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Suddenly, there was a knock on the driver’s side window. Freya jumped as she saw Brian’s face looking in at her.
‘Wind down the window and talk to him. Tell him everything’s fine, then get rid of him.’ Sasha concealed her weapon.
Freya did as she was told and fixed a smile on her face as she greeted her neighbour. She turned the ignition off.
‘Hi, Brian.’
‘Hello, Freya. I saw you parked here and I thought I’d take this opportunity to ask you about a merchandising idea I have.’
‘Merchandising? Well… I… perhaps you’d better talk to Nick about that. He’s more into that sort of area. He’s at the house if you wanted to go there and see him. Tell him I sent you.’ She winked heavily, hoping he would realise something was wrong.
‘Well, you know Mayleaf has a baseball team: the Mayleaf Maulers. Well, I thought to drum up support and in recognition of the team reaching the quarter finals of the county league, I could print some t-shirts.’
‘T-shirts.’ She looked past Brian towards the store, in the hope Sam or Jolie would come out.
‘Yes, I was hoping you’d agree to the slogan “Baby Kaden says Go Maulers Go”. I mean obviously he/she/it wouldn’t actually say that, but I’d like to think one day he/she/it might join the team and…’ Brian carried on.
‘You know what, Brian, I think it’s a great idea. I really think you should speak to Nick about it and…’ Her eyes pleaded for Brian to come out of his world and join hers. It wasn’t happening.
‘Hey, Freya, hadn’t we better get going? We don’t want to be late for that appointment,’ Sasha spoke loudly, leaning over Freya and smiling at Brian.
‘Yes. Yes, we’d better get going. Brian, why don’t you go up to the house and…’ Freya began again.
‘Bye, Brian,’ Sasha interrupted. She closed the window up.
Brian smiled and waved.
‘Simpleton. How unlucky are you, Freya? Someone comes right up to the car when you’re being held at gunpoint and of all the people, it has to be him. And he asks you about t-shirts,’ Sasha laughed.
‘Look, what the hell is all this about? Why are you doing this?’
‘Shut the fuck up and drive! No more small talk.’ Sasha poked the gun into Freya’s cheek.
She had no choice. She re-started the car.
32
‘Shall we have some music? I think I’d kind of like some music right now. What have we got in here? Urgh, Aerosmith. How very rock chick of you.’ Sasha began to flick her way through the CD collection.
‘Actually that one’s Nick’s.’
‘Is it? One of his favourites? Now that’s something I didn’t know about him. An admiration of Steve Tyler. Well, I suppose I could live with that.’ She pushed the disc into the player.
‘I don’t understand this, Sasha. When did you start hating me so much?’
‘When did I start hating you? Hmm, let me think about that. Well, I think it was probably about the time you started dating my guy.’
‘What?’
‘Nick’s my guy, you know. He doesn’t really know it yet, but it’s only a matter of time.’ She nodded her head to the beat of the music.
‘You’ve got a crush on Nick? That’s what all this is about?’
‘I don’t have a crush on him. I’m not some sort of deluded teenager. I’m in love with him. And, if it wasn’t for you pushing yourself on to him, he’d be in love with me,’ Sasha informed her.
‘This is very bizarre. I mean I’ve liked guys before, all sorts of guys and believe me, I’ve been let down by more than a few. But I’ve never felt the need to take a gun to someone’s head.’
‘Aren’t you listening to me you stupid, fat bitch? I’m in love with him! Don’t you know what that means? It means that he’s going to be mine and you are surplus to requirements. You and that brat.’ Sasha let out a scream of hysteria and aimed the gun at Freya’s stomach.
