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I had never really belived that there was someone out there just for you. A person who would love you, romantically. Not like you mom and dad, or your dog. My cousin, Brenda, had been telling me about a this since we were small. Always informing me about this thing we were stuck with. She had been so energetic about it. I hadn't. She would always tel my that this T, which was the letter written on her wrist, would come to her one day. It was something I grew up it, and soon was used too, but it was aways really, really annoying. Brenda was a tough girl, scary sometimes. Having her talk about it was better than hearing it from someone else, let's just say that. As I grew up I started having different thoughts about it. It was mostly just questions, thigns I kept to myself. Why were we born like this? It kind of spoiled everything that was going to happen with your so called lovelife. But of course I coudn't help but be a little bit interested by the thought about someone who had my name written on their wrist. My soulmate's wrist.
It was a thing you were born with, the name. Or, no you weren't born with a random name written on your wrist. It appeared through the years of your life, letter for letter. First it was hard to know what gender your.. soulmate.. was. Especially for me. At age 6, the letter N was tattooed into the skin of my left wrist, in pretty, curly writing. When I turned 10 the letter E had showed up. That night I remember laying in bed, looking at the ceiling starting to think about the whole soulmate thing. Maybe it wasn't so dumb after all. Maybe it was actually a little exciting, though love wasn't really my thing and it would never be, or that's what i belived. My parents died in a car accident when i was 2, and their names were written on eachother's wrist's, but it dissapeared when they died. I had been living with my aunt, uncle and cousin ever since.
Brenda had already the letters Ter on her wrist by the age of 12. I only had the two letters. When I was 15 I started thinking it was stupid again. This soulmate could live on the other side of the world, and had no chance to even meet me. I hadn't seen any other letters appear, and they weren't showing up until I was 17. An N, then e, then w close together. New. Whoever my soulmate was, they had a strange name.
And then one morning, after having the wierdest dream about this person, no gender, with blonde hair, there was something written on my right wrist. Th. I was really shook-up about it at first. Of course I had heard of threeway relationships, butthis was no way expected. This soulmate thing was getting strange. I even started looking at myself a little different. It wasn't all bad though. If they were my soulmate's they had to be for a reason, right? I gave New and Th a chance to maybe work in my life, thinking it was these two girls, and then me. And everything would be fine. You know, don't even think about it.
By now I'm 20. New is still on my left and now Th on my right. I had lived to accept that they were my soulmates. I didn't really care about it either, the whole damn thing. I'd had a couple of girlfriends by now. Okay girls were kind of all over the place now and then. No, they weren't there for long, and I had thought about the names on my skin every time I broke up with them. I hadn't thought that maybe I didn't even like girls and maybe that was the reason.
Anyways, my age is now 20 and my stupid life will continue from there. I'm an athletic. A runner actually. I am part of this track team called the Gladers. It's a shuckin' strange name really, which one of the members Gally came up with. The team was the reason I moved in the first place. I had been a part of it for a long time. One of the first to join in. Brenda had been living here for a few months now, and I didn't really have any place to live in when I suddently turned up in this city. Not because I didn't have the money to. But since I was the 'quiet but annoying shank cousin' as she said, and we were pretty good friends, like a sister, she let me move into her place. I didn't really have time to find an apartment yet. She had told me that she was actually planning to move out in some months anyways, so I could take over the apartment. She and her girlfriend Teresa had met about three weeks ago, and was already in a deep, fully functional relationship. Like soulmates. She was all over the place when she had first found her. I was a little excited to finally met this Teresa, but hadn't expected it to be a girl though, then again I hadn't met her yet so I couldn't really judge destiny. Brenda was a pretty girl and could most likely have anyone she wanted, by looks not personality. She told me Teresa was pretty aswell, or actually something like 'Minho! She is shucking gorgeous!'.
Brenda and Teresa was the only soulmate related thing we ever really talked about, though Brenda would constantly ask small questions about my soulmates, New and Th. As always was starting to get very annoying. Nothing had happened. Brenda had said she got thoughts and these wierd connections which she immediatly knew was her soulmate. I didn't have any of that. Not even a thought about any of the two mysterious people who's names was marked into my skin which was never going to dissapear or wash off. But I had moved into a new town with new environments and new people. Maybe something would happen.