Something is wrong...
How is it possible, that one night made looking at Thomas cause a feeling of bliss in me? My lips spontaneously stretch in a wide smile, my heart starts beating restlessly fast, a flock of butterflies flies in my stomach, and a pleasant shiver passes along my spine and down my neck.
I feel as if I am in love with him.... this is the first time, I've experienced this feeling. It's strange, especially since I've been in a fairly long relationship with Victor before, and my body has never reacted this way to the sight of him. I didn't feel the same way even when he kissed me.... we had more of a friendly relationship because I loved spending time with him, and letting myself go wild.
What's the point? How can you love in one night a demon, who previously caused feelings of anger in me?
I am one hundred percent sure that he did something to me, which is why can't I restrain myself in his company. He cast a spell on me to win a bet.
He's a wily beast.
- Did you sleep well, Jennie? - he asks me, as I have been silent for several minutes, looking at him with sparkling eyes.
I want to scream that he's a scoundrel, and throw myself at him with my fists, but my body stops me from doing so. I am in no position to cause him harm.
Instead of challenging him, I smile broadly and speak in a gentle voice:
- I didn't decide yesterday, but I chose you, Thomas. - I blink my eyelids, and lift my leg up, acting like a girl in love.
The demon looks pleased. He comes up to me, puts his hand on my head and whispers in my ear:
- Never take candy from Cupid. You will die from unhappy love.
His whisper makes me feel ticklish all over my body.
I am possessed, I swear.
In my mind I shout that he is a sick bastard, but my tongue speaks other words aloud:
- For the love of you, I can die even now.
Out of nowhere appears Victor, who from behind tightly embraces me at the waist and presses his face into my hair.
- You can't decide him! You can't break my heart.... You are mine, Jennie. I will die without you!
I try to break away from him, currently feeling revulsion towards him. I want Thomas to be the one to embrace me.
Well, yes, I'm obsessed with Tom, and Vic is obsessed with me, since Cupid stuck an arrow in his ass yesterday.
And it's all clear.
Victor holds me tightly around the waist, and I grab Thomas's hand, with my eyes pleading with him to free me from the paws of the beast.
- What kind of melodrama is this? - asks Andy as he walks past us.
- I will do anything for you, but let me free you, Thomas," I say in a weepy voice.
- I won't give you up for any reason, Jennie. You are mine and mine alone. - Victor's embrace intensifies, making me run out of air.
Cupids are running around us, sensing strong love. They are joyful and full of energy.
- Get to work and don't just love yourselves, you little freeloaders. - Andy turns to the cheerful children, for which he gets a slap on the head from Lisa.
- Are you crazy? Alcohol has gnawed your brain? These are children, materialist! You tell everyone to go to work, while you yourself do nothing but drink vodka, play bloody games and whine!
Angel looks at the redhead with wide-open eyes.
- You hit me!
- Yes, and I'm going to pour a rag over your face if you still giggle in the evenings with that slut Irene! - This time she hits him on the shoulder, and her eyes are full of fury. - I'm not going to suffer because of my one-sided love for you! I'm becoming more aggressive by the day because of it, and these are the first symptoms of a grumpy old woman!
- What a flame of passion! - shouts excitedly the child in the pampers, spilling golden magic dust between them. - Let this house ignites with love!
Andy reaches Lisa, embraces her face with his hands, and kisses her so passionately that it becomes the main attraction of this morning.
- It's not bad," I respond, still being squeezed by Victor.
- I always said it was a train.... I thought it would derail, but Cupids changed the track, and took this train in a different direction. Astonishing.
Tapping her pins against the floor, an enraged Irene comes down the stairs and grabs Cupids by the hair. She lifts them up and throws them out the door. She does the same with more, paying no attention to their loud cries.
- Get out, you little bastards, and don't come back here! I've had enough of you!
From that kiss, Lisa's head is spinning. Andy protects her from falling and, holding her in his arms, smiles compellingly.
- Don't worry, honey, I will always be your knight already. - He lets go of her eye, which is terrifying to her.
- I think I preferred when you were unavailable to me," she says in a low voice, then adds louder. - Do any of you have the number for the madhouse?
- You should know it perfectly well, slut, it seemed to me that you spent half your life there," interjects Irene maliciously.
*
It's been a long time since there was such a circus in this house. I'm madly in love with the demon I've lived with so far, like Tom and Jerry, Victor is obsessed with me, and Andy wants to form a happy relationship with Lisa. He regrets that he lived in a friend zone for so many years.
- You are the perfect woman. I'm sorry I treated you so badly.... - Andy embraces Lisa's hands, which I look at with furrowed brows.
This is the first time I have to praise Irene for throwing the disobedient brats outside. They only made an unnecessary fuss.
The queen of hell isn't so bad after all, since she conjured up equipped kennels for them in the garden, with a door on the handle.
So what if Garm lives better than them? At least they weren't dumped on the street.
- Jennie, bring me a cherry cola and put a cherry in it. - Thomas' words are a command to me.
- Anything for you," he tears out of my mouth as I run toward the kitchen.
