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56. Red String of Destiny
Alicia Blade
376 words

"That's the last time I let you muck with the strings! This could make me months, years, to undo!" Fate yelled, her hands already wrapped up in the long, crimson thread.

Chuckling, Cupid kicked his feet up in the air from his perch on the nearby cloud-sofa. "Bah, don't be such a prude. I was just having fun."

Fate rolled her eyes, picking at a particularly large knot with her fingernails. "Fun? Fun he says! Honestly, don't you remember what happened the last time you wanted to have fun? That Helen of Troy incident nearly destroyed civilization as we know it."

Cupid snorted. "Yeah, well, I learned my lesson not to mess with royalty, but don't worry. These were just two basic, boring civilians. See, this girl's barely in high school, and the boy's only in college. They are but needles in the great haystack of the human race. No one will ever notice if they don't fall in love, and with those kinks in the string, you should have seen how they fought at their first meeting. It was the funniest thing I've seen in centuries. These two could provide hours of entertainment. Besides, we both know that, left up to you, they would have just had another classic case of 'love at first sight.'" Cupid faked an over-embellished yawn.

Her shoulders shaking, Fate dropped the string and buried her head in her hands. "What am I going to do with you?" she murmured brokenly, before inhaling a deep breath and looking dejectedly at the string—full of tangles and knots. "Do you have any idea what you've done? That plain old high school girl and college boy are the destined King and Queen of Earth!"

Cupid blinked silently a minute, his face growing slightly pale. "Erm… really?"

"Yes, really! Now do you see why you can't go messing around with fate like this?"

They simultaneously looked down at the mess of string with mutual feelings of hopelessness. "Boy, I sure do know how to pick 'em, don't I?" Cupid said with an embarrassed chuckle, falling to his knees and started untying the string, bit by bit.

Groaning, Fate returned to her work on the thread as well. "Why can't these things ever be easy?"