SPNPG SOT: Princess Kenny's Revenge

Chapter 7

Erica had been bored.

Her brother and Princess Kenny were both nowhere to be found, and the only people she wanted to be around than them were maybe those in the elven kingdom.

She looks out the front window, to the entrance to the woods between the two kingdoms, and she sees Stacy.

Alone, running, crying.

Something's happened, she thinks. Is it Kylie? It's definitely Kylie.

So Erica goes out to meet her.

Stacy practically collapses into her, still crying.

"Stace. Stace. Stace. What the fuck happened, where's Kylie?"

She has never seen two pretty best friends, and has never seen a Stacy without a Kylie.

This just upsets Stacy even more and she clings onto her.

"Sh-she's dead, Erica. She hung herself in the woods."

Another heart....

Breaks.

Erica acts like she hates Kylie, but she considers the redhead a friend.

It's not long before she's broken down in tears herself.

She and Stacy cling to each other, heartbroken.

They have each other, at least.

........

Erica is eventually able to persuade Stacy inside.

"Do you want tea?" the wizard asks.

The warrior sits down at the table. "I can't, I don't want to impose."

"Stacy, your best friend and my good friend died. You are not imposing, if you want tea you can have tea, it's pretty much the only thing I can do besides hug you."

Despite everything....

Stacy smiles a little. "Yes, I would love some tea, thank you."

Erica makes a cup for herself as well.

They sit in silence for a few minutes, but it's peaceful.

"I saw her before she left," Stacy finally says, "before she went to the woods. She came to say goodnight, that she'd probably come here. She asked me a few hours ago if I'd go down to the woods with her and I....I said no."

She thinks it's her fault, Erica thinks, that is such bullshit.

"I think a lot of us did," the warrior continues, "but none of us saw the signs and no one wanted to go."

"No one could have known, Stace," Erica replied, reaching out across the table to take her hand. "If we could have stopped it, we would, okay? I hate that we weren't able to, but it isn't your fault."

She smiles, again.

Erica manages to smile back.

(This was originally written in 2021 and some parts of this made me laugh very hard because of how bad it is in places)