Chapter 1: A strange encounter

"Your fired!!!" the director a film company shouted.

"But sir.....", I interuppted. But the interupption was to no avail, the CEO kept shouting and throwing the papers I handed in.

"I said you are F-I-R-E-D Aura, so pick up all the papers here and get yourself out of this company."

Head hanging in shame, walking out of the company wasn't easy. Mostly because this was the sixth job, I was fired from. Making my way to the house, felt like everything was going by quickly; the houses, the cars, trees, and people on the street were all a blur. The sounds echoing from all these felt so distant, as my mind could only focus on one thing, 'What am i going to do next?'. Shoving the heavy iron bar gates was as cold as ice, seizing up my hand completely, sending a shiver down to my spine. Climbing to the 10th floor of this old historic building was breath-taking. I would have advised the owner of this building to repair the lift, but not paying 2 months of rent has already put me in the bad books of the landlord. Unlocking the door to my studio room, and stepping onto the old red mattress with bread crumbs touching my feet, felt oddly smooth but the creaking noise coming from the floors annoyed me. Throwing my bag onto the foor, I laid on the couch, adjusting myself and pushing the springs popping out of it back in. Looking out the single stained window that rattled from the howling wind flooding a pinch of light from the clean spaces on the window. The room was messy with a pile of papers scattered all over, dusty and had a rotten smell coming from the pile of dirty laundry, but I figured, that I'll clean it up tomorrow, considering the free time I have now, as I'm unemployed. With that realisation, nothing but a 'sigh' comes out, and a lod grumbling sound from the stomach. As, I made my way to the fridge, looking for some leftovers to eat, I found a small cake I got myself yesterday for my 25th birthday tomorrow. Brushing that thought aside, I warmed up the leftovers, ate the fried rice with some juice and decided to wash the dishes tomorrow. Slipping myself onto the bed after a shower, gazing at the moonlight casting a reflection on the wall, my thought twigged on the day tomorrow, my birthday, which should be an exciting event at least to me, but it didn't bring me any joy, as i was a grown up without a job, and wondering why God abandoned me, I drifted off to sleep.

At the same time, in heaven above, an enthusiastic angel was ready to get his wings. He ran around throwing a cloud ball into a cloud basket, screaming, "He shoots and he scores.....WOO-HOO". Throwing the cloud ball again, it went towards the direction of the other angels and stopped at last, dissipating on another angel's face. The angel looked at me angrily came to me and started lecturing me about some rules and manners. But all his words just flew by from one ear to the other. Suddenly, a thundering voice came out, putting everyone silent.

"Yien, what have you done this time?"

I turned towards the voice, fixing my blonde hair that was as bright as the sun, and dusting my white shirt and pants, I gave off an innocent smile, with a halo appearing on my head.

"Yien, you are 21 now and will be getting the thing you have waited for your whole life.....your wings, could you please act a bit more mature now" the voice requested.

"And that is the reason, why I'm so excited right now. Out of all my companions, I'm the last one here, who is after waiting for so long, finally getting his wings. Because of the excitement, I just thought to share it with everybody here..... But, because it's you, who is asking me to be behaved, I will comply to it, but on one condition.

Displaying a tired and terrified ambience at the same time, the voice enquired, "Okay, I'm not going to be agreeing with anything, but, I'll still ask... what is this so called condition of yours?".

"Okay-Okay, I definetly promise that if this condition is agreed upon, I will behave and not trouble anyone. My condition is....once i get my wings, I want to go to the world below and try out my wings. I also promise that, while exploring the world below, I'll stay out of sight". While asking this, I gave out a puppy-dog looking face, as I knew the voice can't deny my cuteness and sparkling eyes.

After a lot of thinking and moments of silence, looking at the sparkling eyes and the other angels, the voice negotiated with the decision, that Yien should be back to the world here in 2 days. Although, I wanted to argue, but I couldn't risk not going at all, so I agreed. However, the other angels present there, were not very pleased with the decision, considering that they never got a day off or a chance to explore the world below. The only one that deeply cared for Yien, was the voice and deep down Yien knew about this. But, he didn't get their behaviour or random comments to disappoint him, mostly because he was busy being happy about the chance of going to the world below. He didn't take their words to heart, and ignored it, this is what the Voice mostly liked about him.

Down in the world below, blowing of the candle on the cupcake, Aura wished for her life to get a bit better, by at least giving her a job. With this thought, I left the house, making my way towards a new company for an interview. When, I reached the organisation and waited for my turn; the moment they would call me inside. The heart began to beat like a drum-roll, it felt like the sound of the drum-roll, people do before they announce the results. There was a dead silence in the room, except for the intermittent moans. Interuppting the silence, the recruiter, opened the door and call me inside. Although, my legs were shaking like a leaf and hands sweating like crazy, I kept my composure, at the very least I attempted to. A time later, U left the room, thinking that nothing good could ever happen to me, I miserably walked out.

In heaven above, the lights showered on Yien, musical tunes played on the violin and a drop of sunshine poured on giving me, a new set of wings, giving off a joyfully sweet smell of vanilla and jasmine flower petals. It was a great time for me, until the other angels began to get jealous and showered me with all negative comments and remarks. Ruining the best day of my life, in anger and frustration, I decided to leave. It is not like, I didn't attempt to become close to them, I did try my best to please them and be nice to them, but they didn’t listen to a word I said and instead they ridiculed me. On this auspicious day, losing all hope, I decided to run away. Making my way to the world below, with my un-trained new wings, I began to lose control, but still kept trying.

With not even a little sunshine left for Aura in her life, she began to make her way towards home, annoyed and unhappy by the life that she was given. But, suddenly from the sky above, something began to fall, and it was coming right towards her.

“A feather.....huh?”

Saying this she looked up in the sky noticing that there were no birds flying around. Ignoring that and dismayed by her life, she reached an isolated area, trying to remove out her frustration with the mud and rocks around, tired by venting out, she sat down crying with the feather in her hand. Disheartened, she looked up to the sky and cried of why her life is so empty, as she was gazing above, another feather fell down; standing up and grabbing hold of the feather she was appalled from where the feathers are coming from, as she still couldn’t see a single bird in the sky. In a sudden gush of wind the angel losing control over his wings, began to fall down with a huge force. Looking shocked, Aura saw that there was someone or something falling, so she raised her arms to catch it. With this, the angel landed directly into her arms, with his wings retracting back into the body, and his blonde hair gushing towards his face and going back to their original place. With the sudden impact and his weight, they both fell down, with her in a sitting posture and he still in her arms sitting on her lap, but they still maintained the eye contact. She stared at his sparkling eyes and he stared back looking at her pretty face.

**END OF CHAPTER 1**

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