Charmed Again (Part 2/3)

Chapter 24

I sat on the bench in the conservatory with an Ice pack pressed to my face. Chris was sitting beside me, holding it in the right places. I winced when he jabbed a sensitive nerv with the ice.

"Sorry." He apologised.

Wyatt was pacing around, thinking and Melinda was sat at a table, scrying again.

"Seriously quit pacing, you're making me dizzy." Chris said to Wyatt.

"I can't sit still when Rowan is out there somewhere and the crystal pointed us to him and he wasn't in the place where it said." Wyatt answered.

"First of all, the crystal didn't point us to him. It pointed us to that street on the other side of town. It never moves on its own so we don't know where it was pointing us. Second, why do we need to find him? He's a sleezy rat. Hopefully he's gone back to where he came from." Chris told him.

"We need to find him because we need to know if he knew about me and Anna." Wyatt replied.

"Don't you mean just Anna? Everyone already knew you were the reincarnation of King Arthur." Melinda said dropping the crystal.

"Uh...yeah that's what I meant." Wyatt quickly answered.

I just stared at him. He was shifting his weight and folding and unfolding his arms. He blinked uncontrollably and I couldn't hear any of his thoughts.

I took ahold of Chris's hand and moved the ice pack away from my face.

"Can we deal with this tomorrow? I just got slapped across the face and ruined a bar. I'm not in the mood to face anymore problems today, especially the ones Rowan will bring." I groaned.

I got up and held the ice pack in my hand. I looked at Wyatt and then back at Chris. They both nodded in agreement.

I then headed to the kitchen to put the ice pack back in the freezer, leaving them in the conservatory.

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I closed the freezer and opened up one of the cupboards and took out a glass. I then filled it up with water and then poured it down my throat.

I turned around and dropped the glass. Water spilled out across the floor and glass bounced everywhere. My heart was racing and I could feel it beat against my skin.

Pandora was standing in the kitchen doorway, staring at me.

"Care to knock? Or at least say something?" I said, my voice shaken.

"I will. When I want to." She bit back.

I leaned down and picked up the glass pieces. I then put them in the sink.

"What do you want Pandora?" I asked with a huff.

"You know you wouldn't have gotten slapped if you hadn't have gone over to those bikers in the first place." She said, folding her arms.

"You saw huh?" I said.

"I've seen a lot of things about you, Anna. About you're life, you're past, you're future." She spoke slowly.

She approached me carefully, each step a taunt.

"What about my future?" I asked concerned.

"You know, you're future job, you're children, you're husband." She teased.

"My husband?" I asked.

Was it Chris? Was it Wyatt? Or was someone completely different? Was it the Lancelot reincarnation I'm supposed to meet?

She nodded with a feline grin on her face.

"And I just want you to know that as soon as you choose one, you're going to break the other. But you're only meant to be with one of them aren't you?" She laughed.

Was this a joke? Is she asking to get electrocuted?

"I'm glad you find my life very amusing. Do you think that the choice I have to make is going to be easy for me? Knowing that if I choose one of them, I might loose the other?" I snapped.

"Nobody cares about you Anna. Those two idiots in there might worship the ground you walk on but I certainly don't. Ever since you came into this house, you've driven both of them apart." Pandora said.

"Look I don't want-"

"Shut up." Pandora snarled. "I don't care what you want. I care about my family. How do you think I feel? How do you think Piper and Leo feel, having to watch their sons fight like dogs just to get a second of your attention?" She said with pure hatred.

Tears had begun to rim my eyes and I was trying my hardest to keep them back, to not give her the satisfaction.

"If you had just followed what fate had lined up for you, nobody will be getting hurt right now." She raised her voice.

"How have my actions hurt you? Or Melinda? Or Piper?" I asked as more tears filled my eyes.

"Caleb and I broke up because his mom was upset that she doesn't see him anymore. So Caleb turned to me and said 'I can't have what's happening between you're cousins happen with us.' He didn't want our relationship compared to whatever you guys have." She said with tears almost in her eyes.

"You're blaming me because you're driving a wedge between him and his parents? Don't you think you should look in the mirror and wait until you're life is perfect before you judge mine?" I spat.

"Do not tell me what to do. I could easily make you're life a living hell. And believe me, I'd like to. But I could never hurt Chris like that. He has nothing to do with all of this and you've sucked him into it." She said with a raised eyebrow.

"What about Wyatt?" I asked.

"He can handle himself." She began. "But one thing he won't handle is loosing Chris. So I suggest, and I'm saying this in the nicest way I can, leave them and this entire family alone and do everyone a favour."

Pandora suddenly beamed out of the kitchen. I let the tears out then. I fell back onto the sink for support.

I was left alone. The way I should be, the way I always have been.

Alone...