"Is there a reason why you made me go to a freaking junkyard to find a barrel and bring it here?" Victoria asked her sister-in-law as she entered her house with the barrel in hand. She didn't know what to expect on this weeks girls night especially since Lita specifically asked for a barrel. She was definitely up to something.
"Duh. I wouldn't make you get it for no reason. Trish should be coming down any minute now with the pictures."
Victoria raised a brow. "What pictures?"
"The pictures with Christian that were in my closet when you helped me clean it out."
Victoria was confused. "Wait. What do you need the pictures for?"
Lita rolled her eyes. "You're slow. I'm going to take those pictures and burn them in the barrel. I guess that's safer than just burning the pictures in the box they're already in."
"And why are we burning the pictures?" Trish asked as she came into the living room with the pictures overhearing what Lita just said.
"Because I officially want to get rid of every memory I have of him," Lita replied like they should already know the answer to that.
"And what brought this up?" Victoria asked.
Trish repeated Victoria's question after a while when Lita wouldn't answer. "Li. What brought this up?"
"Nothing," Lita replied which the other two knew she was lying since she wasn't looking at them.
"Something obviously happened. Did you bump into him again or something?"
"No!" Lita said finally looking up at them. "Let's just go outside and burn the pictures."
"What happened?" This time it was Victoria who spoke up.
"Nothing." She was really getting annoyed by their persistence.
"Li-"
"Just leave it okay!"
"Fine," Trish started to say, "But something obviously happened which is why you want to get rid of the pictures. It's clearly bugging you. We just want to help you but fine, you don't want to talk about it. It's okay. I don't want to know. Let's just go burn the pictures."
Reverse psychology. Smart. Victoria thought when she realized what Trish was doing.
"Fine! If you must know, I ran into that whore Candice! She basically said a bunch of crap to me and brought up the whole thing with Christian. And that she slept with him yet again after we broke up. And he told her everything."
"Wait. Candice is the on-" Victoria started to say in shock, this was the first time she heard who it was Christian actually slept with.
"Yes." Lita interrupted her.
"No wonder you hate her."
"Actually, I hated her before that even happened. Good thing I never got back together with Christian. I probably would have contracted any STD that whore gave him. Anyways, can we just burn the damn pictures now? Let's go I just want get rid of it all and don't want to be reminded of him anymore."
They went to the backyard and tried to figure how to use the barrel without causing an explosion for the a bit over fifteen minutes before they finally figured it out and started the fire. Lita took a picture and started to rip it up and throw it in the barrel.
"Uh, Li. Can't you just throw all of the pictures in there at once?" Trish asked her.
"Let me rip some of them. It lets out aggression. Not well enough because I would rather rip up Candice and throw her in here."
"Okay psycho."
"Not really. When I went to my doctor on Wednesday, she said I needed to start killing people." She saw the look the other two were giving her so she continued. "Okay, maybe she didn't say it like that but she did say that I needed to reduce the stress in my life because it's not that great for anyone but especially this late in the pregnancy so I mean, same thing right? People give me stress, I kill them and poof, stress all gone."
"I would love to hear who you would like to rip up and throw in the fire alongside Candice." Victoria said amused.
"Hm, let's see, there's Maria, that slut. There's Christian, that cheating bastard. There's John, the clueless idiot who's engaged to that slut." She tried to continue until Victoria interrupted her.
"Wait, why is John a clueless idiot?" She didn't know anything about Lita's feelings for John.
"Because I said so. Anyways," Lita said continuing the list. "There's Stephanie, she's really starting to bug me but I guess I can take her off the list since she's giving me paid maternity leave for eight weeks. I can replace her with that one creep from work, he's really pissing me off. He keeps looking at me in a disturbing way, making me feel uncomfortable. I should slap a lawsuit on him for sexual harassment."
"He probably has a fetish for pregnant woman."
"You know, interesting fact I learned when I used to volunteer at the human trafficking shelter back in college, guys actually pay more for pregnant prostitutes."
"Wow Li, I didn't know you were that desperate," Trish joked.
"You might not want to say that Trish, she'll probably add you to that list of people she wants to kill."
"But anyways," Lita said rolling her eyes, "I'll just dump the remaining pictures in there later. I just need to rip some up first."
"At least the fire is keeping us warm." Victoria stated.
"It's not that cold for March," Lita said ripping up another picture and throwing it into the barrel watching it burn.
"But it's still a bit cold."
"Yea, but not as cold as it usually is around this time."
"Can we help you?" Trish asked. "It's kind of boring just watching you rip them up and burning them. I want in on the action."
"Don't care." The other two started to join in on the ripping of the pictures. They didn't notice when someone joined them in the backyard about five minutes later.
"Do you know how long I've been waitin' outside your house for the past couple of minutes? Good thing for the key." John asked making the three friends notice his presence.
"What are you doing here?" Lita asked returning her attention back to burning the pictures.
"I should be the one to ask you three what you're doin'? You know you look very... what's the word I'm lookin' for... insane standin' in front of a fire like that."
Trish rolled her eyes. "We're burning something. What's it to you?"
"Yea, that sounds a whole lot better," he said sarcastically.
"What do you want?" Lita asked annoyed.
"Should you really be in front of the fire? Isn't all that smoke dangerous?" John asked.
"I'm fine." She saw John was about to speak up again but she didn't let him. "You know you're ruining this for me. I'm trying to gain some closure."
"From?" No one answered him so he went over to see what was in the box that the three were burning. "Oh," he said when he saw she was talking about Christian. "Why don't you just dump them all in?"
