twist of time (18+)

Fifty-two

The dust was everywhere and people filled that place that it almost felt choking. Everyone made a way between stalls and tables, looking for something they need or something they don't even need.  It was hot and her temple glistened with sweat, but Britney didn't even feel that as she walked between two rows of accessories and artworks in a flea market, carefully picking things that would help her make the art. She gasped as she noticed a 5 dollars beautiful wooden box and she took that to light.

"May I think..." But when she turned to the side, Britney remembered that she's alone.

Sighing in dismay she paid it and continued to walk among the so many things and stalls and continue to hunt. But after a while, she dropped the hunt and buy random things before she walked to the bus stop and went back. On the way she spotted a nice chinese dumplings stall and bought them, couldn't help to about think her friend.

It would be cool if May was here

Britney slumped herself at the bus seat. The phone rang and she opened the connection.

"Yes?"

"Why didn't you answer my text?" Lana sounds worried.

"I ... was busy?"

"From yesterday?"

"Yes" She looked up.

"The cafeteria told me that you skipped the breakfast and lunch, and I wonder if you are starving yourself again."

Britney sighed.

She always caring but sometimes she is soo prissy.

"I'm ..." Britned stopped midsentence and started to feel guilty.

How I gonna explain that I am not starving myself but not eating those juicy sandwiches?

"You go straight to the gym right?" She asked nicely.

"I have urgent things to do."

"You haven't eat, you have to go here. Straight to the gym and cafeteria and ate your food." Lana commanded over the phone.

Straight to hell you mean?

Scratching her head, Britney really want to say no, but imagining Lana and the food that she paid for this week, she sighed heavily and said.

"All right I'll come there"

"Good. I will be waiting." She closed the connection.

Huffing Britney slipped the phone inside her bags and looked out. It felt out of balance when the youngest member of the trio wasn't around. No one cheekily remind Lana that she went too far for example or tease her for being too lame and giving up to temptation.

May, where are you?

Suddenly the instagram message send notification. The message is from her classmate, just with three word. You gotta see this.

As she opened, it was a link to a very famous internet website.

"Celebrity gossip again?"

She clicked and frowned. "A sexual frustrated young man causing a ruckuss? Why is this sent to me?" For a moment she read but nothing important and then she saw the picture, the machine on her brain ticked for a few seconds before she yelled.

"OH MY GOSH!"

Laughing uncontrolably, she recognized Ron's exposed body tied on the bed and then start to connect the article with the photo. Somehow she felt those evil happiness to know that her boy friend end like that,  yet, she deep down felt that this was an act of revenge.

Is it her? But it so out of her character.

Chortling she stopped the bus, still fighting the urge to keep laughing as she entered the elevator and pushed two.

She is very out of character lately.

As the elevator closed, she saw someone familiar outside but the elevator goes up. She made the elevator go down again and went out, walking around the outside of the modeling office.

Maybe it just me who missed her too much that I see things.

Britney go back to the elevator and stopped at the second floor, going straight for the cafeteria. Lana already there and took two boxes of food, beckoning her to eat.

Groaning, she took the food out and ate slowly, feel it harder and harder to chew spiraled Zuchini so she stopped in the middle of the lunch.

"Sorry Lana I can't finish this" She said.

Lana glared and dragged her inside the gym, straight to the scales.

"No" Britney deadpanned.

"Yes" Lana dragged her and she stepped up anyway.

They both looked at the scale and Lana frowned.

"I thought you gonna drop too many cos you starve yourself."

Britney bit her lips and stepped down.

Lana realization comes late. "You cheat."

"No"

"Yes you are"

Britney walked out so fast that she stumbled on a heavy lift on the way out.

"Come back here Britney!"

She flipped and pointed at her, she blurted out. "You are not my mother, you have no right to control my life!"

Lana stopped. "You want this revenge remember? You want to be slimmer, healthier and I said I will help you?"

"But not by eating trash food and forcing me to do workout like a slave!"

"Like a what?" Lana frowned. "Dont you aware that it is healthy food and the work out just a fraction from what I do?"

"Im so outta here"

Britney walking to the elevator and vanished.