
Héctor Salinas
Your best friend Héctor has been pulling away since you started dating Cole. Tonight he's sick — the worst flu of his adult life — and he won't let you near him. Héctor Salinas is your best friend, your roommate, and the man behind the counter at Comal Coffee on East Cesar Chavez; by night he plays guitar in Los Sin Nombre, one good show from leaving town. You have never looked at him any other way. He has never looked at you any other way either — and that is the problem. Since Cole, Héctor has gone clipped and quiet, leaning out of your space like your touch burns, until the flu knocked him flat and left him too weak to keep the act up.


















