The Bad Boy Computer Programmer At Wattpad

SUPERMARKET SUNDAY (Part 2)

"You're perfectly imperfect," Jeannie added.

Amanda wiped away a tear with the back of her hand. "I need to cleanse. Get Ian and all the other toxic thoughts out of my system so I can--start over."

"How can Ian be in your system?" Geri asked. "I thought he was practically uncrushed before he was crushed."

Not fully paying attention to Geri's comment, Amanda's face lit up. "Wait! I have the--best. Idea. Ever."

"Oh, dear," Jeannie whispered.

"Did you see the contest that was advertised on Wattpad? The one where you write an open letter to your secret crush in 500 words or less?"

"You mean the contest for writers still growing their very first batch of pubic hair?" Geri asked.

"Yes, that one." Amanda put her hands with intertwined fingers up to her face as though trying to catch a growing grin. "Instead of trying to suppress my feelings, I'll just put them out in the world so I don't have to carry them around anymore."

"Or maybe you could eat a brownie," Mona suggested.

"No brownies." Amanda tossed the brownies on a shelf with the bagged pasta and stared at the boxes of rice on a top shelf. "An open letter would be a great way to flush all this toxic need for a man's love out of my system."

"I know all about flushing men out of me," Mona said.

With praying hands in front of her face, Jeannie said, "This might not be the best time for a joke, M."

"It's no joke," Mona assured her. "Men are like that rice."

"Like--," Geri began. "How the--?"

"Men and rice. So many different flavors to choose from," Mona explained. "White. Brown. Wild. Cajun. Spanish. Caribbean." She paused for a moment and purred. "Mmm. Caribbean man rice."

"Do we even want to know where you're going with this?" Geri asked. "You've already traumatized us with the grapefruit."

Mona laughed and dismissed Geri's comment with the wave of a hand. "So many flavors of rice and men."

Jeannie giggled, then whispered, "Of Rice and Men. I'll bet money this story gets banned from school libraries, too."

Geri playfully slapped Jeannie on the arm with the back of her hand, struggling to hold back a smirk. For a split second, both women flickered in and out of reality.

"How the hell are rice and men alike?" Amanda blurted, becoming impatient.

"If you eat only rice, you'll be full, but not nutritioned," Mona explained.

"Nutritioned?" Jeannie whispered. Geri closed her eyes and shook her head as a sign to drop it.

"Like rice, if you only eat men," Mona continued, "you may think you're full, but you're not full of nutritional happiness. You're just full of--." Wide eyes and a grin illuminated Mona's face as she turned towards Geri and Jeannie.

"No. Skip the man nutrients part," Geri said. "Focus on the nutritional happiness."

Mona nodded in agreement and returned her attention back to Amanda. "Eating just rice makes you hungrier for more rice because it doesn't give you the balanced nutrients your body needs. And no matter how much rice you eat--it's never enough to make you truly healthy. The same is true for men. Craving man love just makes you hungrier for more man love. And no matter how much man love you eat--it'll never be enough to make you happy--because it isn't a balanced life."