Hey there everyone! I felt really guilty that I had to make you wait for another 2 days before I can update again, so I, Aquila, decided to post another chapter for all you folks. It won't happen again. This chapter is rather angsty and sad, as well as being entirely in Apple's point of view and in Blondie's narrative. I'm introducing some other favourite couples of mine in this story, and some of them will play big parts in the plot. But don't worry, this story's main pairing is still Queen Charming, and that will never change. Hope you enjoy it, oh and please review and tell me if you like it!
Chapter 4
Couples, couples everywhere.
They were not improving Apple's mood.
Apple tore through the undergrowth and was about to throw a super huge temper tantrum, when she heard sniffling.
She froze in her tracks, and her eyes widened comically when they landed on a crouched figure with tumbling yellow locks.
She knew only one person with hair as curly and gold like that.
"Blondie!?"
The hunched figure jolted up and Apple flinched at seeing the wild, messy locks and the tear tracks staining her face.
"Blondie?" she said it gentler this time.
"Apple?" Blondie whispered. "What are you doing over here?"
Apple knelt down and pulled Blondie into a hug.
"Why are you crying?"
Blondie hiccupped, and blew her nose noisily into her blue and white handkerchief bordered with cute bears.
"It's just ... Love hurts doesn't it?"
Apple arched an eyebrow in surprise. Blondie was wasting tears over love troubles?
Now that was new.
"It's like someone's forcing me to eat bland porridge and cold porridge and burnt porridge all at once. And it's definitely not just right!"
Apple steadied Blondie and made her look at her straight in the eye.
"Who is this about, Blondie?"
Blondie bit her lip, sighed, and whispered...
"Cupid."
WHAT?
"Wait a spell, Cupid? As in THE CUPID!? You have a crush on CUPID – the adopted daughter of Eros, the god of love?! As in the very same Cupid?" Apple asked shrilly in varying tones of ultra Sonics.
A flock of birds took off in a fright.
"Do you want the entire forest to know?" whisper shouted Blondie fiercely.
"NO! I mean, no! What happened?" asked Apple.
"It's just; I have this huge crush on Cupid. And I only realised like, right now. And it's really heartbreaking, 'cause..."
Blondie sneezed into her handkerchief.
Apple waited patiently.
"Well, because Cupid just got together with Dexter."
Oh. Shit.
"I should feel really happy for her now, right? And believe me, I was. Dexter was down in the dumps because of Raven getting together with Darling. I mean, it would be like, such a total bummer right? Your own twin getting the girl you've been crushing on for like, forever after."
Apple took in a sharp breath.
"Well, Cupid's been in love with Dex ever since she transferred here during throne coming. Most girls would jump at the chance to get the guy when he's free. But Cupid's not like that. Guess that's why I fell in love with her." Blondie gave a bittersweet smile.
"She was really upset that Dex was so broken over Raven. All she ever wanted was for him to be happy, even if it was with another girl and not her. So she spent all of her time comforting him and helping get over it. She used to fret about it to me at night, saying that stewing over and brooding about failed relationships wasn't healthy, and that she wished she could do anything to make him happy again."
"And that was when I began realising little things. The way her wavy pink hair bounces around when she's hexcited about a potential relationship. The way how her aqua blue eyes shine when she's truly happy. The way she wears her lipstick right in the centre in the shape of a heart. The way she hovers off the ground with her ivory feathered wings. The way she randomly starts doodling when she's bored or daydreaming. Her selfless attitude. Her love for love. Her all together cutie pie personality. I could go on and on and on..."
"But before I could get to terms with what I was discovering about myself, Dexter asked Cupid out. I was in the bathroom when it happened. Dexter came in and announced that he finally found out something. The smoke screen had fallen away. He realised at last to whom all those 'feelings' he had had been directed to. His dormant emotions had resurfaced. Then, he apologised for bothering her and grieving over Raven and that his heart was actually aching for someone else, and that all of her love advice made sense."
"Cupid said that she was really happy to know that Dexter was moving on, but you could hear the heartbreak clear in her voice. I was really angry; Dexter had no right to mess around with her feelings like that. Then, he announced that Cupid herself was the one and only person that he could ever have eyes for, and then Cupid was like 'Oh Dex, you have no idea how long I waited for you to say that!'
Blondie paused. Apple cringed.
'Then, I was in a dilemma. Should I tell Cupid that I've been harbouring feelings for her and ruin her chance with Dexter? Or should I pretend to feel happy for her, be her roommate and nothing else, hide my ever growing love for her while having minor breakdowns in the enchanted forest where no one could find me? I decided on the latter. And it's what I've been doing ever since. Pretty pathetic, huh? I finally found the person that was just right for me and I let her go, because she could never be truly happy with me as she is with someone else."
"Oh Blondie." whispered Apple.
"It just hurts Apple, it hurts so much. You have no idea. Only a person who has actually experienced the whole magnitude of painful unrequited love could ever understand."
But Apple did know. She did understand. She knew just how much unrequited love could hurt.
It was what she felt every single day.
