This is the story I tell Persephone. I am sitting in her living room along with Rosamund, a big beautiful woman. Rosamund is just short of six feet, athletic, beautiful black hair and brown eyes. She is my cross sister. We are to be crucified together.
“So when you said you knew what I was you meant that you knew I was your messenger?” Persephone says.
“Yes,” I say. “And I knew my night with you was a test.”
“I hurt you a lot,” Persephone says.
“Yes.”
“And yet you still came back.”
“Yes.”
“You understand what I did to you that night was only a small foretaste of what you will suffer when you are nailed to your cross.”
When I am nailed to my cross. The words make my pussy wet.
“Yes,” I say.
“Do you have your nails with you,” Persephone says.
I hand over the silver box with the nails my mother gave me all those years ago.
“Are you frightened?” Rosamund says.
“I am terrified,” I say.
“So am I,” Rosamund says.
“You can both still walk away,” Persephone says.
“I can’t,” I say.
“Why not?” says Rosamund.
“For the same reason you can’t,” I say.
Rosamund smiles a sad sort of smile. She knows. I know. Persephone knows. This is our destiny. We are drawn to our crosses as if by a magnetic force. The closer we get the stronger the force. It is sad, It is tragic. And it is joyous.
Or so we both believe. As my mother told me all those years ago, you don’t know for sure until the first nail is hammered into your wrist.
“I thought once we handed over our nails we had committed ourselves,” Rosamund says.
“In theory yes. In practice we give you a 24 hour cooling off period,” Persephone says. “If you still feel the pull of the cross tomorrow morning at 9 am you will both be hanged.”
I look at Rosamund. She looks at me. She comes across and hugs me.
“I want to hang with you,” she says.
We kiss. I suck in the taste of her. The smell of her. I want to hang with her. In my mind’s eye I see us hanging on our crosses. The thought of it drives me mad with anticipation. Rosamund is my cross-sister. We shall hang together.