile. 'Still, I made a complete arse of myself for no reason and... well, I did have a reason, but that's absolutely no excuse for what I did!'
Lars was now staring at Oscar with wide, pleading eyes; Oscar frowned slightly.
'What do you want from me, Lars?' he asked.
'I'll tell you exactly what I want, Oscar,' said Lars. 'I want us to call each other brother, and I want to talk to you about coming out of the closet.'
'You mean... about you coming out of the closet?'
'Yes, exactly.'
Oscar raised his eyebrows and said, 'Okay, brother – let's talk.'
'I've been a closeted, non-practising homosexual for almost ten years now and I fucking hate it!' said Lars, real desperation evident in his voice. 'I wish I could be like you two – out and proud!'
Kevin and Oscar exchanged another look.
'You know, Lars, neither of us ever exactly came out in the way I think you mean,' said Kevin. 'We met and we became friends and we fell more and more in love with each other every time we were together, and when the time was right we became a couple. That's... that's all there is to it, really.'
'We've always just followed our hearts and done what's felt right to us,' said Oscar. 'We're not... gay icons or anything.'
'Oh, but you are!' Lars said insistently. 'What you two have done is so, so brave, even if you didn't mean it to be. I wish I could be even half as brave! But I've been a coward – I've been lying to myself and I've always known it! I remember going to a Bonfire Night party when I was sixteen and spending the whole of the fireworks display trying to get to grips with my sexuality. Emilia and Hayden and Christine – that was Hayden's girlfriend at the time – were really enjoying the bangers and the sparklers and the toffee-apples, but I was just worrying, worrying, worrying about whether the feelings I was having for my schoolfriend John were wrong! I... I don't want to feel like that anymore!'
'Lars,' said Oscar, laying a gentle hand on his shoulder, 'how about the three of us have breakfast together and talk this whole thing through?'
Lars beamed at Oscar and said, 'Yes please.'
Two groups of three people, both deep in conversation, were having breakfast around adjacent tables in the hotel dining room. Kevin, Oscar and Lars were at one table, while Hayden, Jessica and Emilia were at the other.
'I'm madly in love with one of my colleagues at school,' Lars was telling Kevin and Oscar. 'His name's Nathan Gilbert and he teaches science. I... I'm pretty sure he feels the same way about me.'
'You should try asking him out, then,' Kevin said encouragingly.
'But what if I'm wrong?' said Lars.
'Put yourself out there a little, man!' Oscar advised. 'If you don't try, you'll never know.'
'Yeah,' said Lars, managing a small smile. 'Yeah, you're right, Oscar.'
Oscar opened his mouth to say something else, but his attention was diverted as Jessica stood up from the other table and left the room, apparently in something of a hurry.
'Did Hayden come back to your room last night, Lars?' Oscar asked in a whisper.
'Um... no,' said Lars. 'No, he didn't. I'm sorry if that's not what you want to hear, Oscar, but...'
Frowning slightly, Oscar jumped to his feet and ran after Jessica. Hayden and Emilia stopped their conversation rather abruptly, and Emilia smiled over at Kevin.
'So, who'd have thought the four of us would ever end up in this position?' Kevin remarked, now uncomfortably aware that all three Wallance siblings were staring at him.
'I hope you don't feel at all awkward about that, Kevin,' said Emilia. 'We're all family now.'
'Are we?' said Hayden.
'Yes, we are!' Emilia said insistently.
'Would you like another cup of tea, Kevin?' said Lars. 'I'm having one, and there should be at least two decent helpings left in the pot.'
Kevin smiled wryly and said, 'You're not trying to seduce me again, are you?'
Hayden and Emilia burst out laughing; Lars looked slightly uncomfortable for a few seconds, then he joined in the unrestrained mirth.
'You'll never be able to speak to Kevin again without him thinking you're chatting him up!' said Hayden.
'You can never make a second first impression, Lars,' Emilia giggled, 'unfortunately for you!'
'Come on, guys,' said Kevin, 'it wasn't that funny. You know what, Lars? I will have another cup of tea with you. Thanks.'
Lars smiled at Kevin and reached for the teapot.
'Jess, wait up!' Oscar called as Jessica pressed the button to call the elevator.
'I was going to have to anyway,' she said, turning round and indicating the closed doors behind her.
'Oh yeah, right,' said Oscar, and he began to look uncomfortable. 'So... you and Hayden, huh?'