"Shut up! Seriously. Just shut the hell up!" Victoria and Trish glanced at another kind of afraid of the red-head's outburst.
"Okay. Why are you actin' more of a bitch than usual?"
"How about I dump you in the damn fire as well?!" Lita said glaring at him and then going back to the pictures now throwing a handful of them in the barrel.
"Did I do somethin'?" John asked confused about her demeanor.
Trish spoke up before Lita could. "No. She's just angry about the whole Christian situation. And then she ran into Candice," Trish let slip which resulted in a glare from Lita who didn't tell John anything because she didn't really think it was important for him to know.
"What happened with Candice?" John asked.
"None of your business. You know what?" Lita said picking up the box and dumping the rest of the pictures in the barrel, "I think we're done here." She glanced at the other two, "Make sure you take out the fire." She left and went back inside the house with the other three standing behind wondering what just happened.
"Um, why is she so ticked off?" Victoria asked, unlike Trish, she didn't really know why she hated Maria and was acting like this with John.
"I don't know." Trish lied.
"Yea you do." Victoria said looking at Trish.
"She's right." John agreed. "You're not that good of a liar sometimes, like right now."
"Okay. You're right, I do know. But it's none of your business unless she wants to tell either of you. So don't ask me again."
"Fine," Victoria said then quickly looking over at John, "What are you doing here in the first place? You do know Fridays are girls night, yes?"
John rolled his eyes. "I don't care. Anyways, I forgot what I came here for. She made me forget. Seriously Trish, you can't even give us a clue? Something has been bugging her for a couple of weeks now. Even the doctor told her she needs to calm down a bit or something could go wrong."
"I know but no, I can't tell you, now shut up. I think that's enough. Let's put out the fire."
Lita was sitting in her room looking through some random book someone from work suggested for her to read. She wasn't really reading the books as much as she was blankly staring at the pages. She told Trish and Victoria she wasn't really up for hanging out anymore, she just wanted to be alone so the two decided to leave her alone. John was wise enough and left her alone too. She didn't know nor did she care what he wanted.
She heard a knock on her door which she ignored. Whoever it was didn't leave her alone. "Do you not get the hint? Leave me alone!" She grumbled when she heard the door open and saw her brother walk in. "Didn't I just say to leave me alone?"
Dave ignored her and sat beside her on her bed. "What's wrong?"
"Other than the fact that no one will leave me alone? Nothing."
He sighed taking the book from her hands knowing that she really wasn't reading it. "Just tell me what's wrong."
"Just leave me alone," she said trying to get the book back from him but he didn't let her. "Leave me alone please," she pleaded yet again but he ignored her.
"You know I can't do that. You're my little sister. I worry about you."
"Which is exactly why I don't want to tell you anything."
He raised a brow. "So that means something is wrong? What is it?"
"It's nothing."
"Don't lie to me."
"I'm not."
"Yes you are."
"Please just leave me alone."
"I just want to make sure you're okay."
She sighed. "I know. And I will be. It's nothing really. I'm just... I'm just so sick and tired of everyone. Everyone is annoying. I just want to punch everyone. I'm sick and tired of being pregnant. I wish I could just have these babies now. It's so damn uncomfortable now."
"I know."
"No you don't! You're not a female. You will never know how it feels."
"You're right, I won't. But just hang in there. You have a month and a half left. When you see your babies you'll know it was worth it."
She nodded. "That's what mom said but right now I really don't agree with her."
"Okay. I know there's something else that is bugging you and if you ever want to tell me, you know I will listen." She simply nodded as she put her head on her brother's shoulder closing her eyes. This was not something she wanted to talk to Dave about, or anyone else really. She just wished she could forget about everyone and everything for a bit, but she knew she couldn't. This was something she would always have to deal with now. She had to get over the fact that John was going to marry Maria. Easier said than done.
"So you're moving?" Randy asked John.
"Yea. I'm gettin' married so I have to move. We need some privacy. I'm not gonna stay here."
"Are you sure about this?" Randy asked.
"About moving? Yes, I am."
"I wasn't talking about that."
"Then what are you talkin' about?"
"Getting married."
"Duh." John said looking at Randy like he just asked him the most stupid question ever. "I wouldn't have asked her if I wasn't sure."
"Okay, I'm about to say something and you have to hear me out before you react."
"Go ahead."
"You and Lita are about to be parents. Do you really have no feelings for her? I mean, I don't know why I'm asking you this. But are you sure you're doing the right thing getting married to Maria while you're about to have babies with Lita?"
John was confused by why Randy was asking him this. "You're acting like we're having these kids out of love. She asked me to help her and I did. I mean, yea, I do love her, but only as a friend."
"Are you sure?"
John was now annoyed. "Why are you asking me this?"
"No reason," he lied.
"Did Li say something?"
"No. I just wanted to make sure you know what you're doing. You're my best-friend, I just want to confirm you aren't making a mistake."
"And I'm not."
"Okay." Randy said and then muttering something under his breath, "Blind."
"What?" John asked confused. He didn't hear what Randy said but he knew he did say something."
"Nothing."
"You know, I went over there today and she was acting like a real bitch. Way more than usual. Something's bothering her, I don't know what it is. Did she say something to you?"
"Nope." Randy lied with John nodding, getting up and leaving the room. Randy just shook his head. He felt like his friend was making a big mistake.
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Just a random chapter. Nothing big happens. But, I'm warning you, next chapter is gonna make up for it.
