Cupid Jimmy and Cupid Sarah were looking around the lunch room. This Valentine's Day was their first time out on the job, and, in their opinion, there was no better job done. They spotted that blue-haired boy holding a mop.
"Be gone, cursed underlings of Valhalla!" He yelled. The two Cupids didn't know whether this was a compliment or an insult, but they had a job to do.
"Oops, we missed one, Cupid Sarah," Cupid Jimmy said. The boy jumped up on the table.
"Rolf awaits your responce," He said. The two Cupids fired down a storm of heart-shaped arrows, but the boy, Rolf, blocked them all with the mop. He banged the end of the mop on the table, making all the arrows fall of, "You tickle Rolf's radish." The boy started swinging at them with the mop, "Take this! And this!" Cupid Sarah lead Cupid Jimmy up into a high corner of the room.
"Quick!" She said, "Up here! Far from his swings!"
"Safe and sound at last!" Cupid Jimmy sighed, wiping off his forehead. Rolf threw the mop at them, "Ow! That stings!" Rolf grabbed the two by their wings and dropped them out a nearby open window.
The two woke up hours later. It was dark outside, and it was completely silent.
"Ow, what happened?" Cupid Jimmy asked.
"I don't know," Cupid Sarah answered, dropping the rhyming act.
"Oh no, we were supposed to get back hours ago!" Cupid Jimmy cried, looking in the window at a clock on the wall.
"What?!" Cupid Sarah cried, flying up and looking at the clock as well, "Oh no! Hurry, Cupid Jimmy!" Cupid Sarah grabbed Cupid Jimmy's hand and pulled him along, flying really fast. Readying an arrow, Cupid Sarah shot at nothing. But the arrow stopped mid-flight, floating in mid-air. Cupid Sarah yanked the arrow from its spot, opening a pink and red swirling portal.
"Hurry!" Cupid Sarah yelled at her friend, pulling him inside the portal. The two flew through what seemed like a round hallway of swirling red and pink. They exited a hole on the other end that showed an office full of TV screens. Panting, the two Cupids collasped on the floor. They heard tapping and saw two feet in front of them, one of them tapping quickly on the hard floor. The two looked up to see a Cupid with brown hair, a black shirt with three green slashes on it, and an angry look on his face.
"Where. Have. You. Been?" He growled, looking down at the two. They gulped and scrampled to their feet.
"U-uh, w-we're really sorry, Boss," Cupid Jimmy began.
"Y-yeah, t-there was this boy, a-and he hit us with a mop," Cupid Sarah explained, "And w-we were kinda knocked out."
"B-but we got the job done," Cupid Jimmy dared a small smile.
"That was not your job!" The Cupid yelled, "Your job was to make two people who are supposed to be in love fall for each other, not fire willy-nilly!" Cupid Sarah and Cupid Jimmy looked down at their feet. The big Cupid sighed, "I knew I should have sent Cupid Jonny. He's weird, but he still gets the job done right." Cupid Sarah and Cupid Jimmy looked at each other. They had to be bad if the Boss was saying he should have sent Cupid Jonny. He was a weirdo and the Boss hated him.
"Cupid Brandon, we're sorry," Cupid Sarah said, "I guess we just got carried away."
"You got that right," Cupid Brandon said, then sighed, "Turn in your arrows. You're going back to Love 101." The two frowned sadly and handed Cupid Brandon their bags of arrows and their bows. They then headed to the locker rooms and changed into their regular clothes. Cupid Sarah wore a pink shirt and blue jeans, and Cupid Jimmy wore a baby blue shirt and white pants.
"I can't believe this," Cupid Sarah said when she met Cupid Jimmy outside, "Stuck back in Love 101!" She groaned.
"I guess we were pretty bad," Cupid Jimmy sighed.
"But we can't be as bad as Cupid Ed," Cupid Sarah said, "I guess that's the bright side." Cupid Jimmy laughed.
"I guess you've got a good point," He said, "He's, like, the only Cupid in Valentine's History to be scared of it."
"But can you blame him?" Cupid Sarah asked, "Cupid May used to chase him around and attack him with kisses when they were younger."
"Yeah, I guess," Cupid Jimmy said. He looked up at the dark pink sky. White fluffy clouds floated above them, darker because it was night time. The pale light of the full moon shone down on the two. The two Cupids walked to the park. During the day, the park was filled with little Cupid kids and their Cupid parents, but during night, Cupids at ages 15-18 hung out. These Cupids had flunked Love 101, and could never actually go to the human world to spread love on Valentine's Day or any other day.
"They scare me, Cupid Sarah," Cupid Jimmy whispered to his friend.
"Don't worry, Cupid Jimmy," Cupid Sarah whispered back, pulling him quickly past the park and to his house. He walked inside and Cupid Sarah walked to her own house. When she entered, a big green mass pounced on her, knocking her to the ground.
"Baby sister!" It cried. The green mass was a male Cupid. He was large and wore a green jacket over a red-and-white striped shirt. His red-orange hair that matched Cupid Sarah's was short but messy.
"Cupid Ed!" Cupid Sarah said, "I can't breathe!" Cupid Ed let go of Cupid Sarah and she gasped, taking a deep breath.
"Cupid Sarah, you're ok!" Cupid Ed cried, "I was so worried! When Cupid Brandon said that you didn't come back, I was freaking out!"
"Cupid Ed, I'm fine!" Cupid Sarah yelled, "Just...tired." Cupid Sarah slowly walked up the stairs to her room. She crawled into her bed and fell fast asleep.
