Steve saw a quick flash of pink light strike Kyle. But nobody seemed to react to it, not even Kyle. Steve watched as Kyle blinked and looked at Sarah. Steve smiled, thinking it had worked perfectly. The two started talking. Kyle smiled and laughed at something Sarah must have said. He glanced in one of the mirrors at his reflection. Kyle suddenly stopped moving, to Steve’s bewilderment. Kyle said something off-handed to Sarah and resumed his workout, standing much closer to the mirror and staring at his own reflection with intensity. Sarah turned and walked away with an upset look on her face.
“What happened?” Steve asked.
“I don’t know!” she complained. “One second we were chatting, and I thought he was reacting well to my flirting. But then the next second he was shooing me away. What happened? Did I say something wrong?” She looked heartbroken. Steve wasn’t pleased.
“Let me talk to him,” Steve said, walking past Sarah and towards Kyle. He still held the Cupid Gun in his hand, keeping it out of Sarah’s line of sight. He pondered what had happened in his mind. Steve fired the Cupid Gun at Kyle, and Kyle looked at Sarah. Why did he practically ignore her?
He was about to ask Kyle what was up when he saw Kyle take his shirt off. He sat down on a bench that was parallel to the mirror and began curling a barbell. Kyle’s eyes were glued on his reflection. He seemed to be staring at himself with a kind of admiration or…
Realization hit Steve like a lightning bolt. That’s why the gun was in the bin of broken stuff. The Cupid Gun makes a person fall in love with the second person they see, not the first! Kyle saw his reflection after looking at Sarah. Now he’s in love with himself. No wonder Cupid got rid of the thing. That’s much harder to handle. Steve just stood there dumbfounded while Kyle was blatantly ignoring him.