Page 3 of My Perfect Villain

“Yeah…but…Angel and Tia really wanted to hang out to…day…hiccup…and Bella showed up…hiccup…”

Sofia could barely get her sentences out through her drunken hiccups. Angel and Tia piled in the booth, squishing Harmony almost out the seat. Their drunken laughter and screaming were already getting on her nerves. Callie came around the corner with her usual bottle of wine for the trio.

“So if Bella stopped by, where the hell is she at?”

Sofia hiccupped again. “She had to…hiccup…go home. She has a date with Gio.”

Harmony turned stone white through her tanned skin. The bile rose in the throat, and she thought the fuzzy navels were going to come retching out of her mouth.

“The fuck did you just say?” Harmony spat.

“She’s gonna go fuck Gio. Did...didn’t I just say that?” Sofia giggled.

“Fuck you, Sofia. And your stupid fucking friends too.”

“Oh shit…oh! I forgot, I’m sorry, Harm.”

You didn’t forget, you heartless bitch. You wanted me to know. Thanks a fucking lot.

Harmony got up from the booth. “I’m going home. You guys have fun or whatever.”

“Harm, no, please stay.”

Sofia tried to stand up to stop Harmony from leaving, but instead she fell forward knocking the open bottle of red wine to splash onto the table and splatter Harmony’s matching plum dress.

Sofia stared at the red liquid flowing on the floor. “Fuck.”

Harmony saw red, and it wasn’t the wine. “What thefuck,Sofia! You’ve ruined my brand-new dress!”

“You can wear mine. Hold on.” Sofia went to take her dress off, but Harmony slapped her hands and pulled them down to her side.

“Will you stop that! Are you fucking crazy?! You can’t take your clothes off in the middle of the bar!”

“Oh, Harm…” Sofia started to let out the tears. “I ruined our matching birthday dresses…”

Jesus Cristo.

“C’mon.”

Harmony grabbed Sofia’s arm to pull her along, but Sofia stumbled again, falling into Harmony. Her hand reached out to stop herself, but Sofia, in her drunken haze, overshot and slammed her hand down on Harmony’s bun, pulling it halfway out of the bun holder.

“SOFIA!” she screamed. Harmony immediately reached up to her ruined hair, feeling the throbbing pain of hair almost being ripped from her skull and the bobby pins jutting into her head.

“I’m sorry…I’m sorry…” Sofia kept repeating. This time, Harmony forcefully grabbed Sofia and dragged her into the women’s bathroom next to their booth. Once inside, she locked the door.

“Fucking dammit, Sofia.” Harmony screamed, turning back to her sister. “Can’t you get ahold of yourself for once? You come in here late, a drunken mess, ruining our birthday like youalwaysdo. You only ever think about yourself and whatyouwant. It’s never about anyone else.”

“Harm…that’s not fair…”

“Itisfair. This is just the straw that broke the camel’s back.”

Harmony turned away from her sister who looked like she wanted to cry again.Let her.Carefully, she pulled the bobby pins out of her hair and unrolled the bun shaper. Her long, curly black hair cascaded around her just like her sister’s. With a Tide Pen in her purse and some soap and water from the sink, she tried to rub out the stain. Sofia stood there wobbling. She looked like one of those wacky inflatable waving tube men at the car dealership the way she was moving. With no desire for Sofia to rip out her hair again or take the time to put her bun back up, Harmony left her hair down. Harmony turned toward her sister. Her face looked like she wanted to hurl, but the only vomit that came out was her words.

“You’re just mad Gio cheated on you and I have a loving man like Alessandro who would never do that to me.”

As she spoke, Sofia’s heel got caught in the grout between two tiles, lost her footing, and stumbled into Harmony…again. This time, Sofia wacked her in the face and sent her glasses flying only to break on the hard tile surface.

“Oh….” Sofia muttered.

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