Synopsis: We get a glimpse of Olivia's fear of the Witch's words as Joshua doesn't want to accept the fact that they are soulmates and continues to date other girls.
The Joyful Witch's words pounded in her head as I was laying in her bed, at home. She realised that begging a witch to put an end to her suffering was overdramatic, that she is still young and that she just has to believe she can get better, that there is more to life than the hurtful words people say to her every single day. The words that suck all the happiness out of her, every single moment of relief.
And he didn't believe Lizzy. He had a date this night. The girl was going to die. And it was all Olivia's fault. Had she not gone to that witch, she would've never found out that her and Joshua were soulmates and the curse wouldn't have been activated. But she had gone to Lizzy and now a girl was going to pay the price. She begged Joshua to cancel the date, but he refused. He thought the witch was lying. He told her he felt bad that she was struggling with her mental health, but that he thought the witch was bluffing and that he wasn't interested in her as he had just asked another girl out.
Olivia wasn't interested in Joshua, either. She wasn't interested in anyone until she'd get better. She couldn't love anyone because she couldn't love her life. So not getting in a relationship with that boy didn't bother her, what did bother her was the fact that he rejected the words of the Joyful Witch! She shouldn't have taken him out of that obedience spell. They could've ordered him to not go out with any girl.
But that didn't happen, so now she had to live with a skeleton in her closet.
And so at three in the morning, she was shaken out of her sleep by a confused Joshua, a Joshua who couldn't quite decide what he felt - anger, sadness, fear, shock.
"It is all your fault!" he yelled.
The girl looked confused at him as she had just been woken up in not a very nice way, but before the boy could say something else it hit her and she started crying, hysterically.
"It truly is! I shouldn't have gone to the Joyful Witch! You must promise: you will not go on dates, ever again. I don't want to be with you, either."
"Okay, I promise. I guess we'll just live our lives in loneliness..."
Ștefania's note: Hiii🤍, I know this short story is objectively bad and that it should have stayed in *deep voice* the crypt, however I'd already posted about it on Instagram and I couldn't back off! I'll be honest, I ran out of motivation after the first paragraph as I'd gotten a new idea and I was like why did I already post that I was writing this on Instagram? If this is the first short story of mine that you've read - I'm sorry, please give me another chance with one of my favourites (The Siren's Call , The delinquents , Down by the Lake ,Forlorn) and if you've already read something else of mine and you've enjoyed it and you are now disappointed, don't be! Good things coming real soon! (And also thank you💜)