Once upon a time, there lived a girl. She was as beautiful as a fairy but as poor as a church mouse. She lived in a varied misery but one day, things changed totally for her and destiny carried her at the door of a huge castle that belonged to a wealthy king in a neighborhood kingdom. The king had a son who was distinctly handsome and when the two people came face to face, the cupid came and create the spell of love between them. Both the souls found their mates and soon exchanged vows to live …

"Happily ever after" finished the young and dashing personality in the huge room. He was pre-occupied in his own work as his colleague prompted him the beautiful story. "Crap!" he muttered under his breath while he sewed the extra button into the shirt that was now put on the male mannequin. It was a perfect fit and the chiseled curves of the body were seen through the expensive fabric.

"Excusez moi?" cried the petite girl. She held an open book in her hands which she shut aggressively, to express her displeasure at her friend's opinion.

"You heard that right." He said, his tone affected because he had his teeth clenched for holding a needle between them as he fixed the other button at the proper place. After he was sure that it was in the right place, he freed the needle and continued his elaboration, "It's all crap. I mean …" he turned swiftly facing her, "This never happens in real life. Falling in love, living happily ever after … Pfft! Are you kidding me?" His head wobbled while he laughed and turned again back to his work.

The girl set the book beside her on the table she sat and jumped off it. Her lips pouted and she shrugged. "You never know, Noah. I always like to think that I am going to find my Mr. Right soon; I will fall in love with him and we WILL live happily ever after." Her animated mannerism would have signified even a stupid person that she had total believe in love.

As she stood behind Noah, she would seem to be a dwarf in front of the brunette standing 6ft tall there. The broad shoulders rose and fell as a noisy sigh was heard. Noah turned to her and coherently stated, "This all is fictional shit Maddie."

"Nope!" Maddie smiled, "Love is in the air Noah. You just need to feel it and believe in it. A little effort you make to find it … and there you'd be, standing in front of YOUR Mr. Right!"

"Yeah Right" Sarcasm was prominent in Noah's voice that made Maddie frown at him when he turned away.

"I don't understand you sometimes."

"You don't need to, you know."

"Bitch!" she sulked.

"Oh you finally recognized me." Noah chuckled and that made Maddie giggle, too.

"Whatever, I am outta here. But remember this; one day, you will say it yourself that Love is the most beautiful thing in the world."

"Dream on!"

Maddie shook her head, "BYE!" she said forcefully, "You better go home soon too. It's very late already."

"Yup." Noah hugged her briefly. "I am almost done. See you tomorrow."

Noah unlocked the front door, shaking his head as the conversation with Maddie and her dreams about 'happily ever after' came back to him. It had been numerous times that she had tried to fix him up with a guy.

What he didn't get was after all those bad relationships she had, Maddie was the last one Noah thought would believe in something as stupid as the words 'happily ever after'. He had seen her getting her heart broken, time after time; saw how she swore never to let a man back into her heart, and yet she was still longing and hoping for the right guy to come along?

The apartment came to glow in a dim light as Noah walked through the empty house until he came to his home office.

He found himself standing in front of the only mannequin in his office. The one that had a casual, though very exclusive outfit from his collections. The dresses that the show-stoppers of his every show would be showing off the glam in those clothes, would be first tried on by this mannequin. It was indeed very special for Noah since it had come along with him through his hard journey to success. From just an assistant to some designer to a celebrity fashion designer, Noah owed his success to that mannequin. Maybe it was just his belief but he had an attachment to it. He would talk to it for hours long, pour his heart out because it helped him. Someone with no family desperately searches for somebody whom he can proudly call his! And Noah found that somebody in the mannequin.

This time, it was his loveless life that was bugging him, thanks to Maddie and he needed to talk it out.

"Maybe it's just girl thing…" he talked as he began to adjust the dress on the mannequin. "To keep on hoping and dreaming for Mr. Right …"

Noah sighed as he shrugged his jacket off. "I know it's not." He murmured low to himself.

He ignored the stack of letters on the desk that he knew Marie his housekeeper had set neatly at the side, and sat on the chair. Those were just letters of admirations regarding his work; none of them came out of ever near love and affection to him.

"How come half of the guys I've dated only sees the designer in me, and not just … me?" Noah wondered quietly as he rested his head back at backrest of the chair and closed his eyes.

Noah Mayer had everything; money, status, popularity … each and everything that would help him lead an easy and a ravishing life. "… and yet I am not happy?" He talked in a voice just above the whisper. One could have easily caught the hardness in his voice and know that was about to break down. "The only thing that's missing in my life is someone to share it all with. I have everything excect love. I want to live in love … just once. I too want my story to end up happily ever after." He swallowed down the lump and continued, "But I guess, there isn't anything like happily ever after in real life. It's probable that someone has made it up…" A tear rolled out from beneath his closed eyelids and he stayed still for a moment.

