Swayze looked at me and we untangled ourselves from each other.
"I could use some air." I rolled off the bed and my knees buckled, causing me to fall flat on my face.
"Domino!" Koi leaped forward, catching my wrist and yanking me up just a second too late. I blinked as I righted myself and laughed it off.
"I'm fine. Let's go back downstairs." I reached for my dress, tugging it back over my head. I pulled my slippers on and left the room, trying to play it cool. Like I was totally fine having just lost my virginity to the two hottest men I’d ever met. They followed me a moment later, heading outside to smoke.
"So, how do you feel?" Koi asked me. His body was shaking, but he wasn't cold. He wouldn't meet my eyes either.
"Like, physically? It hurts." I winced. While it had felt good at the moment once my body had gotten somewhat used to it, but now that we'd returned to Earth, I was sore.
"No, like, about us," Koi explained. I looked from one to the other. What was I supposed to feel? We'd shared something intense and great and I wanted nothing more but to return to Johnny's spare room and lay together, the three of us, with me in the middle. But was I moving too fast? Would that scare them off?
"I feel okay." I brushed my hair behind my ear. "A little embarrassed. Was it okay? Being my first time?"
Koi laughed and Swayze stubbed his cigarette out and lunged for me, sweeping me off my feet. "Domino, you were great. You're so beautiful and—" He set me down. He looked around the darkness of Johnny's neighborhood. Koi chuckled and spoke at a much lower volume.
"You took every inch like a champ. You really are a blessing. Our blessing."
"Do you feel like you deserve one?" I teased, reaching on my tiptoes to pinch his chin. His eyes grew serious.
"No."
I stepped away and looked down. "Well, I'm going inside. I'm starving, and those cinnamon sticks are calling my name." I gave them both a tight smile and rushed back inside, away from the intense energy out there. I sat on the couch, leaning on my knees and munching on breadsticks when they came back in, laughing and looking very much relaxed. They came to sit with me, Koi putting his arm around me and Swayze holding my hand. We finished another Scream movie and moved on to the next one in the franchise.
I put my head on Koi's shoulder and sighed. "This isn't so bad."
"What isn't?" Koi asked.
"Dating. Or whatever this is." My cheeks flamed from assuming. "Sex, hanging out with more intent than just friends. It's something I'd be into."
"Aw, you're into us?" Swayze teased.
I shoved his shoulder playfully. "Maybe. Would that be terrible?"
"Only if we didn't feel the same," he replied. There was a moment where we stared at each other and we were back in bed, our naked bodies entangled in each other again. No, I didn't think that would be terrible.
Koi, not catching the moment, leaned down and kissed my cheek.
"Alright, well, eat up and relax while you can, because as soon as your body is ready, we're doing that again."
Rule 33 - Swayze
Take all the help you can get.
Three days.
We had three full days away from the park, camp, and the other Risky kids. It was pure bliss. I didn't find myself missing it even one bit. The memory of Ruth's corpse flying through the air over and over replayed on the edge of my mind at all times, but Domino and Koi pulled me back to them each time I started to think too heavily about it.
Fabian texted me during those three days to let me know that the police, after some convincing, were ruling it an accident. I'd seen the body, there was no way they'd be able to tell that it was a single stab wound that actually killed her. Mattias was going to toss her family some money and everything would go away, as if nothing happened. That was how Risky Rush Park worked, after all.
In the morning after that first night, I got to meet Johnny Blue officially. He was everything I could have imagined based on their text messages. Tall, good-looking, flamboyantly gay. He knew we were all here because of something dark, but he didn't ask about it. Instead, he kept us busy going through Domino's old photos, taking us to restaurants, and going out of his way tohost us. I thanked him on our last evening there and he played it off.
"You don't have to thank me for anything. Domino really is a blessing to this world, as your boyfriend likes to say." He was the first person I'd ever met who didn't use that word toward me as a weapon. It was one thing for men to be gay, but bi? Our little town wasn't ready for that. Our families certainly weren't. Johnny, however, loved that Koi and I were unashamedly together. It was freeing.
Koi had gone up with Domino to shower. I'd opted for a vodka and root beer with Johnny instead.
"She is." I nodded. "She wants to do a lot of good."
