#enchanted!wage

Any girl hearing those words from the first boy they’d really ever truly liked should have been elated. It had been a long road to get to this point, for Sage to stop caring about her own image more than she cared about another person, for her to really understand how to care about somebody else more than she cared about herself... but she thought it had been worth it. That maybe Tia and Izzie, her better halves, weren’t the only ones that could get to have cute relationships and boys who adored them. That just because she was the dumb one to most people, or the slutty one to others, didn’t mean she couldn’t be happy like Kori or like Baz or like... everyone else but her, apparently.

But now Sage was hearing those words that were supposed to be magical for the very first time, and they weren’t filled with joy and happiness and butterflies going crazy in her stomach. They were just twinged with regret as Wayland hung his head, ashamed, and Sage tried her hardest not to cry. “You love me,” she repeated at a whisper, wishing that he was saying it as he swept her off her feet and made her feel like the happiest person in the universe. “But you can’t be with me because of Vivi.” 

She’d thought that his best friend had warmed up to her, that the tall, kind of scrawny but still smart and gorgeous younger girl might actually give Sage her approval, since she knew that meant so much to Wayland. But instead she’d done the opposite; she’d gone and said that seeing him with Sage hurt, and it made their friendship weird, and that she wasn’t going to ask him to choose but... by saying that, she’d kind of asked him to choose anyway. And he’d chosen her. He was always going to choose her, and Sage was just going to... deal with it, she guessed. What other choice did she have? 

“No, that’s -- um, that’s totes okay, but I’m kind of late to dance practice so I’ll like... see you around and stuff,” Sage lied, wondering why her heart felt so much heavier in Walt whenever she was sad than it ever did back home. Crying came so much easier here, and she didn’t want to let him see the tears start coming. She didn’t want the whole world to know that the first time Sage Gothel decided to give her heart away, all she got was rejection.