Apparently, it's a good week for things breaking, for Francine has broken up with Jake, and now she's breaking up with her air conditioner as well. Slapping it on the side probably isn't going to get it to work again, but it does make Francine feel better. This window unit is ready to be thrown out the window.
Francine counts to ten and breathes deeply. While doing so, she sweats some more from the nighttime heat. Tired of roasting upstairs, she grabs a pillow and heads downstairs where it might be a tad cooler. She can't sleep in this heat anyway, so maybe she'll watch some bad television.
She's been watching a lot of bad television lately. Movies on Lifetime have never been so appealing to her as during the past few days. Men are evil, except for that one special sweetheart, and women are good, except for that one special meanheart. Even though she could usually guess the rest of the plot of the movie within the first ten minutes of watching it, she continued to watch it just to see if she was right.
She usually was.
Was she right in breaking things off with Jake?, she wonders.
She doesn't answer herself and turns on the television instead. She lies on the couch and flips through the channels and, of course, somehow ends up on Lifetime. The movie, Daddy's Little Squirrel, is already in the middle. It seems to be about a young widower who is so obsessed with teaching his pet squirrel how to waterski that he neglects his daughter. The daughter grows up and becomes a serial killer and serial monogamist. When the father remarries, his new wife, also a squirrel enthusiast, becomes suspicious of her new stepdaughter, who seems to leave a trail of broken bodies and broken hearts wherever she goes. The climatic scene occurs at Sea World when the daughter attempts to sabotage her father's new squirrel watersports show. The wife foils it and the family have a tearful reconciliation while the daughter is led off to prison and therapy. The movie ends happily with the family's trained squirrels jumping on waterskis through hoops of fire balanced on a whale's nose.
Feeling sleepy, Francine turns off the television before the next movie, The Supermodel In Supermax, begins, and falls asleep on the couch.
A few hours later, birds tweeting and the sun's rays wake her a bit. She rolls over and tries to go to sleep. She hears a door open and opens her eyes to see Masani come out of Donald's room and slip upstairs.
Francine shakes her head and makes sure she's awake. Masani coming out of Donald's room at this hour of the morning? Masani coming out of Donald's room at this hour of the morning!
You go, girl!
"Wait until I tell Jake about this!" Francine thinks.
Then she remembers that she's not talking to Jake currently.
It figures. Finally, some good gossip and no one to gossip to.
Before she can be depressed, she turns on the television. After all, they might be rerunning Daddy's Little Squirrel and she can catch the beginning part she missed last night.
Ice cream would be good right now too so she heads to the freezer.
Blog Love Omega Glee is a novel by Wred Fright about two bloggers who fall in love while the world falls apart, which is being serialized on his blog. To start reading from the beginning or read another installment, please visit Blog Love Omega Glee Central on WredFright.Com. If you like what you've read, or you've read all of Blog Love Omega Glee and want more Fright, then please read his first novel, which is available in print and as an ebook.
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