Chapter 13 The beginning of Marylin

• “Yes Joana, you guessed it right. They were lovers. Derick fell in love with her right from the first day he joined the coven. They went into a relationship not long after. They were still together when Hillary and I joined the coven. Their bond was inseparable, and no one would have ever thought that they would break up; until John came into the picture. At first, she would lie to Derick that she wanted to go somewhere far, but she would go and see John instead. The outings became too frequent and Derick kept on wondering where she would always be going as they hardly spent time with each other anymore. One day, he decided to spy on her thoughts even though they promised they wouldn’t do that to each other, but he couldn’t help his curiosity anymore. He became heartbroken upon seeing that she had been cheating on him with John. He confronted her about it, and she confirmed it. They broke up immediately after and she continued her relationship with John, eventually moving in with him. When she started having problems with John’s family, she moved back here. But it was like the person who had moved back here was not Marilyn anymore. Her obsession with him grew to the point that she would not eat or sleep for days, she spent all that time finding information as to how she could return to be with her lover. We tried to talk to her, at least give yourself some rest or eat something, but she wouldn’t listen. She quarreled with everyone, and it got to the point that we all decided to leave her to do what she thought was best for herself.
• “I didn’t want to say this before, but seeing you smile for the first time reminded me of the old Marylin Lou, the one who was happy with Derick. I had missed that smile so much. She was the most cheerful one amongst us, until she met John, it was like he changed her.”
• “Thank you,” Joana said. She had heard all she needed to. Now she knew that she would have to be careful with Derick during trainings, although she knew that it would be hard for her to catch feelings knowing that she still had a groom that she loved waiting for her back at home, she would still feel bad if Derick began to confuse the time they would spend together training with the happy moments he spent in the past with Marilyn Lou. She thought about what Edmund said about Marylin cheating on Derick with John. Although she did not support what her ancestor did, she still thought that Lou could have done better by breaking up with Derick first instead of lying to him about her relationship with the man she was destined to be with.