Saint Valentine

29th February, 2012 A.D.

2012 A.D.

29th February

It’s been sixteen days since I saw her. Sixteen days since I had her in my arms. Sixteen days and I swear I could still feel the ghost of her kisses upon my lips. Sixteen days that I couldn’t get her out of my mind. Somewhere in my mind I wondered if she was thinking about me too. I grimaced; she probably loathes me for leaving her there like that without a parting word. I was mad at me too, but... she’ll get over it, she’s already destined. The thought of her being destined to another male made my insides shrivel up and my heart go cold.

There wasn’t anything I could do either way, she isn’t mine... but why did it feel like she was. I knew her for less than a day, I’m pretty sure it was less than twelve hours. My mind was a blur. I just don’t understand how a silly little human had latched herself onto my mind. But yet, I resisted going anywhere near those apartments. Though, unconsciously I would stray in that direction, I’d stop myself and turn around. The pull to her was something surreal.

But it’s just one more day, and I’d be back in the Heavens. If I played my cards right I’d never have to come to this God forbidden piece of land ever again. But the prospect of being so far away from this planet weakened me at the knees. Ever. The word held a lot more time than it would for a human. Just because we’re Gods doesn’t mean that we don’t have our own restrictions. We need explicit permission from Zeus to visit any planet, and he doesn’t just grant us permission, we have to lay out our reasoning and he’ll judge whether the reasons are good enough to send to there.

I ground my teeth against each other, clenching my jaw visibly. It’s just not going to happen. I won’t let myself become mortal over some girl. I have a little over ten hours left on Earth, and I’m going to go to back home, happily, gracefully, willingly.

*

Finding myself near the Big Ben, I walked along the riverside enjoying the view. We have much more beautiful places back in Heaven... but that’s just so perfect. This, this is just so human, so perfectly imperfect, and that’s what made it so human.

It was like this, I found myself wandering back into Hyde Park. For some reason I’ve barely been finding un-destined souls... It’s as if suddenly everything had been set straight by Fate herself. I snorted at the thought; there wouldn’t be any cupids if that was ever the case. I haven’t been to this park in particular since I formally met Cassandra. Her named burned in my memory, and I felt the usual feeling of resentment as I thought about her.

I felt an aching pain as my head cricked to the right. What the fuck?! I cursed at myself for picking up the layman jargon. I was brought up not to swear.

“You’re such a dick you know that!” a voice screamed at me, and my vision focused on the mortal angel in front of me. Cassandra was wearing a dark jeans that seems to hug her delicate frame, and a (what I learnt here to be named as) a hoodie. She was shaking from head to toe, with what I assumed was anger, “How could you just leave me like that you fucking dickhead. I have a right-mind to kick your freaking ass.”

The book she was holding slammed into the other side of my head, which brought forth a throbbing pain. I hissed through my teeth. There is no way that this girl is human. Humans aren’t supposed to be able to hurt a God.

“I thought you were different! What the fuck is wrong with you Valentine?! Its not every freaking day that I freaking through myself at a freaking-” I cut her off, grabbing hold of her wrist a little tighter than I meant to. The book she was holding fell onto the grass with a thud. I didn’t even notice that I strayed off the path.