Chapter One (Destiny Calls)

Disclaimer: Though it breaks my heart to even think the words, here goes…
"I own nothing."
**dies from heart break**

~This is another short idea that popped into my head… with no visible outcome… so I have no idea how this will turn out haha. Totally wrote it spur of the moment! Don't forget to tell me what you think! :D

Also for everyone reading Memories are a Funny Thing sorry about the possible multiple update notifications you probably got! I kept finding these ANNOYING typos and mistakes haha. Ended up redoing it like three times lawlz. Anyway, as always, thanks for reading! :] Enjoy~

The dark gray expanse of metal filled the sky before me as I sludged my way through the muddy streets. I'd just turned nineteen and been sent my letter. My life was officially over.

I sighed and kicked at a stone in my path. It just wasn't right if you asked me. In my town, this "City of Soul Mates", life partners were assigned to the inhabitants. Age differences weren't a big deal, the gap ranging anywhere from one to ten years and it was almost unheard of for someone to be assigned a partner before he turned at least twenty-one. The rock clunked into the gutter. I was only nineteen!

Usually one's life was spent in anticipation of being matched but in my case I'd been dreading it since I'd learned about it in the 7th grade. I'd been so excited for my nineteenth birthday; finally I would be able to do all the things adults could. I could own a car, drink, stay out past curfew, and choose my own career, but over all the excitement and joy hung a silent threat; a promise that my freedom would not be my own for long. Soon enough someone else, who I may have never even met, would be thrust into my life to take half of everything I earned and loved.

I grimaced. This was so wacked.

Just two weeks ago my parents had bought me my own car, a shiny red Chevrolet. It was fast, smooth, and everything I treasured. Unfortunately, I only had a couple days to enjoy my new car before they barged into my room, my mother holding a letter in her hand. Even across the room I'd been able to see the blood red, official seal on the back. The look in my mother's eyes had been full of pity and apprehension.

I knew one thing for sure and that was that I didn't want a wife. I didn't want to start out monogamous to one person. I didn't want to be embarrassingly inexperienced the first time we did it. I didn't want to have responsibilities, and especially not for someone else!

I eventually reached the huge double doors, despite my distracted musings and stood numbly outside them for a few minutes relishing my last few seconds as a single man. Suddenly a tall, blonde, stone-faced man brushed past me into the foyer of the building. He took long strides, seeming intent on spending as little time here as possible.

"You and me both pal." I muttered.

Taking a deep breath I pushed my way through the doors and meandered towards the back where I knew they kept The Machine.

The official summons I'd received had more than adequately explained the procedure to me. I shivered remembering what I'd read.

Dear resident,

We are pleased to inform you that your partner has been secured.

In this city we strive to provide and ensure happiness to all our citizens. Your destined lover has been identified and placed in the cryogenic freezer until your pickup date. The date and time can be found at the bottom of this letter. Please try your best to be on time or we cannot be held responsible for what may happen to your lover.

Once you enter the building a sharp left to the end of the hallway will bring you to the room containing The Machine. There is no need to go anywhere else in the building. There will be a line of others being graced with their loved ones. Enter the line and once you reach the front enter your ID number into the keypad to your left.

It is advised you stand at the ready, your arms held out.

6:50PM November 28, 20XX

I swallowed nervously. I had had no idea that our government worked like that. It was a polite, formal letter but I was no idiot. From what I'd read it sounded as though the others were kidnapped. And what had that been about a cryogenic freezer?

Shaking my head to clear it of the unsavory thoughts and the small amount of water that had rained onto me when I opened the doors, I peered into the pickup room. It was a dank, light gray room; the walls painted to look like cement. There were no windows and the only light came from a few small overhead light bulbs hanging bare, directly from the ceiling. In the middle of the back wall was a vast machine that had a pipe running from the side up into the ceiling behind it. The walls of the machine were bare metal as well with only a few holes where screws and nails had been used to secure the slabs of metal together, but there was a huge chute leading from the front of the machine and pointing downwards. I cocked my head curiously.

Underneath the chute a line had formed which lead back a few feet. I walked slowly towards it and took my place at the end behind a rather short, light brown haired man. As I stopped behind him he turned to glance at me with a bewildered smile. I raised a hand and waved halfheartedly as he stuttered a greeting.

"Your first time?"

I just stared at him.

He blushed and blinked rapidly before turning back around. "Sorry! Of course it is… sorry."

"No problem." I answered but he didn't respond again after that.

Sighing I stuck my fingers in the belt-loops of my pants. This was going to be a long day.

As the line dwindled slowly but surely I felt my anxiety rising. Could you blame me? I may have only been nineteen but even I could grasp the importance of this. This was the person I was going to be spending the rest of my life with! I chewed on my thumbnail as the man in front of me punched in his ID number and looked up.

There was a whooshing noise and suddenly a diminutive blonde girl fell out of the chute and into his arms. Her shoulder length platinum blonde hair looked soft and wispy, her frame thin and supple. The man glanced at her in surprise and in a suspiciously low, heavily accented voice she asked him what his problem was. He blinked helplessly and seeming to give up began walking towards the door still carrying her.

I stepped forward to fill the space he'd left and reaching over typed in my number carefully. Just in time I remembered to hold my arms out and into them dropped my wife. She was light I noted with surprise. Light but with definite strength in her lithe arms. Belatedly I realized that her hair was cropped short, almost a pixie cut, and a strange sandy blonde. It was almost the opposite of the platinum wig that other girl had had. I glanced at her and stepped forward when- Wait a second.

I stared down in shock as emerald eyes opened slowly, blinking a couple times. My mouth dropped open.

"What the fuck! You're a dude!"

"Well spotted," was the sarcastic retort.

An English accent my brain observed numbly.

Behind me a long haired girl in a fluffy layered skirt fell into the arms of a stuffy looking man with glasses. He frowned, clearly displeased with the spirited gleam in her light green eyes. He shuffled forward but stopped when he noticed I wasn't moving. I'd turned to see if it had just been me that hadn't actually gotten a "wife". Glancing back he saw, as I did, a shocked albino man stare down at a small yellow chick that tumbled out of the chute and flopped unceremoniously into his waiting hands.

Apparently there was absolutely no rhyme, reason, or sense to this at all I thought feeling somewhat deceived.

The albino man broke into a loud cackle, his eyes wide, and sauntered proudly out of the room triumphantly waving the dazed chick in the air.

A moment later I dimly heard the girl turn to her new partner with a cluck of her tongue.

"I would have preferred the loud one." She said offhandedly.

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