War Between Three Brothers

By Lynelle S.

Long, long ago lived a beautiful goddess everyone loved and cherished, and her name was Aphrodite. She was no ordinary goddess; she was the goddess of love, beauty, and romance. She gave others love and romance and she was on the hunt to find it for herself, so she set up a contest to find her one and only love.

She picked the five worthiest men to see if they were good enough for her and worthy enough of her love.

Aphrodite was very kind to the men, except she found out later in the challenge that two of them, Nico and Rico, were just fakes. All they wanted from the gorgeous Aphrodite was her place as a goddess and her fame and gold.  The problem with Aphrodite's plan about finding love was that she found love, but the wrong kind of love.  She found three brothers; she loved them, but she couldn't pick one because they were just, oh, so great and generous and wonderful. She tried to pick but couldn't.  She never even knew they were brothers until one brother saw Aphrodite on a date with the other and then the other.

After that, she was forced to pick but she just couldn't; she loved them so much. Jeffrey was the best cook but, oh, so nice; Nicholas was just the sweetest talker but, oh, so nice; and Peter, oh Peter, everyone knew he was the best.  He was everything Aphrodite wanted and hoped for.

Aphrodite was extremely happy because she finally planned to tell the three brothers who she had picked, except she didn't know how to do it. She thought and thought and then she heard a loud scream coming from Peter’s room, so she ran as fast as she could...When she came there she saw Peter lying dead! She asked what had happened and then she saw Nicholas and Jeffrey with two long swords in their hands. She was stunned. They had killed Peter only because she was going to pick him instead of them.

She was so angry and hurt that she put a spell on Nicholas and Jeffrey—not an ordinary spell, but a curse—to never love and never be loved. Then she thought of something better: she trapped them in her ring to never escape.

After a few months, though, Aphrodite realized she was the goddess of love; she gives love, not takes it away.  After this experience she gave up on men for good and now she sticks to giving love, not trying to get love.