The door slammed and the lock clicked. Wanda leaned against the door, slamming the side of her fist into the door again and again. She leaned her tear-soaked face against the door, giving it one last slam with her fist. She turned, trying to get her breath back, but she was too hurt. Her heart felt like it was about to burst inside her chest, and she could barely breathe. She turned around, and slammed the back of her body into the door one more time, before slipping down the door to clutch her knees for life, sitting down on the bathroom floor.
How could he just keep throwing insults at her? Did he not feel anything for her? Or how about anything at all? Her twin sister, the one who hates her almost as much as she loves herself, wouldn't dare say those things about Wanda. Wanda swallowed hard, and realized that she was trembling. Her breath was still uneven and heavy. She tried to calm herself down, but she couldn't. His voice, Cosmo's voice, kept running through her head.
Mean. Fat. Selfish. Ugly.
More tears began to stream down her face, and she buried her head further into her knees. But suddenly, another voice entered her head. Someone had told her she was beautiful. Someone had told her she was the world to him. Someone told her that she was worth something to somebody.
Juandissimo.
Wanda slowly stood up, using the bathroom counter to steady her trembling body. Slowly, she unlocked the bathroom door, and opened it. No one was in front of the door, but when she stuck her head out of the room, she saw Juandissimo coming down the hallway. Here was a fairy, a fairy who despite being pushed away numerous times, stood by her. He stood by her and was always on her side. He never called her horrible names like fat and ugly. He only told her that she was beautiful and she was his world.
She let him take her in his arms, and actually wrapped her own arms around him. She could start over again, forgetting about Cosmo. Cosmo obviously didn't want her anymore. She felt Juandissimo's lips on hers, and she decided to welcome them. Again, she felt him lead her towards her bedroom, and close the door.
This was Wanda's breaking point.
Cosmo paced in his room. He didn't know whether he was supposed to be angry, or hurt, or sorry for the awful lies to his Wanda. He stopped his pacing, and sat down on his bed in realization. But she wasn't his Wanda anymore. She was never going to be his again, and that thought scared him. He wrapped his arms around himself tightly, and shivered. It really scared him.
It shouldn't, he told himself. It shouldn't because she was the one cheating on him with Juandissimo. She was the one who betrayed him.
But she said that she didn't want him back because of the horrible things he's been saying about her lately; the lies he's told her. Wasn't that what Wanda said in their bedroom? Cosmo didn't used to lie, well not to Wanda. Why did he say those awful things to her? She wasn't mean - she was the nicest fairy he knew. She wasn't fat - she was perfect. She's wasn't selfish - didn't she always put her needs first? Well, other than the pudding thing, but he now that he thought of it, didn't she have to clean up a mess that he and Timmy caused? and she most definitely was not ugly. How could she be, when she was so beautiful?
"Cosmo-lo-lo! I've got the divorce papers! Just sign it where there's an 'x'." Mama Cosma broke the silence by bursting through the doors happily, and thrusting a pen and the papers in front of him.
Before Cosmo could answer, the phone rang. Mama Cosma was too happy to not trust her son to do what he was told, so she reminded him to sign the papers, before she bounced off and answered the phone. As Cosmo stared at the papers in his hand, a memory came back to him.
--flashback--
"Promise me something."
Cosmo could feel her breath on his ear, as she leaned over and whispered in his ear. He stopped watching the priest's mustache move as he began the marriage ceremony, and turned to face his soon-to-be wife. She smiled back at him, and his body filled with warmth as it always did when she smiled at him. He broke away from her sparkling, serious eyes, to glance quickly at her hand intertwining with his. His eyes darted back up to hers.
"Promise me that you'll never leave me. That you'll never hurt me." she whispered.
"I promise." he said, not missing a beat. He paused a second, before asking her, "Promise me something."
"Anything." she answered.
"Promise me that you'll never give up on me." he breathed.
She smiled. He loved that smile. "I promise I will never give up on you Cosmo."
--end of flashback--
"Hel-lo!" Mama Cosma practically sang into the receiver.
"Hello Mama Cosma. Tis I, Juandissimo!" The Spanish voice whispered into the phone.
"Why are you whispering?" Mama Cosma asked still delighted with herself and her plan.
Juandissimo looked over, and gently brushed a piece of Wanda's pink hair out of her face. She fell asleep in his arms, probably over come with strong feelings of love for him. He grinned to himself, "because, I believe our plan has worked."
"Yes, I know. Well done, well played. We had to improvise some of it, especially when that kid became involved," at the thought of Timmy, Mama Cosma's eyes glowered, before she remembered that she had won - Cosmo was all hers again. As it should be. "But we won in the end!"
"Si, now we just need to keep them apart so they may sign the divorce papers without a second thought." Juandissimo replied. And he left Mama Cosma without another word, slamming his phone shut.
Cosmo had decided to try and call Wanda - maybe he could still try and work things out with her; forgetting that his mother was on the phone. Cosmo heard his mother hang up the phone after Juandissimo had, and slowly he dropped the phone. His brain began to hurt, as he tried to comprehend this conversation he had just heard.
