Enchantment (90 page)

Deep
sadness filled
her soul.
She couldn’t
m
a
k
e
him return her feelings. More
than
an
y
t
h
ing else
in
the
w
orld,
she
w
i
shed
she
could,
but
nothing
w
ould
m
ake
it
happen.
In
a
m
ome
n
t
of
self- pit
y
,
she
wondered
why it
seemed
i
m
possible
for
an
y
o
n
e
to
love
her.
The
one
thing
she desperate
l
y
wanted
w
a
s
for
so
m
ebo
d
y
to
love
her
the
w
a
y
she
loved—to
love
her
like
nothing else
in
the
universe
existed.
U
ncondition
a
l,
all
enco
m
p
assing,
Earth
-
s
hattering
love.

Who
wouldn’t
fall
him
love
with
hi
m
?
He
w
a
s
strong,
confident,
and
full
of
honor.
But
it w
a
s
over
n
o
w.
This
w
a
sn’t
her
w
orld,
and
she
had
to
return
ho
m
e… s
o
m
ehow.
She’d
alwa
y
s have
her
m
emor
i
es
of
him
and
w
hat
the
y
’d
shared.
H
ow
would
she
ever
forget?
It
w
ould
be i
m
possible.
S
he’d
never
forget,
and
would
never
w
ant
to.
Her
heart
w
a
s
breaking,
but
s
he
w
ouldn’t
have
changed
a
thing.
She’d
never
regret
a
m
ome
n
t
she
spent
with
hi
m
.

The
bed
s
heets
were
a
j
u
m
bled
mess
with
the
evidence
of
her
lost
m
a
idenhood.
Tears continued
to
flow
as
Meeka
washed
up
and
co
n
j
ured
so
m
e
p
a
j
amas
from
the
closet.
S
he wandered
back to
the bed
and
grabbed
the
pillow
his head
had rested
on. Hugging
his pillow,
s
he carried
it
back
to
his
bedroo
m
, even
though
s
he
knew
he
wouldn’t
be
there.
Catz
looked
up
at
her as
s
he
entered
the
roo
m
. Meeka
looked
at
Catz
and
broke
out
sobbing.

Catz
patted
the
bed
with
her
paw.
“
D
o
y
ou
want
to
talk
about
it
?
”

Meeka
stu
m
b
l
ed
across
the
room
and
dropped
the
pillow
to
wrap
her
ar
m
s
around
Catz. “You
love
the
big
goof,
don’t
y
o
u
?
”
Catz
asked
gent
l
y
.

She
s
wiped
the
tears away
from
her
cheeks,
her
sobs
s
ettled to
hiccups.

“Well,
there
could
be
wo
r
se
people
to
fall
in
love
with…I
think,”
Catz
said
with
sarcas
m
. “So
m
e
t
imes
love
hurts.”

“I
j
u
st
want
to
be
with
him
alw
a
y
s
,
and
I
kn
o
w
it’s
i
m
possible.”
Her
tears
started
flowing again.

“Nothing
is
i
m
possible.”

“It
see
m
s
i
m
possible.
It
doesn’t
m
a
t
ter,
an
y
w
a
y
.
Kerrigan
and
I
aren’t
m
e
ant
for
each
other. He
’
s
the
Enforcer
and
I’m
from
another
world
w
here
he
can’t come
to. Even
if he
could
come
to my
world,
once
he
la
y
s
e
y
e
s on
my
parents,
he’ll
never
w
ant
an
y
t
h
ing to
do
with
m
e
.
”

Catz
s
poke
sl
o
w
l
y
.
“Nothing
is
ever
as
it
see
m
s.
I
don’t
think
y
ou
have
given
Kerrigan enough
credit,
and
as
for
y
o
u
r
parents,
there’s
another
sto
r
y
there,
too.”

Puzzled,
Meeka
stared
at her.
“
What
do
mean?
What
sto
r
y
?
There
is
no
other
sto
r
y
.
Th
e
y
’
re drun
k
s.
Alw
a
y
s have
been,
and
I’ve
alwa
y
s
been
stupid
enough
to
keep
loving
th
e
m
.”

Catz
sat
silent
for
a
m
oment
before
she
continued.
“
Le
m
rens
like
m
e
usual
l
y
w
atch
over
the hu
m
an
species
on
Earth.
But
so
m
et
i
m
e
s,
so
m
ebo
d
y
like
y
ou
comes
along,
and
we
are
sent
to watch
over
y
o
u.
M
eeka,
y
o
u are
not
just
the
of
f
spring
from
two
hu
m
ans.”

Not
from
two
huma
n
s?

“Catz
what
are
y
o
u getting
at
?
”

“Meeka,
y
o
u
r
father
is
not
the
drunk
y
ou
know.”
Catz
shifted,
sitting
up
s
o
her
front
pa
w
s stretched
out
before
her.
“No,
y
o
ur father
is
a
m
an of
m
a
n
y
talents and
m
uch
power.”