*CUPID'S MATCH BOOK 2* FIRST DRAFT
Lila receives an ominous Valentine's Day card.
Cupid & Cal are keeping a dark secret.
Fate is being interfered with.
And a sadistic, and extremely powerful banished cupid is intent on stealing Lila's heart. Literal...
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One week later...
We sit in Cupid's living room, pizza takeout boxes strewn across the rugs and coffee table.
"Ewww, who ordered the pizza with anchovies?" says Charlie cross-legged on the floor, looking at the floppy slice in her hand in disgust. Cal leans down from the couch and snatches it from her. His eyes flash irritably.
"That would be me," he says.
"I'm with Charlie, brother," says Cupid behind me on the armchair; he folds his arms protectively around me as I sit on his lap - his legs sprawled casually over the chair arm toward the fireplace. "Fish on a pizza?" I lean my head back to look at him and he pulls a face at me. "Gross..."
I grin then turn back to the others.
"Better than your ridiculously spicy pizza," says Crystal.
She's sat on the couch beside Cal looking more relaxed than I've ever seen her. She's ditched her usual fashion sense for a pink onesie, and my lip tugs upward slightly as I recall Cal's comment earlier that she looks like a giant marshmallow. She stretches out her legs, resting her fluffy cartoon like rabbit slippers on Cal's lap. He flashes them a distasteful look but he doesn't push her away.
Cupid shrugs, and I feel the hard muscles of his stomach move beneath me as he does.
"Well, you know what they say? You are what you eat...!"
"What? A jalapeno?" I say.
"No. Hot!" I turn and he beams at me – pleased with his terrible joke. "Obviously...!"
I groan – as does everyone else in the room except for Mino; he looks up from the book he's been browsing through to give an appreciative chuckle. I push myself up to my feet and Cupid clings to my stomach, pulling me back.
"Where you going?! It wasn't that bad a joke!" he says.
I prize his fingers apart then turn to look at him – rolling my eyes. He's wanted to be close to me constantly since the battle – I think a part of him feels bad that he couldn't fight with me at the end.
"I know. I just need some air. I feel like we've been in here for hours."
"We have," says Charlie. "Maybe we should go out...do something?"
"Haven't we done enough these past couple of months?" says Crystal, raising her head, a pained expression on her face. Cal again surveys the pink bunny ears of her slippers with a confused expression in his face.
"Hmmm...let me see...fought a zombie army, defeated Valentine, got back Cal's life thread, and sent Venus to the underworld," says Cupid. "What you think, lovebug?"
I grin.
"Yeah...I think we've done enough." Charlie gives me an accusing look but her eyes are bright with amusement. "Sorry, Charlie!"
