Swoosh went the swing of her paintbrush splattering it’s content unapologetically. Lila dipped the brush blindly into one of the dozen paint buckets beside her just as she had done for over 15 minutes.
Relieved, she stepped back to view her masterpiece- something felt missing. Lila grabbed an innocent basket of cacti and dropped it on the roof of her project. Ah! Now that’s better, she declared.
She rummaged her pockets for the permanent marker she brought and completed her masterpiece with a few words-
“To Ed,
You can keep your ring, she’ll keep her daddy’s name.
Signed: your soon-to-be ex wife’s best friend.“
Lila turned to leave when she sighted her best friend being too cosy with a man who wasn’t Ed, her husband. Doubt crept up on Lila, what if Ed wasn’t the reason for the divorce after all. But it was too late to undo the damage she had done.
Word count: 152 words. This story is in response to Flash Fiction For Aspiring Writers photo prompt challenge. The above image is courtesy of Pixabay.com
P.S- the line “you can keep your ring, I’ll keep my daddy’s name” which is the original wording is a phrase I got from Miranda Lambert.
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She sounds like she’s a busy body! Also sounds like Lila’s friend may be the culprit! Great story Ameena! Hopefully, she can change the note.
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Hahaha, she sure is. Hmm, so many speculations Pj 😄.
And thank you.
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She sounds like a very supportive friend, painting up his car like that. Interesting twist about the friend though.
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Yeah, she is a very loyal one. Due to her loyalty, she automatically assumed her bestfriend’s husband was to blame.
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Well it takes two, as they say 🙂
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Lololololol, this got extremely funny when I saw the name in the message. Oh he is a culprit! A close friend said to me once “I do not trust guys with the name Ed.” Discriminating yes but I wonder how true it rings from a poll ;).
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Hahahaha, Oh My! Now that Is a first concerning Ends 😂😂.
I would so love to know!
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Hehehe, trust me it gets interesting, just ask your friends if they know any and report to us (well me, hehe) readers.
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Now that’s vengeance talking. Haha. Nicely done.
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Haha, yes it is! 😄 she sure carried out her sweet revenge. Thanks for reading 😄
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Nice plot twist! Didn’t expect that…
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Thank you Nicole. I wasn’t supposed to add a twist first. This was a last addition
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Well written. And didn’t expect the twist!
Have a great day!
Arcane owl
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Haha, neither did I intend to add it. It just sort-of happened. Thank you
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Bisti kr di bechare ki. I hope ring was expensive though
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Hahaha, I know right! I doubt the ring was expensive tho. Ed isn’t exactly wealthy 😁
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Bechara :p why u girls do this to guys 😀
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I loved the quote and the story too!
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Thank You Hargun, glad you do! I’ve been wanting to imbibe the quote into one of my posts, now seemed like a good time.
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It was a good time indeed 🙂
You’re welcome !
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Whoa! I was saying Good job to Lila but then I was like uh-oh! GREAT JOB!
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Thank you Joy! I wasn’t supposed to add the uh-oh part at first, but then decided revenge could do with a little twist 😄
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That is cause you are so creative 🙂
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Ooooo I like this…sweet sweet revenge might be a big big mistake…nice turn of events!! Thoroughly enjoyed reading this!
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Haha, Thank you! I know right?! A big big one indeed 😀 i’m glad you like it.
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