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Working as Cupid was not easy, as Yang Jungwon says.
Everyday, working hard to find the people he needed to shoot his love arrow into: tired would be an understatement to describe how Jungwon was feeling. His thoughts about escaping his last task of the day was cut off by the Head Cupid, Lee Heeseung. The loud speaker boomed with Heeseung’s voice calling Jungwon into his office. He grumbled as he walked to the office, just wanting to get over with the day.
“Ready for your last task of the day, Jungwon?” Heeseung looks over the papers about the information about the two people Jungwon was assigned to. “Ready as I’ll ever be.” Jungwon says sarcastically.
Jungwon hated his job.
He hated seeing people act helplessly in love in front of him everyday. He hated how humans always needed help from the cupids to be in love with their soulmate. He hated seeing people go on dates to cute cafes everyday of his life. He hated the idea of love.
But he couldn’t complain could he?
His arrow was the cause of these people falling in love everyday.
“Yang Jungwon are you even listening to me?” Jungwon snapped out of his thoughts to face Heeseung who had a concerned expression written on his face. Jungwon answered a quick “Yes, I am.” as Heeseung began explaining about his last task of the day.
But Jungwon wasn’t listening. His mind was occupied by one person and one person only.
Park Jongseong.
Park Jongseong was one of the highest ranking cupids in all of the land. Never once missing an arrow and always finished all his tasks in a flash. The complete opposite of Yang Jungwon. Jungwon wondered how he never got tired of his job, how he smiles everytime he sees two people in love, and how he never complained whenever someone asked him to fill in for their tasks.
It wasn’t a surprise that Jungwon found himself looking for the older boy each day he went in for work. The man was the most kind and welcoming person he had ever seen. He always welcomed Jungwon with a smile as he scanned his ID card to the building. And to top it all off, Park Jongseong’s features were exactly of his type. Who wouldn’t have feelings for him? But he knew that he had no chance with the older. That was practically the reason why Jungwon hated the idea of love so much.
It was a known fact that cupids shouldn’t fall in love. They were the ones supposed to give love, not receive it. Right?
“I swear, Jungwon. I know that you are not listening to anything I’m saying right now.” Heeseung says with slight annoyance in his voice.
“I said your last task of the day is to shoot Kim Sunoo and Nishimura Riki with your arrow. They’ve had a crush on each other for years but have no courage to confess to each other. Let’s give them a hand, yeah?” Heeseung stands up as he leaves his office waving a quick goodbye to Jungwon before going off with Sunghoon, also one of the best cupids in the land.
Jungwon then leaves the office muttering curse words under his breath just wanting to finish his last task of the day. He then changes into some casual clothes, a black hoodie and some ripped jeans. He had to blend in with the human world in order to not let anyone discover him as a cupid. He then enters the portal which led him to Seoul City.
He looks at the address on his special tablet. The pink tablet showed that Sunoo and Riki were at a dog cafe just a few blocks away.
He then began to walk to the cafe, the iPod in his pocket playing a song from his favorite band.
“Human music is so much better than the music up there.” He thought to himself.
Jungwon then sees the dog cafe only a few feet away. He sees Kim Sunoo and Nishimura Riki by the window of the cafe sipping hot caramel macchiatos while playing with two fluffy dogs.
“Hell, they already look like they’re dating, what’s taking them so long to confess? I could’ve escaped doing this if they just confess to each other already.” Jungwon hides in an alleyway not far from the cafe to execute his plan swiftly. He just wanted to get this over with already.
He clicks a button on the tablet then there appeared 10 arrows and a bow to go with it. Luckily for him, the road was practically empty and not one person was walking around anywhere.
But for some reason, Jungwon felt uneasy.
“You can do this Jungwon. You’ve done this countless times. Now is not the time to feel nervous.” He then positions himself preparing to shoot the unaware Sunoo & Riki through the cafe window.
That was until, he noticed that he did not shoot the two people he was supposed to.
Someone unexpectedly crossed the street, as he shot his arrow.
To be continued.