4 Eros

Realized that for some reason everyone always looked for love at any time, regardless of the pain it might cause us. Every human being needs to fall in love at least once in his life, but self-love is certainly the best way to achieve emotional happiness.

In the end everything in life is momentary including love.

Trying not to create any more reflections in my mind, searching with my eyes for the cupid whose name I still don't know, I saw him say goodbye to the short lady who had trapped him in a rather suffocating dance I would say. The sound of the amusement park toys I had across the street was familiar, since my memorable childhood I loved amusement parks, my favorite toy was the ferris wheel.

I feel that the world is much bigger than we ever imagined. I've been there a million times, but every time I had different feelings. I had great memories of that park, full of laughter and fun with my grandparents, after reflecting for a while now I knew who I was, who Alice was.

A person who does not know his past.

A complete fumbling.

And Yes i'm An eternal sarcastic! So sarcastic, in fact, of the desire to climb on the bench of this amusement park now, and shout to all four corners of the earth, with pride. Yes! It was a great bitterness that hides behind acid words!

Well, it was better than not having any personality.

When I admitted this to myself internally, I felt a different difference as if the void had been filled and I looked as a reflection of the list and the number 6# "If you find out" and the number 7# "Open your heart" that used to be written in a old handwriting have now been deleted from the list.

I had managed, I managed to find out who I was. It was even easier than I imagined, I just had to accept myself accepting it. Cupid came to me breathlessly, smiling like his unkempt hair acquired after being the victim of his last dance partner, I took him by the hand smiling and guided him across a track to the entrance of the amusement park.

I looked him in the eye and he looked at me curiously without understanding anything and quickly without explaining I ran with him to the ferris wheel and we managed to get there in time to get to the last places. The wheel moved and we started to rise, the adrenaline of the race made my heart beat faster and after recovering my breath I started to observe the small people who, because of the height, were the size of a tooth, amid so many faces in his park two I recognized at the time, they were my grandparents.

They were certainly on their 42nd date, they had a slightly weird tradition of doing exactly everything they did on their first date forty-two years ago, my grandmother seemed to have realized she was being watched and she turned up and saw me and smiled. I was able to see my grandmother from a distance.

"You know them?"

"Yes, I know" I answer the question, cutting my eyes trying to understand if I saw what I see in my grandmother's eyes wrong "That elderly couple right there" I point in their direction "They are my grandmother Mary and my grandfather Bob."

"Beauty is family, then," I murmur quietly, but I can hear what made my cheeks flush.

"So ... What's missing from the list?" speaks by changing the subject.

"There are only three items left, starting with number 8 # finding happiness but I already know what to do, let's find my grandparents, they are the ones who express themselves on the subject and besides their love being a great example to follow, a pure and loving honest. "

"Wow! You must be a master in the subject of LOVE" "You describe it so easily" says Cupid holding the cabin rail of the ferris wheel, I think Cupid is afraid of heights.

"I am no longer a teacher, but we learned some things by taking a beating from life," I reply.

"Has anyone ever told you that you would be a great cupid?" look over my shoulder.

"Yes, now shut up," I say with a shrug "Because we have an important mission to accomplish and I don't have time for your games"

"But do we have time for a hot dog" points to the hot dog cart " I'm very hungry " says smoothing his belly.

"Sure, fearful kitty" I say mocking him.

"What did you say?" speaks, wrinkling his forehead in defiance "Fearful kitty?"

"Yes! Fearful kitten that is afraid of heights" comment laughing at his raised eyebrows.

"I'm not afraid of heights!"

"Ok. I'll pretend to believe it" I say and when I watch it turn red.

"You are very annoying, you know?" asks looking at me with his beautiful eyes, I don't know how but cupid had the gift of connecting with people.

I didn't answer your question and we waited for the wheel to come to a complete stop on the floor and we headed out towards the hot dog cart, even though my belly was short of my begging for food, this mission spent all my energy and I needed even more this night is over. I was afraid to lose sight of my grandparents but I didn't worry too much because exactly where they would be all night, in the wonderful old mountaineering tent of old Mr. Molly as they did every year on Valentine's Day.

"No side dishes, please, with lots of sauce" I tell the salesman that he had a very funny mustache and he quickly hands us the hot dogs and we sit down.

"What's your plan for falling in love?" asks Cupid as he passes mustard on his hot dog.

