BREAKING THE CHAIN | ❝Screw the Witch Bitch❞
⤷ In which a curse that wreaks havoc on her town suddenly targets her best friends ex girlfriend, suddenly she and all of their friends are fighting to survive the night from murderous psychopaths that we...
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⌜PART THREE⌟
⤷ NINETEEN; the widow⤶
DARKNESS HIT THE SETTLEMENT quickly with the Fier twins safely in their fathers home getting ready in their prettiest gowns quietly, a beige like colour for Sarah while Selena's held light brown flowers that she had sowed just days before.
"Are you ready little sister?" Nodding with a happy grin as she turns to her sister. Flinching at the ground creaking behind them, spinning around to see their brother Henry standing there with a deep frown.
"Henry." Sarah sighed in relief, her hand now in Selenas hand clutching it tightly. "Shouldn't you be sleeping?" Selena cuts in with a whisper trying not to wake their father.
Watching his eyes roll at the words "Shouldn't you be sleeping?" He counters in an annoyed tone.
Huffing in frustration as she pulled her twin past him "Henry please don't tell him." Sarah pleaded as Selena kissed his cheek goodbye.
Her stomach turned with worry and nervousness, never doing such a thing like this. Sure there were times before she had married that she had snuck out but this was different; they were going to see the widow. A woman who was told to have magical abilities.
The sisters rushed out of the house successfully avoiding their father before meeting up with Hannah and Lizzie who grinned excitedly at their figures. Interlocking arms with Lizzie as she walked with them deep into the woods.
"The berries make you see the world beyond our own." Lizzie told the three with a dopey smile, her eyes gleaming with mischief as she gazed at her friends. "Just one little bite."
Scoffing as she rolled her eyes "What does an old lady need with that?" Sarah questioned in a light tone, her blue eyes locking with her sisters.
"She's not just some old lady." Lizzie informed her huffing before turning to the woods in front of her. "They say that the widow is a thousand years old. Apparently she drinks the blood of virgins to keep her youth."
Sarah grins at her sister who smirks in response "I guess you're safe then...you too sister." Her teasing tone made Selena gasp in false betrayal but her giggling made the group smile. "Betrayal by my own sister." She responded looking at her friends shaking her beautiful curly head.
"She sacrificed her husband to become the devils bride." Rolling her eyes at the far fetched story that was probably told by some man. "That way she was able to gain eternal life."
"I heard that she kept the company of the natives after her husband passed." Sarah said, her eyes darting over at Hannah not seeing that her sister was watching her every move. "That she fell in love with one, it was why she was exiled. Loving someone she was not meant to."
Narrowing her eyes slightly at the blush Hannah gave her sister, at the look of adoration they both held whilst looking at one another. It was no doubt a glance of love ━ but that couldn't be love, could it? Two girls loving one another, was that even possible? It was a sin.
"She learned their medicine.." Selena's voice broke their gaze as she hugged lizzie tighter as a chill of air brushed through her hair. "Solomon told me when his child had passed and Louise grew sick, he took her to the widow but it was too late." Solomons late wife was a stern but gentle woman and despite having an arranged marriage; it was sweet nonetheless.
Seeming like they were headed nowhere, Hannah finally spoke up "Are you sure this is the right way?" Her tone unconvinced as Lizzie led them over branches. "How do you know where we're going?"
"I've been there before." She said turning to face them with a smirk "Remember when Abigail had her ring of fire." The girls giggled as she swung her hips in a circle moment.
"She was scratching like a dog in father's service." Hannah replied with a beaming grin "Mother said she had laid with a demon. The devils gift."
"More like mad Thomas' gift." Selena smirks at them as they giggle though she knew it was all light fun, Abby was a great friend to them all.
"Well whoever she laid with. Abby made me go with her to the widow." She hooked her arm in Selenas once again. "And the widow fixed her with Witchcraft?" Hannah jokingly asked.
"Yes Witchcraft.." She held a grimace on her face, disgusted washing over her. "and some foul smelling piss made for whores like Abby Berman."
Nudging her friend with a frown despite Abbys intentions and actions with whomever she decided lay with, she was a kind girl with a sweet smile. Shaking her head as she followed Lizzie further up the path, freezing once she saw the small hut.
"Are we sure about this?" The sister question lizzie quietly who simply huffs as she pulls the girl with her. Scrunching her face up at the dead rodents as they make their way to the door.
"Widow Mary." Lizzie calls out loudly but no one responded. The four, uninvited walk inside the strangers house to see a blazing fire pit. "Widow Mary..."
No one responds only a crow squawking making Selena clutch her friend tighter, maybe her husband was right and going tonight was a mistake. She was terrified at the thought of being butchered in the woods without her husbands protection.
"She's not here." Lizzie tugs Selena's arm looking back at Sarah and Hannah with grin. "Find the berries. Sels with me."
Walking into smaller area of the hut before gesturing to look around. "I know you don't like this sel but I'm your best friend. I'll always take care of you." Lizzie reassured the girl whose lip wobbled nervously. "Okay..." She whispered in response before gazing around the room for the berries that were beyond their world.
After searching around for a bit, Selenas eyes catch onto to the smallest items. Bending down to pick them up "Are these them?" She questions Lizzie who turns with an excited grin.
As she goes to respond, Hannahs voice loudly echos the hut "SARAH!" Staring at each other in worry before rushing out with the berries. Gasping as they see the Widow hold a knife to Sarahs face, her eyes tearing up at the frightened expression on her twins face.
Holding her hands out in a peaceful manner before pleading "Please Mary, let my sister go." Her tone was delicate and soft
"You will bring her down with you. You will be the darkness that overtakes her light." The widow whispers Sarah who stares at her in fear. "Get out!" She begins yelling making them scramble away in a hurry.
"The devil lays beside you!" Selena feels the pit in her stomach as she clutches onto her sister arms, darting as fast as she could. Coming to a great distance from the hut, their breaths lost and their hearts pounding.
"My sister." Selena held her sisters face in worry, there was a small cut on her cheek. Narrowing her eyes in anger "She hurt you!"
"I will be fine. No need to get worried now." Sarah said out of breath following Lizzie. "Let us go now. It will have already started." Lizzie tells them as she looks back in fear that the Widow had followed them.
Not even knowing if what the widow said was even pointed at her but the worlds that left her vile mouth haunted her slightly. What did she mean by 'The Devil lays beside you'.
