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"My highness...everything for the party is ready"
"Even the human's pills?"
The girl nodded and after the permission, she left.
Even though Jack is a god, his life was boring...way too boring but he had parties to entertain him.
His parties were known to be...scandalous as we can say but being the son of Dionysus, it was normal.
His dad did worse things...
The other gods were pretty boring and never participate while humans, on the other hand, knew how to party.
They even invented little pills to make you happy, how cute.
So Jack's reputation was safe.

"I went through hell to get those invites so it better be good"
"Sonny, you always say that and every party is the same. They are always shit"
Brook wasn't wrong and most of the time he wondered why Sonny was so invested in those parties, he would rather spend his time differently.
"I have a good feeling about this one"
Sonny put on his jacket and they were ready to leave.
It was one of those underground things that made people feel cool only cause you need a secret word to get in and obviously it was underground...
Sonny didn't get disappointed.
The vibe of the party was almost primitive, with low drums playing as a sacrifice or a ritual was about to happen.
The waiters were half-naked, skin glowing as it was made of gold and glitter.
"Where did you bring me?" Brook asked shocked cause he definitely didn't expect that.
A waitress approached them with a tray of glasses full of a dark purplish drink that could have been wine.
They grabbed a glass each and Brook tried to fit in, while Sonny was way too comfortable with the environment.
"Brook, you need to try this"
Sonny handed him a drink but he refused.
The boy sat on the same couch for two hours, not really enjoying the party but at least his friend was having the time of his life.

"Bring me the boy over there...blonde locks" Jack ordered to one of the waiters.
When the boy walked into the VIP section, Jack was sitting and watching the whole party.
"I heard that you're not having fun"
Jack circled his fingers around the golden cup.
"And you know, everyone has fun at my parties"
Brook stood there confused cause he just wanted to be on a couch sipping a drink in peace.
"I-I..."
"Shh...no need to say a word"
Jack put his index finger on Brook's lips.
"I was born at a party like this one, it was a long time ago but I remember it as it was yesterday and even back there I had fun...so why are you ruining my party?"
Brook couldn't tell if he was getting mad.
"You think you're smart uh?"
Jack snapped his fingers and a girl handed him a lipstick, a bright red one.
"I may not be the smartest cause we all know there's a goddess for that..." Jack continued talking while applying the lipstick on Brook, who froze.
"...you think you can come here and think I won't recognize you?"
Jack's lips were extremely close to Brook's but the boy couldn't find the strength to push him away.
Jack tilted his head and kissed him softly.
"And to think that you chose Icarus...that poor boy..."
At this point Brook had no clue what he was talking about, was he a sociopath?
Jack smudged the lipstick with his thumb and before he could do something else, the boy spoke.
"I'm not who you think I am..."
Jack stopped.
"I have no clue what you're talking about but I didn't come here to ruin your party...I'm here with my best friend" Brook tried to explain hoping that the guy would let him go.
Jack's facial expression changed, his smirk turned into a flat line.
"What's your name?"
"Brook"
Jack nodded then gestured something to a waiter and let the human go.
"I'm sorry for the misunderstanding"
The blonde boy looked at Jack and then replied with a simple "no problem".

"Sonny we have to go"
"But I'm having fun- uh nice lipstick"
Brook looked at a mirror and wiped it with his hand but it left a stain, then dragged Sonny by the arm out of the place.

"Fuck!"
Jack was furious.
The wine dripped from the table, ruining the rug.
The servants flinched cause they rarely saw Jack that furious.
"Sir...t-there's someone for you" the servant was shaking.
"I don't-"
"Jackie..." Andy walked in, bright as the sun.
"Andy...or should I say apollo" Jack was pissed.
"Oh, so we want to go with the family name Dionysus?"
Andy noticed the mess and tried to find a place to sit.
"You think you can come to my house and make fun of me?"
"Oh, Jackie...I did nothing" Andy was teasing him.
"Fuck you and if you don't need anything then you can leave"
"Jeez, you're really pissed uh? I already told you, I didn't trick you"
It seemed like Andy was being truthful.
"Don't you have to go back to Icarus?"
Andy looked at him with sad eyes.
"Well...have fun with your parties and whoever that boy was" he ended coldly, which was ironic for him.