He stood up from the chair and walked towards the balcony deciding to enjoy the sight out there. It was different in New York than he was accustomed to. But the view he had from his balcony brought a feeling of home. And that beautifulness, the same elegancy of the city was so powerful that even the ugliest thing could turn into a masterpiece. So to say, that had been his actual goal when he first entered the fashion world a couple of years ago, and here he was now at his height of achievement.

He was complete and yet so incomplete without love. "Why?"

"That's because you're afraid of getting your heart broken Noah." A voice came from behind him.

Noah jumped around and stumbled as he tried to regain his balance and slow down his racing heart.

"Maddie?" Noah gasped as he stared at her. "How the hell did you get here?" He was taken aback by her presence in his lonely apartment.

"I'm not Maddie." She simply replied in a soft voice.

"You are not Maddie?" Noah looked perplexed at her, "You sure look like her. Oh wait! Is that you, Eve? But hey…" He paused as he recollected his memory, "… as far as I knew, she's locked up in jail, far away from here."

"I'm not her either"

Noah raised an eyebrow in suspicion. "Th-Then who are you?" he asked in a stutter.

"A Cupid!", the Maddie-alike replied with a huge grin. She had an unusual glow on her face, a very heavenly beautiful one.

Noah was stunned for a minute. But he regained himself soon enough and being not able to believe the woman in front of him he blurted out, "Yeah … right".

"Huh? You do know who Cupid is right?" Her smile began to fade away as a worried look slowly began to creep up her features.

"Mmm yes… but aren't you, a cupid as you claim to be…" He chuckled, "supposed to be a guy with wings and a bow and quiver of arrows?"

"Well" The smile on the beautiful girl's face was back once again. "I just thought you would prefer me like this but since you don't …"

Noah backed away from her at safe distance as a weird, abnormal thing happened and his jaw dropped seeing it. Her hands moved in a perfect rhythm doing a little spin as she enchanted a spell, "coz Noah wants to see, show him the real me." And with that, her hair and dress twirled along her body changing her into a sparkling fairy like creature and a pair of wings popped out getting neatly folded against her back.

"So?" The cupid grinned.

"uhhhh" Noah was dumb-founded but still couldn't believe it. "Um … the bow and arrow?"

She rolled her eyes, "Fine!" and once again she spun her finger while enchanting her spell, "Come Come, I am incomplete, oh my bow and arrow I wouldn't fleet."

"WOW!" was all Noah could blurt, when a bow and an arrow was in her hands at the blink of an eye. "But, why are you here?"

Noah wanted to know, but she just smiled and turned away from him, watching the view of a late-night New-York.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?"

"What?" Noah asked confused. He had enough trying to grasp the fact that someone like Maddie was in front of him, dressed as Cupid and claiming to be one while doing unbelievable stunts that were out of this world.

"The sky… It's just so beautiful here."

"Yes it is" Noah nodded in agreement but with a troubled forehead.

"Legend has it Noah that wishing upon a shooting star makes the wish come true. If it's really true love you seek Noah Mayer, then we will meet again, as another star will fall… tonight!" and with that she vanished as quiet as she had come … as if she was just an air around him and was blown away without anyone knowing it where it went.

"Never give up on love", Noah thought he heard her whisper, but there was no one there to answer to, only the stars shining down on him.

Noah's eyelids blinked as he came around. His eyes still felt heavy but he rubbed them to remove the haziness in front of his sight. Looking around the room he tried to figure out what happened. And that's when he realized it.

He had fallen asleep in his chair while deep in thoughts. He had a great laugh on how funny it was that he dreamt something like that. 'I guess the desperation to find my love has gotten so much into me that it's creating nightmares.' He thought and cracked up again. 'Cupid? Right!'

Noah was in stitches when all of a sudden he stopped laughing and he replayed in his mind what the girl had said to him.

"Legend has it Noah that wishing upon a shooting star makes the wish come true. If it's really true love you seek Noah Mayer, then we will meet again, as another star will fall… tonight!"

He wouldn't believe but a hope in his heart wanted to believe in it. He was struggling with his contradictory thoughts and before he knew it, he was standing by the railings on the balcony scanning the night sky; staring at it very intently.

Being alone, in the middle of nowhere, was thought provoking. He took his time reflecting on where he was in life, what he was proud of and what he wanted to be different, who he was now and who he had been a few years ago… on almost everything about his life.

A long time passed by before he caught a sight of a sparkling beauty traveling along the sky in an exact line. It was a single shooting star, high up in the purple-black sky looking oh-so beautiful! At first he barely saw it, but was in awe when he got its full view. There was no way he could even try to contemplate the wonders and workings of the universe without losing his mind.

Once again, his conscience wouldn't let him win over what his heart said. But … this was his chance if it was true and it wouldn't actually hurt to give it a try, was what he thought.

It was now or never! And he closed his eyes slowly as his heart said what it wanted through words coming out of his mouth …

"I want to feel what it is to love. I want to find my happily ever after"