The Girl Who Changed My Fate

I blinked and the cyclist peddled right past me and no one died. The others around me who were supposed to die suddenly had more time, a few would even go on to live long happy lives. What happened? Fate couldn't change no matter how hard we tried, so why? What was different about today?

I still feel a hand on my back and hear. "whew, that was a close one. Really unlucky your shoes got stuck, glad no one got hurt though."

I turn around to see a young woman, maybe late 20s. She had brown hair, blue eyes and glasses with duct tape holding them together. She was wearing worn out clothes and had a hole in her sneakers. She smiled at me and said, "have a good one, watch where you are stepping from now on." And then she started to walk away. I was too stunned to even understand what just happened. I pulled out my pocket mirror and looked at my own clock: 31 days 12 hours 12 minutes and 31 seconds. It wasn't a lifetime but I had a whole 31 more days to make an impact on the world and I had no idea what to do with it.

Once I processed that I was in fact alive, I looked all around for the girl who just changed my fate. I was so focused on the fact I was alive I hesitated and got caught up on the what but not on the how, I needed to find that girl. I took off running in the direction she was headed but there were too many people to identify anyone. It was lunch time and the streets were packed. But then I noticed it, peoples numbers started to change. Anyone she bumped into while making her way down the sidewalk suddenly had more time. Just by coming in contact with her their fates were changing. Just who was she?

By the time I caught up she went inside a subway. I didn't want to seem like a complete stalker so I waited outside to "accidently" bump into her again. She walked outside with a bag of food and before I could approach her she walked into the alley next to the store. There was a homeless man who only had 2 days left to live, most likely he would starve to death. That is until she gave him the bag of sandwiches and he wept, he wept as no man I had ever seen. He was beyond grateful for the food and as he took a bite of the sandwich his timer went up by days and then months as he ate the food he was never supposed to receive in the first place. And then she gave him $20 which she said was all she could spare but told him that the subway was hiring and that they agreed to let him sleep in the back until he could afford his own place and to let him wash up in the bathroom to keep clean. The owner had to live out of his car once so he knows what that man was going through and wanted to help someone the same way someone once helped him. And with that the man would live til he was 92 years old. She not only saved his life but gave him a life worth living, a chance, a future where he didn't have to struggle any longer.

I didn't know how to approach her, she was extraordinary as I could tell from the first few moments after coming in contact with her. But then I noticed it, what I had completely been missing. Or to be exact what she was missing, there was no clock, no timer ticking down her days. She had no fate, no destiny, only freedom. She was fateless, and not bound by God's will. That is why others fates changed around her, because she could make changes not bound by the clock.

I didn't know what to make of it. My friends and I tried everything we could to change destiny but nothing ever worked. But all this girl had to do was to accidently bump into you walking down the street and your fate was altered forever. How was this possible? Why did she not have a fate like everyone else?

As she left the alleyway I tried to meet up with her to ask her some questions but then I heard a car honk. I turned to see my driver waving at me and ushering me to hurry up. I completely forgot about the meeting, especially since this morning I was supposed to be dead by then. When I turned back I lost sight of the girl and couldn't find her affect on the crowd. I officially lost her. I resigned and hoped in the car. I would have to discuss this with the guys. It was beyond what any of us could have imagined. We have to track her down, find her, and get answers.