Right Beside Me

by: JC Delacy

-Prologue-

MY MOTHER always told me that love was blind, unpredictable, unavoidable, and that it made people do stupid things. There was just one thing she forgot to add to that list: it would stalk me like a damn plague for the rest of my life.

Some probably loved to have the same gift -if you could even call it a gift-I possessed, some even fought to have it. And I, well, I just wanted to sell it on the internet at the lowest bid possible.

I'm probably not making any sense at all so excuse my manners.

My name is Brylee and although I might seem innocent, young, and quite pretty if I do say so myself, I hide a very horrible secret…

I can see, feel, and hear Cupid.

Yes, that Cupid, the one that shoots arrows at people's buttocks just so they can fall in love. But Cupid isn't as cute as you imagine, or selfless, or humble, or all those pretty things every story about Cupid is. He can't even shoot arrows, for crying out loud! (I was very disappointed when I realized he was Cupid. I mean, honestly, what was Cupid without any arrows? It was just plain wrong...Okay, in all honestly I wasn't that disappointed. He was pretty hot...BUT STILL!)

He needs humans - such as me or some guy at the store or the girl down the block - to carry his deed for him. You can say he's a ghost, a lingering soul that was damned to find people's soul mates before they die just so he could be forgiven and enter the doors of Heaven...or something like that.

In short words: He was a ghost and he needed a human 'Medium' to break apart his curse.

And I was the lucky fool who fell in his trap.

Oh, and that isn't the least of it! I can't fall in love until I search for at least twenty people's soul mates- usually it's not your best friend's or your close neighbour's soul mate, sometimes it's people's you'd never heard off! Apparently it is Fate who calls him and tells him to help me pair up these strangers.

Call me Love Guru, Matchmaker, call me whatever you want but please, just please take this dreadful curse away from me! Having Cupid watch your every move is like one of those annoying, yipping dogs that nibble at your feet and bark at your face every time he gets the chance.

And let me tell you I tried everything for him to leave...from Holy Water, to Crucifixes, to Dream-catchers, and still nothing. He's always there bugging me to do his bidding. And never mind the signs he sends me when I'm doing a lousy job as his 'Medium', it's enough to call him the devil.

And how did this happen?

It happened in a very lousy way, on a very lousy day…

Author's Note: YEY! Vacations have finally come!!!!! Sorry it had taken me so damn long to edit. This is so much harder than I thought. However, I will make it up to you! I will write like the wind in the next few days and I'll have everything posted up and running! Worry not, this will be your lovely christmas gift!

LOL! Thanks 4 sticking with me! Love ya'll!