Cupid woke up on Valentines Day, 'This is going to be a busy day! I can't wait to get out there and get started. I love this job! Hopefully I get to hook up some interesting couples today. If I'm lucky there'll be at least one really kinky couple. I haven't had a really good show in awhile.'
After breakfast he went to get his bow and quiver of arrows from the hall closet where he kept them.
"What?!! Where in the hell are they? This is Valentines Day. I have to be able to work today! Dammit!" He got dressed and left his apartment.
He ran into his neighbor in the hall.
"Hi, Mark!"
"Hey, Chloe! Did you happen to see anyone hanging around my door this morning?"
"Yeah, some young punk, maybe 14-15 years old. When I asked him what he was doing he gave me a really weird answer. Something about your turn was over or something."
"Thanks Chloe. I gotta go."
"Bye, Mark. Have a great day."
As he left the apartment building he thought about what the kid had supposedly said. 'God, it can't be happening already! I've only been Cupid for 10 years.'
When he was 15 years old and his name was only Mark Graystone some crazy
old lady had came up to him at the park and said, "Do you believe in Cupid?"
"Yes. And no, I'm not nuts!"
"Finally someone who believes! It's about time! No, you aren't nuts. Cupid is real and he lives over on 46th street. If you steal his bow and arrows and shoot him with them you will become Cupid. You'll probably have to steal them from his house because if he's carrying them he can be invisible."
"Does that mean I can be invisible when I'm trying to shoot him? Shooting him won't hurt him will it?"
"No, it won't hurt him. He'll just become a normal man again. As far as the invisibility goes, only Cupid can be invisible and until you shoot him you aren't Cupid, so no, you can't."
"What's the catch?"
"You can't have a girlfriend while you're Cupid. But since you can be invisible you can watch the results of your work."
He had gotten a few more details from her and then the next morning he had went real early to Cupid's house and stolen the bow. He had waited right outside the guy's house behind a tree and shot him the moment he came outside.
He was pretty pissed off when he hunted down the old cupid a few days later to find out how to become invisible and learned that he couldn't until he turned 18.
Since then, although he hadn't had a girlfriend and was still technically a virgin at the age of 25, he'd seen more ways of having sex than most people could imagine. Now this little punk thought he was going to take the job away from him? Thankfully there wasn't anywhere close enough to hide outside his building, but he'd have still have to watch his back until he found the kid.
"That crazy old woman must still be around. I've got to get my bow back before that damn kid gets a chance to take a shot at me!"
He stopped at Starbucks to grab a cup of coffee. While waiting in line to order he overheard a couple talking.
"What is this world coming to? Kids with knives and guns are bad enough, but I saw a boy carrying a damn bow and arrows around earlier!"
"That's nuts! Does he actually think a bow is going to be any use against a gun?"
Cupid turned and asked the woman, "Did you notice which way the kid was headed? He stole that bow from me."
"It looked like he was heading towards the park." she replied.