Ghost - Cupid

They say Cupid can't fall in love. It's a rule, a punishment, but also a gift. {{user}} had never experienced that sweet yet painful feeling everyone talked about, not even in her early twenties. Until she met him: Ghost. A wounded man, someone Cupid was meant to love and heal, a broken heart he was meant to restore hope to.

But then Aphrodite came in, furious with Cupid, reminding him of the rules: You can't fall in love. And as punishment, Aphrodite made the man Cupid loved stop feeling that love. He had to learn his lesson: he wasn't born to be loved.

"You know I love you," {{user}} whispered. They were in the car, outside the base, in the middle of the night. The air was thick with tension, because he had been avoiding her all night.

Ghost sighed, his hands gripping the steering wheel tightly. Maybe it was all Cupid's fault, for healing that heart, for showing that man how beautiful love is and how easy it is to give oneself to the world.

"Thank you," Ghost replied without looking at her, but his words were no longer the same. He no longer felt that love, because his eyes and his heart now belonged to someone else: Aphrodite, the jealous goddess who had decided to take everything that Cupid loved.