The world is not a wish granting machine ~Augustus Waters
Chapter 2:
One day Aphrodite was called to Olympus, she thought it must be important because usually the Gods don't bother her while she's on vacation. So she told Tristan that she had a meeting to go to for work and that she should be back later, he said ok and kissed her, Piper and Peyton giggled, Aphrodite smiled and kissed them both on their foreheads and left the house. She appeared on Olympus in the palace room, all the gods were sitting on their thrones and looked grim. Aphrodite wondered what was going on, she sat down and Zeus started to talk. "Aphrodite, you have spent far to much time with that man, and you know your oath, your time with him is over, you need to come back home." Tears glistened in Aphrodite's eyes, she sobbed and said "But I can't! I have 2 daughters to take care of! Please you can't make me leave them!" Athena came over and hugged Aphrodite, she said soothing words and glared at Zeus, but he looked unmoved. "Fine. I'll give you 1 week, that's it. You do whatever you have to do in that 1 week because after that you get no more time and your coming home." Aphrodite managed to calm down a bit and thanked Zeus for giving her some amount of time, even tho it wasn't much. "Whatever. Meeting dismissed, " Zeus said and walked away. Poseidon came up to Aphrodite and hugged her, he said, "This must be one of Zeus' good days, that's the most time he's ever given you with someone!" Athena snorted and said bye to Aphrodite, she had to go work on battle plans with Artemis. Poseidon sighed dreamily "Athena is soooo pretty!" He said dramatically. Then he turned all serious and looked at Aphrodite and said "Are you sure your gonna be alright? Because you didn't say anything about Pothena and I just pretended to compliment Athena. And you never shut up about Pothena so I know something's wrong." Aphrodite laughed slightly but it sounded a little forced, she nodded and said "yeah I'll be fine I just don't know how I'm gonna leave Tristan"
Poseidon squeezed her hand and said "You'll get through this just like you did with many others, it'll be fine. It's the same thing, you like them, get pregnant, have the child(ren) then you disappear. You've done this before, we all have." Aphrodite shook her head, "This time it's different. He isn't another fling or affair, he's my true love. I love him. And even thinking about leaving him hurts me. But I have to do it. And that's not fair, having to do something you don't want to do. You know how I'm feeling, you went through this with Sally and Percy. You had to leave them although you didn't want to." Poseidon nodded his head, "I understand and this time it's gonna be hard, but you have to get through it." Aphrodite nodded and said "I know." She said bye to Poseidon and flashed out of the palace room and into her bedroom.