Etched In Their Minds

Duodecim: Crazed

Awoken by the subconscious alarm in his mind, Isaac prepared to go to work.

Vroom vroom, Isaac rode through the street, weaving in between vehicles as his jacket fluttered about from the air resistance.

After arriving at the café where he usually did his editing work, he sat at his normal spot and ordered a drink.

But before Isaac started working, he received a message from one of his friends.

The friend was inviting Isaac on a boy's drinking night at the local pub. Isaac hadn't been hanging out with his friends as of late because he diverted all of his attention to Ina.

{Sure, why not.}

After chatting with his friend a bit more, he messaged Ina.

{Canr meet up with you today. Im going out with my friends tonight}

After a few minutes, Ina responded.

{Alright, have fun! (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧}

He turned off his phone and began working.

Unknown to him however, a man sitting a few tables from him stared at Isaac with an expressionless face.

Trixagon sipped his cup of coffee and inhaled deeply. After exhaling, he looked at the deep black color of his coffee.

"Mghh..." he groaned lightly and closedbhis eyes. His face was that of a demon, but others saw an average male USA citizen.

-eye-

It was almost sunset, and Isaac was still in the café. His eyelids slowly shut as his head dropped down. Not one second later, he immediately woke up and blinked a few times.

[Why am I so tired...]

He rubbed his eyes with his hand and breathed in deeply the next few breaths. His work was almost finished, but Isaac decided to close his laptop and return back home.

He stretched his body to fully wake up and rode his motorcycle towards his apartment.

While riding, his mind deviated to a certain topic while consciously slowing down on the empty road.

The time he had been with Ina had not been long, but he felt like his not-so-bright twenty-five years of life were worth enduring for him to meet Ina.

He considered his previous life without Ina as a messy circle, but it became a perfect one after Ina arrived inside it. Truly, his life became a full circle.

Call him cheesy, but he really regarded Ina as a sun to his earth. Perhaps this is what a 'soulmate' is. Isaac had heard and was even taught about it in the past. The nun caretakers at the church orphanage he used to stay at were extremely religious and believed all things spiritual regarding Christianity. Although soulmate wasn't mentioned at all in the Bible, they still instilled the concept of an 'undeniable romantic partner' in the orphans.

Whatever their reasoning was, either to give the kids hope for a partner or for them to be modest in romance and not indulge in lust-driven pleasure, Isaac knew that Ina was his 'soulmate'. He had, but not always, a weird feeling when with her.

Isaac was stupid, that was certain. His school grades, from elementary to college, were slightly lower than average. He barely managed to graduate college.

He has no outstanding talent. Couldn't draw for shit, couldn't sing for shite, couldn't dance for jack-shit, but his looks made up for all of those. But, he did have a talent in writing, or so some of his clients had said to him.

Isaac got out of his thoughts after arriving at his place.

-sea-

The sound of multiple glass jugs hitting each other resound through the ears of Isaac and his friends.