The Grand Mistress

Soon, Gabriell's hyper state subsided and two had to bring her home, dragging her completely as she can no longer carry herself. Lucy and Simione both carried her to Allegria's penthouses and pushed her off her bed, completely drunk. Good thing, that night no matter how drunk she was, she didn't vomit ceasely like before.

Simione immediately took off Gabriella's clothes and shoes so she could sleep comfortably. She was about to go out and head to her room when she saw Lucy slumping beside Gabriella on her bed and so she did the same. 

"Gabbei is so heavy," Lucy murmured under her breath. She was also drunk but unlike Gabriella she always finds her way home no matter how drunk she was. "I  lost all my energy carrying her home,"

"You bet," Simione agreed as she kicked off her shoes and pulled her dress off then comfortably squeezed herself beside Lucy who was then nagging about many things.

"Hmmm.. I really hate the Monterias, I want to slap them one by one," Lucy blabbered harshly. The liquor she drank made her more resentful and merciless. "Shameless people. They're trying to push off Gabriella to a nunnery while they let Angelisa get off by what she did,"

"Cheating ruins everything," Simione answered, lowering her voice in the dark room where the three of them nested. Good thing all of the beds in Lucy's apartment were of king size so their three petite bodies fit in perfectly.

"Why do you say that so sadly," Lucy noted as if she felt something in Simione's words that struck so hard.

"Because like Angelisa, I'm a relationship wrecker," Simione replied, carrying all the guilt in her voice. When she started this Feather project, she was vengeful. However after so many encounters with Hawk and finding herself with complicated emotions, she felt like she had been cursed for her misdeeds. Worse was that she had seen how Gabriella suffered because of a mistress like her and it made her more guilty.

"Are you having second thoughts?" Lucy could see Simione's confidence falter even though the room was dark. It was very obvious in her voice as all words she uttered went heavy as they came out of her mouth. 

"Seeing Gabriella like this? Who would not have second thoughts?"

Lucy sighed. Even she already had her own doubts about what they were doing as it felt like the universe was letting them see first hand the consequences of it. However, knowing Simione, she knew there's more  to it than Gabriella's predicament.

"Are you falling for Hawk Monsanto?" Lucy asked, her ocean deep blue eyes dug through her friend amidst the dark room.

Lucy's question brewed something inside Simione. There's something that wreaked havoc in her veins and for moments she had to calm it all that she was not able to answer the singer's question.

"Simione, I clearly warned you not to," Lucy heaved a sigh. If this was a regular day she would go on chastise Simione for breaking the most sacred rule of revenge—not to fall  in love with your enemy. Yet after what happened to Gabriella and all the shit Simione herself had to go through these days, she couldn't bring herself to. 

Previously, when the Feather project ceased to exist yet, Simione just wanted a peaceful life away from all the hurts of her past, not to mention all the toxic people that go with it. If not for the Han's constant pestering and schemes, their paths wouldn't cross again. However, some tragedy brought the girl to bring revenge on Feather just because the things that she was doing were already too outrageous for Simione to bear and hence the Feather project was born. Simione was hurt, mistreated and abandoned before but she accepted all those with no complaint. She moved on and forgave but when things finally got better for Simione after so many years, the Han's proved not worthy of all the forgiveness she gave and so she decided to let them taste the same pain she had.

However, these days, Simione finds herself in chaos. Seeing Gabriella suffer because of a cheater and seeing herself doing shameless things all for her revenge, she thought the Feather project wasn't doing her any favor. It was only making her the same person as Hans and though it pleased her to see Feather suffer, her conscience bleed.

"That's why it ought to be stopped before everything just goes out of hand," Simione answered, very much disappointed in herself. Lucy had spent money and time to help her and yet she was having second thoughts of pursuing it further. "You told me to stop when I see danger right?"

"I did. Was it getting that dangerous already?" Lucy inquired, referring to the Simione's feelings. She understood that the Feather project was an all in plan—meaning you have to give it your everything and that includes your mind,  heart, dignity, pride and even morals. Now that Simione expressed her plans to stop it, it only meant she couldn't sacrifice more of it and that probably was her heart.

  It was clear that she was confused, by her own feelings and probably of Hawk's actions.  Hawk had somehow exceeded all their expectations when it came to having a mistress. Lucy never expected him to treat Simione well and at times, even better than how he treated Feather and so the singer herself was confused of his intentions. Was he too falling in love with Simione? Or he was just really one of those men who was greatly challenged to chase a woman that they cannot control.

  With all this, she can't basically blame Simione if she was feeling conflicted for how would you define a person who confesses love to another yet treats you like you were the one he was in love with? Ah, men—they always say women were complicated beings when the truth was they were the most puzzling sinful creatures than them.

"It's up to you Simione," Lucy told her and caressed her long smooth hair. "It's your call, you know that.If you don't want to do it anymore, then we'll stop,"

"I want us to spend our time for Gabbie these days," Simione laid down some of her reasons as she knew all the major ones, Lucy already knew it. If not, she would have asked further. "Instead of getting between Feather and Hawk, I'll just save my energy accompanying Gabbie,"

"The Monterias weren't giving her a break," Lucy turned to Gabbie this time, who was then sleeping soundly parallel to them. "I wonder whats will all this act, I just hope that there's no underlying schemes behind all this,"

"Lucy by the way," Simione thought of something when their conversation directed back to Gabriella. "Do you remember the time when Gabbie ran away from the bar in Mondrew City?"

"Oh Simione, we were so wasted that night," Lucy replied not getting why Simione opened it up.

"I just wondered if she was with us that night. If she ever came back, she did right? I mean I don't remember seeing her after that and she just appeared the next day, a bit weird,"

"Weird?"

"I don't know but she slept the entire time after she came back," Simione recalled. "Makes me wonder if she went home the night before, then she must have gone to sleep with us from dawn till afternoon. But that night she didn't even dine with us saying she was tired and sleepy and even slept through the night like she had not have any sleep at all,"

"Perhaps because she had attended to us while we were drunk," Lucy reasoned, although she herself became suspicious when Simione mentioned it. "Did this all come to you at the bar earlier when she said she fucked El Tigre in Mondrew City the night we were both drunk?"

"Yes. I just wondered if it was possible?"

"Reall?" Lucy raised a brow at it, almost wanting to laugh about Simione's conclusions. "Do you really think El Tigre would spare her some attention? Worst bring her to his bed? Do you know no woman has ever landed on his bed, like literally?"

"Huh? Didn't he have a few rumoured flings before? Don't tell me he didn't fuck them, that's superflous," Simione didn't believe it.

"He had and they had gone to tell  the town El Tigre to do it fast and quick. So fast that he didn't have time to bring them to bed. Then he dismissed them. According to rumours, the longest he had with a girl was only fifteen minutes," Lucy narrated amusingly. "So truth be told, no one had managed to sleep in El Tigre's bed. So if Gabriella did perhaps miraculously had sex with him, then it meants she had a good night of sleep after he threw her out," 

"Wow, how come you only told me this right now?" Simione didn't know how to feel with what she had heard. "God he's a bit mad!"

"Surely, but he is still the El Tigre," Lucy mumbled, already sleepy. "I'd kill to get to have that fifteen minutes of his time,"

Soon, the room fell silent and all that could be heard was the slow snores of three persons who had squeezed and fitted themselves on one same bed.