Tears rolled down Stella's face. She had no choice but to go back into that store and shoot Lida.

Lida was on the phone when Stella came back in. "I'm telling you Wanda she's had one of her infamous mental episodes right here in my store walked out with a bottle of jack without paying. No, I'm not making this up. Wait I'll call you back later she just came back in. What? No, I can't make a video and post it online. Okay bye." Lida said and hang up quickly.

"I'm sorry Lida." Stella said as fresh tears rolled down her face.

"Stella forget it we know each other since we were kids take the bottle as a late or early Christmas gift. We all have our bad days." Lida said with a smile. She was eager to get Stella out so that she can continue her gossip chat with her friend Wanda.

With shaky hands Stella took the gun out from her back and point it at Lida. Lida's hands instinctively went up to protect her face. Now Lida wish she'd called the police instead.

"I have no other choice Lida. I'm so sorry but there's no other way." Stella said with a pained look on her face.

"Stella its fine take the bottle I'm sorry. Me and my big mouth, take anything you want just please don't shoot me I have two kids that's dependent on me Stella." Lida said and peeked through her fingers at Stella with wide eyes.

"You don't have kids Lida." Stella said confused.

"Yes, I do. I have two cats Mitchie and Ritchie they are like my own children. They will have no one when I'm gone. Mitchie likes it when I rub his belly before bedtime and Ritchie likes to cuddle. He is my dreamer. They don't like it when their food gets mixed up. Mitchie is the vegetarian and Ritchie can only eat certain cat food low in cholesterol and high in protein otherwise he will be grumpy all night."

Stella sigh out loud and pointed the gun at her own head.

Lida gasped out loud. "Stella what are you doing? You can't shoot yourself and that in front of me." Lida said wide eye.

"Why not it will be better to end everything right here." Stella said.

"Because you pointed the gun at me first. You wanted to shoot me first now you want to shoot yourself. I think you should make up your mind what you really want to do because who is going to shoot me if you shoot yourself first." Lida said with a questioningly look on her face.

Stella looked gobsmacked at Lida. "And here I thought I'm out of my mind." Stella said astonished.

"You know this whole I'm going to shoot you, reminds me of Sharon. Did you know she dumped her Mr Hollywood wannabe?" Lida whispered.

"What?" Stella asked surprised, almost dropping the gun out of her hand.

"Sharon hired a private detective three months ago to tail glamour boy and boy did she get the mother lode when that detective was done gathering all the dirt on glamour boy," Lida said with a chuckle.

"I knew it!" Stella said and slammed the gun down hard on the counter. "I knew it he was cheating on her and you know what I told her that straight to her face. But she didn't listen she just kept making excuses for him. I told her Sharon you started this hair salon with your own damn money can't you see this man is just using you. You are here working your butt off paying for his acting classes because his going to be this big Hollywood star while his at home doing what?"

"At home getting his freak on with Sharon's sister." Lida said and laughed out loud.

"Get out! Are you serious right now. Her sister?" Stella said wide eye.

"As serious as a heart attack. He had the nerve to come to Sharon's hair salon the other day." Lida said and picked up Stella's gun from the counter. "Gun in hand like this." Lida said and pointed the gun at her own head. "He pointed the gun at his head like I'm pointing the gun at my head right now, threatening to kill himself right there in front of everyone if Sharon don't hear him out." Lida said and put the gun down again. "We all chanted for him to do it even Sharon waited for him to do it."

Stella slammed her hand on the counter and laughed out loud with Lida. "I'm telling you Stella, Jerry Springer got nothing on all the stuff going on in this town. We need our own show."

"I just love it when karma comes back and bite you in the ass." Stella said through a fit of laughter.

"I heard his now a regular at the soup kitchen down at that the new trailer park compound and you know what Stella? I can't wait to lock up and go tell the girls the shit you just pulled today. Shit you had me pissing my pants." Lida said through a fit of laughter.

"You do that and I'll tell them you sleep with cats. Ten of them. Bitch you need a man." Stella said. They both double over from laughter.

Back in the car Melinda was sitting there getting mad by the second hearing Stella over the phone having the time of her life in there and to everyone's surprise Stella came walking out with two bottles in hand smiling from ear to ear. "Did you guys miss me or what?" Stella said after she shut the door behind her.

"Why didn't you shoot that woman in there?" Melinda asked in a cold voice.

"Well I reckon why should I kill my very own gossip paper. Lida is not called fast mouth for nothing so I tried the gun on myself and it turns out the gun is empty. You just wanted to see how far you can fuck with my nerves. And you wouldn't kill us here in the car that will take the fun out everything. So, where to now cause I'm getting bored of this game your trying to play with us." Stella said in a sweet cold voice.

"Well, well, well look at you Stella Wiccomb."

"It's Stella Swanson say my name right. You don't want me to start calling you names and believe me I have a lot for you." Stella said.

Bonnie, Caroline and Kate were smiling from ear to ear.

"I see you finally found a backbone Stella Wiccomb. I want to tell you a little secret. In fact, I want to tell you all a secret." Melinda said with a demented smile.

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