Falling Back #wattys2017

Chapter Eighteen

So I've made up my mind. I am going to end this mission. Seventeen days of this was seventeen too many with all the loss and frustration I have encountered. Just to make sure that I wasn't too tired to make a big life changing decision, I decided to sleep on it. When I woke up the next morning as sunlight streamed through my window, I still wanted to end this mission

"Steve!" I yell in the middle of my bedroom "Steve?"

A couple minutes passed until suddenly, I saw Steve magically appear sitting on my dresser

"No Sarah, you can't quit this mission" said Steve

"What?!" I cried "I can't do this mission anymore! It's too much for me!"

"But if you don't complete this mission, you go to hell and I lose my sports car"

"Yeah, I still want to quit"

Steve seemed tense when I insisted that I quit this mission. I was hoping maybe if he let me end this mission, he won't necessarily put me in hell. Maybe I'll just get punished another way. I wish that I never fell down that stupid manhole

"Well, I can't let you quit this mission"

"What?! When I fell back in time, you were more than happy to send me to hell"

"You don't get it Sarah" said Steve "You see, I don't care about this too much but God really wants this to work out. He's depending on you to save Mike"

"What's Mike supposed to do on earth anyways, make people upset?"

"Mike's not really a jerk" said Steve. Yeah, sure "He is just influenced by Olga and he had a really horrible life"

I knew that Mike had a bad life. He was abused by his mother and his father died. I could only imagine how horrible that was for a poor kid to watch. But just because he had a hard life doesn't mean that I'm not hurt

"Maybe Olga will make him happy?" I asked

"Olga is not going to stay with Mike for long" said Steve "She's a devil. She can easily trick people and ruin their lives. If you leave the mission up to Olga, she will break up with him and he will commit suicide"

So I had no way out of this mission. I had to do it. It would just be hard for me to face Mike again after what happened yesterday and I don't think he will 'forgive' me any time soon even though he was wrong. I don't even know why I'm lowering myself to that low-life

"If I stay on this mission, what am I going to do about Olga?? Is there any way to get rid of her?"

"No one has ever got rid of Olga. Your mother Sonia couldn't get rid of her, and neither could I"

Steve looked tense after he said that. He was acting as if something happened to him with Olga. Tears slowly formed in his eyes. I felt horrible that Steve was almost ready to cry. I hated to see him upset

"We don't have to talk about Olga" I suggested

"Well, there's a story about Olga I think you should know" said Steve

I always loved stories but something told me that this wasn't going to be a happy story. I didn't even have a chance to think twice before Steve started opening up

"I was sent on this earth for a mission about a hundred years ago" started Steve "I worked for God ever since I was created in heaven. At the time, I was a secretary for God. So one day, I was in my office, which was painted blue and had brown furniture, when the door knocked

'It's open!' I yelled

'Hello Steve' said God as he walked into my office. He had a sweet warm smile on his face like he always did. God was always happy and kind