Until Eternity BxB

chapter 12

It was the year 1298 the day that everything started tumbling downhill.

Honestly I didn't know if I was in the wrong or not, I didn't know if I deserved this curse or not. I had spent hundreds of years trying to convince myself that this curse was my fault. If I had acted differently on that day then nothing would have happened and I would have died in the same century I was born. I was angry that I couldn't live a normal life and that overruled a lot of my emotions and actions.

I was nineteen , A new woman had moved in close to our house . She was loved in the community, all of then men wanted to take her , to claim her as his own. I honestly didn't see what all the fuss was about. She may have beautiful black hair and stormy gray eyes but She just wasn't attractive to me. I had spend a lot of time with some girls, but I never got into a serious relationship, I wasn't really forced to either as my family was poor. My family had lost all hope in me finding love with someone who actually could earn enough money so that we would improve our status.

Though what I didn't expect was for the woman to be interested in me. I wasn't impolite to her, I had taken her out a few times to try and get to know her, but I didn't love her, heck I didn't even like her! She was rude, she gossiped and spread rumours about every single person that we passed who gave us a polite smile and a greeting. Something that I beamed at, no one really smiled at me politely, often telling me to keep my hands to myself. When you're poor everyone expects you to be a pickpocket or a thief.

She didn't take politely to me turning her down, she was angered of course and she was insulted. I know this because she screamed it in my face when she locked me in her house. Curses don't come from nothing. There has to be a method, you can't just have a negative disposition towards someone and then suddenly they're cursed. Most of what she said was a blur, like static in your ears with your head pounding so loud it blocks everything out. I know that she was drawing energy and light from the candles , I know that there was herbs in the air and that there was something I dared not look at .

Her name was Alviva, it was quite a common yet powerful name at the time but it is very out dated, such as my own name. I had spent seven hundred years with her words in my head "If you shall not love me then you shall love another! but it will be snatched away from you as you snatched it away from me!" That line didn't make much sense to me. how had I taken any love from her? I did not harbour any love for her which is true. but she could have kings! prices! royalty! why would she want a poor man like me who needs to work every waking hour just to put food on the table and shelter over his family's heads? I didn't take away anything from her, I just wasn't attracted to her.

With those memories flooding back I was brought to the present where a smirking Alviva stood. She does this often enough, she comes to see if her curse is still effecting me as much as it should and if i'm miserable enough. The first few visits she got my hopes up, hope that she would rid me of the curse and let me live a free man. I am always disappointed when she just gives snide comments about my current crush. Comments such as "yet you never looked at me like that, yet i'm much prettier" and "hmm I didn't know you fancied those types of people." the later referring to the same gender. She didn't approve really , because she was female and attractive and an ignorant witch she didn't approve of me having feelings for a feature that she didn't have, masculinity

"Hello Alviva, how are you doing this fine day?" my cheery mood seemed to aggravate her...good. "I'm just here to make sure that you are miserable...what is it this time? disapproving parents? inability to talk? raging emotional issues?" What is odd is that she actually listed things that I had experienced before , yet Maddox had none of those features, he seemed to have lovely parents -or at least a lovely mother - He definitely had no issues talking , though that hadn't been much of an issue in my last relationship , he was mute but we were still going pretty strong it was an unfortunate accident, which honestly hurt more then any other rejection I have had. Maddox had admitted to having some emotional issues but at least he didn't try to attack me for talking to him. This curse is complicated. The man was attractive but I did not find his personality attractive at all.

I decided to tease her a bit, if i'm cursed what was she going to do? she can't make the curse any worse , magic doesn't work that way, trust me I've done my fair bit of research. "Actually lovely Maddox is quite the opposite, his mother is lovely , he can talk non-stop and well aren't all emotions somewhat unstable? I mean we all have our moments." she scoffed and walked towards my settee "I see you've adapted to modern times well-" she looked me up and down "well except for your sense of style, you really should do something about your hair." offended I took my hair out of the ponytail it was in, just to spite her. I don't think she liked the fact that my hear was reaching the same length as hers, yes my hair still grows despite living forever, she said t was a gift for my curly hair, it used to be curly but as it grows long and longer it started to straighten out. I keep it that way because I like it and playing with it, But I also like it because it annoys her. It's the little things in life you know?

"Hey don't dis the hair! anyway Maddox has a visual impairment. what?" she seemed to be a little bit upset by the news for some reason "Oh nothing, hmm a visual impairment huh? well it's a shame he wont get to see how handsome you are." I narrowed my eyes at her, she was planning something. Something that I had said had upset her and knowing her it wasn't going to be good . "If you touch one hair on Maddox's head-" she interrupted my threat with laughter and the evil glint in her eyes returned.

"Don't be such a fool Chester! I have nothing against the boy, only you. There will be no harm done To Maddox Miller." What she had said immediately started ringing alarm bells "wait, I didn't tell you his sur-" I was once again interru[ted by her loud voice "Oh look at the time! I must be going , have a good evening Chester ....good luck." She summoned a portal and just disappeared, er well...she summoned fog and then walked away. it had the same effect though. I was confused and I din't like it. I hate being confused

Somehow she knew Maddox's full name without me telling her. That was strange, unless she had been stalking me which she is prone to doing . why did she pretend to not know him then? To see my reaction? to see how I spoke about him? To see if I would let my true feelings show? My questions were giving me more questions then answers at this point . I decided to go upstairs and write in my journal.

My journal is somewhat of a documentation of Alviva it's not stalker-ish it's I-want-to-get-this-curse-removed-ish. something bad always happens after she visits whether it be due to my attitude disintegrating as the lack of hope swallows me whole or she does something to ruin my happiness.

I just hope that Maddox is kept out of everything, I would hate for him to get hurt because of me.