"I noticed that you're off lately" Aphrodite commented while they were having lunch on her balcony.
"I'm ok"
"The parties are too tiring?"
"Don't."
Lately, Jack was short-tempered.
Andy was testing his patience always rubbing everything in his face, plus he couldn't get the boy's eyes out of his mind.
"I won't stop till I get my answers...Mars is worse so tell me what's wrong, I care about you"
She rested her hand on Jack's.
The god looked away, he looked at the flowers in the garden...all beautiful and colorful but he felt like black roses, stunning but out of place.
"There's a boy...I thought it was Andy and now I can't get him out of my head"
"Oh, Jackie..."
"Don't call me that"
Jack couldn't stand that name anymore.
"Sorry...but that's it? I mean you can always ask Rye for help"
She smiled, a bright and reassuring smile.
"What if I don't want to?"
"Well, then follow what's in there..." she pointed to his beating heart.
Jack got up and went to the edge of the balcony, the handrail cold at his touch.
He glanced at the sun then looked back at the goddess.
"I know that it's hard to get over him but he made his choice and now you have to make yours, don't let him stop you"
"He's human"
Aphrodite cupped Jack's face and looked into his eyes.
"It doesn't matter. I see something you don't and you can't tell me I'm wrong..." she caressed his face lovingly.
"You already suffered enough. I'll tell Rye to help"
"No, I don't want it to be fake"
"Oh love, you still didn't get it uh? It can't work if there's nothing there...and with Andy, there wasn't anything, ever" she whispered the last part into Jack's ear.

"I bet Titi send you here" Rye said as soon as Jack stepped inside his house.
"Do they throw rose petals every time someone comes in?" Jack asked pointing to the two cupids at the entrance"
"Experimenting new things...I need to feel loved too"
Jack forgot how extra Rye could be but all the gods of love were like that.
"So what can I do for you and your tormented soul"
"Can you guys stop it, it's annoying"
"We just say the truth"
Rye slouched on the love seat, a Cupid rushed to bring him a drink right after.
"Thanks love...well if Titi sent you here it means that is serious and you know, I never go against the goddess of love"
"So what do you suggest?"
Jack wasn't used to feelings.
"I made a lot of couples happen, I'm proud of my work but humans are more simple than gods...we think that we can handle everything but we can't"
Jack wasn't understanding.
"You need to forget Andy...that's what I suggest" Rye looked at Jack offering a sip.
"There's nothing to forget"
The god of wine clenched his jaw.
"Jack...you still don't get it uh? Lying is useless, I can read your heart. Andy's heart belongs to Icarus, I was there..."
The old Jack would have lost his mind but he was too tired to react.
"My father used bow and arrows, I choose to use something more modern...take this lipstick...you'll know when it'll work"
Rye handed him a golden case.
"Rye I don't want to take risks, we are talking about a human here"
Jack trusted Rye but he liked to play with people's hearts sometimes.
So the Cupid opened the lipstick, it was dark like red wine and applied it to Jack's lips gently.
Then kissed the God.
"Feel something?"
"No"
"Now you know I prove nothing for you...I can't create love, Jack. We are powerful but not that powerful"

That night it was the first time Jack was nervous about a party.
Everything had to go according to plan.
"Sir, they are here" a servant warned.
"Bring them whatever they need and in an hour call the boy" Jack ordered then looked at the lipstick in his hand.

"I don't know what happened last time but thank you cause they invited us again!"
Sonny was excited as always.
Brook, well, he felt weird.
Last time it was a mix of creepy and hot, the owner was literally a god on earth but whatever happened that night kinda freaked him out.
But he decided not to think too much about it and tried to have fun.
"Sir...can you follow me?"
An hour passed by and all the memories from the first night came back in a flood.
"What is it this time?"
"I promise that I won't accuse you of anything"
Jack handed him a glass of wine, which Brook accepted.
"I'm sorry for the other night, I wasn't lucid and treated you like shit"
Brook sipped his wine in silence, listening to Jack's apologies.
"You didn't deserve it and I apologize"
"No one ever apologized to me so thank you"
Brook looked so small.
"I have something for you...last time that red wasn't really for you"
Jack handed the lipstick.
"Thanks...c-can you put it on?"
Jack nodded and gestured for Brook to climb on his lap.
It felt both weird and comfortable somehow and when Jack finished, he couldn't stop staring at how perfect it looked...that Cupid...

