"Why is there never a sale on beans?" Ms. Jones thought to herself as she inspected a can Hedge's Cooked Beans.
Ms. Jones looked through her shopping cart's contents to assess what else she needed.
"I guess the only thing left is the frozen foods."
The rattling of her shopping cart and goods followed along with her as she headed to the other side of the store. Turning the corner, another shopping cart ran into hers.
"I'm so sorry about that!" a woman's voice said.
"Oh, no worries I-" Ms. Jones said before suddenly stopping.
The person who had ran into her cart was none other than a familiar face from high school: Sharon Nathan. Ms. Jones had always been weary of a person who had a last name for a first name, and Sharon Nathan only enforced her opinion. Sharon had always been Ms. Jones' rival in academics, even going as far as stealing her first love in an attempt to throw het focus off for tests. The attempt was a success and Ms. Jones lost her scholarship to Sharon.
"Tammy Jones?" Sharon said.
"Hey there, Sharon!" Ms. Jones said back unenthusiastically.
"Oh, it's been years since we've seen each other!" Sharon said, stepping away from her cart to hug Ms. Jones.
"Likewise," Ms. Jones replied, rolling her eyes while hugging Sharon.
Ms. Jones was forced to make idle chatter and the only thought on her mind being to end the encounter and get some damn ice cream. She looked at Sharon's body.
"Looks like the "ebony goddess" isn't in top form like she used to be," Ms. Jones thought to herself. "Big, yet saggy, boobs, "plump" figure, and still dresses like she never left high school."
"So anyway, I'm operating my own business from home now that I'm graduated from Richerino's Collegearooni," Sharon concluded.
"Ah, yes. The college you got the scholarship too," Ms. Jones said.
"Oh! I forgot I beat you out for it, sorry about that!" Sharon said after covering her gasping mouth.
The two stood in awkward silence before Sharon retreated back to her cart.
"It was nice catching up but I have to get more stuff now," Sharon said, waving off Ms. Jones as she walked away.
Ms. Jones pushed forward to the frozen foods isle with murderous rage building inside her. She knew the normal pint of Dan and Larry's wasn't going to do the job, so she instead grabbed the half gallon of Doggin' Ross.
"Wait until Olivia here's this shit!" she said under her breath.
*****
"I'm gonna burn that bitches house down!" Ms. Jones said to Ms. Evans said as she put up her groceries.
"I don't think arson is the answer..." Ms. Evans replied.
"Well if arson isn't the answer, then I don't know what is!"
"I don't know... maybe flaming her on social media or spray painting "whore" on her car or something."
"Hmm, I wonder if she still lives at the same address," Ms. Jones said as she brought out her phone.
After some quick searching, she found that Sharon indeed still lived at the same house.
"Aha! Based on how recent the pictures are of her are on Fluter, she still lives at the same place," Ms. Jones said. "I'm going to get some tools for my revenge!"
Ms. Jones left Ms. Evans sitting at the table in her kitchen and left to the closest gas station.
*****
"Eggs and spray paint," she thought to herself. "I'll break some eggs around her house to make it stink to high heaven and do some good ol' fashion slut-shaming on her garage door!"
As Ms. Jones picked between the choices of spray paint, a young man approached her.
"Damn, you sure did come here dressed sexy, alright," the man said, sizing up Ms. Jones in her black tank top and jeans.
Ms. Jones looked over at him and grinned.
"Aren't you forward," she said.
"So, we're still on for tonight, right?" the man asked.
"Tonight? I think you ha-"
Ms. Jones got a better look at the man and realized something important: she was Sharon's son. Ms. Jones could tell because he was the exact same person in Sharon's pictures.
"I remember you said to meet up here today and at this time, but you stopped replying before saying anything else. I honestly thought you ghosted me," the young man said.
The familiar thoughts of her previous counter with an enemy's son flashed into her head. Ms. Jones bore a quick evil-grin before playing along.
"Sorry about that. I was just really excited to meet up with you," Ms. Jones said.
"I wrote down my address," he said, handing a piece of paper over to Ms. Jones. "Remember, we gotta be quick since my mom's coming home later tonight."
"Okay, but we should communicate through text until then," Ms. Jones said. "Oh, and don't worry about condoms; I'll let you hit it raw."
The young man nervously walked away and out the store. Ms. Jones put her items back on the shelf and headed home.
*****