"Are you going to pretend to be a damsel in distress that is a classic or are you going to say that you are hopelessly in love with the first one that passes by," she says now putting on ketchup.

"Seriously! We are in the 21st century, you never speak of" Destiny ", I ask.

"If luck is in my favor, I will leave here in love," I say ironically with a face in love with the famous stereotype of European cinema.

"Why are you helping me?" I speak my mouth clearly with the napkin "There must be a hidden reason" I look at him "His eyes hide more than just an ocean, think a secret."

"You're right ..." he lowers his head "I'm helping you because I feel a little guilty."

"For what?" I asked and it looked like he was going to say more to interrupt my pulse.

59:00

Now I had less than an hour to decide my final destination, I still couldn't find anyone who would fall in love at first sight. Falling in love is a much more difficult and complex mission than I could have imagined.

A heart is not sold or taken, it just arrives.

How I would fall in love in an hour is impossible! Who in their right mind would fall in love with a stranger in a few minutes? I am fighting everything; against time, against my feelings and even against myself. But I still had hopes, after all, nobody wants to become a lost soul.

"Well there is another option ..." cupid says awkwardly "In my world, whoever wins the challenge of love has the right to fulfill a wish and if you are crazy enough to try, if you win you can ask to have your life back ... "

"I accept!" I shouted interrupting him, no doubt I would accept that challenge, after all it was my life that is at stake.

"I'm not deaf, you know? You don't have to shout!" says putting his hands to his ear.

"Sorry, I think I exalted a little" I speak casually "But just out of curiosity, who will be my opponent?"

"Eros himself," said Cupid, looking at me.

Eros?

My God! What the agent does not do to stay alive in this world.

Confident of what I would do and the risks I was taking, I look for any shadow of courage that I had left. After all, my soul was in danger of staying in the day for the rest of eternity, and the last few minutes I had did not give me many options.

Cupid walked away from the amusement park and I followed him without complaint, as we walked I prepared myself mentally to go to the world of that being. I didn't know what to expect, nor did I know what that world was like, what was in it or how its inhabitants were, but I hoped that my cunning would help me in this challenge.

Fighting with the god of love would certainly not be easy, love was not my specialty, even the opposite of that, I was terrible in this matter.

Mr. idiot stopped in front of a tree that had the symbol of two hearts intertwined and with two initials, he spoke a few words in Latin and the tree started to gain a golden glow and stretched if divided into two pieces, the middle of The tree became a kind of portal from the earth to that of another world. I notice that the tree was right in front of my grandmother's store, a strange coincidence. He passed without excitement to the other side of the portal and waited for me to do the same, I took a deep breath and crossed it, feeling a shiver down my spine.

On the other side it was incredible as it seemed we are in a totally different time, the sky was brighter than on earth. My red dress disappeared giving way to a type of clothes that I believe to be in fashion in that world, a warrior style, my hair formed a built-in braid and my uncomfortable high-heeled shoes became a beautiful hunting boot that went up to the ankles.

We went to a kind of war field made of marble stones, in the Roman style. There was an arena with several bleachers scattered around it, a huge tent made of fabrics and gold threads drew attention right in the center.

An opposing man appeared in my viewing angle, about 100 meters away, he was sitting in a majestic chair made entirely of rock, his thick eyebrows raised when he noticed our presence. That man was very similar to cupid, they had the same features but his eyes were totally different while cupid had blue eyes Eros had brown eyes.

The impetuous man rose gloriously from his pedestal and approached a kind of porch of the tall tent from which he could see us well, narrowed his eyes and looked disapprovingly at the Mr. Idiot and he looked down.

A trumpet sounded announcing our arrival and in a few minutes that grandstand that had been empty was filled with magical beings in a matter of seconds. There was everything from unicorns to angels with wings that dragged them to the ground, all curious and talking at the same time, I felt myself being chased by several looks followed by murmurs.

Everyone was silent immediately when the hoarse voice spoke.

"Who dares to face me in the challenge of love?" Asks Eros.

I kept my mouth open, he was eros himself. It wasn't like I hadn't studied Greek mythology at school. Eros the God of love, in some versions he was a primordial god in others, he was the son of Aphrodite and Ares. He was responsible for the loving union between all beings, more contrary to what was said in the history he did not have an angelic appearance, cupid his Roman name, he was a man with elegance but he had an opponent air, he looked like a general with his neutral expression.

