The Wings Of Love

What Curse?

Orientation is a blur, I have no idea what Gideon is saying, I just can’t keep my eyes off him, he’s so gorgeous, but he’s a liar, I’m not sure if I even want to be alone with him again. How old is he? I have so many questions, my mind is spiralling. Annabelle nudges me and asks if I want to go out for a coffee after orientation, I tell her I can’t because I need to call my family back home, she understands and says “time zones hey!” I just smile and nod. That’s when I hear Gideon say “Thank You all for your time, please have a restful day before classes begin tomorrow”.

I get up out of my seat and hurry back to my room, once there I close the door and lay back on the bed, I start to replay that night in my mind and think about how the glowing sapphire became the door handle to my room, this all seems so crazy, was it all a dream? There’s a knock at the door, I get up to open it and Gideon is there, looking as gorgeous as ever, I find myself biting my lip at the sight of him, then I remember why he’s here. I invite him in, he closes the door and sits down on the bed next to me. I look into his eyes and feel the tears starting to form again, “Please don’t cry Venus” he says wiping a tear from my cheek, “I will tell you everything, it started when I was 19, my parents were pushing me to go to university at Moonshade, but I refused, I stayed home, went surfing with my friends and got a pretty cool job at a beach bar. I was happy until my 20th birthday, that night I had a dream, I dreamt of you, the woman of my dreams, I saw myself arriving at Moonshade and seeing you in the lake exactly the way I did the night that we met”. “But how could you dream of me? We had never met?” I ask, he smiles and says “I didn’t understand it either, but I dreamt of you every night for weeks, and that’s when I made the decision to come to university at Moonshade. I assumed you were a student just like me, and we would meet on my first day and we would make love for the first time on your 20th birthday. But when I got here, I couldn’t find you, I went to the lake every year when new students arrived and you never came”.

I can see the pain in Gideon’s eyes, but I still don’t understand, “I had taken some time after my graduation to visit the UK, to clear my head and forget about you, before returning to start my job as a coach here at Moonshade, imagine my surprise when I am sat next to the literal woman of my dreams when I board the plane. I couldn’t look you in the eye because I had dreamt about ripping your clothes off for years, I didn’t know if I would be able to control myself. I am so sorry if you feel that I took advantage of you, but you need to know that it is my destiny to be with you” he speaks so sincerely that I know he is telling the truth, even though I don’t understand it, I feel almost like he loves me, and I feel like I love him. This is so crazy, I’ve only known him a couple of days, how could I be in love, there’s one question I really need to ask “Gideon, earlier you said that we would make love for the first time on my 20th birthday? And the other night you asked me if I was a virgin? Why?”. Gideon looks confused, he opens his mouth and says “Why do you ask me that? Of course you know why we can’t make love before your 20th birthday” The blank expression on my face must speak a thousand words because Gideon then goes on to say “Well don’t you know about the curse?” “What curse?” I ask, at this point I have never been so confused and can only assume that he’s joking, a laugh escapes my lips, and Gideon turns to me and frowns “Venus, you know that any man who takes the virginity of a fairy before her 20th birthday is cursed with immortality and the inability to feel love, the same goes for any fairy who gives their virginity to a man she does not love”. Wait, did he just say fairy?