The Enchanted Ones

Chapter 7. ✨ (The Finale)

"Kath,"

Linette breathed, taking a quick step towards Katherine.

"Stop," Kath said firmly, hand coming up in front of her and a defensive charm creating a barely visible barrier between them. She couldn't bring herself from looking away from Lin's eyes, her own filling with tears and her throat constricting. "Stop."

"Kath, please," Lin pleaded. "It's not what it looks like I-"

Kath just turned on her heels and started walking quickly down the street. The tears had begun to stream down her cheeks. Which felt ridiculous when she'd only known this woman for a little while and only shared a couple of kisses in the grand scheme of things. But she couldn't hold it back. Her chest felt like it had been broken open.

"Kath! Please!" she could hear Lin yelling behind her. "I promise! I-I-I...blacked out or something!"

Kath turned quickly and Lin ran into her at the sudden stop. Lin's hands went to Kath's upper arms and she automatically pulsed with arming magic. Lin reeled back, shocked from the magic rippling through Kath's skin and shook her hands.

"Leave me alone," Kath hissed.

"Please, just let me explain-"

"Explain what? That you go around trying to get as many girls as you can? No regards for their feelings?" Kath said.

"That's not what this is! You should know that!"

"You know, I thought you were a lot of things, but I never thought you were a- a ...," Kath couldn't finish. She didn't know what exactly to say. She just turned back around. She snapped and cast a quick sticking spell on Lin's shoes so that she couldn't follow her, but it didn't stop Kath from hearing her shouting at her as she walked away.

Bitterly, Kath thought how she wouldn't be able to listen to her favorite Fleetwood Mac song anymore without thinking of Lin.

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Wrapping herself in a blanket cocoon, Katherine spent the rest of the day blasting music in her room and just crying. Her phone buzzed with unanswered texts and calls, nothing she wanted to deal with at the moment. She would have been perfectly happy to spend the rest of the day alone in her room and letting herself cry.

"Kath, I swear to god there's something wrong-"

Charlotte stopped halfway through her sentence as she burst into the room and saw Kath in her cocoon. Her demeanor changed immediately and she went to sit on the side of the bed. "Babysis, what happened?"

Kath sniffled and pulled her blanket over her head.

"Scoot over," Charlotte said as she gently rolled Kath towards the edge of the bed so that she could slide into the bed beside her. Charlotte pulled the blanket from her face and she blinked against the light. "Kath. What's wrong?"

"Linette is a jerk," Kath muttered, voice thick with tears.

"Baby Sis," Charlotte said, peppering her face in kisses. Kath groaned and pushed her sister away.

"Stop."

"I'm trying to make you feel better," Charlotte argued, managing to land one more kiss on her forehead.

"I'm fine," Kath said with an annoyed grumble.

"You're a liar," Charlotte said. "Wanna talk about it?"

"Not really."

"I'm gonna kill that little leprechaun," Charlotte growled. "But not before making her grant me hundreds of lame wishes."