Chapter 32: Chapter 32

Up here is Crimsyn smiling at you :)

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Prologue

It was a beautiful spring morning.

“Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high,”  Emily’s sweet voice startled her child making her round green eyes shining as Crimsyn looks up to her mother. Emily  looks down at her daughter and smoothed her red hair as she joins her to sing. “There’s a land that I’ve heard of once in a lullaby,” Emily caress her daughter’s cheeks before taking letting Crimsyn run towards the playground.

Emily sits on the bench and watch as she played. She pulled out her phone, her face anxious.

Where is he?

Her husband told her that he is going to be here by ten o’clock and it is almost eleven.

“May I sit with you?”

She looks at the man as he hold unto his cane, back bent. He look very old. She just nodded, still waiting for her husband’s call. “That little girl  is your babe?” She was surprised to hear the man speaking to her. Adjusting her scarf, she bites her lip before nodding once again, not wanting to spare the odd man a glance.

“When the time was old and the earth is young and everything was new...Cupid used to play with human emotions.”

Emily looks at the  man, his deep wrinkled face appearing solemn all of a sudden. The sky covered the sun, making the surroundings gloomy. “He was one of the almighty. He controls the fate and life of the humans. Though, he too was curious and wanted to experience what humans do. Only Psyche, the most beautiful human on earth made him fall. It was a playful and beautiful depiction of love indeed—for a god to fall for a human.” Emily couldn’t help but listen to his odd story, suddenly interested.

“Curious and true. The human made the god fall using his own arrow. They were happy and they had everything. Though, what happens afterwards when the cupid ends up suffering for that love? Will it be possible for him to be found everywhere but nowhere at the same time? He will wreck the world with love, confusion and chaos.” He turns towards her and she finally sees his face. It was gaunt and the wrinkles were not because of old age but of scars. He looks hideous but what shocks her were his purple eyes, they look so kind and jolly even beneath those gruesome scars, opposite of what his face depicts. Only understanding his words, she laughs out loud, shaking her head at the old man as she chose not to be bothered by his odd appearance.

“Why are you laughing ?”

“Because it is crazy.”

“What? I am crazy? For your information I am telling you the truth. Cupid is—”

“It is crazy because it is not a beautiful depiction of love. What you just told me is a complete tragedy! Why would a Cupid choose to be with a human? He is a god. He shouldn’t have intervened with human lives.” she shakes her head, not believing that she was having this conversation.

“For it is the way of love, it is selfish and greedy. It is self centred. Cupid fell because he is susceptible to all this.” Emily was taken aback when he takes her hand. His touch is warm and his caress is light that it felt weird. “I have to warn you. When the time comes, make a wish with a powerful desire and she will be saved.” He nods at her before he stands up, hurrying towards the street.

She watches him as he walks swiftly. The cloud finally moves and uncover the sun. The man waves his hand and she was startled when he was tackled By another man, “How many times should I tell you? I warn you not to spread anything about me anymore. Why did you have to—”

They stopped arguing when she started walking towards them. She pulls the guy by his hand and then everything went black as she collapse.

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Emily woke up, trembling. The odd scenes played once again in her mind and she shakes her head, trying to clear it.

What just happened? And where is Crimsyn?

She look around at the empty play ground, crying as she tried to look for her lost child.

“Crimsyn!”

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So, what can you say about this?