Chosen one

"What the hell?" Minnie's pouch made a loud thud on the floor as she stood in front of the unbelievably proper hotel suite that the black card of Jay B has led her into.

"How? Did he know I was going to spy on him?" Minnie muttered under her breath as she searched the room for anything unnatural, better yet, illegal that belongs to his prime suspect in this operation, which also happened to be her most despised ex-boyfriend.

But just like Minnie's greatest fear, the man had already thought about protecting his stuff more than anything, he wouldn't risk his safety to something as trivial as bringing a woman into his room, would he? Minnie's thoughts started running in her head as the pressure of her crippled plan A started sinking in.

"Now what?" Minnie let out a deep sigh and suddenly went full-on alert when she heard the elevator bell ring in front of her.

"He's already here?!" Minnie panicked as she scanned the hotel for a place where she could hide easily.

"Wait, should I hide or not??" she added with the burden of making a decision as the person's footsteps got closer and closer to the door.

"Ahh! Whatever," Minnie closed her eyes with frustration and stayed still as she waited for the hotel door to unlock in front of her with a fake smile.

"Minnie?" a high-pitched voice greeted her, meeting her view was a pink coat of fur with really big sunglasses at night and a familiar height that barely reached Minnie's eye level.

"Chien?" Minnie knew the girl and was quite shocked upon seeing her too. At Jay B's place of all places.

"What the heck are you doing in my husband's suite?" Chien said dramatically while taking off her sunglasses.

"Whoa, hold on. What do you mean husband? You and JayB are already married?!" Minnie couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"So that's why he said he didn't have a girlfriend!" Minnie thought and didn't even notice how the small girl was slowly making her step back from the door and into the open veranda where the ground floor could be as far as 50 floors below them.

"Yes! A month ago! And what? You still haven't moved on from him? Come on Minnie, what in the actual fvck?! Don't you have a life to live, huh?" Chien pushed her in the chest.

"You got it all wrong, I'm not here for that I swear-" Minnie's heart started to ache, she could never hurt this ball of sunshine even though all she ever received from her was pain. In her heart, she still respected the friendship of their sweet childhood selves.

But little did Minnie know that the contents of her old friend's heart were different.

"You're such a b*tch! I never stole Jay B from you and now you want to steal him from me too?"

"I told you! It's not like that!!" Minnie moved even further back.

"You're done," Chien stopped moving and stared blankly at Minnie before pushing her off the low-railed edge.

"Chien!!!" Minnie cried for help after being able to grab Chien's arms for her dear life.

She did not even notice how dangerous that place was, how she could die a moment from now. All while thinking that this day could just be the most awaited moment of her life where she could finally get her more than earned sweet revenge.

"Look what we have here! A loser who's begging me, their worse enemy, to save their life," Chien cracked a humorless laugh before switching to a more serious and indifferent face.

"That's not how you beg for forgiveness, honey," Chien mocked Minnie while slowly removing the grip of her fingers from her arms, one by one.

"No!! Please!! Save me!" Minnie cried while trying to reach for her with her other arm.

"NO!!" Chien groaned and pulled back from the railings, "You die," she then whispered while looking down to watch Minnie's body fall off the building's face.

***

"And so you died," Minnie heard the goddess in front of her say, "by accident. According to the report that was made to the police that day. They won't charge your friend for anything, although her deed has already made a mark on her soul that says "to hell" once she steps in this sacred place. So cheer up. You're the chosen one," Aphrodite added and blew a party elephant that totally highlighted the deafening silence around them.

"This is killing me," Aphrodite flicked the party elephant gone and gestured a wipe, followed by a rapidly flowing magic that changed the entirety of their location from a solemn spiritual chamber into a freshly bloomed fields of tulips and roses and greens.

"Now this is more like it," the goddess said, enjoying the company of the flowers more than her chosen one, the silent and still dumbfounded Kang Minnie in front of her.

"I-I'm dead?" Minnie muttered in a low voice while still staring at nothingness.

"You're dead!!" The delighted goddess said in an awfully cheerful tone that woke Minnie's senses up from the void.

"I mean– unfortunately, yes, you're dead," Aphrodite repeated with a more empathetic tone this time.

"But don't worry! You have been selected as the lucky person who will get reincarnated against the rules as my rebellion for being assigned at the gate today! Hooray!" the goddess said and swirled around Minnie's delicate soul.

And just as when Minnie thought she was already done, the goddess summoned the party elephant again and blew it right beside Minnie's ears, which could most probably make her head explode if the person was still alive.

"Wait, what do you mean I'll get reincarnated? As in, you'll let me go back to my original life back there?" Minnie asked, neverminding the assault just happened to her soul's ears.

"Uhuh, you like that?" Aphrodite's floating and glowing form like a pink genie nodded with her weirdly fluttering wings.

"Wait, doesn't this just sound too good to be true to you? Or is it just my fear speaking?" Minnie thought to herself with creased eyebrows.

"It's not too good to be true! It's just me being generous!" Aphrodite reasoned with her and laughed it off.

"And the generosity that the Aphrodite from the books I read had always led to unpleasant occurrence such as that one time when you gave Helen to Troy and started the trojan war," Minnie sputtered before realizing how she just said it all out loud when it was already too late.

"You've been reading my mind!" Minnie exclaimed.

"If you don't want it you could just say so, I can easily choose another soul out there you know, such as this girl who just died right at the same time as you- oh wait, it's also you! Just a different version from another planet!" Aphrodite showed her a little blue orb that contained an image of a blue-haired girl who had just frozen to death at that exact same moment.

"That's me in another world?" Minnie pointed at the poor girl inside the orb.

"Yes, you're really destined to die today, huh?" Aphrodite said as a matter of fact before flipping the orb gone and offering her left hand to Minnie, "So what do you think, chosen one? Should you accept my offer or not?"

"I'd rather live my life again than die being nothing," Minnie said with determination before holding Aphrodite's hand as her answer.

"Then back to life it is," the goddess cheered before lifting Minnie on a magic rainbow beam towards her old baby self… only in another life.