Cupid rummaged through her draws, her bag. She couldn't have lost it. She hadn't taken it anywhere with her for ages, unless…
'No, no one would take it. Who would need it?' Cupid thought to herself but the longer she searched for it, the more apparent it became. She had checked her closet, desk drawers and even under the bed but it was just nowhere to be found. There was only explanation. Someone had taken it. Cupid started to panic. What would her father say if he found out she had lost it. It was her most important possession and without it she would be basically useless trying to complete her destiny.
"No, he won't find out because I'm going to get it back." She determinedly vowed to herself. She decided to start by asking her friends if they knew anything. She doubted that they did but right now she didn't want to be alone. She knew how important it was to tell someone if you had a problem, especially of this magnitude. However, she didn't have to wait very long to find a friend.
"Hey Cupid!" Maddie rushed up to her friend. If anyone knew love it was Cupid so maybe she knew what was going on with Hunter. Cupid was definitely the first person to go to in a love crisis. She had encounter Hunter earlier and when she had asked about Ashlynn he didn't seem to remember entirely who Ashlynn was. It was so out of character considering how close they were and that they had to consider their relationship at the moment.
"Hey Maddie," Cupid faked a smile. It was easier if she did this without Maddie. She didn't mean to be rude but Maddie's craziness sometimes got in the way. Plus, she did have a tendency to go a little overboard and become suspicious of everyone.
"Have you seen Hunter by any chance?" asked Maddie.
"No, not since lunch. Why?" Cupid replied.
"He was acting really strange earlier. When I asked him about Ashlynn he didn't know who she was. Well, he knew who she was like she is Cinderella's daughter and that they were friends but he couldn't remember that they were in a relationship. So I decided to come to you because you know all about love and I thought that you might be able" Maddie spoke twice her usual speed and Cupid was eventually able to cut in.
"Wait, what! Hunter doesn't remember he loves Ashlynn?" Cupid thought hard about it. There had to be an explanation. There was no way that anyone could master a memory wipe spell, especially considering that not many students had magic. Unless.
"Maddie, does Ashlynn remember Hunter?" Cupid asked slowly.
"I don't know. I've been looking for Hunter not Ashlynn. Do you think she knows what's happening with Hunter?" Maddie asked as Cupid softly sighed. "Not exactly but, I think I might know what happened. We have to find Ashlynn and get everyone together."
"Well, our best bet is to check her room. If she isn't there, then Briar might know where she is."
"That's actually a really good idea Maddie. Come on, we need to find Ashlynn as quickly as possible."
Cupid and Maddie had entered Briar and Ashlynn's room to find Briar lying on her bed listening to music off her mirror phone. Cupid walked over to Briar and sat on the end of the bed. Maddie stayed standing not far away.
"Hi Briar. Um, sorry to disturb you but we need your help." Briar took her headphones off and sat up.
"Yeah?" She asked.
"Have you seen Ashlynn at all?" questioned Cupid. Briar nodded.
"She was in here earlier and she seemed fine until I asked her if she needed any advice, you know with her current situation but she just laughed. It was almost like she didn't remember that she was in a relationship" explained Briar.
"With Hunter?" Cupid quickly finished the sentence.
"Yeah. How did you know." inquired Briar.
"I saw Hunter acting the same way. He didn't even know that he was in a relationship with Ashlynn. Something happened." Maddie explained.
"And I think I know what happened." Cupid smiled grimly.
"What happened Cupid? You clearly know what's been going on" Maddie bounded over to the bed.
"It's my Cora and Amore book. It's full of spells, potions and advice for nearly every love problem. I use it all the time and it's gone missing. I think someone used a particular spell in it to separate Ashlynn and Hunter." explained Cupid.
"Who would want to seperate Ashlynn and Hunter? It's not like they have any enemies do they?" Briar wondered.
"Apple!" Maddie convicted. Cupid just rolled her eyes. The wasn't very surprised that Maddie was already accusing people when they hadn't even investigated anything yet. Hell, they had no proof that someone had used Cupid's book.
"Come on Maddie, why would Apple do that. Ashlynn is one of the Apple's closest friends."
