Love Conquers All _The Sequel_

Chapter Twenty Seven - Amazon

Michael's POV:

My heart drops faster and harder than an anvil sailing towards the ground from the peak of a skyscraper. My chest turns cold and sickeningly tightens up.

Mary's turning towards the door. Reaching for the handle. Turning the knob. And what am I doing? I'm frozen.

My eyes are brimming with tears and my mouth is welded shut. I'm so shocked I'm just letting her go without saying anything and I'm being foolish.

At the last moment, I reach out and exclaim, "Wait!"

Her head turns to look at me, but her feet keep moving. She can't just let everything go... Everything that's happened: the night walk where she tripped and fell on her face, the potion brewing, the singing in ET's ship, the resurrecting me, the wedding? But I know she acts in the heat of her anger.

And just like that, the door is shut behind her and she's gone. I should've begged or said anything, but I sat here, dumb with a lump in my throat.

And I'm all alone.

Well, minus the girl who tried to kill me yesterday.

And I've reached my breaking point. I buckle over, crying without any resistance. I let it all come out. Maybe Mary will hear me and come back...
No, that would be stupid.

Then, a frightening thing occurs to me.

What if she never returns?

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Kim's POV:

Peasants. They're all peasants. I'm ripe to my core with animosity towards them; I need to kill them. But no, they're freaking immortal and I'm stuck here as a slave. Freaky goddess chick up there would probably like electrocute me or something if I tried to escape. What a peasant.

So, you can keep me here and work me down until I'm only frail bone and my breath is dust, but I will never stop hating ugly peasants like you.

I pat myself on the back for being so strong and independent. Feminism 2k15 for the win, fight to the death.

Maybe I could stand up for myself.. I could fight for my freedom! I could become an abolitionist! But they're peasants... They would never let me go.

Suddenly, some random pigeon-toed, cross-eyed girl walks into the living room from upstairs. She's heading towards the door.

I look at her, confused, but as I squint my eyes I realize that it's only Mary.

"Come here to make me do some sort of slave thing?" I spit.

She stops in her tracks and looks down.

"No. I'm leaving. Do whatever you want," she says, then she sniffles like she's trying not to cry.

This comes as a shock to me. I can go? Surely it can't be that easy...

But she walks outside, going away, without saying anything else. I sit on the couch, dumbfounded. What if she's not a peasant?

What if I've been thinking this thing out wrong the whole time? What if I think too much?

What if I'm on the wrong side?

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Mary's POV:

I fly straight to the place where I know I'll be perfectly happy: the Amazon rainforest. I already have planned what I'm gonna do to get rid of my pain. I'm gonna live with the jaguars.

I can already see it: prowling the jungle treetops with my feline brethren, eating small birds and drinking from waterfalls. No Michael, no Tex, no Kim, no pain...

And... And I don't think I'll be lonely because I'll have my jaguar friends. They'll be my friends, won't they?

I shake my doubt and try to rebuild my confidence. I can already see the rainforest from where I am; I'm almost ready to live my perfect life.

I land towards the middle of the thick forestation, near a waterfall.

"All Jaguars! Report to waterfall!" I scream. I feel pretty stupid, though... I look around. As if the Jaguars will actually understand me, or listen.

I sit down on a nearby boulder. Boy, the pioneers used to ride these babies for miles.

I hear a shuffling of leaves behind me and I turn, growling like a jaguar. Not like a jaguar... I am a jaguar.

But, to my surprise, a big, black-coated, muscular jaguar reveals itself from the bushes. I refrain from my aggressive demeanor and say, "Hi... I'm Mary."

The jaguar looks at me.

"Welcome," the jaguar says, which makes me jump. It can understand me? I can understand it? It must be a part of my goddess powers.

Then, the jaguar bows. It's surprisingly tall, it seems taller than it did a second ago... Weird.

I smile at the jaguar. I think I am going to like it here.