Cupid
Besfrenz
" Please welcome, the greatest gatekeeper ever in the history of Heaven, Aeignjel!!!!"
Shrieking with excitement, I jumped from my seat having tears in my eyes. I had actually done it. Without thinking twice, I ran up to the stage, the crowd cheere for me. They kept on chanting my name…
"Aeignjel, Aeignjel, Aeignjel…."
But then, I wonder why there seems to be a trace of panic in their voice, suddenly…
"AEIGNJEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Someone shouted my name to my ear, I opened my sleepy eyes and saw…
"Oh Hyne!!! I mean it's You, Your Highness Hyne."
Suddenly wide awake, I stood up immediately to give him a bow, but also accidentally shoving him, and some other colleagues. Hyne lost his balance ended up sprawling on the floor. I pulled out my hands and tried to pull him up, and at the same apologizing.
"I'm sorry, it was an accident, I…."
"THAT'S IT! IT'S ALL OVER! I NEED TO SEND YOU BACK TO EARTH IMMEDIATELY! I DON'T WANT ANYMORE TROUBLE! YOU JUST CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIGHT, CAN YOU? I ALREADY TOLD YOU THIS WAS YOUR LAST CHANCE, BUT YOU ….."
My head raced, looking for excuses. I can't help it but I know I screwed up again. I avoided His eyes, knowing it would be seething with anger and disappointment…
"But you see, I'm only a girl, and…"
"For Hyne's sake, I mean for my sake. No, I mean….. Oh, whatever… Being a girl doesn't change anything you know, lady, I already gave you all the chances, but just couldn't help it but blew it all to my face, and besides, you're akready a hundred and twenty-two years old…."
"But…."
"No but's… this is
final…" He added to Himself, "this is the first time I made a surprise
inspection for over a decade, then what had I got? I caught a gatekeeper
sleeping on her duty and when I tried to wake her up, she pushed me to the
ground. It was
"But it was an…."
"ACCIDENT! Yes, I know! Wherever you are, you spell accident, remember the last time you entered the kitchen, you set the whole place into a burning inferno…"
"But it was also an…."
"Oh, shut up! I'm so sick of you saying all of your mishaps as accident! I can't take it anymore. No, it's we can't take it anymore, look around you, look at all the disappointed faces staring at you, there's no way I'll give you another chance to stay here any longer."
Yes, I know He's right, everyone is disappoinbted at me, I'll never do anything right, but… I was starting to be swallowed by the world of self pitying, tears began to fall from my eyes, strolling down my flushed cheeks. Why am I such an idiot??? Why can't I stop it??? Loud sobs escaped from my mouth.
"stop your crying, damn it! Ok, OK. Bur I assure you this is going to be your last chance, and I mean it!!!"
"Oh Hyne, thank You very much.
"It's your majesty Hiyne for you! And meet me at my office 20 o'clock sharp and I'll tell you what's your assignment."
*
At 20 o'clopck sharp, I walked up to the to Hyne's office and knowcked softly…
"Come in."
I turned the knob slowly,
trying to calm down, I tried breathing hard few times, but my heart just
couldn't stop beating so fast. I half stumbled half
"This is your assignment."
He shoved me an envelope.
"I know it would be wrong to give you this one but… never mind. I must really be insane." He muttered to himself.
I opened the envelope and saw sheets of paper and two pieces of photo inside. A man and a woman. Both of them are strangers to me.
"Alright, I think I must be really out of my mind." He took out a deep breath.
I stared at the photos, The guy looks so cold, and
his scar actually makes him more frightening, and his green eyes, they seems so
so angry. And the young woman, she can't be more than 20, but she seems to be
so
"….together. Are you listening?'"
"Um… sorry. What were you saying?"
"I said you are going to be a match maker and your job is to bring them together, got it?"
"I tried to send many others but they said it was really impossible. I already gave up a long time ago, I just can't figure out what was wrong, they were so close when they were still children, but… whatever. Let's get back to business. I gave you this job because there's no other assignment for you. So I decided to let you give it a try."
"Who are they??"