"soulmate"

chapter 1

Hana was walking through the big city of New York. She was going to a job interview, which she desperately needed.

She had just finished college in The Netherlands and moved back to America. Her savings went to moving, student loans and an apartment. Her parent offered to help but she wants to start by herself and not take money from her parents. Yes, it was offered to her, but it still feels wrong. She just needs to get a job and then she’ll be fine. Preferably one where she can use her degree. She has a bachelor’s in graphic design. Not that she can do much with it right now, she would be happy with just working as an assistant and then working her way up.

While walking through the streets of New York, she found herself in a small alley. She found a flyer for a possible job as an editor. *This is sketchy.* she thought but didn't continued to look around.

Looking down at her phone, she opens a picture of the flyer and looks around. She was an hour early. *I'll just get something to eat. *

While opening TikTok and walking away, she heard a zizzle. like a spark of electricity. What she didn't realize was that a portal opened, she looked up from her phone because of all the gasps she heard. Looking around her she was astonished. She was in a big ballroom with people to the left and right side of her. *Wtf? *

‘’i’m sorry, I must take a wrong turn?’’ There where whispers from the people beside her and questioning looks on the people’s faces. *Wtf is happening*

She starts walking towards the big doors, but two rough looking man start running towards her. She were heavily armoured like in those high fantasy movies. They stepped in front of her, not allowing her to leave.

‘’you’re blocking my waaAAAAAAYyy.’’ They ubruptly took my bag with my laptop and papers in it and my phone from my hand.

‘’no, no, no, don’t take my phone!’’ I say, already tired of today. The men tooke her arms roughly behind her back and put handcuffs on her wrist.

‘’what the hell, get off me!’’ she screamed. One of the guards kicked her on her lower leg, making her trip over in front of a podium. She looked back at the guard with anger in her eyes.

‘’trut’’ (meaning = bitch) she mumbled under her breath while looking back up to see three stunned people, a man puffing his chest to look confident, and two other woman. He stepped forward placing his hand on his hip. *He has a sword, WTF? * ‘’who are you, and why have you come here?’’ he takes a protective step forward, puffing up his chest to look intimidating.

I furrow my eyebrows. *What is going on here? Are they on drugs…. or cosplay?* ‘’yeah, I’m not going to give you my name.’’

I look at the other woman.
I don’t know if she looks younger or older than the couple, or at least I think they would be a couple, looking at the way they are standing together. She base dark brown hair and is wearing some ridiculously big bedazzled dress.

She looks at me with a slight smirk. ‘’what did you call my guard?’’ *shit, she heard me.*

I shake my head in a quick movement.

‘’nothing.’’ I say to her trying to hide my laughter.

‘’tell us.” ‘’Well, you heard me, why should I repeat myself?’’ I ask her, I can tell she likes that i’m not actually giving her an answer and that i’m taking this all as a joke. Because, I am.

‘’Because we don’t know what it means, and don’t you forget that I have power over you.’’ She says taking a step forward.

‘’I don’t even know who you are or where I am. I would highly doubt it.’’

Her face changed; she isn’t smirking anymore but know has a puzzled expression plastered on her face. The other woman gets closer to me looking me deep in the eyes.

‘’you really don’t know who we are, do you?’’

I look at them, confusion plastered on my face.‘’no, am I supposed to know?’’ I ask her. She seems genuinely concerned, like me not knowing them was like Beyonce not existing.

I see the man still standing on the podium flick his hand signaling something towards the man.

Before the lady can answer i’m being dragged away. One man took both of my arms and put them behind my back and the other held one hand on my neck putting his other hand on my shoulder.

That’s when I realise how many people are there, left, and right, just people staring at me.

I'm basically being dragged out of there while hearing whispers to my left and right.

Great! What have I gotten myself into now.