Short Stories

Life's Unfair Balance

Reesa's POV

On a cold winter night, while the chilly wind blew and all the candles out, I walked around my mirror, holding my chin.
Seemed like a good day to summon lover boy. To put an end to his suffering.

In the gold glittery spell book, in an ancient drawer, lay the only one that could summon himself.

Hearing the plea in her mind, the dresser shook for a few seconds and stopped.

Sparkly red mist covered the room and slowly cleared away revealing a seductor with dark, mysterious eyes.

"Missed me already?"

"Ugh, I told you not be cocky when you're summoned Yera."

I walked over to my chair and sat looking at the young man in the mirror.

"Are you here to talk about our divorce?"

"You're mine, I'm not letting you go." I replied with an annoyed tone.

Yera grumbled and crossed his arms with a slight smile.

"You should've let me go ten years ago." The cocky boy said with a smirk.

"I'm not just gonna make you-"

"Leave you just like that? Reesa, we talked about this. One minute you were ready to let me go, the next, you're casting a spell to trap my soul in a fucking mirror. Don't get me wrong, it's paradise over here, but I don't want that. I want darkness. The thing I looked forward to the most."

Author's POV

Reesa wanted the best for him. All things gold and to show her gratefulness. She felt bad on multiple occasions that she never let him experience a peaceful death. One where he doesn't have to worry, see or deal with human kind anymore. He hated them. Some of them were naive, while some were stupid or evil as fuck.

Reesa contemplated letting him go, but she couldn't stand the fact of not seeing him again.

Promising him she was gonna let him go was one thing, but actually letting him go turnt into chaos all over again.

Just because of that, Yera didn't talk to her for almost a year.

He wanted peace, not some fake place. But the more he stayed there, the more he regretted wanting to leave her on her own while she was mentally sick and he was her only cure from the world and vice versa.

"Hey.... I'm sorry about that okay? I was just..."

"It's okay, really. Being with you seems more fun than dying anyways."

"I took away your right of experiencing something you always wanted. That's unforgivable."

"Yet I already forgave you."

Reesa looked up at the charmer and rolled her eyes.

"Seductive as always."

"Only for you dear."

He winked at her and she let a giggle escape, holding out her hand.

He grabbed onto it, and was pulled out almost instantly.

He hugged his wife in his arms, only to feel tears on his shirt.

He gently pulled away and lifted up her face, not feeling any energy coming from her.

Which was strange, since he could always feel her aura from the other side of the mirror.

He didn't even notice that he didn't feel it then.

"Sweetheart, what's wrong?"

She took his hand and lead him out to the balcony.

Yera's POV

Reesa was acting strange all of her a sudden, took my hands in her baby soft ones and lead me outside to the balcony where I wanted to jump off once long ago.

"Honey, what are we doing out here?"

She turned to me with red eyes, which got me alarmed.

"Let's try what should've happened five years ago, again."

I furrowed my eyebrows and looked at her strangely.

"What?"

"Even you and I know that you can't stay here forever....the balance of life and death is important, even if you're the most important creature to me."

She cried, trying to hold in her sobs of pain.

I sighed and hugged her, knowing she was right and smiled.

"How am I sure that incident that happened five years ago, won't happen again?"

She gave me a sad look and pointed to the neckless around my tie on our nightstand.

I looked at it confused for a second, then realization hit me.

"An energy weakening spell?"

"I really want to make up for what I did." She said, struggling to let her voice break.

I breathed in slowly, and hugged her once again.

"I want you to know, that mistake, although it was bad, it was the best mistake so don't ever beat yourself up for it, okay?"

"She was starting to faint, so he laid her on the balcony swing, giving her a kiss on her head, and sweet dreamy kiss on her dry lips."

"Until we meet, again, Reesa." Tears filled his eyes as he said that sentence.

Reesa was too weak to give more than a smile. Too weak to notice a tear slipped down her eye.

Too weak to notice his marshmallow-kissed, sunset smile.

Her closed eyes missing the graceful fall he took down the balcony.