Nothing Went As Planned - A Wattpad Writers Take On The Writing Prompt Exercise

"Nothing went as planned." (Ari )

Genre: Paranormal/Comedy

Nothing went as plan, why would it? Camila Harris was by far the worst assassin she thought had ever existed. No matter how many shots she took, she always shot the wrong guy. She had one target. One. Damned. Target.

She tried poisoning him at first, but she put the pill in his wife's drink by accident. Though it was quite a scene when his wife starting having a seizure and he was calling out for help while Camila sighed silently as she marked one of many failed attempts off the list.

She then tried seducing him, which, god knows, that didn't work. She really never wanted to even come to this attempt, for frick's sake, his wife just died. Camila had to take the role of a prostitute to attempt to lure this one guy in. Well, he denied her, which hit her ego pretty hard. She then got hit on by three other men which led to three secret murders, and then she lost her target as the police soon showed up for the sight of a prostitute.

Then came attempt number three of forty-thousand where she tried the fun, let's kill him with guns strategy. She had just missed, twice. The guy wasn't even moving, he just stood there with his ear pods in while scrolling through his phone. It was the pedestrians that kept throwing her off. This leads back to now where Camila loads her last bullet, of this round, up. She hears the soft click of her gun and takes her aim, shooting. Her heart jumped as the bullet hit — the wrong target. Some stupid pidgeon wanted to be the new indicated target.

"God (damnit)!" Camila screamed as she walked away from the roof top, her head steaming with rage. This was the fourth assassination that she has failed this week, granted she has killed eighteen people by accident, but nothing was going her way.

Camila cursed as a large body ran into her own as she took the stairs down the building. Falling backward, she let out a string of bad words as she looked up to see, god forbid, her target. He was quick to help her to her feet before apologizing profusely. Camiila thought that now was her chance, it was now or never. With a hidden knife, she quickly grasped the blade and slashed, or attempted to, the man's neck. Except, the blade never reached his skin as it went right through him, like a ghost.

Camila was hushed as the guy looked at her with a soft expression on his face. The knife dropped with a clank as Camila just wanted to scream to ask God what the hell she was dealing with. She didn't have to wait long as the guy broke out in laughter,

"You're the one that's been trying to kill me, that makes so much sense." The guy chuckled as he adjusted his top hat and tie.

"Didn't you know that you have been making my job so easy? I feel like I'm going out of business here." Camila looked up confused by the crazy-looking man. Her facial expression said it all as her eyebrows raised upwards and her lips pouted.

"What do you mean? Your job? Aren't you a businessman?"

"I guess you can say that," the man chuckled as he gave Camila a quick glance before muttering something quietly to himself. Camila almost picked up on it, so she did what any other annoyed citizen might due, she asked the mystery ghost man.

"Say that again a little louder Mr. I-Am-Unkillable." The guy belted out laughing as he shook his head and gave Camila a small grin.

"I said you are perfect for the job."

"What do you mean?"

The guy tilted his hat forward as he leaned closer toward's Camila, this was the first time she really got a good look at his maroon eyes and slightly pointed — fangs?

"You know me pretty well, or should I say, my title. My name is Hades, and you, my darling, might be a nice Queen."

And Camila's first thought, believe it or not, was nothing went as planned.

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Ari (EncryptedWriting) is the author of several books/stories including:

New Sight

Blood Bound