Arsenic and Young Zelda Part 8
"Zelda, you look magnificent!" Willard cried when he spotted his girlfriend. He couldn't believe that such a beautiful woman would want to go out with someone like him. He wrapped his arms around her and quickly kissed her. "That dress must have came from Mount Olympus because it makes you look like a goddess!"
"Oh, Willard!" Zelda cried as the waiter escorted them to their table. She could feel everyone in the restaurant watching them but she didn't care. Let the whole world watch if they wanted. She was with the most wonderful man in existence.
"Zelda, you look so beautiful tonight," Willard whispered into her ear a little while later. He didn't know why everyone in the restaurant kept staring at them. "It's almost as if you've been rejuvenated."
"I suppose it's excitement over my grant, not to mention being with you," Zelda said with a smile as she stood up. "I'll be right back. I just need to go and freshen up."
Zelda was adjusting her makeup in the ladies' room when an older woman came in. The woman stared at her for a moment before going to the sink beside the witch.
"I didn't think that coeds liked these kinds of restaurants. Are you here with your boyfriend, dear?" the woman asked.
"Yes," Zelda muttered as the woman left. 'She must have vision problems or something,' the witch thought. 'Anyone can see that I'm....' Just then Zelda caught a good look at her reflection in the mirror and gasped in horror. She did look like a college student!
"What's going on?" she muttered as she slumped back against the wall in shock. Now that she thought about it, she had had more energy today than she had had in centuries not to mention a few changes to her body. Her breasts had seemed a bit firmer and she had lost all of the aches that a witch tended to pick up over the years. She had thought her new exercise program was kicking in though.
Just then two women came walking in. One of them stopped and stared at Zelda with a frown before whispering to her companion, "I didn't think they let teenagers in here!"
'Teenager?' Zelda thought as she raced to the mirror and stared in horror at the young girl staring back at her. She looked roughly Sabrina's age. 'What am I going to do?' she thought. She couldn't face Willard again looking like this. If he was seen with her now, he could wind up in jail.