Wednesday and Monday

There was a pair of sisters who were into attempting suicide. Nobody knew why they were like that, or why they were depressed, or if they were depressed at all. Most people blamed their mother for not going through confinement properly, because instead of staying at home and not showering for a month, she when out shopping for Prada and Gucci clothes to fit her little girls. They came from a high-income family, by the way. And the mother not having gone through confinement was hardly a logical enough explanation for the girls' condition. So, nobody knew why they were like that.

The eldest sister's given name was Feng Ling, the younger sister's name was Ling Long. "Feng Ling" meant something like phoenix's agility, and "Ling Long" meant something like resourceful and clever and agile too. They had pretty Chinese names, yet, when they came of age, Feng Ling decided to call herself "Wednesday", after the Addams' family character. Ling Long called herself "Monday", because Monday was blue, and she liked blue.

By respectively, 16 and 14 years old, Wednesday and Monday had tried hanging themselves, drowning themselves in the sea, storm drains, swimming pools, and many kinds of substance abuse (including ingesting doll parts in attempt to choke themselves). They always took turns doing it so that the other person could prevent the attempt from succeeding.

Wednesday's favourite past time was to draw mosiac patterns on her wrists with wrist slits, and then to plaster the cuts (and blood and gore) quickly with glue, and then to sniff it. Monday's favourite past time was similar, except that she preferred to use blue paint instead of glue.

One day, when their mother gave them clothes that were not designer, they were shocked. Their father had been retrenched, and even though they had a lot of money tied up in assets, they had to pretend that they were middle-income. Their father thought that they were going to take it badly and commit suicide for sure. He was sad because he loved the girls, though he previously had no time to spend with them, he never even bought sweets or chocolates for them as little girls. In his fit of regret and remorse, he bought sweets and chocolates and ice-cream for his daughters. He took care to buy blue colour sweets and blueberry icecream for Monday. It turned out that their mother had all along deprived the girls of such things to keep their dress sizes small, so they can be super models someday.

Having tasted sweets and chocolates and all different flavours of ice-cream, Wednesday and Monday had a rush of sugar high that they had never experienced before. They abandoned their previous hobby and all thought of suicides so that they could live and love sugar. They never attempted suicide again and lived happily ever after.