The Wish

Story Prompt.

At age 15 you told your girlfriend you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality. Problem is you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear...... It's still happening 10 years later.




     "APHRODITE!!! This is more than enough! I am TIRED of her always calling on me. I can't have a life for myself. She lives in another COUNTRY! I don't have the money, time, or desire for the amount of travel this has taken!"
     It doesn't matter how much I beg, plead or yell. The Goddess has granted this "wish" and for 10 years I have cried and yelled trying to get it to stop. Trying to get her to "un-grant" this...... curse. "She doesn't love me. She never has." I cry to the cold statuette.
     It has only been a week since I was last taken by the curse to Kaylee's side. She was crying when I arrived. She wouldn't say much, just that she was hurt. That is all it takes. Her being hurt and I feel a pull. One that makes my head spin and I make a jump halfway around the world to wherever Kaylee is. I can feel the calling as I stand in front of the statuette in my living room.
     Why Aphrodite think Kaylee "needs" me at these times, I have no idea. I get having someone there when a guy breaks her heart. Or when that one John guy was ready to abuse her..... but then there are the times that just don't make sense. Those are the times that I just wanna punch the younger me. Times when she is watching a movie and it has a really sad scene in it. Times when she has been alone to long. Times when other people would just go to a bar and drink away the problem, I get pulled to her side.
     10 years ago I looked into the eyes of the girl I loved. Kaylee. She was beautiful. Maybe not in the normal sense of the word to you, but to me...... My eyes could see no one more amazing. To this day I still can't. She was plump, but not fat. She was short, but not overly so. She wore glasses, but to me they just brought out the gold flecks of her green eyes. I looked past those lenses that day and uttered words that I soon learned would change my life. "I will always be there when you need me. No matter what."
     Little did I know that Gods and Goddesses where real and my love at the time was so powerful
that we were being watched. I was hated for loving Kaylee to much... She was adored because she believed the legends, stories, and everything Greek. While I thought she was just going through a "phase" about being a follower of Greek Gods and Goddesses..... She was actually doing everything right. Or in my case, wrong.
     See, any woman in her right mind would LOVE having a guy at her beck and call right? SURE! no. just no. We where 15 at the time I said those fateful words. FIFTEEN! We didn't know what love was! At least, she didn't.
     I still love my Kaylee. She has made it very clear to me that she doesn't want me and that she will never love me. No matter the curse. No matter how many times I get called to her side. No matter how many breakups I have to console her from. She doesn't want me and being called to her just annoys her. She has better things to do. A career that she is studying for. A house she is trying to make her own. No matter how much I long to be with her. Just to hold her. To hear about her day. To know that she is mine.
     Which is why I have tried to stay away. Why I don't just move around near her. It may be a year or two before she finds herself with me outside of her room. We could almost forget. Well, she could almost forget anyway, that I was even alive. I decided to go to a school that was near where I grew up. No where near the one that she wanted to get into, the one that she ultimately got into. I have a free lance job. One that doesn't care that I have "on a whim" gone to England. One that I can do my job anywhere in the world. Believe me, I don't forget to keep my passport on me even when I SLEEP. You think I joke, but I have a tailor who regularly puts a pocket on the inside of my pajama shirt! I have a imprint of the book... Not something I tote about on dating sites, that is for sure! Because I never know where she is going to be. Not for sure anyway. She is able to live her life. The curse only goes one way. Me to her.
      I don't know what you think is wrong, but it CAN'T be as bad as you think! SHE DOESN'T WANT ME!" I scream in desperation as I feel the pull of the curse that I know will soon take me in a flash. It does no good and my skin flushes warm and the room spins. I hear bells. Those bells that haunt my dreams. The ones that secretly make me happy, even as they break my heart.
     My eyes and head begin to clear as I start to take in my surroundings..... but..... this is wrong. nothing changed. I am still in front of the statuette of the goddess. The one that sits on the mantle of my living room. This is still MY living room. This doesn't make sense. Why didn't I go anywhere?
     "Daniel?" Kaylee quietly speaks behind me. "I know you usually are at my side if I need you, but this time..." She is just as beautiful as ever. Her eyes now standing out, no glasses anymore but it only seems to make her eyes look so much bigger. I could loose myself in them. Her lips, plump like she has been chewing on them again. I can tell by the pink around her nose along with the scarlet flush of her cheeks that she is nervous and has been crying again. I could stare at all the little things that make her beautiful in my eyes. Right now though, my mind has left me because she is in front of me.
     "Kaylee" I breathe. In awe of her beauty, even now, only a week since I have seen her last. "Why are you here?"
     Her eyes fill with tears, but they never break contact with mine. She takes a deep breath and begins to whisper, her voice shaking over every word. "Because Daniel. I don't want to wake up in an empty bed, thinking of you. I don't want to date a random guy when my soul mate is in front of me. I don't want to fight with myself every time I look around and see that you are not there. I don't want to be in an empty house wondering how you would help decorate it. I don't want to cry every night because it's cold there without you. I need to be with you, because... Because... Because I love you"

-Written by Chelsey