"Me sir " I reply.

"I want to fight" I said and everyone in unison shouted "Uhhhhhh!" And I feel proud of myself, fear no longer controlled me.

"The love challenge is a riddle dispute" began Eros to explain "If you get it right, you can ask me for anything, but if you get it wrong..."

My breath was so fast that I could barely hear my own sanity screaming inside me, a smile was born on my face when I thought I had an advantage over the God of love. Since my childhood, my grandfather trained me and taught very difficult riddles, which they thought would be useful one day, Grandpa Bob had a notebook with notes of great riddles, which was always a funny situation for me, as he bragged about winning a dispute between your old friend.

"I will stay with your Soul", smiling victorious.

The thick, menacing voice brought me out of my thoughts and the smile that once dominated my withered face.

My Soul?

He spoke as if it was nothing to him but to me she was the most valuable thing he had, worth more than anything in the world. He really thought I would leave it at that. Poor thing, he never learned to never count the victory ahead of time.

Eros wait for me. He messed with the wrong little girl.

"OK! I accept your conditions, how are the rules?" I answer and eros sits on his throne now in front of us.

"The rules are simple you will have twenty minutes to think and discover the riddle if you get it right you win" If not... you already know.

"Right." I speak aloud without realizing "I'm ready Please do your charade."

"As you wish," replied Eros, rising again and saying loudly and loudly for everyone to hear.

"what that is? If you have me, you will want to share me. If you share me, you won't have me anymore."

The crowd that previously did not seem to sting their eyes now murmured softly, everyone was wondering what the big answer was.

"You have twenty minutes" puts an hourglass on the balcony and the sand starts to fall, counting the time and by chance I think it's a coincidence that I also have exactly 20 minutes to finish the time to buy the list.

Think Alice, think.

I talk to myself, a lot of pressure was to feel that my soul would depend on a charade if I didn't get GAME OVER right for me. The sound of sand falling from the hourglass gave my body chills and those twenty minutes passed so fast that the smoke on a windy day, I was still immersed in my thoughts, no one could help me was one of the rules.

I look at Alex, Alex was the name I discovered that Cupid had, after several crazy and disheveled girls or rather saying several angels shouted his name in the stands and he didn't even care much as if he was used to being the center of attention.

Him being looking at me with curiosity to see if I could pass his father's test. I sit on the floor and put my hands on my forehead in an attempt to see a light at the end of the tunnel, I remember when I was a little girl sitting in the garden at a picnic with my grandparents, when my grandfather told me that the secret of riddles is sometimes the best way to see from another point of view.

It is! My mind lights up, a brilliant idea came. A secret!

When I have a secret I want to share it and if I share it, I am left without a secret.

It is! I killed the charade!

Now tell me Eros. Who are you in the bread line?

"10, 9, 8, 7, 6 ..." the people around began to count down and Ryan immediately with his worried look.

"I already know," I say, and the crowd goes silent and Eros looks at me curiously.

"I'm going to tell you a secret, I'm great at charades."

"Your answer is? Ask Eros."

"A secret!"

When I spoke the answer, the inhabitants who were in an abnormal expectation, all reacted in the same way, seemed to hold their breath and looked anxiously at eros, waiting for confirmation or denial. I saw the fan club of the girls in love with Mr. Idiot curse me something almost inaudible to me, but I didn't care, Alex didn't take his eyes full of expectation from me.

Eros, who was standing next to some personal guards, was looking at me with an unreadable look, was silent for a few minutes, looking perplexed at being defeated, certainly hurt his ego and would even forgive him if he hadn't hurt my first.

"Congratulations, I must admit that you are a great thinker, as I promised you can ask me for anything that I will do" he talk in the end with an unhappy face, I think it hurt his pride.

"My wish is to have my life back and be the exclusive owner of it and return to my normal life ..."

I was surrounded by sinister lightning, dark clouds over the skies of Venus and a guard ran towards the mistakes and said something in his ears that made him look alarmed. I think something very wrong happened, and it certainly had to do with me because a strange symbol was still engraved on my wrist.

"I'm sorry Alice but you will have to stay on Venus, the Portal to the land has stopped working."

Really!? Right now that I thought my life would be back to normal.