'Yeah,' said Jessica, avoiding his eye.
'I'm not completely surprised, Jess, because Emilia told me you've been friends with him on social media for years.'
'She did, huh? I guess he told everybody all about it, then.'
'Yeah.' Oscar paused for a moment, then added, 'You didn't, though.'
'No,' Jessica agreed.
'Why not?'
'So you're here to challenge me about keeping secrets from you, huh?'
The elevator pinged and the doors flew open. Jessica ignored them and stood looking at Oscar, somewhat defensively.
'I'm not challenging you,' said Oscar. 'I know it's none of my business if you don't want it to be. I just... wondered.'
Jessica softened her expression, sighed and said, 'I want it to be your business now.' The elevator doors closed behind her, and she let them. 'Because now it's serious. But I didn't know before, so I didn't tell you because I thought you'd be weirded out, and it could've been over nothing. But now... well, now you're getting weirded out over something.'
'Who says I'm weirded out?' Oscar said airily.
'I'll bet you are,' said Jessica, smiling in amusement.
'Well...'
'And before you ask, back when we were just kids and I didn't like him like him yet, I didn't tell you I'd made friends with him because you'd lost touch with that family and I assumed you hated all of their guts. Does that satisfy you?'
'Yes,' said Oscar. 'That's all completely understandable, Jess. Sorry if I came across as confrontational about it.'
'That's okay,' said Jessica.
Kevin chose this moment to emerge from the dining room. He spotted Oscar and Jessica smiling at each other in front of the closed elevator, and walked briskly over to join them.
'Everything okay?' Kevin asked, putting a supportive arm across Oscar's shoulders.
'Yeah,' said Oscar, slipping his own arm around Kevin's waist, 'we're okay.'
'Kevin,' said Jessica, 'would it be all right if Hayden rode back with us in your mom's car? He's gonna come stay with me for a few days.'
'Sure, no problem,' said Kevin.
Jessica's face lit up and she rushed to kiss Kevin on the cheek.
'Thanks, Kev,' she said. 'It's true what everyone says about you, you know – you really are the nicest person in the world!'
'So... so you're actually taking Hayden back to New York with you?' said Oscar.
'Yes, I am,' said Jessica.
'Do you think everyone's gonna be... okay with that?' said Oscar.
'Are you okay with it?' Jessica asked pointedly.
'Okay, I'll admit I'm a little weirded out by that idea,' Oscar said with a small smile. 'But if it's what you and Hayden want to do, Jess... well, you should go ahead and do it.'
'I don't think Emilia's very happy about the whole thing,' Jessica admitted. 'She was making me feel a little uncomfortable when we floated the idea to her over breakfast, but... well, it's not like she can stop us, is it?'
'I think we're about to find out,' said Kevin, nodding towards the dining room door. 'Here come Huey, Dewey and Louie right now.'
Oscar and Jessica could not help giggling at this remark as Hayden, Emilia and Lars crossed the lobby to meet them.
'All sorted, then?' said Emilia, with more enthusiasm than she obviously felt.
'Yeah, it is,' said Kevin. 'We're giving Hayden a ride to the Big Apple.'
When he heard this, Hayden looked like all his birthdays had come at once; he exchanged an anticipation-filled glance with Jessica.
'How are you planning on getting back up here, Hayd?' Emilia asked. 'You can get a train – the Vermonter – from Penn Station in Manhattan, but that takes forever and it only runs once a day. I flew from Burlington to JFK and back when I visited Oscar; you could do that.'
'Yes, I could,' said Hayden. 'Or I might see if I can cancel my plane ticket home and rebook it from JFK.'
'I can get Chris to pick you up from the airport if you fly back,' Emilia said coaxingly. 'He gave me a lift both ways when I did it.'
'Thanks, Emi,' said Hayden, 'but I think I'll probably rebook my original flight instead.'
Emilia frowned slightly and said, 'You mean you're going to stay with Jessica until you leave the country?'
'Well... yeah, I am,' said Hayden. 'I mean, if she'll have me.'
Jessica gave him a meaningful look and said, 'You bet I'll have you!'
'So... that's the plan, then,' said Hayden.
'Oh,' said Emilia, looking a little miffed. 'Oh, right.'
'Sorry, Emi-chops,' Hayden said in a rather small voice. 'I'll see you in the summer – it's really not that far off.'
'Yeah, I know,' said Emilia, managing a small smile. 'Bye for now then, Hayd.'
