"I'm sorry I'm late." I entered a room that had the brightest stainless white that I'd ever experienced while excusing myself.
The place appeared to be so surreal during my first few weeks adjusting my new job. It was nearly futuristic and unbelievable. But I ended up just accepting this as just another part of my reality as the awe vanished after spending hours on end for every day of the week in this room. Constant exposure to anything no matter how awesome it looks tends to do that to your eyes. But I did enjoy my job, it was very easy. Just fix things for my boss, handle the calls, and schedule appointments for her. Just a normal secretary job. But there were rare instances where I could put my knowledge to use when my boss couldn't arrive at the office and I got to fill it in.
It wasn't much, however like I said, I loved it. It was easy and it paid the bills. There wasn't anything else I could ask for. Plus the perk of life insurance for my family was a great advantage. My centre was essentially to my family. To accommodate them with a better life.
"No worries. Problems with your auxiliary soulmate?" my boss asked.
"Yes," I hung my head. She was one of the few people who knew of my predicament. It wasn't my decision, I just ended up on the floor suffering for a few minutes in front of her during one of her meetings. So that ended up exposing my delicate life. A secondary soulmate wasn't that big of a deal, but I wasn't one of those people who frisked around or had a thirst for more than one relationship. It just wasn't me.
"I can tell. You missed a spot," she pointed to a tiny stain of blood that had accumulated on my white shirt while I was on my way here.
Crap, I thought that I had cleaned up everything.
"Thanks," I murmured as I pulled out a piece of cloth from my pocket to place over my wound and pulled my jacket over the stain.
"Well, I have good news for you today then. You only have a few papers to take care of. Nothing as bad as yesterday. So that'll be something, right?" she set a folder full of papers on my desk to take care of.
"Yeah, thanks, Naomi," I smiled at her as she disappeared into her office.
My boss was right though. Today was as heavy in the workload as it was yesterday. The folder was only half full of paperwork. Not brimming to the point of exploding like an overweight pig. So today would be a relaxation time. It's been a long time since I'd gotten a break like this. But it was obvious that I would end up having a semi-free day. The CEO of the company had just revealed that Naomi and I were both the top choices of ranking up to be Second in Command of the Angel Blade Services. A horrible name when you think about it.
Naomi, my boss I mean, didn't mind competing with me. She knows that I am quite capable of doing the job, I transferred over from Roman Industries after all. One of the leading companies which filled out great on my resume. And there's the added bonus of having a shared history. She and I were friends back in High School where she was Class President and I was Class Secretary, of course, just like the roles we were filling out for each other now. We had a bit of a relationship going on back then hoping to fill out each other's soulmate marks.
It didn't turn out to be the case of course. But there wasn't any bad blood between us.
I spotted a bottle of water sitting next to my desktop. Naomi must've left it there for me. It's something that she began to do months ago. I didn't question it, it was very rare that she would be nice to anyone at all. So I just accepted it. I grabbed the bottle and slurped a bit of the liquid before starting my work.
The hours dragged on as I began working on the papers and handling calls. Nothing interesting happened other than the rare prank call. An endless amount of writing was the only pleasure I was capable of getting. And there was then the case of my stomach feeling funny. My other must've eaten something bad. Did she ever do anything that didn't involve getting into trouble? I don't think so. It was all I ever felt from our connection. Troublemaking.
"No. This is a corporation, we have no refrigerators here. So is there anything I could actually help you with?"
-No. It's just. Uh, nevermind. Goodbye. Have a great day.- The kid hung up.
I sighed. Sometimes it got boring in here. But thankfully, my time was up. I was able to punch out. My stomach continued its upset nature though. So my ride in the elevator was very uncomfortable. By the time I reached the Main floor, I was already clutching my stomach in pain.
I hurried out of the lobby and lurched to vomit on the floor. The putrid smell reached my nose making me continue emptying my already empty stomach. Only bile and water was coming out of me until I passed out.
Everything was black when I woke up. But it didn't feel like waking up, it was more like just being there. Floating in eternity. I don't know how to explain it. I just floated around confused at what was going on. But then there was a voice that caught my attention. It was talking about something, someone. Me.
"He just died. *sigh* Call it. Time of death. 12:32 am. I've no clue what he died of. It just looks like he collapsed. I'd say it was because of his connection with his soulmate. But I don't know. That has never occurred before. It's got us stumped."
Am I dead? Because of my Soulmate? What did she do? How did this even happen?
"I'll, uh. I'll take care of it. Uh, how do I get his body out of the morgue?" That was Naomi. Why couldn't I see them? I could hear them but not see them.
"Just head over to the morgue with a family member of his to get him out."