I remember the start of that day like it was yesterday. My phone's alarm went off and I woke up in my apartment. My girlfriend/roommate was in a different room, but the alarm was loud enough that it would get her up as well. I tapped the alarm off, and looked around at the notifications... no texts/emails... just some notification that some app was installed called "Screwing with fate". I thought it was some sort of virus, but my girlfriend said "Come on, get dressed and let's get our date day started early!" I was so excited that I figured as long as I didn't open the app it should be fine enough. I got dressed, had breakfast while flirting with my girlfriend, and then finally got on our way to our first date destination. We lived in the middle of the city and the destination was close enough that we decided to walk. That was when the second "bump" happened. I suppose I should explain what a "bump" is but that'll come soon enough.
Walking side by side with my girlfriend I got tackled by... my childhood friend Chelsi? A short little red head who was relatively flat, but still unmistakable for a woman instead of a girl. "What the fuck?!?" I yelled not sure what was going on but upset.
"Finally!!! You're actually acting outside of fate now!" Chelsi exclaimed
"Huh?"
"Well I bumped you, but even though you gained free will it's not like you'd immediately choose something different so I thought this would make things faster!" Chelsi tried explaining.
"Seriously? Hun can.... hun?" I asked looking at my girlfriend who was still walking down unaware that I had been tackled. She seemed to have a grin on her face and then she seemed to jump onto something invisible in mid-air. She lurched around a little before chuckling a little.
After a bit of time had passed and Chelsi had gotten off she said "So want an explanation of what happened there?"
"Kinda..."
"So what fate had planned there was your girlfriend jumping on you, and you both chuckling. However I moved you from where you were fated to be, but since she was fated to jump onto something and ride... Well she just latched onto nothing and rode nothing instead, because she was fated to be in that particular spot. Following?"
"No..."
"I suppose you kinda have to get used to being outside of Fate to really understand it... Which has part of the best part, how about pulling up that screwing with fate app?"
"That spam virus thing?" Chelsi grinned and pulled up her phone and pointed to a Woman, a little girl, and a dog. The Woman seemed to grow and bulked into a man, the little girl aged into a 90 year old lady, and the dog shifted into a naked man still walking on all 4s. The once woman kept walking with an elegant stride, the now old lady still skipped while trying to avoid cracks, and the once dog was crawling quickly as he shook his butt.
"It lets you change whatever you want... Although it takes a lot of hurdles to change fate or bump someone."
"I think that little girl's fate has changed at least considering she's probably not going to live much longer."
"Nah, there'll just be a decomposing corpse doing most of the living for her and no one's even going to notice... I mean besides ourselves and others who are outside of fate."
Irritated I said "I don't buy this." and ran to catch up with my girlfriend who was walking again and seeming to talk to no one... Well if Chelsi were here she'd probably say something like she's talking with the fated version of myself, but I said "Hun, you wouldn't believe what happened." but she ignored me. I pulled on the back of her shirt and said "Ok stop ignoring me." However as I pulled back she kept moving forward, and the forces ended up tearing the back of her shirt off... The front despite not having proper support still covered her front, but her back and bra straps were exposed.
"Didn't know you had it in you to rip her clothes off right off the bat." Chelsi said behind me. I jumped in surprise and dropped the piece of fabric that was my girlfriend's shirt, but before I could reach to pick it up it zoomed real fast to my girlfriend and seemed to reattach itself as if nothing had happened.
"Could you not sneak up behind me?!?! I'm kinda going through... something!"
"Yeah, I remember when I was bumped... Don't worry though it gets a lot more fun."
"Oh yeah I remember you "bumping" into me!"
"Yeah I bumped into you, but that's not what bumping means."
"Then what does it mean?!?!" I yelled at Chelsi
"Well you know what fate it right? The idea that whatever we do was predestined to happen, and we have to follow it?" I nodded "Well that's true, and we all follow it till you get bumped by someone not following fate. It's a little more complicated than just running into someone, but once you use your free will you notice your actions not getting the right reactions from reality. Because the rest of reality is still following fate."
"...You just sped up that free will thing by actually bumping me didn't you?"
Chelsi grinned and said "Yep, figuring out everything by yourself can be a bit scary. I thought I could help."
"Well fine, If I actually have free will then I think I'm going to..."