Charmed Again (Part 2/3)

Chapter 25

I stayed in the kitchen for a while after Pandora had left. Everything was getting on top of me and I was crying, not just because of Pandora, but because of myself as well.

How could I be so selfish? I've torn two brothers apart. And it's not as if I don't know how they both feel. I don't know how I feel.

I don't know if I could choose Wyatt over Chris or Chris over Wyatt. Or maybe I should not choose either and leave just like Pandora had suggested.

It's been one ordeal after another since I came to this house and everyone seems to be bending over backwards to save me. I should leave. I should leave to give this family their life back.

They take me in after I get attacked by demons and whilst suffering the loss of my parents. And food. Then a crazy warlock possess me with his psycho lover and I fall in love with both Wyatt and Chris, to only find out that I can't be with Chris and I have to choose either Wyatt or the Lancelot reincarnation that I'm supposed to meet when I'm 25 years old.

I splashed water on my face to calm myself down after my self loathing rant. Then a figure emerged from the doorway leading to the conservatory. It was Chris.

I looked down and tried to mop up the tears that were falling down my face. He quickly walked over to me and cupped my face in his hands.

"Why are you crying?" He asked trying to look me in the eye.

"Because I've ruined everything." I said and began to sob again.

He pulled me close and I buried my head into his shoulder and cried. I gently rubbed my back and cooed in my ear.

"How have you ruined everything? How can you ruin everything?" He spoke softly.

"I've ruined you, I've ruined Wyatt, I've ruined Camelot." I answered, my voice stopping and starting from all the crying.

He pulled back and looked me dead in the eye.

"You haven't ruined me. At all. And you haven't ruined Wyatt either. I haven't seen him this happy about a girl in long time." He said half smiling.

Great. Add to my guilt.

"I'm going to tear you and Wyatt apart. It's already beginning. I see the way you act around each other." I sobbed.

He looked down.

"We're always like that Anna. Boys competitiveness. I won't let my pride get hurt and neither will he." He told me.

"If I choose one of you then I will break the other. And I can't stand by and watch that." I said as a tear trickled down my cheek.

"Well you're not even supposed to choose me so." He said in low voice and looked away from me.

"I don't care what the elders said about me and you. If we weren't supposed to fall in love with each other then why did we? It wasn't fate or destiny. We managed to fall in love with each other by ourselves." I said straightening up.

He then looked at me with his perfect green eyes. A bright whirlpool of green in the middle and a dark, dangerous rim of ivy green surrounding it.

"Well then let's go. We can pack the essentials tonight and then we can leave tomorrow morning. No elders or demons to stop us. You and me." He said his eyes lighting up.

Did he just ask me to run away with him?

I began to shake my head.

"Chris we can't do that. You can't just leave you're family because of me." I protested.

"They'll be fine. They'll understand." He said excitedly.

"What about Wyatt? How do you think he's going to feel with not only me gone but you as well." I urged.

"He can handle himself, I'll send postcards. Come one its just going to be me and you. The way we both want it." He said and took ahold of my hands in his.

I looked up at his chipper face and I knew that I was going to shatter him into a million pieces when I tell him this.

"Chris I can't go with you. I can't abandon the only family I have right now. And I can't let my selfishness take you away from your family." I said quietly and withdrew my hands.

"But I thought you wanted it to be just us. So we won't have to deal with anymore elders or destiny?" He asked, hurt in his eyes.

Oh god, this is going to crush him.

"I'm in love with you Chris." I began, his eyes brightening. "But I'm in love with Wyatt too.

I saw him just fall to pieces inside. I saw the hurt in his eyes. But he just straightened up, took a breathe and tried to act like he didn't care.

He scratched his nose and sniffed.

"Okay." He began his voice shaky. "I'll leave you to make up your mind."

He put on a gentle smile and then headed out to the conservatory.

My head fell into my hands and I felt tears wet my skin.

Suddenly there was a crash. My head snapped up and I quickly ran out of the kitchen.

Wyatt, Melinda and Chris came running from the conservatory. We all stopped.

Lying on the floor, with a flower vase smashed to pieces around him, was Rowan. He had a scratch that was bleeding on his cheek, and his tunic had leaking pool of blood by his stomach.

It was a silent tone of confusion before I spoke.

"You have some explaining to do."