"I thought we were partners! You were the first who wanted this project. And now..." Susan clapped her hand down on the keyboard, it would have broke in two if only she had hit it a little harder. "This was our ticket out of this wretched mess."
"I had to divert the funds to other expenses that are for sure going to deliver us to safety," said Dan recoiling in his lazy chair, scolding himself for his choice of words.
Susan crumpled up a yellow sticky note in her hand, trying her darndest not to jump up and grab him by the throat.
"What expenses?" Susan asked through her clenched jaw.
Dan gulped, his adam's apple almost dropping to the floor. "Honey. Darling." The niceties tipped her off that this was going to be insane. "Honey, a trip to the moon. A chance to get off of this rock. A chance to start a new life. A chance worth you being upset over."
Her thoughts took her back to asking the question of what it was going to be like moving back in with her parents after she explicitly told them she would never again do such a thing, to which they heavily disagreed.
She is a very determined woman, but this is a men's world, thought Dan. Put your foot down and be the man!
"Honey," his weak voice betrayed the courage he'd worked up in his head, "this is going to be the experience of a lifetime. No more mundane work. We'll get to see the stars up close and personal. No more of this ... this scavenging around to make end's meat just to have a roof over our heads."
Susan's glare tore into him like a coffee grinder does to baked beans.
"What work do you have lined up for us?" she asked as she averted her glare, looking for something to stab him with while doing her best to resist the urge to go through with it.
"Entertaining."
"Entertaining who and doing what and why did you have to pay for it?" She could already feel the slaps across the face her father would give her and the ridicule her mother would dish out on any paper plate available to her. She cringed.
"I had to pay for our seats upfront because fuel is expensive. We'll be making that back and more when we entertain the guests with a little clown make-up and a bull in the space ring that is build up there." He pointed to the sky.
"You can't have it all." Her thoughts rounded a corner, getting her past the hesitation to take care of this idiot who sunk all of their money into a fantasy. She would look above the sink, below the top cabinet space, behind the bowls where she would find the matches. In the night, while he slept, he would burn.
She let out a big yawn.
"Honey." Dan saw that she had begun to waver. Her eyelids fluttered. Her face started getting lighter in color. "Honey. Susan dear."
His repeated chant annoyed her but she couldn't lift herself up from the chair because her body was not responding.
"I've taken the liberty," Dan said, "of slipping a little sleeping magic in your drink because I knew how you were going to react."
Her eyes folded back into her head and she fell forward, crashing to the ground like a drunk falling off the wagon.
Susan was slapped awake.
"Stop that," she protested.
"Oh good. You're awake."
"Where are we?"
"I told you where we were going."
She looked around her. A stage full of people surrounded them. She looked up. A glass roof that displayed the earth and the stars, closer than ever before. She looked down at her clothes, a clown's suit. She looked into a mirror he held up and saw the clown make up.
A ding went off in the ring.
"Honey."
"What!" she snapped still in disbelief.
"You'd better start running."
With that, he took off and she, she stared into the eyes of a bull that came at her like it was protecting its calf.
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