The Grand Mistress

The moment Feather left the bathroom, the woman whom she just conversed laughed like a wild woman. She was shrieking and held her flat stomach as her laughter cannot be held anymore.

Just then, two cubicles of the room flew open. On the other Gabriella with her emerald eyes and dark long curls raised a brow at the woman who still at the moment was laughing like she had gone to a comical show.

"You impostor!" Gabriella called on her. "How come you have Sisi's jewelry?"

"Hahahhahah!" The woman who cannot stop her loud guffaws, held on to the sink, almost breathless before she took off her sunglasses revealing her deep ocean eyes. It was Lucy.

Simione, who was at the other cubicle only sighed at Lucy's fooly. She pretended to be her in front of Feather and gave the ballerina bitch a head on. However, both her and Gabriella find it amusing so they only shook their heads for a while and laughed with her.

"I didn't know Feather could be that… oh gosh! How can I describe it? Gullible?" Lucy was sweating already because of her uncontrolled laughter. She took off the shawl around her head and let loose her ash gray hair. 

"Hey, you didn't answer my question. Why do you have Sisi's jewelry?" Gabriella repeated her question as Lucy seemed to have forgotten it because of their fascination with Feather's reaction.

"I borrowed it," She answered, intentionally avoiding Sisi's gaze and immediately looked down on the mariposa verde around her neck. "Aiyooh, mariposa verde you are so pretty. It's such a shame Sisi does not often use you, so I'll just use you okay? Because you know, you are very expensive, it would be such a waste for you to be hidden there at Sisi's closet full of antique clothes,"

"Lucy!" Gabriella chided her misdeeds. Truth was the three were very used to borrowing things. They share a lot and probably the only thing in their possession that they do not share were their underwear. "Do you know how expensive that is? You can't just borrow it without asking,"

"You borrow expensive things to me without asking me," Lucy blabbered in their faces, "Besides why are you nagging. Sisi didn't even make a comment," Then Lucy turned to Sisi's side and with puppy eyes, she said, "Sisi. I really like this jewelry. Just sell it to me okay?"

"I can't Lucy you know that," Simione refused her. "It's a gift and you know I might need to return it after all this,"

"Woah! Return your ass!" Lucy tells her off. "You shouldn't give Hawk Monsanto a full naked show and have him have a release if you plan to return this," Lucy then gave her a wink and Simione immediately shot daggers at her with her revelation.

"You what?" Gabriella heard it all loud and clear and so she turned to Simione with thorough incredulity. "You did what Sisi?"

"Ahmmmm," Simione lost her tongue. She didn't even know why Lucy knew she gave Hawk a full naked show because it was a decision she made out of her frustration and in full drunkenness. Did Lucy the Lucifer have a peak while she was doing that?

"What?" Gabriella then was in front of her waiting for her explanation and an itchy hand ready to give their youngest friend some spanking. 

"He he Gabbie….ahm.. I need to leave now…" Simione, who knew that she was about to get a punishment in the hands of Gabriella immediately fled the scene.

"Hahah! Run Sisi run!" Lucy shouted at her back but at the corner of her eye, she saw Gabriella turned to her with a mad gaze ready to slice her off. "Aye.. heheh Gabriella...ahm I'll go after Simione...see you at the bar!" 

Just that and Lucy ran after Simione, trying to escape Gabriella's fury.

*** Two hours after***

The tres marias can be seen in a beach bar nearby, drinking away all their frustrations and hurt. When Simione and Lucy planned to go after Feather and Hawk and Mondrew City, they brought Gabriella along as they thought it was also a great opportunity for her to have fun. Mondrew City was full of beautiful beaches and it was always the perfect getaway from couples and friends who wanted to spend a little vacation.

Although Gabriella had strong opposition about their Feather project, she cannot really leave Lucy and Gabriella doing it by themselves so she impliedly go along with it. Besides, she had problems of her own then and the Feather project can be a perfect segway for her broken heart.

"I MUST HAVE BEEN IN LOVE BUT IT'S OVER NOW!" Lucy was singing at their table loudly like a lunatic again. Good thing the bar they were in was a busy one, full of deafening music where the party goers jive in. Many foreigners and vacationers were there enjoying the night and this was the very reason why Lucy was hiding under her beach shawl and big sunglasses, so as to prevent people from recognizing her.

As Simione and Gabriella were busy finishing their drinks and telling each other nonsense things, the singer took a moment to watch the writhing, twisting bodies that melt into each other on the dance floor  as the music vibrates a sound very different from the tone she was singing. The bar was playing lively music while she was singing pathetically melancholy music, and heck she was doing it with all emotions.

However, before her song reached the bridge, her eyes went big when a group of smoking hot men arrived. She stopped singing immediately and skimmed at the abs they were flaunting comfortably. Since they were in a beach bar, it was a norm to sea party goers going around with trunks and bikinis.

"Sweet f*cking assholes!" Lucy turned her posture toward her two bestie's and extended her long arms around both their necks. "Do you see what I see?"

"Lucy if its boys again, we don't f*cking care!" Gabriella blabbered. She was a bit drunk but unlike the first time she had a taste of liquor, she can now handle a bit of it. Since then, they have been drinking every night so that her stomach and brain can already tolerate the kick of hard drinkable chemicals.

"Why are so obsessed with good looking boys?" Simione asked out of nowhere. It had always been a wonder to her that Lucy became so addicted with having lovers all around. When she first met her, she wasn't really that into men until their third year in college. That time and so suddenly, Lucy started hitting off  college heartthrobs and had been collecting lovers since then. With her beauty, character and unexplainable wealth, it was always easy for her to jump into one after another but then Simione could see she wasn't really into them, it was like she was just playing with them all intentionally as if someone was counting.

"Because men are great! They give you—"

"Nothing," Gabriella continued her statement. "They give you nothing but heartbreaks,"

"Whooah Gabbie! So bitter eh?" Lucy intentionally grabbed and pulled her long hair. Then, as if she was giving them a serious conversation, she squeezed herself between the two, intentionally joining in their heart to heart conversation. "You know what Gabbie, I know you are hurting in here," She pointed her long fingers in Gabriella's heart, "And I do pity you so much to the point that I'm going to give you an easy way to get out of such a pain.. The easy way…"

"Is there an easy way out of it?" Gabriella was distrustful at Lucy's incoming love advice. "If there was then why didn't you teach Simione that when Lyndon and her broke up,"

"Because Sisi was young then and she had big ambitions," Lucy reasoned without even thinking it through as if she was really certain with her words. Or probably lies. Who knows what's really going into Lucy the Lucifer's head?

"So you are saying I don't have big ambitions,"

"Yes you don't,"

Simione almost threw up as she bursted into laughs. Immediately, Lucy pushed an elbow at her to give her a warning. "Sisi, I'm trying to be serious here. And hello we all know Gabriella don't have big ambitions like yours,"

"Sorry," Simione zipped her lips off but continued chuckling inside her lungs. Although most of the time Lucy does give off senseless or more like a joke kind of advice, Simione somehow finds them really useful. Thus she knew whatever she was to tell Gabriella it must be something. Something worthy to be considered about, "So what's this advice that you are trying to tell Gabbie?"

"This is just for Gabbie so you are not welcome to listen," Lucy dismissed her interest as a retribution for her premature laugh. However Simione didn't listen to her and just rested her chin over Lucy's shoulders so that they were both facing Gabriella.

"Spill it off," Gabriella was impatient.

"Go fuck someone tonigth," Lucy went all the way that both Simione and Gabriella almost fell on their seats.