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The images from their wedding replayed over and over again in her head, her stomach filled with jealousy at the thought of shampoo walking down the isle towards conditioner, the thought of him saying “i do” to her and then kissing her, that should be me, she thought, and suddenly she got an idea, she knew what she had to do. The door to conditioner and shampoos new house creaked open quietly, as book snuck in through the door, she had found the spare key under the doormat, “what a rookie move” she thought as she made her way upstairs, walking into the newly furnished office, and searching through the drawers of the desk in search for any sort of dirt that she could dig up to end her best friend, conditioners, marriage, the truth is she had always been in love with him, but when he started dating shampoo everything went so fast, they got engaged quickly and then got married, it was like life flashed before her eyes, her future she was supposed to have with him was torn away from her, all because of this girl shampoo. Tears welled in her eyes at the thought as she dug through drawers and drawers of papers, mostly bills and random things from his company, but then in the very bottom drawer she came across something very interesting. She scrunched her face in confusion at the sight in front of her, two birth certificates, one with the name “Conditioner” and one with the name “shampoo” and as she looked at the birth certificates it hit her, what the words on them meant. Conditioner and shampoo were siblings, they were related, brother and sister. “But thay can’t be!” she thought. “that’s disgusting, conditioner would never do this, and hide it from everyone too!” but as she inspected the birth certificates further she realized it was in fact true. They were siblings, there was no denying it.
As book stared at the birth certificates in shock she was unaware of the fact that conditioner had just gotten home from work, as he made his way in he noticed the door was slightly open, “that’s strange” he thought as he made his way upstairs. He heard noises coming from his office and made a rash decision to bust through the door, in hopes of startling whoever was in there bad enough so he would have time to get an upper hand on them. But as he swung the door open he was met by the sight of his best friend, book, and in her hand was the two papers he hoped no one would ever see. his worst fear, come to life. right in front of his eyes. “what are you doing in here!?” conditioner shouted, “why are you looking through my stuff!” “i know your secret” book replied, “i finally can break you and shampoo up, it’s finally my time.” The shouting between the two continued and they were oblivious to the fact that now, shampoos best friend, shoe was also at the house now, he was supposed to drop off some things for shampoo but when he heard yelling and saw the door open, he decided it was best to go check it out. as he went upstairs the yells got louder, and he opened the office door to reveal conditioner, and book arguing. “What is going on here?” shoe attempted to shout over the ruckus. “i found it! i finally found the information that will break up conditioner and shampoo! i can finally tell you that-“ book was cut off by a glass cup hitting her full force in the head, which lead to her getting knocked out cold and falling to the ground. the glass had been thrown by none other then conditioner, he needed to stop her from revealing their secret, at whatever cost that it took. “What the fuck did you just do?!?! why would you do that?!?!” shoe shouted, his face had turned pale but also red at the same time, it was clear he was very angry. He tried to restrain himself but he couldn’t help it, he punched conditioner right in the temple, and to his surprise conditioners eyes rolled back in his head as he fell to the floor, unconscious. Shoe froze in panic, what had he just done? what was he going to do now? he decided on dragging conditioners body over to the closet, and putting it inside and then locking the door, hopefully when he woke up he wouldn’t be able to come after him. Shoe made his way over to book, and carefully kneeled down beside her, his breath caught in his throat and tears welled in his eyes at the sight before him, no one knew this, but shoe had been in love with book for the longest time, but only getting to see her from afar as her and him were not very close at all, so he decided it was best for him to just keep it to himself. but now, he couldn’t contain his emotions at the sight of the love of his love in front of him, unconscious, her face had a dark red mark from where the cup had hit her, he was sure it would bruise, her breathing was shallow and labored. “book! book! please wake up! i need you!” he shouted as he shook her in any attempts to wake her, but to no avail, as nothing was working. He lifted from his knees and he gently slid his arms underneath her, and lifted her as carefully as he could. He stood up, with her in his arms and made his way downstairs and out of the house, he places book in the back seat of his car as cafe fully as he could, trying not to shake her at all. when he finally was able to get her in and he was sitting in the front seat of his car he wasn’t sure what to do, he didn’t know where to go or what he was doing, but he finally decided he would take her to his apartment, he would let her rest for as long as she needed until she wakes up and he would take care of her. As he drove he made sure to drive very slowly, making any attempt he could to not jostle her around in her unconscious state. After what seemed like forever he finally arrived at his apartment complex, and he pulled into the parking garage. He was able to carry book to his apartment quite easily because he lived on the lower floors, he unlocked the door to his apartment which was a bit of a struggle since his arms were full but he eventually managed, and placed book on the couch, covering her with a blanket, he sat next to her on a chair, and just stared at her, not knowing when she would wake up or even if she would at all.
