10 December 2012
The wind lifting the tails of his suit jacket, and playing with strands of his thick, chestnut hair.
"So it's come to this." he said. "I'm sorry Chris, I don't love you anymore." She replied looking awkwardly at her hands, she knew that if she made eye contact he would be able to read her like a book.
"Just like that! You've fallen out of love with me, how?" his voice was soft almost pleading, and she thought how vulnerable he looked even though he was tall and well built, but at this moment in time he looked like a young boy. She had never wanted to hurt him, it was all she could do to fight back the tears. But she knew he could never know the truth.
Her mind recalled the events of the past couple of days......... ______
It had been a day much like any other when her grandmother had called and told her she wanted to see her. She wished she could've turned back the clock and not gone, but would it have saved her? no it would only have prolonged things, she remembered the shock she had felt when her grandmother had told her of her mothers true origins.
Jess knew very little about her Mother, she had died when she was only four years old whenever she asked her Father about her he would change the subject. She thought it was because of his grief unaware of the secret that was being kept from her
Her mother was in fact a high priestess of the occult, who had used magic to make Jess's father fall in love with her, but when Jess had been born his love was transferred over to her. He didn't seem to have room to love them both.
Jess's mother in her anger put a curse on Jess that upon obtaining the age of twenty one any man that she fell in love with would be destined to a life of torment as Jess's dark magic got more and more powerful.
Her Grandmother had told her that the dark magic would increase and eventually take over transforming her beautiful character into something twisted and evil like it had her mother.
Jess had been besides herself trying to work through everything in her head, trying to make sense of the information she'd been given. She knew she had no choice, that there was only one way out of this.
She had decided on the night of her twenty first birthday party that she would talk to Chris... _____
Her body had been found the next day by her Grandmother, she had taken her own life. Chris was never told, this had been her wish that she had conveyed to her Grandmother.
A Selfless Act • Opuss № I