The Girls
Annie: Hey Ruby, hurry up, I?ll be late
Ruby: yeah, yeah, hold your horses, it?s not like the TV station is going to run away!
Annie: TV station won?t, but my job will, if I?m late ag?
She stops short on the sentence at the sight of a bushed haired, ragged body, steaming face of a 48 hour working owl standing from across the hall way
Bondy: WOULD YOU GUYS SHUT UP! You?re not the only ones with a job!
Bondy was standing in front of her bedroom door, her massive glasses hung from the tip of her nose, her hair was tossed up in what some people might have called a twister, she was dressed in her PJ?s since 2 days ago. Annie and Ruby burst out laughing at the sight of their god-sister, who hasn?t slept for 2 days, nor rest, nor eaten, and judging from the slight smell no bath either.
Annie: I thought you fell down a ditch somewhere, I didn?t know you turned into an owl
Ruby went into admire Bondy?s room and gasped at the sight
Ruby: How can you not clean, but still keep it so tidy
Bondy yawns as she pushes Ruby?s bedroom door open, giving sight to the combination of WWI and WWII battleground
Bondy: first of all I do not throw everything on the floor
Ruby: I so do not throw everything on the floor
Annie: yeah, everything but your phone book. Say, did Louis Koo call you back?
Ruby cried out in a yielding tone, as she dropped to the pile of what she calls bed
Ruby: No. How could he not have called me? What is wrong with me?
Bondy came and sat down next to her
Bondy: come on Ruby, its not like?ahh what do you have on your bed?
She asked as she jumped up smoothing the tender part. Annie came over to lift up the pile of mess situated on Ruby?s bed. She gasped as she looked at the shiny object
Annie: you?
Bondy (cuts in): don?t swear Annie
Annie tried to swallow whatever word she was about to use and replaced it with a simple angry face
Annie: no wonder no one called, you kept the phone in here all night
Ruby looked up at her with a big smile
Ruby (in a seductive tone): were you expecting someone to call?
Annie nodded, Bondy laughed
Bondy: I guess I?m the only one that doesn?t need the phone around here
Ruby suddenly remembered something; she jumped up and looked at
Ruby: Bondy, I so forgot, Steven Ma called you last night, he said something about not doing something today, he said he?ll call you back today
Bondy: why didn?t you tell me earlier?
Ruby: I didn?t want to disturb you
Annie: I don?t get how you could have graduated, as a class 'A' hostess when your room is in such a mess, was your teacher blind or something?
Annie said as she started picking up bits and pieces of stuff that she couldn?t make out, Bondy started laughing
Bondy: that?s because she only host pigs
Ruby plunged for Bondy who has retrieved to the further side of the room after the last statement.
Bondy (still giggling): it?s not my fault; Annie was the one that started it
Annie (placing her hands on her hip): how dare you blame me for your fault?
She aimed at Bondy and leaped towards her, the three started to tickle each other when suddenly the phone rang. They froze and looked at each other in a ready position, and together by some strange force, all three leaped for the phone lying on the bed. Bondy, being the tallest in the three reached the phone first, she was about to say hello when it was suddenly yanked away from her as she felt another body pressing down on her. Annie laughed in victory as she puts the phone to her ear
Annie: hell?no
She yells as Ruby jumped her from behind, causing the hand free phone to fly across the room finding a neat resting place on a pile of god knows what under the window.
Voice: EXCUSE ME!
The voice on the other line roared, most likely to have reacted from the first words he (a male voice) heard. The girls laughed as they rolled of each other. Bondy was gasping for air, as she was at the base of the human pyramid.
Voice: Hello? Anyone there?
They were still laughing as they tried to collect themselves together
Ruby: yeah what do you want?
Voice: can I speak to Miss Chiu please?
Bondy quickly made her way to the phone lifting it up to her ear, recognising the familiar voice
Bondy: hey Steven, why so early?
Steven: EARLY? Do you know what time it is? If you don't come here in 2 hours I don't know what Mr. Flang is going to do to you?
Bondy: what happened? Was it the market? I knew I should've kept a closer eye on it. No, wait. It can't be the market?
Annie and Ruby smiled as Bondy rattles on and on and on about the 'Market', since Bondy is the leading stock taker of the World Wide Sports Centre, she was the sole bearer of any consequences, which may arise. She was so into her work that perhaps no one in this word can stop her from talking about it. Where as most people would find her boring because she never ever had a boyfriend in her life, her time was taken up by spending time with her god sisters and work. Annie yawns as she walked out the door into the bathroom to brush her hair again for the third time, since the first two times it was messed up through fighting, first with Ruby then with Ruby and Bondy. Ruby searched around her room for her phonebook, which she accurately remembered that she left in one of her jackets in one of the many piles of clothes on the floor.
Half an hour later
Bondy: ?so its better if we buy the New Zealander's stock in, they seem to be going up, I reckon by next Thursday it should raise up to?
Steven: Bondy if you talk for any longer I'll guarantee you'll be late
Bondy looks at her watch, noticing the time, she quickly hangs up and runs to the bathroom to have a quick shower and do 'women' stuff.