"No, think about it. Ashlynn and Hunter's relationship is in the way of Apple starting her story, so she found a way to get rid of them. Plus, she never was a fan of them being together in the first place." Rebutted Maddie, clearly to convinced to be convinced of otherwise. Cupid sighed. It did make some sort of sense, but it was so out of character for Apple to do something like that. Cupid didn't even want to consider it.
"Well, we won't know what happened until we find my book." She declared, hoping that it might distract Maddie from her suspicions of Apple. True or not, they didn't need fighting to help solve this problem. "We should get as many people involved as possible, and check anywhere we can. As we're already here, we should check Ashlynn's side of the room for any possible clues."
Cupid walked over to Ashlynn's bed and started rummaging through the drawers in her bedside table. She found books, pens and all kinds of little knick-knacks but no clues or book. Maddie and Briar started to check places as well, checking under her bed, in closets and behind desks. After about 20 minutes of searching Maddie stopped.
"Cupid, I don't think it's here. Why don't we check Hunter's room? Maybe there's something there." She suggested.
"I suppose your right." Cupid nodded and the three of them left them and walked silently down the hallway. Briar paused for a moment before knocking. Dexter greeted them when he opened the door.
"Hey!" he smiled cheerfully.
"Hey Dex." Cupid smiled back. She quickly stopped herself. She could already feel her cheeks growing redder. She knew that she couldn't be with him and she had to fight the temptation. As someone who was supposed to help other people with love, she couldn't break someone's heart just so that she could be happy.
"We were wondering if Hunter was here?" Briar broke the silence and the other two nodded.
"Sorry I haven't seen since this morning." Dexter apologised.
"No that's good." Cupid sighed in relief. This would have been much harder if Hunter had been there. "Can we come in?" Dexter nodded.
"So what happened?" Dexter asked.
"It's a long story but we need to search Hunter's side of the room." Dexter gave the girls a puzzled look and a questioning look towards Cupid, clearly asking for an explanation.
"It's really important Dex. Something's happened to Hunter and Ashlynn and we think there maybe something to help them here."
"Alright but don't take too long. Hunter could be back any minute and I don't think he'd be happy to see you all here" Cupid gave Dexter a thankful smile and then joined the other girls as they searched the room. It wasn't long until Maddie found it, in the top draw of Hunter's bed-side table. It was as if he hadn't even tried to hide the book.
"Cupid! Is this it?" She called out. Cupid rushed over to Maddie
"Yes that's it!" she shirked in delight. She reached over and picked it up.
"Who would have put it in there?" Briar walked over to join them.
"I don't know but I need to figure out what happened to Ashlynn and Hunter." Cupid walked over the desk and put the book on the table. She was about to start flicking through the pages when she noticed something lodged between the first page. She quickly removed it. It was a carefully folded up note. Cupid read it to herself and went pale.
"What is it?" Briar questioned her friends distress.
"I know who took my book. And it isn't good." She told them and started to read the note aloud.
Cupid,
If I can remember I will return your book. I'm sorry I took it without your permission but if I told you what I was planning you would have stopped me. It's become clear to me that Ashlynn and I can't be together if we want to save Raven. I don't have the heart to break up with her so I used one of the potions to make us forget. Please don't be mad. This is for the best.
Hunter.
Everyone gasped in shock. Dexter, who had been curious to what the girls were looking for and were partly focusing on what they were going reacted.
"He did what!" He asked shocked but he got no response as Cupid was already frantically flipping through the pages.
"I know what he did." She said as she stopped on a page titled Forget Me Not. The potion was sparkly purple and looked a lot like glitter.
"I saw that in Ashlynn's hair!" Briar exclaimed. Maddie read the paragraph above the potion out loud.
"Not happy with your love life but don't want to go through the heart-ache of breaking up? Now you don't have to. Simply sprinkle the potion on you and the desired person and you'll instantly forget you loved them and they loved you."
"There has to be a counter spell or something Cupid." Briar desperately asked. Hunter may have decided to take this course of action, but it didn't sound like Ashlynn had. Cupid quickly rummaged through the book, turning pages so quickly that she almost ripped them right out of the book. But there was nothing. No hint of a counter spell. Cupid looked up at her friends with tears in her eyes, knowing the bad news she had to tell them.
"I'm sorry but there isn't anything that I can do." Cupid sadly explained.
