Looking for Ralph

"What was that for?" she inquired, looking at Lucinda with her eyes burning with fury.

"The new rule of this house, is that you must be awake before me and you must have arranged for my food before I get out of bed." Lucinda declared, and Medusa stood up from the floor and looked at her.

"Who do you think I am, your servant or what?" Medusa asked, with her mouth wide open.

"Since when do you have the gut to talk back to me? Remember, I am your queen." Lucinda said, glaring at her.

"You are my queen, alright I will go get your dinner." Medusa said, walking to the phone, and Lucinda looked at her weirdly.

"I don’t think this is the Medusa I know." Lucinda said, underneath her breath.

Lucinda walked into the bathroom and stripped naked. She hung her clothes on the bathroom wall and started bathing herself with a soft sponge. She finished bathing and took a white towel and tied it around her waist. She walked out of the bathroom and sniffed the aroma of the food on the table.  She walked to her wardrobe and took out a blue halter dress.

She put on the clothes slowly and put on her heels. She walked to the table and started eating, like a hungry lion with particles of food falling from her mouth. She stopped and stared at her phone, waiting for Ralph’s call.

She finished eating and stood up, clenching her fists. Medusa ran to her.

"My queen, where are you going?" Medusa inquired, glaring at her.

"To Ralph’s house." She replied bluntly and, carrying her bag from the chair, she walked out of the house and slammed the door.

In jail.

Ralph awoke on the jail floor, rubbing his hand, and looked around at the other inmates, all of whom were sleeping and snoring.

Ralph stood up and started stretching when a policeman walked to the cell and slid a cheese burger into an opening on the ground. Ralph wanted to grab the food. When all the prisoners who were sleeping jump on the food, fighting for it among themselves, the police man passed another one inside.

"Coordinate yourself." The police muttered, and they all stopped fighting and started sharing the food among themselves. It was big enough for two people. Ralph glared at them and shook his head.

"Ain’t you eating pretty, boy?" one of them asked, staring at Ralph.

"I will pass." Ralph stated staring at them. The way they are eating the food, like wild animals, he lifted his upper lip in disgust.

"Come and eat with us, I promise you, you will starve there is not going to be any other food." One of them stated, and Ralph sighed.

"It’s okay, I can bear it." He shrugged.

And suddenly, the door flew open, and two policemen walked in and handcuffed Ralph. They dragged him violently out of the cell and the criminals stared at them.

Lucinda got down from a taxi and paid the taxi driver. She stood in front of Ralph’s house and swallowed saliva.