New Job, New Opportunity

Jeremy is looking for his dream job, which is marketing advertisement, for a year. After spending a
couple of hours on the Upwork search engine, he heard ‘ping’ the sound of the notification bar in his
laptop. Sitting on the comfortable black sofa in his living room he was feeling as exciting as never.
When he opened it, on his surprise he got an offer from a company in the same neighborhood he
lives in. He accepted the proposal, which did not require sending CV, but a face-to-face interview
the next day at 1 PM.

“Well, this weekend will either be incredible, or extremely disappointing,” said he to himself, staring
at his reflection in the mirror . He saw his smiling, happy face, blinked with his eyes and went back to
the sofa. Once again, he opened his Email and looked at the offer to find more details about the
company. Quickly, he opened Google Maps, entered the address, and it appeared that he could see
the building of the company from his balcony.

“This is becoming more interesting,” murmured Jeremy. He sat on the black, leather sofa full of
blankets, which he’d bought one week before on sale.

“Come, sweetheart” he said to his cat, “let’s enjoy our afternoon nap, maybe we can have one of
our colorful and vivid predictive dreams.” To his disappointment, he could not fall asleep, so he
started daydreaming. Nothing again.

“What’s happening with us sweetheart? Are we cursed?” No one answered. “There’s not a single
meow for me today?” he asked. The cat started cuddling close to his legs.

Time passed but he could not fall asleep. “This is going to be a long sleepless night.” And it was.
Hours later, Jeremy was still lying on the sofa, enjoyed the view of his bedroom: the black sofa full of
white blankets, on one was written “I run the world”, on another,: “nobody is perfect but you”;, in
front of the sofa, was a glass table with a vase of red roses in the middle, and from where he lay he
could see the balcony as well, which looked out over the other buildings in Amsterdam. Before he
knew it, it was the morning. The sun had been rising up so slowly. The sky was becoming lighter. .

“What’s going on today, sweetheart? First, I got an proposal, then interview, then I cannot foresee
my next day, a sleepless night and in the end time seems to be flying by. Who knows, maybe it’s a
good sign? Am I well dressed? Wish me luck sweetheart” said Jeremy to his cat and left his
apartment.

On the way to the company, his intuition was telling him that something was wrong, but what could
it be he was asking himself . He was enjoying walking around his neighborhood. There were a couple
of parks with fountains, huge trees, tulips, and roses. He loved nature and the smell of all the flowers
in the air.
“I can do this” whispered Jeremy and entered the company. He was amazed from the height of the
glass building. There was only one single sign with the name of the company.

“The 7th floor Sir, Mr. and Mrs. Smith are waiting for you” – a kind smiling receptionist kindly
explained to him.

Jeremy entered the elevator, after the sound of the opening door. When entering the elevator, he
noticed a beautiful woman in her 40s, wearing maxi magenta dress with dots, already driving in it.
“Hi, nice to meet you. Are you the new colleague? I’m Lena, Lena Smith” said a woman who was
already in the elevator when he entered.

“Hello, Lena., Jeremy Frank, nice to meet you too. Are you always waiting for new colleagues here in
the elevator?” asked Jeremy. Instead of answering, Lena sarcastically smiled at him. After his
introducing, there was nothing but silence, which made Jeremy feel uncomfortable. When reaching
the 7th floor, Jeremy left the elevator after Lena. She was leading him to the office where Mr. Smith
was already waiting.

“You must be Jeremy” said Mr. Smith , “Welcome to my company, have a seat please. Let’s skip the
formalities. You are the chosen one.”

Jeremy felt something strange inside in his chest. He felt stressed, but in the same time he was
happy that he’s the chosen one. He knew nothing about the company. He didn’t even know what his
job is there.

“Am I the only one who had applied for this Job? I am too much confused to think about this, but
there’s something that tells me not to trust this man, like he has betrayed me at some point, or in
another life. How strange can this go?” thought Jeremy.

“You start work from Monday. We’re waiting for you at 8AM. Understood? We will prepare your
office until Monday, don’t worry.”

“May I …” wanted Jeremy to ask.

“You will be working alone for the first few weeks I suppose, then we will find a partner for you.

"Excuse…” was another failed attempt for Jeremy to ask a question again.

Everything else will be explained on Monday. I’m glad that you accepted the job. I have a meeting in
10min so, have a nice weekend Jeremy, you can go home and take a rest, you never know what is
waiting for you. Am I right? See you soon.”

“Can I … “whispered Jeremy,but Mr. Smith had walked over and opened the door, signaling their
discussion was over.

