Her Beautiful Revenge

Four

Lily-

I saw through her now. She wanted something from dad but he did not pay attention. I know her well now. She will make a sad face and tell me " who would want me. . I am a child out of wedlock." If I was that naïve Lily, I would be sad and ask dad to get her what she wants. 

as expected, she said those words when we left for shopping. We had to buy books, bag and other necessities for college. Dad gave me his card to buy clothes to. Mom insisted to come for shopping but her friend came so she had to stay at home. me and Rose came for shopping. Books were done. she asked me if we shall go for shopping. I knew she wanted whole new bunch of clothes. dad never gave her his card just some money. I said okay. 

we went to mall and started looking for clothes. I was never comfortable in showing too much skin. So I chose 3-4 tops, jeans and dresses. I took a card and paid before she came out from changing room. She had almost 20 dresses, 5-6 shorts, 8-10 tops. we already paid a good amount for books and we had lots of clothes at home but she was never satisfied. 

She took them to cashier and asked for bill. He looked at clothes and said "mam, do you have a card?" before billing. She fumed in anger. "What do you mean? you mean to say I cannot pay for it? do I look like a beggar or homeless person?" she shouted on him. "Lily, give him the card. Dad will be very angry if he gets to know you made me look like this. how dare you ask me this?" she kept yelling. "What are you doing lily? I told you to give him a card. you have dad's card. give it to me." she turned around after throwing a fit. 

"uh .. th. . " "why are you stuttering, god damn it. " she yelled again. "I forgot it at home. I would have noticed it if we paid the amount with card while we were buying the books. But we used cash and I did not noticed it." I told her and cashier looked at me with amusement. I know what was going going in his head... 'she must be too spoiled . she just paid for clothes with that card and now she says she does not have a card. anyways lets not get into the catfight.' 

"you . what. how could you forget card at home lily? and then how did you pay for your clothes. check it again it must be somewhere in your bag. " she said in disbelief. "Yeah, that. I already had cash on me so I paid with cash. You can do the same Rose. They accept cash. Dont you?" I asked cashier in innocent tone. "Yes we do ma'am, if you have cash that would be okay." he told Rose. 

her face fell because dad already gave her money enough for a month and she used it for online shopping. she loved makeup and loves to use expensive makeup products. she thought it would be okay because I use to cover all her expenses. She is now embarrassed. "You know what.. the hell with your store. I dont like these cheap clothes. They are way to cheap for me to wear. I wont even use them as a rag in my home."  she started leaving but store manager came and stopped her. 

"May I ask you Ma'am, what happened?" she asked her politely. "your store is waste of space in this mall. your employees are rude and they dont have manners. quality of clothes is too cheap." she said looking at her fingernails like it is the most interesting thing in the world. "I am sorry to hear that ma'am. we will look into it." she said politely and smirked. but Rose was too busy watching her nails she did not noticed her smirk. I found it fishy but I did not say a word. 

"Lets go lily. Lets find some better stores to shop." She turned and left. I took my bags, smiled at staff and left. when we were out of it, she turned to me and said "why didn't you lend me money? It was so embarrassing for me." she was on the brink of tears. "uh Rose, I am really sorry. I did not know you needed it. I already spent it on books, bag and other stuff. I would have definitely do it for you. You know it. right?" I played my innocent card. she seemed to believe me. 

We then went to food court, she sat at table and I took order and waited in queue for it. It was always like it. She used to order me around like queen bee and I follow her orders. I took our order to table and when I was behind her, I called her, and pretended to fall. her eyes went wide and I dumped all the contents on her. she was stunned. Thick cold coffee, spaghetti , chocolate fudge  all dripping from her head. I took a minute to laugh in mind and then rushed to take tissues. people from food court were laughing their asses off. some even took photos. she looked too funny. I rushed and started cleaning it with tissues and napkins. She was beyond angry now. She just stormed off the food court. I smirked and dropped the napkins in trash. Took my belongings and started walking slowly to the entrance. I saw her looking at parking so I took other way and called her "Rose, where are you ? Why did you not wait for me. I am looking for you everywhere. Where are you.. ?" I tried sounding frantic. "I am near parking lot. Where are you, just come fast. I cant bear people seeing me like this. Its horrible. everyone passing me is looking at me like I am some freaking clown. " she yelled. "I am sorry Rose. But why are you there at parking lot. we did not take car.you know I am afraid of driving cars now. did you forget my accident?" I said not a speck of sorry in my voice. "Ohhhh gaaaawwddddd... why this is happening to me...? how are we going home now? " she yelled at other end. 

"Cmon we need to catch the cab." and hang up on her. I could imagine her stomping her foot. She came out after few minutes , somewhat clean but all the contents still matted on her blonde hair. and smelled. "Sorry Ma'am , but it will dirty my cab and customers complains when it smells."  3rd cabbie declined us and she was on verge of crying loudly on road. 

I was hungry now and wanted to home. so I called Stephen and asked him to pick me up. I purposely left out the part where Rose was in this condition. We were waiting for other cab to stop, then Stephen pulled up. "Hey babe, how are you?" he cooed and pulled me in a hug. he did not even looked at her. "I am good but we need a ride home Steph. its you know urgent." I said. "We? who are we?" he looked confused. and I gestured at Rose, he almost yelp. "how?" all he asked. "umm I fell" I replied sheepishly. "that still does not tell me how this happened?" he said looking at Rose who was now crying with her head down. "when I fell, I had our food in my hands." I said looking down. my voice cracked at the end because I wanted to laugh. Stephen took it like I was crying due to shame. he hugged me again. "babe, its okay.it happens. there is nothing to feel sorry about. oh my baby" he rocked me back and forth to comfort me. I saw Rose through my lashes and she was about to burst. 

I pulled out from hug and asked Stephen "could you please give us ride home? we tried cab but nobody wanted her to enter the cab when she is looking like that" I gestured at Rose. "uh okay." "well I also wont want her but you asked me so how could I say no"  he whispered but it was loud enough for Rose to hear. she did not say anything but gave me murderous glare and sat in the back. and we drover home where other adventure was waiting for us.