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“Do you remember, darling? Remember those first few weeks? When we had just met? Oh, I was so awful to you. I really do wish you forgive me for it. I just didn’t know! Hadn’t a clue how to feel about you.”
Glinda quickly wiped away a tear that had found it’s way down her cheek, hoping it went unnoticed. She smiled to compensate for the tears. After all, she had always been taught one should hide her emotions in front of others. A lady never cries in public!
“But I did know. Deep down I knew how I truly felt. And at the time it scared me to death. It still does, if I’m being honest.”
Glinda clutched her blue dress, draped over the dirty ground. Mud and rain have caused it to wrinkle. The once beautiful material was torn at the edges, a silent echo of Glinda’s leap from her palace in the Emerald City to the empty clearing in the forest.
Her once enchantingly beautiful dress has lost it’s shimmer and sparkle long ago. The same thing could be said about her eyes, once sparkling with life. Oh, how things have changed.
“Oh, Elphie. If you had only known back then, what we might become in the future. Our start, our adventures...” Another tear rolled down a rosy cheek as she stared out into the empty space, nothing in it but a single marble statue. ‘The Wicked Witch’s Melting’, the small copper plate said.
“... and how we would end, of course. A bitter ending, that’s one thing that’s certain. But oh, how sweet our beginning was... How I loved you, my sweet Elphie. Even when I hated you, when you frightened me by being so inexplicably ‘you’, I still loved you..”