The deal with the god (Hades x OC)

Chapter 9

Opal's POV
21:30
When Hera announced that dinner was served, all the guests started to make their way towards the big table that was in the next room. I sat at the kid's table, Hera's excuse was that nobody was expecting me so the only seat available was there. How nice it was to spend dinner having to put up with annoying little children and god spawns who thought they were the next best thing! After a while though, I just let them be and tried to think of something else, which was impossible, since I could feel a pair of eyes staring intensely into me. And who did they belong to? Hades, the king of the underworld himself. I stared back, and we just stayed there, both of us ignoring what the people around us were saying, both of us focused on what the other would do. He smiled, and I noticed that during the whole night I was the only one he had reserved that smile for. I hoped he noticed that he was the only one I didn't smile at. Even the little gods were given the blessing of my smile. But not him.
He looked into my eyes so intensely that I wanted to go there and yell at him to stop, that was until, from the corner of my eyes I found Aphrodite looking at us, trying to realize what we would do. So I gave her the show she wanted. I smiled back at Hades. The biggest smile I could make. I noticed the glimpse of surprise go through his eyes, but he quickly hid it.
I could still feel Aphrodite examining us. I needed her to back off. I got up and walked towards Hades's direction, aware of other gods joining Aphrodite's game, and I sat on his lap.
"You're a great actress,sweetheart." He whispered into my ear. I noticed how he didn't call me love like he used to. Sweetheart was even worse.
"Do you think that other people can tell how much I want to leave?" I mumbled through my fake smile.
"Considering that you're sitting on my lap, smiling like that, they'll probably be thinking that we're crazy in love."
But that wasn't true. Aphrodite continued to stare and she whispered something to the god that was sitting next to her. I hated knowing that someone was saying something about me behind my back. Especially when I didn't know what they were saying. So, I made sure that I knew what they would be talking about.
I pressed my lip against Hades's.
Kissing him disgusted me, knowing that I was enjoying it was even worse. I couldn't pretend that I didn't like the way his lips felt against mine. I couldn't pretend that I didn't like having his hand on my waist, pulling me closer into him. I couldn't pretend that I didn't want everyone to leave so that we could turn our kiss into something more. He was also enjoying it, I felt something hard against me and I had to pull away because I knew what it was. That was too much.
"We're both going to ignore this. You'll pretend to forget what my lips feel and I'll pretend to forget what just happened. Deal?" I whispered into his ear before going back to my seat.
I noticed that Aphrodite wasn't staring when I sat down.
But he was.
01:45
After dinner the Persephone comments got even worse. Persephone would never do something like that. How inappropriate! Kissing like that during dinner! Persephone was so nice, this one is a bitch! Some of them were said directly to my face, others I heard as I walked back. I tried to not let them take over me, but it was hard. I wanted to sit in a corner and cry. But at the moment the only thing I could do was to drink more. So I did. I drank and got drunk.
Very drunk.
***
I saw Artemis sitting down on one of the sofas and decided to join her
"Oh hi, Opal. Is everything alright? She asked.
I sat down next to her. "Sure, if you ignore everything people are saying about me, yeah, everything is fine. What about you?
"It's going well."
"Fantastic. Are you bored? Because I am, do you know what you could do?" I was talking so fast that I couldn't even process what I was saying. I had absolutely no filter and just said anything that came to my mind. Anything.
"No, you tell me."
"You could make me a member of your club."
"What club?"
"You know that club where no one can have sex."
"You wouldn't want that. You're with Hades."
"No, I'm not. That's what he wants you to think." I say getting weirdly closer to her and pointing to my head. "Everything is fake. The kiss was fake. The smiles were fake. I am fake, you are fake. But I want you to know that I am not scared of him."
"You should be. Opal, you know that I can't do that to him."
"Why not?"
"I already told you."
"Yeah, you're right. And I like sex to much to stop having it."
"Opal."
"Yeah?"
"Have you ever had sex?"
"I'm not sure, I'm too drunk to remember. I think I did it with a girl once or twice."
She laughed and got up. "It was nice chatting with you."
I mumbled something that even I was unable to comprehend.

3:32
After a while I stopped counting the drinks. I was chatting- making poor attempts at flirting- with some random nymph whose name I couldn't even remember, when Hades called me to say that the fireworks were going to start.
"Fireworks? Are there going to be fireworks?" I asked while he was helping me walk.
"Are you drunk, love?" He asks.
"I don't know."
"How can you not know?"
"It 's simple. By not knowing."
"Let's go home, love, you're not feeling well"
"Are you finally going to let me go home?"
He didn't answer. I started to walk towards the group of people that was being formed outside. There was a stage and Hera was making a speech. I didn't even bother to listen to what she was saying. I got an idea, which at the time seemed like a great one, spoiler alert, it wasn't. I got to the stage after Hera was done and grabbed the microphone.
The "speech" went more or less like this:
"Is this thing working?" I tapped on the mich which made a loud noise take over the room. "I think that this means it does." I waited for someone to laugh but no one did. Tough crowd. "You know, I just have a small thing to say. If you have something to say to me. You can say it to my fucking face. You are totally free to comment on what happened during dinner. And you are also free to discuss how Persephone was sooooo much better than me. But guess what? You should also feel free to fuck off!" When I said the last sentence I flipped off the whole crowd. "Because, in case you haven't noticed, I am not crazy in love with Hades. He told me to fake a relationship with him because he was too embarrassed or something. Well, how embarrassed is he now? A lot, probably. That's all. Just to sum up, me and Hades are not dating, in fact, you could say that I particularly dislike him. But that isn't entirely true, or is it? And don't worry, I probably won't attend another one of these parties because sooner or later I'm going to leave just like Persephone! Yay! That, or I'm going to be expelled from here by the party planning committee or something. I don't give a fuck."
I felt everyone's eyes fixed on me, Hades was panicking and it was simply hilarious to see his facial expression.
"That was all. You can all rot in hell for all I care. Except Artemis, you are nice. And Hermes and Apollo, but that's it. The rest of you can die. Especially you, Zeus. I fucking hate your guts."
"That is enough." Zeus yelled.
"No, I get to say when what I'm saying is enough. You can keep your fucking mouth shut. Ok, now I say that it's enough." I left the stage, not without tripping on my dress. Thankfully, Hades was there to catch me. Normally, I would be extremely embarrassed. But this was Drunk Opal we were talking about, she simply did not care.
"C'mon, love, we have to go." He picked me up, waved the rest of the gods goodbye and teleported us away.