Ἀφροδίτη

"Yes, please continue your blood curdling screams. They give me life." 

She stopped screaming and looked over her shoulder towards the voice.

"Bad night?"

"You! You knew about this, didn't you?"

"Arachne? Ah now I see what’s happened. Might I suggest we quiet down a little though? We don’t need anyone panicking if they hear you."

"Okay, okay.. Breathe, I need to breathe."

"People should worry! We've been cursed and we're mortals, that should worry everyone!"

"Hey calm down! Seriously what is wrong?"

"What do you bloody think is wrong, Arachne?!" she said while getting out from the shower, almost stumbling out.

"Oh but isn’t that just like me to fancy something I can’t have. Funny how that keeps happening." She mockingly pouted, crossing her arms. "I guess you’re right. There isn’t much fun in being innocent, anyway…"

"Then you're like most girls, congratulations," she said with a laugh. "Amen to that. We have so much more fun than all those innocent dolls, who never leave their house or their husbands." 

She shrugged, hardly insulted. She could hardly insulted when she still felt like she was playing a role. She wasn’t Clotho, not truly. “You don’t have to believe me, but that doesn’t make it less true.”

"I'm not even sure what you'll have me believe at this point."

"No I don’t think you do Aphrodite.."

"Excuse me?"

"Sucks to be out of the loop, doesn’t it."

"Yes, care to clue me in?"

"I think I can handle it. You’re definitely in good hands."

"I don't doubt it for a second. You look like a man who could fight off a lot of mythology freaks."

"People need the escape from reality sometimes. Myths are the cure to one’s soul."

"Great, another fortune cookie-speaker."

"Adonis was the lucky one, in my opinion." It took everything the woman had not to bust out laugh. But she managed to hold a straight face, only offering Aaliyah an innocent smile. "I can assure you, I’m up to nothing. Why would I be? Don’t I look innocent enough?"

"Do you fancy Aphrodite, Naveen? I hate to break it to you, but she's just a figment of your imagination," she laughed, still looking a bit confused by her friend. "You look about as innocent as me right now, love, and I'm far from it."