queen of hearts / enoch o'connor / on hiatus

xii.

"Get out Frances! Ms. P said you have to meet Jake!"
Audrey says as I groan trying to ignore her squeaky, annoying, high pitched voice.

I fix the cloth on my eyes, patting on the desk to find one of Enoch's jars.

Crash!

I scream hearing something crash and back away.
"Look what you made me do France... You can go now Bronwyn." I hear the insane girl say as I hear Bronwyn's giggles as she walks out.

"What made you do that Audrey! Why in the world would you break my door!" I say pulling the jar closer to my chest.

"You left me no choice dear. Come on, Ms. P doesn't like being late and don't worry, you can go to your lover boy after." She says as she drags me by my hair leaving me no time to complain.

"He 's not even here yet!" I say to her as she tells me he wasn't here.
"Now that he isn't here. Lead me upstairs."

"Ughhh. Audrey is an uncontrollable girl." I say to Enoch as I walk in the room, dusting of my skirt.

"She asked Bronwyn to kick the door again huh?" He says as he helps me sit down and goes back to his own work.

"You are correct. And her ability makes it worst." I say as I twirl the curls of my hair and I wonder what I look like now.

"Well having your hair dragged by her invulnerable hair isn't exactly fun." He says chuckling as I groan.

"She says Jacob is going to be here later..." I say trailing off, I say trailing off as I hear him open the jar.

I inhale smelling the sweet scence of heart.

"What is that? Sheep or Goat?"
I say curious.
"Sheep." He says as I hear metal tools hit each other.

"You wanna go outside?" I say excited at the thought of hearing the birds sing their songs.
"Sure. Can you hold on to these?" He says helping me up and putting a jar on my hands.

He leads me upstairs, one hand balancing the jars.
We walk to the kitchen when I heard someone talk.
"Let me help you with that Enoch." I hear Olive say as I frown slightly. Can't she already see I'm helping?

"Don't bother. Wouldn't want you to interrupt the tea party." Enoch says as he grabs my hand and leads me outside.

"Who was in there Enoch?" I ask as we sit on the grass. "Jake Portman." He says making my lips form an o.

"I didn't think they would actually be succesful but they probably caused a mess so that's good news to me." I say thinking about dinner, at least there was one benefit to the kids messing up.

"At least leave the heart. I rarely get any human hearts these days." He says as I felt one of the homonculi climb up my arm.

"I always leave the heart Enoch. This makes me miss living in Swampmuck and Meek. We used to have those in supplies." I say as I thought of my old homes.

I put down the homunculi hearing its gears turn.

"But I'm happy I left." I say lifting my head up.

"Why?" He asks.

"Because I met you."