***DYLAN'S POV***
I woke up exhausted since I fell asleep late due to cleaning the water up last night.
I got up from my bed, went to take a shower, and brushed my teeth.
***
After coming out of the bathroom I went into the living room expecting to see Cupid sleeping on the couch only to see that he wasn't.
I shrugged it off and went into the kitchen to eat breakfast.
When I went to open the fridge door, I saw a sticky note on it.
It read:
"I went to work because I need to 'take it more seriously' and stop half-assing it.
PS: don't miss me too much (;
PSPS: I love you.
-Cupid"
I blushed when I read the last part.
"Idiot," I crumpled up the paper and threw it in the trash knowing he'd see it later.
***
"Hey Dylan," Rachel said, as she and Rose walked up to me.
"Hi," I said back.
"So, you seem to be feeling better," Rose pointed out.
"Yeah," I scratched the back of my head.
"So, did you talk to him?" Rachel asked.
"Yeah, I did," we walked to class.
"Alright, I'm glad you aren't sad anymore," Rachel smiled, trying not to ask too many questions.
***
"Ugh, class was a drag," I sighed.
"Yeah, it was boring today. We should go out and do something," Rose suggested.
"Yeah, we should, is Eric busy?" Rachel asked.
"I don't know, if you don't mind, we could go check my apartment," I said not thinking about how strange that might sound.
"Your apartment? Does he live with you?" Rose asked.
Shit. I have no idea why he's always at my house. What do I say?
"No, he just freeloads there from time to time," I said, hoping they'd drop it.
"Mhm," Rachel did not believe me.
***
***CUPID'S POV***
I opened the door to Dylan's apartment and looked around to see if he had come home yet.
He hadn't.
I went to see if he saw my note and when I did see it, it was crumpled up in the trash.
Little shit.
Right when I took it out of the trash I heard the door open obviously thinking it was just Dylan.
"WHY DID YOU THROW AWAY THE NOTE YOU HEARTLESS DEMON?!" I cried, holding out the note.
***
***DYLAN'S POV***
After walking up the stairs with Rose and Rachel behind me I opened my apartment door.
"WHY DID YOU THROW AWAY THE NOTE YOU HEARTLESS DEMON?!" Cupid cried holding out the embarrassing note.
"What note?" Rachel asked, walking in.
I quickly took the note from Cupid's hand and hid it behind my back.
"Note? He didn't say note, he said uh, b...BOAT. I threw away a paper boat he made..." I laughed uneasily.
Rachel and Rose stared at me not believing a word I said.
Shit, fuck, what do I do?!
"Right C—Eric?!" I asked hoping he'd play along.
"Actual—" Cupid started but quickly stopped when I stomped his shoe.
"Shit, I mean, yeah! I made a boat and this heartless kid threw it away," He played along.
"It's not a big deal you can always make a new one," Rose said bluntly.
"Yeah, you're right, I was overreacting" Cupid laughed.
"Say, why are you dressed up all fancy? And what's with the white and pink style?" Rachel asked suspiciously.
"Yeah, Eric why are you wearing a suit?" I asked, slowly losing my sanity.
"Oh, uh, hahaha, I have to wear it for...my...JOB! Uh, I work as a bartender at a fancy place far, far away from here."
Good cover-up.
"Oh, really? Cool! You should definitely show us sometime!" Rachel said believing the lies spouting out of Cupid's mouth.
"I'll see if I can, hahaha...the boss is kinda mean..." He said trying not to blow his cover.
Serves you right.
"Well, now that we know Eric is not busy, can we go out now?" Rose intervened.
"Yeah, totally, we should go."
The sooner we are out of here the better.
***
We ended up deciding to go to the movies.
"So what movie should we watch?" Rachel asked.
"I want to watch a romance movie," Rose said.
"I do too!" Cupid agreed.
Of course he wants to.
"Really?! You like romance movies?!" Rachel looked astonished.
"Yeah, is it weird?" Cupid looked self-conscious.
"No way, it's really cool!" Rose intervened.
"It's funny because Dylan hates romance movies," Rachel said spilling out unnecessary information about me.
"What? Why?" Cupid turned to look at me.
"Because I...just don't like them," I turned away and sighed.
"Well, too bad it's 3 against 1 loser!" Rose mocked.
I sighed, "Fine."
***
We watched some shitty romance movie called "Soon We'll Be Together." You can tell even by the title that it sucked, but all three of them came out of the theater bawling their eyes out.
"That was so fucking sad," Rachel wiped tears away from her cheek.
Rose and Cupid nodded their heads in agreement.
