Chapter 26 Melanie: Police & Relationships

Chapter 26 Police & Relationships

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At the police station, Melanie gave all the details of her relationship, minus her being a witch and of their break up. She told the police how he tried to get her back, but she declined, and at the time he seemed ok with that. She thought it was a normal break up. The cops told her they had searched his apartment and there were photos of her all over the walls. He had carved her name into his arm too. They knew he was the stalker but needed proof. Melanie produced a video of her apartment being ramshackle and James doing it. She had viewed the tape first in case the birdcage moved, Griffin turned into a griffin, or any other magic was taking place. All was quiet on the whole video until James busted in her door and destroyed her home. Amazingly he left his deceased best friends items alone, though he did steal his guitar. Melanie was ok with this as she was never going to be a rock star playing guitar. She honestly sucked at it. 

The police took the surveillance and went to another room. Melanie waited and the cops came back in. They said it was an air shut case, but he would do minimum time since this was his first offense and that she will be told when he is up for parole if she would want to speak on his case. She nodded she understood and went to get up and Ryan walked in. She first was annoyed when he said: “I thought you could use some lunch” and how could Melanie be mad at that. She smiled at him and said, “I’m starved!” They left the police station, but not before Melanie thought she saw a dark shadow lurking at her. She turned with a jerk to see who it was, but it was gone. Ryan asked if she was ok and she nodded yes, but she thought she saw a dark realm minion stalking her. That was impossible. They were all destroyed by now. They could only live so long without Gerd. Melanie shook the idea from her head and headed to lunch with her hand wrapped in Ryan’s and her heart wearing heavy on her sleeve.

After a nice lunch with Ryan, he told Melanie he had to go back to work. She said ok, they kissed quickly on the lips, and she said she would stay a little longer and enjoy a hot cider. He offered to pay for it, but she insisted she had it. He said goodbye again and walked off down the street. She watched him till he turned the corner and she could no longer see him. She sighed a deep sigh. It wasn't despairing, but the whole world seemed to be wearing on her. Her heartbroken with all James had done. She was glad her fiancé was deceased he would pummel James for his crap. She needed to get home and work on some herbal potions. It always centered her. She paid her waitress and headed to her local florist. They always kept fresh lavender in their inventory. She also needed a little bit of mistletoe. The holidays were coming and she liked to hang sprigs of it over all the doorways. 

Once home Melanie kicked off her boots, placed her herbs on the counter, and finally took a real deep breath. This whole fiasco with James was insane. Why would he do this to her, to their memory, to her home? She cried for the first time in a long time about the loss of her fiancé. If he was here she wouldn’t be going through all this. She knew being mad at him was useless, but she missed him so much. Perhaps Ryan was a bad thing, but she would take it slow. They hadn’t even really kissed and her butterflies were jumping in her stomach. She liked him, she always had, and it took her mom’s insistent nudging to get her to notice her attraction to her waiter. She was thankful her mom was close now and taking an interest in her life, even if it was her love life. Melanie loved her family and was so protective of them too.

Melanie loosened up her lavender bunch, placed her mistletoe in a basket on the counter, and took out some other antique bottles from the cabinet. To anyone else, they would see herbs for cooking, but she knew they were to make potions. Not all her potions had magic in them; she made some for cleaning, purging, bathing, and cooking. She used her herbs in all she did and she poured her emotions into the mix. She needed something to uncontaminated the place. To get out all the negative energy she felt in her home. She needed to move past thinking she saw shadows and that she was being targeted again. There were numerous witches in the area and she knew she was just being paranoid.

Melanie broke the mistletoe into pieces small enough to hang over her doorways. Mistletoe brings healing, protection, and love to all who are around it. All three of these things Melanie could use. Lucious would be kissed under each sprig over and over till he giggled in her arms. She put on her fiancé’s Christmas Cd’s even though it was a bit away and she moved around the apartment she floated on a sea of memories of their first Christmas together. He danced her around the whole apartment, they throwing flour on each other as they baked side by side, and they sang along to the Christmas Cds at the top of their lung. He did not even comment on how off key she was. She smiled all the way to her heart at these memories. She knew he was with her in spirit. She knew then that she would need to slow things down even more with Ryan. After her fiancé's death, her ex-boyfriend destroying her home, that she could just not handle another relationship at the holidays. She would need to talk to Ryan and see if he would wait for her till after the holidays. She needed it to be her, her mom, and her son this year. Melanie was pouring all of these feelings into her herbal mixture, and then she took a bath with it and soaked in the pain of the memory of what her life once was. She seems to be frozen in time with her life, but after her year she needed a little time locked up with her family safe and secure.

I love that you are all enjoying Melanie. We are about half way through her story, so much more is coming down the pike for Melanie.

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