Cupid (DNF + Karlnap)

Chapter 82: Retiring

Techno POV.

“Wait… you can read thoughts?” George asked. “You know what we’ve been thinking… at all times the entire time you’ve known us?” He was flustered and it was quite amusing. Perhaps if the situation  was not as important I would have teased him for it, made him more paranoid, but I was too focused for anything longer than a one-sentence jab.

“I don’t read your thoughts because I know the kind of weird shit you both think of.” There was a knowing glance, yet I didn’t validate any of the fears that began running through their minds. Instead I turned my attention back to the Seraphim and Cherubim again. “So?”

“This is so kind of you Techno.” Karl managed a smile, and I thought for a moment they would accept my deal. The idea did make me happy because it meant it would piss off Phil. “But we’re going to have to decline.” That shocked me, they wanted to decline? Yet I had heard their thoughts and the fact that they wanted the job the moment I met them.

"You are being offered your dream job and turning it down?" For a moment I feared that I had been the one to say that, to speak my shocked thoughts allowed, but instead I was relieved at the overwhelming British-ness in the tone, belonging to George. He had been the one to ask.

"I know that it may seem shocking," Karl turned to ” Karl continued. “But Sapnap and I have discussed it and we think that it would be best if we did not take the position.” All of us turned to glance over at Sapnap, wanting to see if he would confirm what Karl said, although he usually did.
“Yeah… we have other plans.”

I didn’t want to be rude, but I was disheartened again. The two of them were my one, main hope in order to get out of my relationship with Philza. He wouldn’t be able to bother me if I took the role, since you can only come to Earth if you have a job where you are in some form of service to humans, so he would not be able to bother me.

There was the other exception of if he was permitted to come by whoever he intended to visit, which I would never do. So in summary, he would never be able to bother me again. But now, without Sapnap and Karl taking the role, that wouldn't be the case. He’d still have the role of Head Cupid and still bother me.

My brows furrowed into a frustrated glare which I directed at the ground. I didn’t say anything to the group but I could feel them still looking at me, and judging me. “Are you alright with Techno?” Dream asked. My best friend was to my left, and he studied me, without me giving him much acknowledgement in response.

“It’s fine.” I quickly answered. I didn’t say anything for a few seconds after that, allowing my agitation to continue to linger. I would have potentially left, however I decided not to, mainly because I couldn’t be bothered to walk past the two humans and the two Cupids on my way to retreat to the bedroom upstairs.

When I continued to sit and wallowed there in my spot I found myself wondering why the pair had wanted to talk to me. That was something that they had told me when they came into the room earlier. I had thought, perhaps naively, that they were thinking the exact same thing that I had been thinking.

Perhaps not. “So what did you want to talk about?” I offered, still not looking at anybody else. It was clear that my question was aimed towards Karl and Sapnap though, both of them knew this and the two humans also turned their attention to the pair.

The two took a few seconds, looking over to one another for some kind of silent conversation. I could have easily read their thoughts and figured out what they were planning on talking about, but I wouldn’t right now. “Well the two of us had been talking, and after Philza’s visit we had also been inspired to talk about our futures.”

“Talk about your futures as Cupids?” Dream guessed. He and George had tried to jump in on our conversation a lot. As a pair of humans among a conversation of divine angels they felt left out, I read their emotions enough to know that, this was their way of feeling included.
“Yes, our futures as Cupids.” Sapnap nodded. “Or… sort of.”

“We decided that we don’t want to be Cupids anymore.” Karl explained, focusing solely on the other soulmate. “Not after the way that Philza had been talking about us.”
“Why were you wanting to talk to me then?” My gaze had fully lifted from the ground, looking from one of them to the other.

“Because we thought that you could give us tips for when we were in the human world.” Sapnap informed me. “George and Dream may as well, but it would be better to learn from you Techno.”
“Like how to earn money, and how to buy a house,” Karl elaborated. “Oh and how do we get married through human customs? Where do we sign up for that?”

“I can explain it all later.” I still had to think about what I was going to do about the job offer, about Phil. At this point in time I was not in the mood to give advice to a pair of cupids who decided to follow my expert lead of living amongst humans.

The idea of them living amongst the humans also would most likely mean they’d be asked to move into our house by these two humans. It was a shame since I had wanted the next person living in the house to be Tommy. Although my brother had been a pain I had still wanted him to stay here away from the blond monster I called a father and…

“I’ll be back soon.” I stood up, shocking the whole group at the suddenness. They threw questions at me like ‘Where are you going?’ and ‘What’s the rush?’. I gave a half-assed response to them before hurrying up the rest of the stairs and into my room. I set myself down on the bed and pulled out the contract.

It hadn’t even been half an hour since I last touched it, it was as though the item itself was a drug that lured me back to the high. Except it wasn’t a high, just a miserable depression that somehow kept pulling me back like a leash.

Yet now I was actually planning on indulging Philza’s wants, with a deep sign I pricked my finger and using the needle that pierced my skin I signed my name naturally, before light surrounded me, fulfilling the contract and returning back to the angelic homeworld.
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Techno signed it???!!!! 😱😱😱😱😱