"I don't care if I'm immature!" Hunter shouted at the shrine as if there was a person there. "Why did you make us meet if we can't be together?!? I hate this! I hate this stupid system! You call it destiny?! It's my destiny and I should be able to decide! We both want to be in each other's life! It isn't just me and my selfish feelings!"
Hunter was in a mess of tears and pure anger. "I can't even have her in my life. Because with our feelings we would hurt each other. I can't even be friends with her!"
He looked up at the shrine. "Goddess Vaella, I think you made a mistake."
A burst of golden light then seeped up from the floor and in an instant, Hunter wasn't at the shrine anymore.
He was in a beautiful garden full of roses and sakura leaves were dancing around him. A waterfall was in front of him and there stood a slender lady with auburn wavy hair and green emerald eyes. A crown sat on her head along with a white rose. She was wearing a white silk dress with rose patterns. She was basically glowing.
"W-Where am I?!" Hunter asked, looking around.
"Hunter," The lady called. Her voice sounded familiar, but he couldn't finger where he heard it from.
"Who are you?!" Hunter asked, mesmerized by how she looked.
The lady smiled and picked up a red rose. "The person you called for."
"Goddess Vaella...? What in the-"
She frowned. "You are messing with the lines of fate. You should let her go."
Her voice was commanding and Hunter almost tried agreeing with her.
"I-I can't! I beg you, let us be together!'' Hunter bowed down to her. "There must have been many people requesting this but you are here with me. There has to be a reason."
"Say please," The goddess simply said and Hunter looked at her as if she was serious.
"I'm not nice to just anyone," Hunter snapped.
The goddess forced a sigh out of her. "Everyone has a little bit of my powers. I created humans with a bit of myself." She pointed at his moon symbol. "Those signs on your face signify a bit of my power."
She looked at the waterfall. "Of course, humans can't use it but you... you've got a little more than others. So I could hear you clearly."
"A-Am I dead?" He stammered.
"No," She answered.
"Wait... were you from that hallucination?!" Hunter shouted, remembering when he visited Harley's house. "The one that said to go away!"
"Yes," She looked back at him.
"Go away?!" He asked, confused. "What does that mean?"
"It means to go away," She vaguely said.
"Say something that makes sense!" He shouted.
"It doesn't have to make sense to you, the universe is a big mystery." The goddess mused as a sakura leaf fell on her palm. "You know things that no one else should."
She then smiled. "That girl Harley... Her sign is different, isn't it?"
She pushed her hair away to reveal a unique butterfly sign.
"H-Her sign is identical to yours..." Hunter stammered, trying to make sense of the situation.
"Harley is my child," She revealed, and then she returned to a frown. "That sign isn't normal and she's not meant to be on earth."
"This is a dream..." Hunter started backing away from the goddess, as if he were to be closer to her he might get hurt. "I'm going crazy..."
"No, it isn't, Hunter," The goddess shook her head. "I'm only explaining this to you as an apology for my mistake. My mistake of accidentally having Harley on earth and affecting your life the most."
"She has no soulmate and is meant to be up here," She smiled. "With her real parents."
"But she said she has a soulmate,"
"That was a lie, my dear," The goddess revealed. "She went to the procedure and she didn't match with anyone."
"Why is she on earth?!" He shouted angrily. "Why didn't you take her back if she was your child?!"
"I didn't plan for that to happen," She confessed. "Time is different here, 1 year for you feels like one hour for me."
"So what?!" He snapped. "She's now on earth you can't do anything! She's important in people's lives! She is one of us now!"
The sky suddenly went a shade darker, as if the garden reflected the goddess's mood.
"Do you have any respect?" She asked. "You are talking to a goddess, there isn't anything I can't do."
"Meaning, you can find a way to keep her on earth and get rid of this system in general," He said.
"You can't speak for everyone," She answered crossly. "Nor do I have to listen to one mere human."
"We should decide our own life, Goddess Vaella," He answered, trying to sound respectful. "I know it's normal, but some of us don't have a choice!'
"It's called a tie for a reason," The goddess murmured and the sky went lighter. "A sign. A bond that can never be broken."
She looked away. "Your best friend was never meant to be Harley but Arya. I'll piece it back to what it was meant to be and redo my mistakes. My Harley is the child that wasn't ever meant to be on this earth. The world is unbalanced with her there. I'll erase her existence when her human body dies."
"W-What?" He stammered.
"I need to get rid of her human form," The goddess repeated and Hunter swore the goddess smiled. "I plan to kill her so she can be reincarnated back here."
"N-No! You can't do that!" He answered, getting on his knees. "She can't just vanish! She's important to me and others!"
"It won't matter and it won't affect others because I will erase everyone's memories of her," She reminded him. "Including yours."
"No!" He cried, tears streaming down. "P-Please..."
"I thought you said you don't use manners with people you don't know," The goddess reminded him.
"I'm not a good person," He looked down, tears blurring his eyes. "But she is. She is one of the best things that has ever happened in my life. Even if you try to take her from me, I'll always try to find her no matter where she is."
"Humans..." She sighed. "You fall in love with people you can't have. You always have a desire for something untouchable."
She looked at him with sympathy. "Hunter. She is messing up everyone's timeline. Just her being in there is a mess in the universe. I'm sorry, Hunter. Because of my mistakes, your soulmate now doesn't love you and you don't love her. But I promise, to make your life go back to normal."
"I don't care about what could have been!" He shouted, desperate. "Just don't take Harley away!"
"It's nice to see how much you care for my daughter, but I cannot listen to you. She is not the one that is meant to have your affection." She sadly smiled. "I'll be taking her away in 2 hours, that's me being kind."
With a whoosh of her fingers, a glow seeped through the floor.
"WAIT PLEASE-" Hunter tried to shout but he was already gone.
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Finding You Again || ✔
Teen Fiction━ Completed ✔ ❝Some people are meant to fall in love with each other... but not meant to be together,❞ Eighteen-year-old Hunter and Harley knew they were meant to be together since childhood, not a single person in their neighborhood could argue. T...
