Black Magic Women

51

Zelda had been restless the entire day. It had deeply unsettled her to not know what was going on with Mary and this stupid date she highly disagreed with. She had been pacing up and down her living room with a cigarette in her mouth and a glass of whiskey in hand for most of the day before she had settled on going to bed.

But lying in bed, thinking about what might happen and what Mary might be doing with a certain someone whose guts she hated, she found herself getting more anxious with every passing second. The need to know was burning deep within her, keeping her awake.

With a sigh and shake of head, she rolled over, closed her eyes and took a deep breath, deciding to let it go if she wanted to get some sleep.

"Screw it!" She said after a while, her eyes shot open and she swung her legs out of bed, feeling incredibly dizzy once her upper body had reached an upright position.

"Too much whiskey," she said and waited a few seconds before she stood up, walked over to her closet and got the robe off its hanger.

If she wanted to live in peace again, she had to go over there and make sure Mary wasn't doing it- anything with Hawthorne. She didn't even check herself in the mirror before she teleported herself into the woods.

Stood in front of the brunette's door, she felt more than just stupid for not trusting her lover. Mary surely wouldn't betray her and especially not with a man, would she? No, this was completely out of the question.

She was about to turn around and call it a night when she heard suspicious noises echo from inside the house, evoking her curiosity.

Mary didn't have any friends, at least none that she knew of so the mysterious noises made her question what her girlfriend was up to at such a late hour.

Suddenly there was this strong feeling that she needed to go inside, see what Mary was doing but at the same time she knew she wouldn't want to know it.

Torn between wanting to get the hell away from that house and feeling the physical need to go inside, she didn't know what to do. The steadily fastening noises made her ears ring and the all too familiar headache haunted Zelda's logical thinking.

Without realizing that she was moving, she pushed down the handle of Mary's front door and the wooden material gave away to her touch.

Frozen in time, she stood there and stared down the hallway she has walked down so many times but it felt so different. She felt as if she was detached from her own body, from this world and most important from Mary.

Her feet took her into the direction of her living room even though her heart begged her to go the complete opposite way but as always Zelda didn't listen to her heart. She had to know what was lying behind that door and she was determined to find out.

The noises grew louder and with a rapidly beating heart, Zelda realized what those noises were. A gasp which was shortly followed by a hand clutched over her mouth were only the beginning of her mental breakdown.

"Yeah, oh right there!"

It was unmistakably Mary's voice and Zelda's heart dropped to her feet. Tears were burning in her eyes and she could feel the rage startingto boil in her broken heart.

How dare this woman?!

Without a second thought she stormed into the direction of the door that lead to the bedroom she had spent so many nights in and she slammed it open with a loud bang.

Mary didn't even look startled, as if she was expecting Zelda to barge in on her. She didn't even look guilty...

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" She said with such an intensity that Hawthorne almost fell off the bed. Without a movement, Zelda managed to make every glass in the room burst as her heart was shredded into tiny little pieces.

"Enjoying myself." Mary said and smirked at her. A smirk Zelda had seen one too many times. How stupid she had been. This had been Mary's plan all along. To seduce her, make her fall in love and then break her into tiny pieces.

"What about us?" She said and her voice grew so small. Nothing from the confident witch she had been seconds ago was left.

Laughter filled the room and the brunette clutched her stomach in amusement.

"Us? There never was an 'us'. Do you really think I would be with someone as pathetic as you? Someone as jealous and untrusting as you?" Mary laughed at her and Zelda didn't know what hurt more. The words or the actual fact of seeing Mary saying them with no regret.

"So you have been playing me the entire time?"

"Honey, I would never in a million years want to be with someone like you." Mary said and the certainty in her voice made Zelda hurt even more. The tears were flowing freely and her entire body erupted with sobs.

She couldn't believe her eyes and she didn't want to believe her ears. It wasn't the betrayal that hurt the worst, it was knowing that their relationship had meant nothing to Mary.

"Look at you. Crying over words that you know are true. You have known all along that you're not good enough. Not for me, not for anybody. You're not loveable."

Zelda fell to the floor, feeling as if somebody had just stabbed her. She knew the words were true and she didn't want to accept the fact that she had been foolish once again. What did she think would happen? She wasn't made for a happy life.

"You will never find anybody who will love you, Zelda."

It was true and Zelda wanted nothing rather than to just die. What was her life without Mary? She would never be able to live with the knowledge, so she reached for the shattered glass on the floor.

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I'm sorry? I'll try to update asap especially after that cliffhanger! <3