After I got summoned by Eros, I met him in a vineyard and he was conveniently picking grapes. I didn't even ask him, yet he told me he was going to make wine.
A wine fit for the gods. Whatever that means I didn't care.
I waited 3 hours for him to handpick the grapes and I must say that those were the most annoying 120minutes of my entire existence.
The thing was Cupid is a pain in the neck, he would carefully study one vine for minutes and then take one sample from it to taste and savour before deciding whether it was good enough to go into his precious selection for the wine.
I wanted to whine.
"Look Cupid, I came here to talk to you!.Not to watch you pick grapes and make wine", I shouted at him in anger.
"Ermess, Ermess, Ermess, patience my child is a virtue", he said in a rather calm voice. He was so annoying and why was he suddenly speaking in Demeter's tone?. I frowned at him.
Why was Eros suddenly obsessed with making wine anyway? Besides if there was anyone who was supposed to be this cautious about making wine, shouldn't it be Dionysus?.
Speaking of which, I hadn't actually even met him since my arrival here. I therefore made a mental note to self to go and look for him later. And whiles I'm at it, perhaps look for the god of forges, Hephaestus. That conniving old man had convinced Poseidon to strip me of my powers and therefore here I am, weak and with no defense. I was so weak now that I had to summon Eros before I could climb to Mount Olympus. How outrageous was that?
Hephaestus was a weapon maker. He made all the weapons of the Gods, including Zeus' thunder bolt, Poseidon's trident, Hades' pitchfork and even Cupid's bow. I heard a rumor that he also made a harp for Dionysus.
Perhpas I could get him to make me a weapon of my own. Maybe a double-edged sword.
I groaned when I caught Cupid eyeing a particular grape and shook my head in annoyance. Someone better give me a manual on how to murder a God, because Hades knows that I really wanted to kill Cupid this instant.
Finally after tugging on my patience for Zeus knows how long, he stood up and walked out of the vineyard with about a hundred grapes. Yeah, totally understandable that he spent 3 hours and 15 minutes to handpick less than two thousand grapes. Cupid is certainly crazy if you ask me.
Bravo Cupid.
"Look Eros, I get that you have all the time in the world to select your grapes and make wine but I don't have that. I want to call this farce off before things get more complicated than they already are", I went straight to the point
Eros barely lifted a brow
"Look, I know you wanted to at least do this one favour for your devotee but it's already been a year and nothing has happened. Honestly, I doubt if anything will ever happen. Let's call this losing game off", I continued.
Slowly, Eros lifted his long lashes and regarded my gaze steadily.
I could see the wheels in his mind visibly turn and I was glad that I had been able to convince him.
And then he smiled, a very sinister smile that made my skin crawl. A smike that made me wonder if this was the same Eros I had come to know.
And then all of a sudden, I felt myself fall from Olympus. I shouted a bunch of obscenities at him and he kept his smile fixed on his face.
He kept that crazy smile till I couldn't see his face anymore. Suddenly, I was back inside my hotel bathroom. I groaned in annoyance and punched the mirror in front of me.
Damn Eros, that crazy bastard had not even so much as said anything and dismissed me like a fly.
I pulled the door and instantly froze when I saw Puppy sitting on my bed. Her phone was in bits and pieces over the floor and I frowned at her current state. She hadn't noticed me yet and I felt a twitch in my heart when I realized that she had been crying.
"Puppy?", I called her and when she turned I fully saw her tear-stricken face. Her eyes widened and she immediately got up. She ran into my arms and I felt a rather surprising peace engulf me when I wrapped my arms around her.
She fit so perfectly in there and it felt so right. This is felt do oddly right that I doubted if it wasn't wrong.
She pulled back to look at me in worry.
"Are you okay?. What happened?. Where have you been?. Did you see my calls?".
So many questions in one second. I held her face and kissed her forehead sweetly.
"Nothing happened baby, I'm absolutely fine", I answered.
She smiled and then suddenly burst into tears again. Then she smiled again, "don't you ever do that again, you scared me", she lightly hit me on the shoulder with her fist. I immediately grabbed her fist and leaned in, brushing my lips against hers in a featherlike kiss.
Our breaths mingled together and I felt her breath hitch. My lips brushed hers again and she wrapped her arms around my shoulder. She pressed her lips to mine in a hungry kiss and I responded eagerly.
I don't know what was happening but I refused to think about it, I allowed her soft lips to glide softly over mine as we shared our first real kiss.
Slowly, while still savoring each other's lips,she took a step forward making me take one backwards as we allowed our feet to take us elsewhere. Suddenly, I was pushed on to a bed and too late, she had already climbed on top of me.
My eyes widened and my thoughts went haywire at that moment.
Zeus' beard, am I about to make love with an earthling?