"What did you think about it, Dylan?" Cupid asked.
"You definitely don't want to know," I replied.
"You're just a heartless human Dylan," Rose laughed with Rachel as they walked ahead of us.
Cupid must have seen that it hurt me because he reached out to grab my hand.
I jerked away.
"What are you doing we are in public!" I blushed.
"You didn't seem to care that one time we kissed outside of the coffee shop," he laughed.
"Well, it was empty back there," I looked away still flushed.
Cupid looked around.
"Well there's no one around here," he said as he grabbed my face and gave me a quick kiss.
"What the fuck Cu—Eric?! What if Rachel and Rose had turned around and seen that?!" I whispered angrily, a bit embarrassed about it all
"But they didn't," he winked.
"That was just luck! Don't do that again!"
"I don't think they care what we do..." Cupid smiled while looking over at them.
"What do you mean?" I asked, confused.
"They seem to have other things on their minds...more like in their hearts," he said.
"Huh?" I turned to look at them, they had stopped walking and were just staring at each other.
Are they having a moment?
Before I could process anything Cupid grabbed me by the hand and pulled us behind a tree.
"What are you doing?!" I whispered.
"My job," he began creating an arrow and got his bow ready.
"Wait! I had told you not to mess with my friends!" I stopped him.
"I'm not messing with them I had already given them these feelings way before we even met each other and they are ready to finally fully fall in love, if you don't let me do this, then I'll be in even more trouble," he said aiming his arrow, "So can I do it?"
"Fine, I believe you, plus I did feel them have a connection a long time ago," I said giving in.
In seconds an arrow pierced Rose's heart and another pierced Rachel's, which unraveled the feelings that were once kept inside.
I envied them.
While I was staring at them with a jealousy that had to be as big as Cupid's ego, I felt someone tug my sleeve.
"Let's give them their privacy you creep," Cupid laughed.
His laugh is nice, it's the type of laugh that people find contagious, just not contagious to me.
***
We walked the empty dark streets, there were no buses at this time since it was past 11 pm. It's actually dangerous to be walking at this time in this neighborhood.
"So, you've been quiet since we left Rachel and Rose behind," Cupid said, breaking the silence.
"Well, I don't have much to say."
"Are you sure? I mean you seemed kinda sad when you were looking at them fall in love..." Cupid said the last part quietly, but still audible.
"What do you want me to say?! Tha—" I was cut off by a loud thumping noise in an alley beside us.
"Hey there youngsters."
I turned to see who said that and saw a junkie with a bat in one hand and a cigarette in the other. There were two other figures behind him, but they were in the shadows so I couldn't really see what they looked like.
"...uh, h—hi..."
I saw Cupid facepalm.
Was I not supposed to answer?!
"Hey, cutie," the junkie dropped his cigarette and got up close to me.
"Uh, excuse me, but I'm going to have to ask you to back up," Cupid said, trying to hide his anger.
"Or what? Are you gonna beat me?" He laughed and grabbed me.
I tried to get free, but he had a strong grip on me.
"I warned you, you fuck face," Cupid charged towards him.
He pushed me behind him and one of his friends grabbed me. This one looked like a real gang member, he was way scarier than the main guy.
"Let's have some fun pretty boy," the junkie said getting ready to swing his bat at Cupid.
He swung his bat but Cupid grabbed it before it could hit him and...he broke it in half?!?!?!?
What the fuck? Is he also able to have that strength since he's a god?? How the hell is this possible???
"Whatever, I don't need a weapon to beat your ass," the junkie said swinging an inaccurate punch toward Cupid.
Cupid grabbed his arm and pushed him to the ground.
The guy holding me was distracted so I tried to get out of his grasp. He must have noticed because he grabbed onto me tighter.
"You little shit, I can't wait till boss shows you what happens to bad boys like you," the creep grinned.
I was about to spit at him when I heard a loud crunching noise.
Both of us turned to look at Cupid and the Junkie. I kind of regretted doing so because it was a horrific sight. Junkie's arm was twisted into an unnatural position and his face was beaten badly.
"Oh shit..." Both of his friends said in sync.
"We ain't gonna let you get away with this asshole," the other friend said.
I was relieved when the creep let go of me but soon was afraid because they both surrounded Cupid.
Oh no...
"Show me what you losers got then," Cupid maliciously yelled.
He looked horrifying like he was ready to kill someone.
After about 7 minutes those idiots were on the floor knocked out cold, I have no idea why they believed they could stand a chance against Cupid. I mean he literally broke a bat in half...
"We should seriously get going," Cupid got up and grabbed my hand.