Ruby: hey Annie, I bet ya that in ten minutes she'll be out of there
Annie: I bet ya seven
Ruby: lunch?
Annie: and dinner
Ruby: you're on skinny
Annie: you're on shortie
In exactly seven minutes later Bondy steps out from the bathroom, leaving clouds of steam oozing out after her. Annie howled with victory, as Ruby stumps her feet. Bondy not knowing of the bet, determined in her mind that they were officially insane. She sat down to a burning breakfast made by the hands of Master Chef Annie Man, specialising in 'Charcoaled Food'
Ruby: so Bondy?who's this Steven guy? When can we meet him?
Bondy smiled as she lifts up her plate to Ruby
Bondy: when you finish all this burnt food for me!
Annie: HEY!!!
She protested as she placed a plate of something which looked like the cross breed of tomato sauce and onion rings. Ruby and Bondy looked at each other, both signalling the other to try the new recipe. Finally giving up, Bondy took a spoon full of the 'food' and placed it in her mouth, whilst Ruby and Annie watch on anxiously at her facial expression. Bondy's face lights up with a big grin
Bondy: this is the best food I ever tasted from you
Annie smiled and then both she and Ruby took a big spoon to scoop up the mixture, and almost gagged when it touched their tongue. The food was so sour that they were certain it had to contain more then 3 litres of vinegar in it. They spat it out so quickly that it must have flew faster then a speeding bullet.
Ruby (trying to spit the awful thing out): I thought you said it tasted nice?
Bondy (grinning as she takes the water bottle): I only said it was the best food I tasted from her, I never said it tasted good
She then gobbles down half a litter of water while fighting off Annie and Ruby, who was desperately trying to seize the bottle of water from Bondy, but already knowing their intension, she throws the bottle of seeled water to the other side of the room, landing on the couch, the two dived for the bottle like a pack of fuming hungry dogs. Bondy laughs as she takes her bag from the counter, retrieves the car key from the key hanger on the door, then opens the front door to leave but not before adding
Bondy: you guys are ridiculously absurd
She exits with a big smirk on her face, leaving Ruby and Annie to gulp the remaining of the water to release them of the awful taste.
Annie: we've really got to get her back one-day
Ruby: why not today?
Annie: how?
Ruby: Steven Ma, remember?
Annie: she's not interested in him
Ruby: but he's interested in her, that?s what counts.
Annie: I see?
The two chuckles as they rubbed their hands deviously, the thought of their future plan was so compelling that they were sure it would work
Annie: sweet, sweet revenge
Ruby: verrry sweet revenge
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Bondy was driving to work in the small violet 93 Toyota, which the three had purchased with their savings over 2 years ago. Her mind was racing she didn't know what she should do first, check on the new comer from Taiwan or go straight to the stock market office to check the market. The two thoughts were buzzing around in her mind when she suddenly notice a figure emerging from the footsteps to the front of her car, she harshly stepped on her brakes, steering away onto the footpath, the person hurriedly picked up his passport that he dropped in the middle of the road while crossing, then rushed over to Bondy's car.
Guy: so sorry, I really didn't mean it
He tried to help Bondy out of the car, he suddenly notice how pretty the girl in front of him was, it was his first day in Hong Kong and he just had to admit that Hong Kong girls were much taller and prettier then those he saw in Taiwan. The girl made her way to the front of the car to check on the damage, seeing that there was nothing damaged she sigh in relief, she looked back to the man standing beside her, he was rather tall, well built, he looked like a sprinter, working with athletes for so long somehow gave her an eye to spot sporties.
Guy: hi I'm Julian; may I know your name?
Bondy looked at the guy, this guy fully just almost killed her and now he was hitting on her, was he mental or what, but due to her good nature she decided to only grant him with a simple smile then got back into her car, she popped her head out the window as she drove off
Bondy: sorry, I'm really late, if we were meant to be friends; we're destined to meet again
Julian stared at the violet car driving off, he wanted to stop it some how but didn't know how, he smiled to himself, thinking of how Hong Kong girls are always in a hurry, he looked around to check for no cars then crossed to the other side of the road. When he reached the other side he suddenly remembered why he cross the road to the other side in the first place, he shook his head and re-cross the road, wishing that the next person who would almost run over him would be another pretty girl.
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Annie sat on the bus thinking of a way to get Bondy to fall for her plan, she thought of plenty of plans but always brushed it aside due to the fact that Bondy had always been the smarter of the three, she always seems to know, then foils up any plans that has been cooked up, like all her food. Thinking of food she asked her self, should I learn how to cook? Her trail of thought was lost by the sudden contact of a hard object on her head, she angrily turned around, about to insult the person who inflicted the pain on her, but her anger subsided when she realised it was a young women taking with her three young kids and had no seats to place them all in, she removed herself from the seat and offered it to the kids standing. The kids were about to sit down when a pair of young teenagers jumped in just before them, Annie looked at them in anger
Annie: hey, the kids were supposed to sit there!
The two teen's looked up at her, the girl was around 15, she was wearing a white school uniform, the guy in a white shirt and black pants, probably from the same school
Girl: so?
