Plot Twist

Bethany

She put her hands on her hips, tilting her head as she eyed him and then the donut.

"I'm not playing with you. I'm eating the chocolate one." She reached again as he stood too, extending the donut behind him. He trapped her to the front of his lithe frame with a hug, his laugher contagious.

"Not even if you were my woman, Beth. I'll buy you another one."

Bethany moved away from him, the moment sweet and almost too precious.

"Well, isn't this a plot twist?" Sadie's voice grated on her like nails on a chalkboard.

"A plot twist? You read?" Bethany turned to face her nemesis, a sweet smile slithering across her face. It was time to mess with the girl a little.

"Of course I don't read. I'm far too busy riding the universe through the stars."

"So poetic. Just beautiful, don't you think, Philip? Ignorance can still birth creativity. Logic perhaps not, but creativity, yes."

Philip shoved the donut in his mouth, talking around it. Bethany popped him on the chest as he broke up in laugh