In The Life (A)

In the life that is fat and lazy, Virgo McSimmons ate another enchilada and burped. "Aye dios mio!" She groaned shifting in the chair that moaned in protest against the oppressive weight, the despotic rolls of fat and the noxious fumes emmitted silently with every move. If any chair ever wanted to die it was indeed this chair. She looked at her neatly painted toenails. She wondered when was the last time she was able to touch them. Her bejewelled cell phone rang.

"Ya?" She so graciously answered.

It was her sister in the life that needs a major miracle. Aries Jalapeno vehemently believed in everything. There was nothing in this world she couldn't wrap her head around and that was the problem. Seeing possibilities every where and in every thing or every one made for a confusing life.

Aries Jalapeno rattled off at her sister, "If 'A' is true and says that 'B through 'Z' cannot be true, then what about the arguements that 'B' through 'Z' make against 'A' being the ONE true thing. Because they make pretty good arguments. Am I being untrue to the one true thing or am I being a blind sheep? Am I going to heaven or hell or will I just rot in a grave and not be anything more than the ash that is left. And what of that? I mean ashes to ashes, dust to dust? Really... I want to love and be loved, I want to believe and be believed but I have too many questions. Hermana, what am I going to do?"

Virgo McSimmons sighed, took a cigarette from her pack, lit it and said, "Hermana, did you take your meds?"

Aries Jalapeno blasted back, "I DON'T NEED NO FUCKING MEDS, YOU STUPID BITCH!!!"

Virgo McSimmons hung up the phone. There's only so much you can do so its best to do nothing at all.

In the life that needs a more than just a jumpstart, Gemini Frankenbaum (yet another sister of Virgo McSimmons) added another painted, unsold canvas to her wall. She was torn between the general loathing she had for the general public and the deep love and need she had for their money.

"People don't get art these days. Those who do seem to be stuck in some insestuous clique, some just want to collect names and others just want to get something that goes well with the couch. People suck."

There was a knock at the door. Gemini Frankenbaum looked out and saw a small boy with a note in his hand. As usual the boy was wild haired and dirty from head to toe. Gemini Frankenbaum opened the door, "Capricorn McSimmons, what can I do for you?"

"Mama sent me with this," Capricorn McSimmons also known as Seven of Nine handed the note to his aunt. "She say Aries Jalapeno has gone off her rocker. Whatever that means."

"Come in Capricorn McSimmons, Scorpio Socorro is making some cookies...but for God's sake wash your hands first!"

The note read, "Gemini Frankenbaum, Aries Jalapeno has gone off her rocker. I think you know what we need to do now. Your sister, Virgo McSimmons. P.S. Tell Seven to stop at Pink's on the way home. He knows what I like from there. I didn't tell him because he never listens to me."

Seven of Nine sat watching Scorpio Socorro making cookies. Scorpio Socorro had been Gemini Frankenbaum's house maid since she was a teen. She inherited Scorpio Socorro from her Tia Aquarious Angelos. Scorpio Socorro was stooped and withered but refused retirement however continually bitched about "having to do everything." According to her Gemini Frankenbaum was a messy, lazy woman who only thought of painting and drinking. But God forbid she were apart from her Gemini Frankenbaum.

"Capricorn McSimmons, did you get a cookie?"

"Yes."

"Then get to Pink's, your mother wants the usual."

Capricorn McSimmons rolled his eyes and shuffled off to the greasy fried chicken hall of fame otherwise known as Pink's.

Gemini Frankenbaum looked at the note one more time and said to herself, "Well, if its time its time." She threw the note into the fire in the kitchen and Scorpio Socorro snorted in contempt and handed Gemini Frankenbaum a cookie.

There's only so much you can do so its best to do nothing at all. And when nothing reaps nothing, everything falls apart.