At this point, shoe was completely oblivious to the fact that while all this was going on, shampoo had returned home, she saw the front door wide open and immediately was startled, she wondered if someone had broken in, she slowly crept her way upstairs and noticed the door of the office was open as well, she had grabbed a knife from downstairs in the kitchen and she took a deep breath and rushed into the room, quickly looking around for any sign of people that didn’t belong. There was no one in the room, but there was some broken glass on the floor along with what looked like blood, and as she studied the room further she heard loud breathing sounds coming from the closet, she stood behind the door of the closet and quickly opened it, readying herself to protect herself from whatever was inside, but all she found was her husband conditioner, face down on the floor, unconscious. Fear immediately struck through her body, what had happened?? was he okay? She ran over to the desk, ready to call 911, but she stopped in her tracks when she saw it. Books purse, laying on the ground next to the broken glass and blood. What was books purse doing here? and suddenly the thought struck her, they had been having an affair, her husband, conditioner, had cheated on her. She had been suspecting them for a while but this was her final straw, she snapped. Anger surged through her body as she set down the phone, no longer going to call 911, she looked over to her unconscious husband on the floor, normally when she looked at him she was full of feelings of love, but all she saw now was hatred, and disgust, how could he do this to her! she had been there for him always. A terrible thought popped into her head, and her immediate urge was to push out that thought, but the more she considered it the more she decided that it’s what she had to do. She took a deep breath as she made her way to their bedroom, she opened the mini fridge they had next to their bed that was used to store her insulin, as she was diabetic, she took out one of the vials, and grabbed a needle and syringe that was used to inject the insulin, she put the entire vial of insulin into the syringe, about 500 units, and made her way back to the office where her husband was unconscious on the floor. She knelt down beside him, looking at him and remembering all their amazing memories together, they’d grown up together (because they were siblings) and then fallen in love and gotten married, she really did love him, but then she remembered what he had done to her, he had cheated on her with a fucking book, so before she could change her mind she grabbed his foot in her hand, and stabbed the needle in between his toes, injecting the full dose of insulin. She knew this would kill him, there was a chance of him surviving if he got medical attention very quickly, but he was unconscious, and no one but her had known what she had done, and hopefully no one ever would. She disposed of the needle and insulin where she normally would, and then decided to go to her best friend shoes apartment, in hopes of getting some comfort, and so she drove to him, but when she arrived there what she found was a disturbing sight, book asleep on the couch, the woman who had had an affair with her husband, and shoe sitting next to her. “What the fuck is going on here?!? Why is she on your couch?? What happened to her face??” Shampoo shouted. Shoe shot up from the chair he was sitting in, shampoo had startled him, “woah woah woah, calm down okay? it’s not what you think, let me explain!” he started, “let you explain what? why is that whore asleep on your couch!” she shouted, she was shaking with rage at the sight of the woman that had an affair with her husband, asleep on best friends couch. she started to turn towards the door, ready to leave but before she could, shoe grabbed her wrist, “she found out about you and conditioner being related.” he said plainly, his voice lacking in emotion, shampoos face dropped, “what???” she said, her voice barely above a whisper, the shock at what he said had become apparent, her face turning pale, “yeah she found out, and when she did conditioner tried to do whatever he could to prevent her from telling me, he tried to hurt her, but i stopped him before things could escalate.” the words shoe was saying weren’t registering in her brain, she was shocked, to say the least, both book and shoe had found out their biggest secret. “i saw the birth certificates when i was helping book.” shoe said, “book was apparently trying to dig up dirt on your marriage to break you up, so she could have conditioner all to herself.” And that was when it dawned on her, if conditioner had tried to hurt book, and she was only there to dig up dirt on their marriage, that means they weren’t having an affair at all, shampoo had killed her husband and for no reason. At this point her head was spinning, the full weight of what she had done was now laying on her, and it was too late, thoughts raced through her head, that she was going to jail, oh god, what had she done. The thoughts in her head were soon cut off though, by the sounds of book waking up from her unconscious state. She sat up and rubbed her groggy pages, “ugh what happened? where am i?” she said. And now it was Shoes turn again to repeat what had just happened.
Later that night they were all still at shoes house, deciding that after such a terrible day they needed something to soothe their nerves, settling on alcohol they all started drinking, “what do you want to drink?” shoe asked, “ohh i have this special drink i like to make!” book stated, “i can make one for you!” multiple drinks later they eventually all got very drunk, and in his drunken state, shoe decided this would be a good time to confess his love for book, “boookkkk i have to tell you something” he slurred, as his head dipped and he gestured his hand towards book, nearly spilling his drink that book had made for him all over her smooth pages, “woah watch it!” she said angrily. “book, i love you, and i have always loved you.” shoe said, but as he spoke, he noticed it was getting increasingly hard for him to talk, but not because of how intoxicated he was, it felt like his throat was swelling shut. “guys i think somethings wrong with me.” shoe said, the feeling of his throat swelling almost immediately sobering him up, “i think i’m having an allergic reaction, do you know if there were strawberries in this drink? you know i’m allergic! can you get me my epi pen?” he rasped, a mix of his drunken and anaphylactic state registered him nearly immobile and he couldn’t stand properly to get the epi pen, but neither shampoo or book made a move to get it either. “guys please! i can barely breathe please get my epi pen!” at this point he was still completely oblivious to the situation at hand, and that was that this all had been a setup, all of it. Book being in “love” with conditioner, the break in to conditioners house by book, the argument between them, shoe coming to the house and finding that conditioner had hurt book, shampoo coming home from work and killing conditioner, and finally this, they had purposefully spiked his drink with strawberries, knowing it would kill him. but why? because, they knew that as long as conditioner existed, book and shampoo could never be together, shampoo was stuck married to her brother conditioner, because of their parents arrangement, and he would never let her go, and they knew that. which is why they had to kill him, killing shoe was just an unfortunate sacrifice. but now nothing is stopping them from being together, and now they will be together. forever.