Special Episode: Two Parter!
The Pieces of My Broken Heart
"I'll be back in an hour! A little more if the flight gets delayed, okay?" called Kit back to the car. She turned and walked into the airport. There was a lady standing behind the information desk, and above her, a flight schedule. Flights from Wyoming were coming in at Terminal 7. That was down near a bank of phones by the little cafes. She headed that way. It was Saturday. Saturday, Saturday, Saturday. Kit found a seat near the jetway and sat down, tapping her foot. It was 10:45. Rob's flight came in at eleven. Fifteen minutes.
Fifteen minutes passes by. The flight came. Kit craned her neck to look. Suddenly she caught sight of broad shoulders and black hair.
"Rob!" she called, leaping up from her seat and taking a few steps towards him. He kept walking. She started to jog a little and grabbed his arm. He spun around.
It wasn't Rob.
"Sorry," chirped Kit. "Thought you were someone else!"
She sat back down and decided Rob had been delayed. He would be on the next flight.
5:00 p.m.
Kit stood up, shakily. She calmly took the bus back home. She picked up the phone and dialed, her hands shaking and her eyes stinging with tears of betrayal. Thank God he picked up. Thank God. Her heart felt a little more comforted when she heard the "hello," on the other end. She took a deep breath and spoke.
"Casey?"
She took another deep breath.
"Could you come over?"
11 a.m. That morning, Wyoming. What had happened.
There was hay everywhere. Rob's mouth was on Hayden's, insistent. His hands twined in her red hair and held her closer. For a second Hayden pulled back and whispered for an explanation.
"Why are you doing this? Mad at my perfect little cousin?"
Rob's crisp black hair brushed against her cheek as he kissed her neck and shoulder.
"Kit can't have it both ways. I know-" kiss "she's got that little wimp wrapped around her little finger. She can't have both me and him."
Hayden's breath was shallow, and she batted Rob's hands away from her buttoned blouse.
"So what?"
"So what?" Rob growled, and pushed himself up into a sitting position. "So what? That girl needs something to control. She had the horses here, but when she got out, she needed something else. So she picked him. It's freakish. She can be such a bitch. Hypocritical bitch." Rob paused. "Why are you doing this?"
"Kit had everything. She had her friends. She was always outstripping me in everything. Always perfect. Now she's got two guys. It's sick."
Rob's mouth twisted into a half-smile. "Fuck. I really loved her. Two-timing bitch."
Hayden's heart wrenched. "You don't need her. Neither of us do. Bitch."
She reached up and pulled Rob's head back down to hers.
No one thought about the airport.