FORTY

Mary had a scared look on her face as she spoke in a shaky voice, half expecting Emma to fly into a rage and start pushing her around, or even scratch her face and call her a witch.

But what happened afterwards was what she least expected. Emma burst into a loud laughter, clapping and clapping her hands at the same time. Mary had never seen her laugh that much, not even when they were gisting the previous day.

“I can see you got so scared Mary” Emma said holding unto her shoulders and shaking her a little.

“I was just kidding my dear, I just wanted to shaken you up a little, and you fell for it”. She burst into another round of laughter, Mary joined her this time around and they laughed together. Laughing themselves to stupor.

Mary let out a sigh of relief as soon as she was out of Emma’s room, she thought her mood swings was back again and she was going to start tormenting her with her troubles again. She leaned on the door thinking of what would have become of her had it been Em