Cupid's Curse

The Slut, the Player and the Heartbreaker

I rolled over onto my side the next morning and smiled into the blue eyes that was lying next to me. 

"If I'm ever going to feel like I love someone," I whispered looking deep into his eyes, "You're the closest I'm ever going to get." I smiled as Zorro yawned, curling his kitten tongue, and fixing his cool stare back on me before getting up and turning his back to me. I shook my head, smiling and propping my head on my elbow, thinking about the guy that I had seen yesterday. I didn't know his name because I didn't stick around long enough to find out. As soon as I had seen the purple heart, I had gotten out of Bluewood High School. 

I stepped over Zorro, ignoring his meows of protest. My closet door was flung open and ever single item of clothing and accessories was hanging on the door in some way. I slid off my purple shorts that had "Hater" printed across the butt, and pulled off my white t-shirt. I put on some ripped skinny jeans, a fitted tee from H&M and my signature purple jacket. I looked at myself in the mirror that took up the entire front wall in my room. Not to bad; needs some ankle boots though. As soon as I thought that, black leather ankle boots appeared. I smiled. Thanks grandma. 'No problem, dear.' she responded in my head. I had always got my amazing sense of style from her. 

I accessorized with some bracelets, all different widths. I added some earrings to it and threw on some make-up quickly. 

As Venus always says, "Success is 99.9% due to presentation." I didn't know what the other 0.1% was nor did I care. You don't question Venus, period. I also wasn't sure what I needed to succeed at today, but I knew that Venus wouldn't have given me boots if she didn't know something. 

I walked out, my heels click-clacking smartly against our linoleum floors, smiling to myself. I stopped short when I came to the kitchen. I needed a second to compose myself. I concentrated on putting my mind-block up and was satisfied when it worked without fail. 

"'Morning Mother," I said, sweetly. Physche greeted me back but her smile was strained. Uh-oh. She only acted like that if Venus was around. I glanced around cautiously. They were sitting in the family room; I could hear their muted voices from here. I glanced tentatively in and smiled when I saw my grandma sitting next to my father. Usually, she would've greeted me with a "How's my favorite fashionable granddaughter?" or "I can't believe I have a granddaughter this gorgeous; oh right you get it from me. I can believe it." But not today. Today I was met with, "Sit down, Celeste. We need to talk."

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Before I continue, I should explain some things about Venus. Along time ago, about ten million years before I was born, Venus became very jealous of Princess Physche. The reason? Physche was receiving more attention than she. I know. Stupid, right? Well, don't tell Venus! She will probably curse you with bad hair days or bad breath days for the rest of your life.

 Anyway, Venus became jealous so she sent down her son, Cupid, to make Physche fall in love with the vilest thing in the entire world. So Dad went down to make her fall in love with this disgusting thing. But he accidentally scratched himself with the arrow making himself fall in love with Physche. So these two lovers were caught in a lovesick relationship. Makes you want to throw up, right? My dad talked to her in her sleep, telling her to never try to look at him. But of course my mom's two older sisters told her to try to look at him, convinced that he was a monster. When she tried to, she angered Cupid. He then left her and she looked everywhere in the world for him. Jupiter, leader of the gods, took pity on her and gave her immortality so she could be with him for eternity. They soon had a child, Hedone or Heidi as she's called now. But there's a part of the "legend" that they forgot. Antevorte, goddess of the future, had been in love with Cupid, but had foreseen that he would fall madly in love with Physche. Her revenge was by placing a curse on my dad. Hence me. They tried to get around it but Antevorte had know that Candelifera, goddess of childbirth, would bless them with another  daughter. And here we are! Obviously, Venus still hasn't gotten over it. Never mess with a god, I thought amused.