True Love - Sokeefe

"ʏᴏᴜ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ɢᴇᴛ ɪᴛ!"

"You don't get it!" shouted Sophie, surprising a few gnomes farther down. Sophie didn't care, she was too mad at Fitz.

"Yeah, Sophie! You're right! I don't get it! I don't get why you can't get over your STUPID worry, and just tell me who your parents are!"

Oh. No. He. Did. Not. Just. Call. Me. Stupid.

"I CAN'T! I've told you a million times, and of course it just flies right over your head!"

"Well, you're just going be a bad match! I love you Sophie, but I need you to register your match with your parents so we can finally be together!" He started towards Sophie, reaching to put her chin in his hand.

"NO!" Sophie pulled away hard. "I'm done. Y'know what? I'm DONE with this. I can get someone who doesn't care about my match status, and ignores what their reputation is going to be! Not someone who can't listen and has an ego the size of Everglen!" Sophie was especially proud of herself for adding the last part.

"FINE!" Said Fitz, holding up his home crystal. Without saying another word, he glittered away, and Sophie broke down in tears. She ran all the way to Calla's Panake tree, and cried. Wynn and Luna were with her, and the nuzzled up in Sophie's lap. And Grady didn't question her when she looked at him and said she wanted to sleep here, her eyes raw and red.

After an hour of sulking, she just wanted to go to sleep. So much so, that she went inside and asked Edaline for slumber berry tea. Edaline shot her a worried look. "All right, but only if i can come outside and talk with you." Sophie hesitantly agreed.

A soon as they got comfortable, and Sophie was about to sip the slumber berry tea, Edeline just had to ask the question. "So, what happened?"

Sophie snapped at her. "I don't know, maybe if I was matchable I'd be worthy enough to tell you!" Her words quickly twisted into a tear filled apology. "I-I'm sorry, it's just," Sophie sniffed. "Fitz... Never seems to get anything. He didn't care for me when I found out I was unmatchable, he just bugged me to know who my parents were. And when I wouldn't tell him, he went on and on about how he couldn't marry an unmatchable person. That was the last straw for me, I guess. So, um, I ended it."

"Aw, sweetie." Edaline said while hugging Sophie, it was quite obvious from the hitch in her voice that she was on the verge of tears. "I know just the thing for you. Grady homemade it a few weeks ago."

Sophie followed her mother into a dark place in their house, which had a secret door that Sophie had never ever seen before. "How long has this been here?" Was the first question out of her mouth. Then she realized the better question was "What does Grady have planned for me?"

Edaline had a smile in the corner of her mouth. "13 years, and a stabbing room."

Sophie didn't really love the sound of that, but she went along anyways. Her adoptive parents always knew what would make her feel better. She followed Edaline into the room, and Sophie gasped. Hundreds of fall coloured flowers covered the walls, and the ground was covered in bright neon gems. A soft trickling sound of water was faintly heard in the background, and it really just set the mood.

Grady was in there, but he wasn't alone. There were hundreds off Fitz statues, so intricate Sophie wanted to just claw those teal eyes off. Screw teal. That wasn't her favourite colour anymore, that's for sure.

Surprisingly, there were also statues of...

"Keefe?"

"Ignore that." Grady said quickly. Then he handed her a dagger. "Stab your heart out. I think I'm going to see all of these decimated in the morning."

They left the room, leaving Sophie all alone.

For a moment she didn't do anything. Then, she just roared and charged. She stabbed each Fitz into pieces, always scraping his eyes out first. Sometimes she even used her abilities to blow up the statue. So much rage and anger was pent up in her that she just let it all out.

This was her activity until morning, when she heard a "Woah, Foster. What'd he do to you?"