“How weird is this situation, I don’t like this kind of surprises, but I still like the challenges that my
life gives me sometimes” said Jeremy to himself while entering in the elevator.

“How was your interview?” Lena asked.

“You’re too kind, Mr. Smith said everything will be explained on Monday” Jeremy answered.
Suddenly, out of nowhere the electricity went down

“What’s going on?” the question had barely left Jeremy’s mouth because Jeremy started losing
consciousness.

He woke up slowly. He could barely recognize this place. He was in his elevator with his cat.

“What a strange day sweetheart and how could I wake up in my elevator with you? Did you want to
escape, or did you start searching for me?” said he while entering his apartment.

Quickly he checked the mail and there was another strange thing. He got an e-mail before his
interview saying that he had got the job.

“What a strange day, I’m going to grab a cup of tea and try to rest a bit” said Jeremy while sitting in
his comfortable sofa and falling into the deepest sleep of the world that one can have. Short after
falling asleep, he started having his real dreams. He was dreaming about his new job which he got a
few hours ago. It was Monday, the day he was supposed to start work. He entered through s the
front door, got a smile from the hostess working at the information desk, sauntered over to the
elevator, entereds in it, pushesd the cold silver metal button with number 29.02 (his date of birth),
exited the elevator and he saw an arrow with his name written on it. He followed the arrow which
led to the darkest office in the building. When he entered the office, there was nothing more than
one computer in it., on which he could see his whole life going on. What struck him the most, were
the number of flying pictures on the screen, of a woman who he had never met before. There were
some of his childhood though. He was confused what were all of these things.

He woke up sweaty and scared like never before. “Sweetheart come here you lovely cat, you also
think something strange is happening to me don’t you” said Jeremy to his cat and realized that it is
already Monday, while opening the laptop and staring at the date and time of the taskbar. Quickly,
he put on his black shirt, black trousers, black shoes, and black trench coat and left the apartment.

Going towards the street he realized that the company has never seemed so far. He worried he
might be late on his first day. Nonetheless, he made it on time. He was 5minutes earlier in front of
the highest building in the neighborhood.

He entered the front door, got a smile from the hostess working on the information desk, goes to
the elevator, enters in it, pushes the cold silver metal button with number 29.02 (which is the date
when he was born), exits the elevator and he sees an arrow with his name written on it. It was
exactly like in his dream. He followed the arrow which led to the darkest office in the building. When
he entered the office, there was nothing more than one computer in it, on which he could see his
whole life going on. What struck him the most, were pictures of a woman who he has never met
before. “God, what kind of place is this?” asked Jeremy. Then suddenly the woman from the video,
who he has never met before, stood in front of him.

“Poor Jeremy, you don’t remember me, do you?” asked the woman.
“No, who are you” asked Jeremy.

“I’m Corina, your loved one, your fiancé, how could you forget me;, you have disappointed me,
darling” said the woman.

“I don’t have a fiancé, I don’t know what you are talking about Miss” said Jeremy.

“Of course, you remember, let me remind you with a kiss” said Corina stepping towards him.

“Miss, please stop. I don’t know you. Have we ever met before?” asked Jeremy .

“Oh God, I have to do the boring thing now ? Ok, I will explain it to you, my honey boney sugar plum.
You are a very gifted person, Jeremy. You can foresee your life in your own dreams, but you still
haven’t dreamed about me, I suppose. Your cat still hasn’t meowed about me. What a disaster.
Listen to me, my sweetheart. You call your cat Dina, if I’m not wrong. She is the key to your dreams.
Remember when you got her couple of years ago? I left her on your doorstep. She is a super cat. She
sleeps next to people who are helpless like you. She makes you dream about your future, which
obviously I can control. I come from the future. I am your future wife, the one who you killed on our
wedding day. Yes, you heard it all right. You and I, married. We were supposed to have a child,
Jeremy. You didn’t just kill me, you killed both of us, me and your own child. When you killed me, the
relationship mother-child was so strong that I got two options to choose. Either I stayed dead and
you lived with the consequences forever in jail, or I come back, start a new business, send you a job
offer – a fake one - and voila! Here you are, standing in front of me. I am supposed to kill you now
darling. I want to live. I want these memories that I had in my mind whit you to disappear. I want
you to pay for them with your life “Corina explained.

She took her gun and pulled the trigger. I heard only the sound of the bullet. I was slowly falling on
the floor, bleeding from the left side of my chest. I believe that she’ll be happy now.