The sunlight shone through the sheer white curtains of the hotel bedroom. Magica's velvet dress from the night before lay neatly on the small chair near the balcony window. Clothes and shoes were sprawled out through the room. A small pile of earrings sat on the nightstand beside the bed. Inside the crumpled disarray of pillows and blankets, Magica nuzzled herself into Gladstone's chest. He opened his eyes and kissed her forehead.

"Still blaming that wish?" He trailed kisses down to her cheek.

"Mmhmm…fuck you." Magica cuddled in closer to him.

"I though that's what you-"

Magica uppercut Gladstone while he laughed at her. She pulled herself out of his arms and adjusted his shirt on his body.

"So what now?" He asked, rubbing his jaw.

"What do you mean, 'what now?'" She turned her back at him.

He got up and hugged her from behind, kissing her cheek. "We have a problem: I like you. You like me. What are we gonna do about it?"

"I…I don't know." She pushed him off of her. Magica got up and dug through the dresser, pulling out her classic black and red dress. "I'm not thinking that far ahead…"

Gladstone sat cross-legged in the bed, the blanket covering the lower half of his body. "Could you at least toss me some pants?"

She reached over and dug through his designated drawer. She pulled out some linen green striped bottoms and tossed them at him.

"Happy?" She spat. Gladstone shuffled under the blanket to put on the pants.

"Magica…are you oka-"

"Gladstone, we just- I can't…uuuggggh" She groaned and wiped her face with her hands in frustration. "How can you be so relaxed with this? We like each other. Our families hate each other. We just…"

"Had sex?" Gladstone shrugged.

Her cheeks flushed "We crossed a fucking line, Gladstone! We shouldn't have done that!" She screamed.

"So you're saying that all this…it was a mistake?"

Magica screamed and threw her dress on the floor. She grabbed her clutch from the night before and pulled out the magenta vile.

"Rosolio came up to me last night. Gave me this. Told me to take it. It's the same love potion as the one I slipped you. It doesn't work on people who are already in love with the target person." She threw the potion in the trash bin nearby. "Gladstone, I...I love you and I can't deal with that."

Tears fell down her face. "I can't deal with it, and I don't know if I even want to move forward and work this out or just...give up!"

Gladstone got up and held her in his arms.

"I want to."

Magica looked up at him. "You want-"

"Magica, You are the most stubborn, arrogant, deceitful witch I have ever met. You've used me countless times for that dime and broke my heart. You spent almost a month in my home and dragged me to Italy to drug up some guy your grandmother kept trying to push on you. You've insulted me, hit me, for all I know, you've probably even cursed me, and yet…I love you."

He looked down at her and held her face in his hands. "I am the laziest bastard in the world who only gets what he wants because he inherited his luck from his mother. I have never had to work for anything."

He wiped her tears with his thumbs. "But for this, for you…I'd work a million shitty jobs just to be with you."

Gladstone kissed her on the forehead.

"I don't think I could…" Magica whimpered.

Gladstone's chest fell. They stood in the room, the silence echoing in their heads.

"Then…how about we keep this trip to ourselves." He held her in his chest. "Let's stay together here, for now. When it's time for us to go…you can decide if you want to come back with me."

"But-"

"Even if you don't come with me…if you don't…" He bit his lip. "If you don't want to be with me…you could still visit."

Magica clutched Gladstone tight.

"I wished for you to be happy, no matter what you do."

She looked up, his green eyes stained red from holding back tears. She wiped them away and kissed him.


A/N: Im not crying, you're crying. You're crying. Okay, I might be crying with you.

Please leave all tears in a bottle in the reviews, as well as in my ask box. They shall be recycled.

Thank you guys, and I'm sorry for the feels.

Love you

~Alex

p.s. Heartbreak to come next