Juan secures the area, but becomes suspicious

Just then Juan shouted:

“No rats here! Is safe to go!” and Maria felt like crying again. Oz quickly zipped up his jeans, tidied his shirt and fastened his belt. He flung the curtain open and pulled it in again:

“Thank you, my friend. Let’s wait for her and then we can pay.” He said confidently with a large smile on his face.

Juan simply nodded, and was about to go into the stall of his wife, but just then her voice rang out:

“No enter, mi amor” with a shaking voice.

So he did not dare to enter and check up on her. He noticed that there was a weird liquid on the floor, a lot like the ‘detergent’ back at Oz’s farm. A few minutes of silence passed. Juan was fairly certain that there was something going on, but he saw no point in making a scene at the mall, where they had nowhere to go afterwards and no money either. He tried to refrain from looking at Oz with contempt, but had a hard time to **** a smile too.

Once Maria exited the stall, fully clothed, and the lingerie repackaged, she hid it away between the t-shirts and jeans so her husband wouldn’t see it. Juan took a quick glance at her and noticed the hickeys on her neck. He wanted to believe they were just mosquito bites.

The three of them, silently, went for the children who were somewhat impatiently waiting for them. Once they arrived, they all showed off the clothes they had chosen and Oz was glad they had not refrained themselves. They went to pay and Oz calmly paid the whole fee with his credit card. The married couple took a big gulp as they saw the large sum get paid for with a piece of plastic. In their minds they had to revaluate everything from the top. The ideas in their heads were almost the same, yet they had no intention to talk about any of what happened and wanted to pretend to go with what was said just to keep the others safe and oblivious.