Season of the Witch

Part 1

 Nothing your best friend Danny had told you stayed in your mind. You wanted revenge. You wanted your ex to hurt, the way he had hurt you. Was hurting you. Flaunting the girl he'd cheated on you with around town and all over social media like you weren't posted on there barely two weeks ago. That was all gone. The carnival photos when he won you a stuffed bunny rabbit, the beach trip photos from your summer vacations together. Two years of holidays, birthdays, and special occasions, wiped from the timeline of history.

One morning, you're out to brunch, giggling and flirting over mimosas, and by dinner, everything you'd left at his apartment was packed and in the trunk of your car as he told you 'It's not you, it's me.' while his phone buzzed and a picture of another girl kept appearing on the screen.

"Don't do anything with bad intentions." Danny reminded you as he begrudgingly handed you his personal grimoire. You rolled your eyes as you took it, stuffing it into your bag. "I'm serious. The universe listens to everything, and sends back what you put out tenfold. This isn't shit to play around with."

"Okay mom." you replied in a mocking tone.

"Hey." Danny's hand grabbed your upper arm, the cool metal of his rings chilling your skin. His hazel eyes bore down into yours as you glared at him. "I'm serious. Karma is real, and I don't want you to do anything stupid."

"I'm fine. I'm just going to do some protection sigils and need the book to make sure I do them right." you rolled your eyes. Danny eyed you closely with disbelief, but ultimately let you go, letting you leave his home with some incense and sage, and a few crystals he believed would aid you in protecting your heart and soul.

You tossed it all immediately to the side when you got home, as you pulled out the book, flipping through the pages to find the one you saw long ago, when Danny first told you he was into witchcraft and showed you his little black spell book. You had laughed to yourself, flipping through it thinking it was going to be all Harry Potter-type charms and spells that would never work, but Danny explained to you that magic wasn't like how it was in movies and on TV. It was more manifesting and energy than hocus pocus. You let him teach you a few things here and there, blowing cinnamon into your doorway for prosperity on the first of the month, how to properly ventilate a space that you're cleansing to make sure you're getting rid of negative energy the right way.

But tucked away in the back of the book were some pages of things he'd found online, and was too afraid to try. A banishing spell wouldn't do much to your ex, freezing his name on a piece of paper in ice with the intention of him disappearing. He'd only disappear with that girl he was fucking while you picked out a new shower curtain for his bathroom, to live in bliss and completely forget how he fucked you over. You briefly wondered if there was a curse that would give him warts on his less than impressive dick.

The page you were looking for wasn't there, tattered edges where it had been ripped from the binding. The curly haired fucker knew you better than anyone else.

"Dammit Danny!" you tossed the book across the room in anger, cursing the man under your breath. After a few moments, you pulled your laptop from the coffee table and into your lap, propping it open and clicking the internet browser icon furiously. Once you closed the twelve windows that opened in your rush, you pulled up a search engine, typing in 'revenge spells'.

Scrolling through the results, you rolled your eyes at the dramatics of some of the sites, some were calling for you to collect your enemy's tear drops, another for you to ritually sacrifice a small animal. Finally, you came across a simple, easy spell you could do. It instructed you to draw rune-like sigils on the ground, and to place something that bound you to the person you were trying to rid yourself of in the middle of them. You'd left the stuffed bunny at his place, not wanting to ever touch it again after it sat on the bed during his extracurricular activities. Glancing around you, tried to find something left of his, but you'd left no trace of him. That was what you thought, until you looked down at your hand, spotting the ring he'd given you on your three month anniversary. A small, black heart with gold filigree wound around it, and small cubic zirconia gems embedded in it, with one in the center.