A waiter approached them with a tray full of candies.
"Candies?"
"They are special"
Jack took one and put it on his tongue.
"Trust me" Jack whispered then gave him the pill.
The kiss was messy, heated, lustful...and the god felt something indescribable.
It was better than any drug or wine and even better than sitting beside Zeus on the Olympus.
"Wait wait wait"
Jack pulled away, lipstick smeared everywhere.
"You feeling ok?"
"Better than ok...I honestly found hot what you did last time, scary but hot"
Brook left lipstick marks on Jack's neck, the taste of his skin addictive.
"You sure?"
Jack grabbed his face and locked eyes with him and Rye was right, he saw something, not sure what but something that corresponded to what he felt.

"Can I look now?"
"No, one second"
They walked into a room and finally, Brook was able to see.
The room was extremely luxurious with silky sheets and furniture that had gold details, dark red was the dominant color.
"You can have your own place here. Whenever you want or need you can stay here" Jack explained.
"You didn't have to..."
"But I wanted to" Jack looked at his boy and kissed him softly.
"Sir...you have a visit"
"Who are they?" Brook asked while they were going downstairs and saw two people sitting on the couch.
"Well...we have Aphrodite, the goddess of love and the trusty Cupid"
Brook froze beside Jack cause he was in front of two gods...
"He does look like Andy-"
Aphrodite hit Rye in the arm to shut him.
"Andy?" Brook looked at Jack confused.
"Known also as Apollo..." Rye couldn't shut up.
"Me...like Apollo? The fucking sun?"
"We take this as the fact that Jack didn't explain to you the whole thing" Titi laughed.
"He refused to answer my questions" Brook pouted.
"It's for your own safety" Jack kissed his head.
"Can I bring you something?" A servant asked.
"Bring us a bottle of rosè and can you tell Jacques to prepare us the special?"
The servant nodded.
The special ended up being a wine from Jack's personal wine cellar that's made with grapes that don't grow on earth.
"Am I allowed to stay here though?" Brook asked out of nowhere while laying in Jack's arms.
"If Icarus is still alive"
"Rye for fucks sake cut it!"
Jack was getting annoyed cause Rye couldn't keep his mouth shut.
"It's not like it's a secret"
"The Icarus that got too close to the sun?"
Brook tightened Jack's arms around himself, he didn't want that end.
"Here the gods are allowed to do everything...you're here cause you're wanted" Aphrodite explained to calm down Brook and Jack silently thanked her.

But that night, Brook couldn't stop thinking about Icarus...
"Why are you outside in the cold?"
Jack wrapped a blanket around the boy who was standing on the balcony in just his t-shirt.
"Hey...is everything ok?" Jack started to worry.
"Tell me the truth"
Brook turned around to look Jack in the eyes.
The god stood there frozen, if before he had chills from the cold air of the night, Brook's serious glare made shivers run down his back.
"I mean...it's not that relevant..."
"I don't care, tell me"
Jack sighed then let it all out.
"A long time ago me and Andy, Apollo, had a thing...us gods like to have fun together sometimes but with Andy was different. Then he met Icarus..."
Brook listened to the story hypnotized.
"You know how the story goes but Icarus never died, Andy saved him and that's how their story began"
"Ok but what about me?"
"That night I thought you were Andy, you have the same blonde hair and Andy loves to tease me even though he loves Icarus more than anything"
"So I'm here only cause I look like Andy?" Brook said after a moment of silence.
"No no...it's not that"
"How are you so sure?!" Brook was getting mad.
"Rye...I'm sure cause of Rye..." Jack finally confessed.
Brook connected the dots and had enough, he left.
"I didn't ask Rye to make me fall in love with you!"
Brook stopped on the doorstep of the huge mansion.
"As he says...you can't create love, what we have it's true, real...not an illusion"
A god never begged a human to stay but there's a first time for everything no?
"You don't remind me of Andy cause you're not him"
Brook turned around, not knowing what to do or say.
"I love you cause of you. I don't care if he's the sun...you have something, a spark that's only yours and I've never felt like this for someone, let alone for a human. You're special Brook...don't leave me"'
A gust of wind moved the trees and Brook ran into Jack's arms.
The god held his head close to his chest and he just breathed in the love.
"You ok?" Jack asked the boy looking into his eyes.
Brook nodded and kissed him.
"Come on, let's go inside cause I'm starting to get cold"
Jack picked Brook up and brought him inside.

"We did a great job"
"No...they did it themselves. Just needed a little push"
Rye and Aphrodite looked at each other proudly

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Note*
Ok I edited this one at school and my phone is dying...perfect.
I hope this type of stories are fun to read cause they are definitely fun to write.
Tomorrow I'll be on Easter break so I hope I'll be able to update more.
Take care of yourself 💘