Cupid & Psyche

Cupid & Psyche: Chapter Thirty-Nine

Chapter Thirty-Nine

For you who should be sought-after? The person who left someone just to love you? Or the person who is willing to leave you because you love someone else? This story is really giving me a lot of drama and dilemma. I was just a simple girl before dreaming of a good fairytale. But this wasn’t part of the plan, to be loved and to be hurt.

I went home that day carrying a big lump on my chest. I couldn’t cry for the second time, maybe I had cried so much again that my tears won’t agree to fall, so God made the clouds cry instead.

The next weeks became hard for me and my sister. She continues to shoot daggers with her eyes at me until it came in to the point where we really avoided seeing each other. The school play was done and Mr. Severino felt sad because I wasn’t there to watch. I know I wanted that play so bad but if it would only make me see him again and my sister it would only make things bad.

I went to the library often now since I find it more comfortable staying there and it makes my mind take away the horrible things that burdens me.

But sometimes it would also give me time to write poems of misery that I didn’t thought I could write. It really freaks me out! Worse because I had written one time at the end of my notebook:

Cupid, I will always love you. Please don’t forget.

I closed it immediately after I thought how cheesy and obsessed I can be.

I often fell asleep at the Japanese corner. Good thing that the librarian doesn’t catches me. Ha-ha.

But then there came this time when I woke up and…

‘Hmm… I guess who the new admirer is?’ Janica drooled when I woke up.

I yawned. ‘What are you talking about?’

She groaned. ‘Aren’t you going to tell us?’

She motioned to the pencils on my opened book.

‘I <3 you’

Was written on the pencil heads.

Kelpie elbowed her. ‘The right question should be: where have you been?’

I sighed. ‘I don’t know where I’ve been.’

‘Psyche, you’re a big hit here! People know about it than I do! I was really bad trip when I learned Cupid confessed his love for you in front of everybody and I wasn’t there to witness it!’

Janica stomped her feet on the floor.

‘Bes, that girl isn’t me.’ I said and she and Kelpie exchanged glances.

‘Psyche, I was there and it’s obvious that your story clicked! They were both the same!’ Kelpie hit me with her book but I was still feeling numb about it.

‘Isn’t it hilarious? I mean look, Psyche—‘ she waved my arm so that I could pay attention to her. ‘The guy you like doesn’t pay attention to you before. Then holla! Here he is crazy in love with you!’

‘What’s fun with it when I can’t even be happy with him?’ I prompted.

‘You are thinking about Persephone? Well, let her rot in the underworld! Look at the bright side!’

I took a very deep breath.

Janica and Kelpie did the same thing.

‘Psyche, we’re graduating soon. So don’t’ waste your remaining time to make Cupid feel how much you love him. Especially when you know that he feels the same way. Because the time might come when you’re already sure about him but then you learn that he already gives up.’ Kelpie said and I felt I was hit by a train of realization.