Chapter 4:

One and Only

For the rest of the evening they had dinner at the castle prepared by their incredible chefs and Annie was shown around the Emerald City.

Afterwards, Oscar sent Finley and China Girl to keep Annie occupied while he went off with Glinda to give her the gift he got her. The two of them walked hand in hand out to the beautiful gardens of the castle.

Oscar found it odd suddenly having Annie here. He had all but put Annie out of his mind since he'd started his new life here and now that she was around again he didn't know how to feel.

He had certainly loved Annie. She had been the kind and gentle calmness that balanced out his unpredictable bad behavior. Maybe he would still be with Annie if he hadn't screwed up so much. If it weren't for all of the lying and deceiving he did for a living and the indecisiveness about whether or not he wanted to be with Annie and the casual flings behind her back she wouldn't have left him. It was his fault and he knew it.

He had been young and flirtatious when he and Annie first met. He was handsome and charming and he knew it and he had any woman he wanted and didn't care. Then she came around. She had been the only one to come close to taming him. She was different. And while she had been the only girl he ever truly loved at that point, he couldn't shake his old ways. Eventually she grew on him for real and she was the only woman he wanted.

But by then it was too late.

He knew John Gale. The two of them had met many times. John was everything that Oscar wasn't and didn't want to be. Family oriented, tied down, had a 9 to 5 job, predictable, and gentlemanly. He was the type of man that any woman with a stable future wanted and deserved. Maybe that was why Annie chose John, he was everything that she wanted in Oscar that he couldn't be.

"It's a lovely night," Glinda said suddenly breaking Oscar out of her thoughts.

"Not as lovely as you are Glinda," he said.

She looked up at him lovingly. "You're so sweet," she said before kissing him.

Oscar was a changed man now. Being in OZ has done that to him, defeating the evil witches and liberating a group of people had done it, and Glinda had done it. She was the only woman who could ever tame Oscar completely. She did what Annie couldn't do. She trusted him, she believed in him, and she captured his heart like no other.

Because of that she was the only woman his heart belonged to and ver would belong to.

He put his forehead to hers and looks into her sparkling blue eyes. "I got something for you today."

"Ooh what is it?" She said excitedly.

He laughed at her bubbliness. "Close your eyes."

She closed her eyes with a wide smile on her face.

"No peeking."

"I promise."

He took out the necklace and put it on her. "Open your eyes."

She looked down at it and gasped. "Oz it's beautiful!" She wrapped her arms around him and started kissing him. "Thank you so much sweet heart!"

He chuckled. "I knew you'd like it." He hugged her and kissed her some more. "I love you Glinda, you'll always be the woman of my heart."

"I love you to the edge of the universe and back Oz."