Annie: I gave up the seats for them, so can you please move and let the kids sit
Boy: we were here first
Annie tried to hold her anger back as she told herself
Annie: Annie try to hold your anger back, do not swear it is not lady like
She closed her eyes for a while, then suddenly moved closer to the girl and pulled her up by the collar throwing her to the other side of the bus, then moved on to the boy, the boy fought back. Due to her petit figure, the two teens did not take her seriously
Boy: back of lady
Annie: you move from this seat or I'll make you
Girl: just try it
The two kids stood next to each other showing off their rather large builds; surely they must be athletics or some kind of body builders. Seeing how the kids were being so rude, a young man sitting across the bus stood up behind Annie
Man: you kids better back off before I take you to the police station
The teens looked at the man, he was built very large, even though his height may disadvantage him, but his muscular arms, would send shivers down anyone's spine. The kids slowly retreated to the back of the bus where they're still cursing the young man, Annie turned around to face the young man to thank him, she indicated the kids to sit down, the kids smiled at her then sat down, the woman looked up at both of them and said thank you. Realising that she no longer has a seat Annie started to worry that the bus driver may tell her to get off, the young man pulled on her arm signalling her to sit next to him, where the seat was still vacant.
Man: I'm Hector, Hector Wong, you are?
Annie: Annie Man, you a cop?
Hector: how did you know?
Annie (smiled): by your tone (she imitates his voice) you kids better back off before I take you to the police station
Hector laughed, this girl was all of a sudden attractive to him, she was quite pretty from any point of view, she had a small build, with a well equipped body, but it was really her sense of righteousness that took him by surprise. He smiled at her and she smiled back
Annie: bye
She got off the bus, still feeling uneasy at the gawking of the young man, she silently cursed Bondy for taking the car, leaving her with no other choice but to take public transport since she hated it so much, due to all those people staring at you. Every single day she had to have a staring contest with someone, and the worse part was she'll always lose, she suddenly heard the young man calling out to her, she turned around, he had his head out of the window shouting back at her, when he saw her looking back he gave her the most adorable smile she ever saw, she smiled back
Annie (mumbling to herself): psycho
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Ruby was waiting for her bus to arrive, Annie's bus has left almost ten minutes ago and she's dying from boredom, she was walking up and down the footpath in front of the bus stop, the people there were getting dizzy from her pacing, some considered to ask her to stop, but they soon acknowledge the threat of a fate worse then death to annoy a girl when she's bored. Everyone jumped when a young man lurched out of no where wearing a big brown coat in the middle of summer, the man gave a mischievous smile when he spotted Ruby marching up and down the footpath. He stepped up in front of her when she turned around and open up his coat, to expose whatever it was under, Ruby screamed
Ruby: I never knew they could be that small
The group of people laughed, as the guy shamefully made his exit, Ruby continued on with her trend, when another guy also in a brown coat came up in front of her, the man also opened up his coat to expose a very large object hanging from his coat. Ruby laughed as she swung her handbag aiming for the most delicate part of a male species, the guy gasped as he ran away still holding onto the tender area. Everyone laughed again and wondered why there are so many guys in coat wanting to expose to this eye-catching young woman. Then out of the blue another man in a brown coat arrived, also exposed his body to Ruby, this time she didn't even look at the guy, she looked away, the guy moved into her range of sight, she looked away, he move in front of her again
Ruby: can you get lost? I'm not interested it's not like your?
She stops short looking at the bright object hanging from his neck, it was a small camera, zooming in on her reaction, and then suddenly both the guys whom she humiliated earlier jumped out also exposing the camera around their necks. The first guy had a large sign hanging from his waste stating 'comes in sizes from 12 to 32', the second guy had a sign saying 'try me, I'm good' hanging from his waist, the third guy had a sign saying 'two for the price of one' all three advertising for the blue jeans they had on. As Ruby turned around she saw a cameraman zooming in on her with a large camera on his shoulder, another guy stuff a microphone under her nose
Guy: miss you have been selected to star in our show 'Human Nature and it's faults', how do you feel?
Realising that she has just been embarrassed by a group of good for nothing TV show host people, she angrily bites her lips as she raise her hand and threw the hardest punch she could manage into the guys face,
Ruby: that's how I feel, wanna try again?
The guy was shoot back from the punch, his hand covering his left eye as they all watched Ruby board the bus which has just pulled up, one of the three guys in brown coats helped him up
Guy: you ok Dicky? That girl is pretty strong
Dicky tried to give a smile to surpass any shame on him for getting beaten up by a girl
Dicky: rather good looking too
Guy 2: I think you just lost your chance with her
Dicky (winks the remainder eye): we're destined to meet
He smiled as the bunch boarded a white van that just pulled up, leaving the people behind still shock from the performance of the wild bunch, only then realising they had miss their buss.
Ruby was still cursing on the bus, she cursed those stupid TV people, she cursed Annie for leaving so soon, leaving her to defend herself, she cursed Bondy for taking the car, making her take public transport to be publicly humiliated, she screamed in frustration, causing everyone including the bus driver to look at her thinking that she was mentally unstable.