The demon is sprawled comfortably on the couch and puts his hands behind his head, looking at Victor with superiority.
- You, too, are finishing yourself off because of unhappy love.... Jennie loves me to madness.
- It doesn't matter, since I would give my life for her out of love. - Victor slaps his hand on his chest, doing it too melodramatically.
I run with a cherry Coke, not controlling my behavior. I swear I'm under a strong spell, because I would do anything for Thomas.
The demon takes the glass from me, and winks at me in gratitude.
Lisa sighs loudly, and looks at her twin.
- All three of them are not thinking rationally now, so what consequences will they suffer when the spell passes? - she turns to her brother, fed up with Andy's crying, who has been apologizing to her for the past few minutes for her treatment.
- It's a charm cast by Cupids, so they'll be fine. It will pass and they will return to normalcy. - She shrugs her shoulders.
I rest my cheek on Thomas's shoulder and close my eyelids, smelling his wonderful perfume. This incredible moment lasts only three seconds, as Victor grabs my elbow and pulls me close with a jerk.
- Don't break my heart when I sit next to you.
- You're the one breaking my heart by forcing an affection I don't have for you! - I yell at him.
- I feel the same way," mutters Tom, putting a cherry in his mouth.
I look at him with sympathetic eyes.
- I'm sorry if I hurt you this way.
- What are you apologizing to him for? Piss off this scumbag! I'm the real man for you! - Victor slaps his chest again, then grabs my hand and puts his palm to his heart. - Feel how hard it beats at the sight of you....
I would rather not feel it, so I try to pull my hand out of his grasp, but he doesn't let me.
Lisa looks at us with pity.
- How long will this last...
- The shortest for Andy, as he has been sprinkled with magic dust. In a few hours, he should start thinking rationally. In Victor's case, two days, since he was shot in the butt, and in Jennie's case.... quite a long time. - Irene, who enters the living room, gives us an outline of the charm cast.
- How can you know that? - Lisa snorts under her breath.
- Because before I fell I was an angel, a rag.
The only person who is not surprised by this confession is Andy. That would explain why he, and Irene have a good rapport with each other.
They know each other from the past...
My friend looks disturbed by this news.
- The queen of hell was an angelic?
- Of the highest rank," she replies with her arms crossed on her chest. - And now someone must take responsibility for depriving me of my wings. - With fascination in her eyes, she looks at Andy, who is nervously breathing.
- Lisa, dearest, should we have a glass of wine? - changes the subject, trying to stop Irene before she says a few words too many.
The redhead is no fool. She realizes that Irene's secret is connected to Andy.
- Is that why he let you stay in his house? He feels guilty about the past, so he intends to placate you?
- Something like that... - drags the queen of hell, unequivocally smiling. - But let's not go back to the past. I like the present better.
Lisa gets up from the couch, and with a hasty step walks away towards her room.
- I'm going to go see if Cupid needs anything. - I walk toward the exit door and stick out a warning finger when I notice that Victor intends to keep me company. - Don't move either. You stay in the house.
My order works, because he squats back on the couch, looking at me with the face of a beaten puppy.
I step outside and look around the garden, noticing that the lights are on in all the kennels. In one, the door opens, and a smile appears on my face as Cupid runs up to me and hugs my leg.
He's the fake who made me fall in love with Thomas. Despite everything, I still adore him.
- I should beat you up for what you did. You deceived me.
- No, mother Jennie. I protected you. Soon you will need a strong person who will stand by your side despite adversity. In visions of the future, we have noticed that Thomas will be the being who will support you to the very end. He will be the one to stand by your side when the rest turn their backs on you. This spell is supposed to help you convince yourself of him, to trust him.
- Why should everyone turn away from me? After all, Andy is my guardian, I possess a particle of him inside me....
- And because of this particle you are in danger, mother Jennie.
I push the child away from me and look at him with concern in my eyes.
- What are you talking about?
- The other day when you had the accident, you should have died. Andy took pity on you, but all help has a finite time. Soon you will have to die; otherwise the Angel will lose his wings. You will completely take away his powers, and he will go to hell. He will meet the same situation as Irene.
- What?
- Irene was Andy's guardian, she also gave him a part of her angelic power so that he would not die, but out of love for him, she allowed him to become an angel. She sacrificed herself and ended up in hell....
- So you're saying that Andy will let me die, and Thomas will be the only one to stand by my side?
- This is the picture of the future that we have seen, but this picture can change.... nothing is determined yet, Jennie's mom.
Cupid runs off to the kennel, and I stand in the middle of the garden, listening to the ocean waves.
I am terrified by the words I heard from the child's mouth.
Must I die to protect Andy's wings?
My heart begins to beat harder as someone embraces me from behind at the waist and puts his chin on my shoulder.
I have no doubt that it is Thomas. The charm is still working in his presence and will probably continue to work for a long time to come....
- I won't let you die, Jennie. Who will I tease if you are gone? Since you came into my life, it's been a long time since I've had so much fun....
Chills shake my body.
He knows.