Another update! Here's chapter 5. Hope you'll enjoy this.
--- CHAPTER 5 --- Nasty GirlsThe Pleasant twins, Angela and Lillith, took their parents break up pretty hard. But both expressed their pain in a different way. Even though they have similar looks, the girls’ characters were like day and night.
Lillith became angrier than she already was. How could her father leave her here all alone with these two freaks! Her mother, Mary-Sue, never cared for anything that wasn’t perfect. Lillith was never good enough for here. But high-school popularity queen Angela had always been mommy’s angel.
“Look at her standing there, little miss perfect, all teary eyed! Your such an actress Angela. You never cared about Dad. You’re probably just happy that he’s gone. So now you can go hang out more with DUSTIN!”
With her voice all hoarse from crying, Angela reacted angrily at Lillith's harsh words. “Shut up Lillith, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Leave Dustin out of this, you’re so STUPID!”
“Who are you calling stupid! WHACK!” Lillith smacked her hand straight into Angela’s face.
Lillith’s temper got the best of her again and soon the two siblings were pulling each other's hair and screaming their lungs out. With all the noise the girls were making, it was no surprise that Mary-Sue woke up.
“ENOUGH! Lillith behave yourself! For the love of plumbbob, haven’t I suffered enough yet. If you continue this young lady, you leave me no choice but to send you to Strangetown Millitary School! Far, far away from all your friends. Although I doubt you have any!”
Lillith new better than to tempt her mother in this condition. Mary-Sue was still recovering from a mental breakdown. She stood there silently but Lillith really wanted to scream that she did have a friend. A boyfriend even. But she also didn’t want to risk losing him, not Dirk. So she kept quiet for now. She knew it would only be for a little while. Dirk had told her he was accepted for a scholarship at Sim State University. At that moment she knew she wanted nothing more than to go to college with Dirk. Her parents were rich enough, so if she could just keep her grades at the minimum C level and didn’t push too many of her mother’s buttons, sweet freedom would be within her grasp.
Mary-Sue had a hard time recovering from her mental break down. She was very tense and yelled at everybody around her for no good reason. She needed to stay calm, so she really couldn’t deal with two troubled teenage girls that had it in for each other. In the end, she really didn't see any other solution. Mary-Sue desperately needed help from her parents.
Luckily, Herb and Coral Oldie were more than glad to help their daughter through these rough times. Mary-Sue was a bit of a wild child in her own teen years so the Oldies had enough experience. Lillith really seemed to react well another father figure in her life. Herb and Lillith soon became the best of friends and she actually managed to stay out of trouble. For the time being the girls even stopped fighting. The girls still didn't like each other. But with the promise that she would tutor Lillith, Lillith kept Angela’s nightly escapades with Dustin a secret.
In a different part of the neighborhood Nina Caliente was really enjoying herself. She finally had the house to herself now Dina was married to Mortimer.
“Oh yeah, I’m so hot! Watch out Pleasantview, Nina is going to party tonight!” As usual, Nina was admiring herself in the mirror before going out. Nina loved being single and partying from dusk till dawn. Marying some old geezer for money was not Nina’s type of thing. Nina lived her life to the max with her motto “Eat it while it’s still hot!” firmly in mind. So every night Nina shows off her very slim and firm body with skintight clothing and exotic dance moves in many of the Pleasantview Downtown clubs.
When she got tired of dancing, she would go for the main course of the evening. “Oh yeah, baby, I feel like hunting for snake tonight!”
And when she got tired of schmoozing with the guys, she would play a nasty game of poker with the girls and of course catch up with the latest Pleasantview gossip.
The Diva couldn’t wait to ask Nina about her latest adventure. “So have you caught Don Lothario yet? I heard you were the reason that Cassie threw him out. He’s a pretty good catch, being an up and coming gynecologist and all”
Nina answered with the usual smirk on her face when someone asked if she would commit herself to one man. “Hah, I’ve got him wrapped around my little finger. They always come back for more. But hey, you know me, I'm like a wild horse that likes to run free. I haven’t met a man yet that can tame me!”
She knew Nina better than that but the Diva had a bad hand of cards and tried to throw Nina of her balance. “Common don’t you dream about a nice big wedding, with a huge cake and a pretty white dress? Her friend Andrea couldn’t help but blurt it out. “Yeah and start a family of your own, with cute little girls called Tina, Gina and Mina!”
Now all the girls were laughing. But Nina had too much poker experience to let her guard down. “Hah, me having kids, that nightmare has as much chance of happening as you girls winning this game from me! Now show me the money!”
Nina did win the poker game that night, but little did she know that her worst fear was about to come true as well. “Hmmm, that partying sure makes me hungry!”
Lucy the maid couldn’t help but notice that Nina didn’t fit in her usual outfit anymore. “Hey Nina, are you okay. You seem to be hungry all the time lately. You don’t have a little bun in the oven, now do you?” Nina almost choked to death after hearing Lucy’s remarks. She had been gaining a lot of weight lately. And if she was right, she knew only one man could be the father.
After a couple of weeks it became painfully obvious. With hormones raging through her body, Nina was hungry, tired and needed to go to bathroom all the time. And loosing the lean mean firm body she was always so proud of, made her very, very, very pissed off. She wanted revenge and she wanted it now. So she decided she would call one of her connections back in good old Strangetown.
“No, nothing as drastic as last time. He has to come back to Pleasantview. I want him to suffer the same humiliation as I have, waggling around with a big bloated tummy!”
Will Lillith and Angela make it through college with their high-school sweetheart's? Is Mary-Sue able to forget the past and forgive Daniel for what he has done? Can Nina settle down and raise a little family of her own without the social helper showing up? And who is she getting back at?Find out in the next chapters of Pleasantview Soapbox!