She gave him a heartfelt hug, then Lars came to take her place.
'Could you do me a favour while I'm gone?' said Hayden, wrapping his arms around his brother.
'What favour's that, Hayd?' asked Lars.
'Don't be a Muppet, mate!' said Hayden. 'No more boozing, okay?'
Lars laughed and said, 'Never again!'
'Happy birthday for Saturday if I don't see you before,' said Hayden.
'Thanks,' said Lars, giving him a final squeeze before stepping out of the brotherly embrace. 'Have a good time, bro. Perhaps we'll bump into each other at Heathrow on Sunday, eh?'
'Yes, perhaps,' said Hayden. 'You, er... you will be okay here on your own, won't you?'
'He's not going to be on his own,' said Emilia. 'I'm going to stay with him in the twin room while you're gone, Hayd; I'll have to pop back to campus for lectures, of course, but that's fine. We're going to talk at length about your feelings, aren't we, Lars?'
'We certainly are,' said Lars. 'And we're going to decide exactly what I need to do when I get back to England. I already know the first thing, though – I'll tell Nathan the truth about myself and... well, see how he reacts.'
'Hmm, well I don't want to know too much about how you're hoping that's going to pan out!' said Emilia.
'Oscar, I really can't tell you how sorry I am about yesterday,' said Lars.
'You already did,' said Oscar. 'And I've already forgotten all about it, brother.'
'Thank you,' said Lars, venturing to give him a quick hug. 'Thanks for everything.'
'Let me know how it goes with Nathan,' said Oscar, patting Lars on the back in a slightly awkward manner.
'I'll email you a full update,' said Lars.
Oscar smiled and said, 'I'd like that.'
From his position in the front passenger seat of Beth's car, Oscar looked into the rear-view mirror and watched the outskirts of Burlington disappearing into the distance. He could not help but notice something else in the mirror too, namely Jessica and Hayden sitting on the back seat and staring at each other with hungry eyes.
'Just so's you know, Jess,' said Oscar, 'I think I've now reached a crescendo of being weirded out by you and Hayden. I'm not saying I have a problem with it – I'm just acknowledging how right you were when we talked in front of the elevator.'
Jessica met his eye in the mirror, gave him a wry smile and said, 'That's very big of you, Oscar.'
'Man, just imagine what our family tree would look like if someone actually bothered to write it all down!' said Oscar. 'It'd be... really weird.'
'Not weird,' said Jessica. 'Just unique.'
'So,' Kevin said from the driving seat, 'how's everyone feeling in the aftermath of the reunion?'
'Deeply satisfied,' said Jessica, then she gave Hayden an intense look and added, 'for now.'
Hayden's mouth fell open a little as he met Jessica's gaze, and he folded his hands across his lap. Kevin glanced to his right; as he had suspected, Oscar was looking more than a little uncomfortable.
'How about you, Hayden?' Kevin asked quickly.
'I... I've very literally never been happier in my entire life,' said Hayden, still staring into Jessica's eyes. 'I came to the US to visit my sister, get reacquainted with my estranged half-brother and finally meet Jess in person. I got everything I wanted and more... a lot more! And I've loved every second of it.'
'It's not over yet, honey,' Jessica said meaningfully.
Oscar winced and said, 'Oh God.'
'I think we all know how you're feeling, Oscar,' said Jessica.
'Well, maybe you don't,' said Oscar. 'I'm pretty happy overall, and no one could be more surprised about that than me! I feel at least a little brotherly toward all my siblings now, and as for what I think about the two of you hooking up, I'm really... quite pleased. It'll just take a little getting used to, that's all.'
Oscar looked into the mirror again and saw that Jessica and Hayden were now kissing each other voraciously, both of them obviously using plenty of tongue.
'Or maybe a lot of getting used to,' Oscar sighed.
'Sorry, Oscar,' said Hayden, breaking the kiss. 'Would you rather we didn't snog in the car?'
'I don't want you to stop on my account,' said Oscar.
'That means he would rather we didn't,' Jessica said to Hayden.
'How about we have a little sing-along?' Kevin suggested.
'Great idea!' said Oscar. 'The Spice Girls' greatest hits?'
'How could it be anything else?' said Kevin.
'Excellent,' said Hayden. 'I love the Spice Girls!'
'You do, huh?' said Jessica, giving him a playful look. 'Well, I guess I can look past that.'
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