Wrong soul mate

Happy birthday to me

"Happy birthday Kestra! Get up why are you still in bed? You know what today is right? Don't you remember!? Get up, get up let's go!"

How could I forget especially with a friend like Nova. She's always been a very eccentric girl, so dramatic and beautiful. She was the kind of girl who's personality was just as pretty as her appearance. She was about 5'5, small waist with long black hair and emerald eyes. Her skin was an olive color and she had tiny light freckles under her eyes. We've been friends since we were little girls and we promised in the 5th grade that we would go by our love watches together when we turned 17.

There was an age limit on how old you had to be to buy the love watches and that was 17. So of course you know every 17 year old ran out on their birthday and bought a love of watch. I watched my older sister drive herself crazy after she bought hers. She was constantly looking at her watch, she was always on the "one year" chat rooms searching for someone who had the same amount of time as she did. To me that just sounds exhausting. Why can't it be a surprise? You know like it used to be.

When my sister got her watch it said she had one year 7 months 4 days and 6 hours until she met her soul mate. That was probably the hardest time in my life to be around her. It was exhausting for the whole family. I don't and I refuse to be that person.

"I'm going downstairs to eat breakfast while you get ready. Please please please hurry!"

" I will" I say softly.

To be honest I'm extremely nervous to know what my time is. I don't want to change because of this, like I've seen my sister change and already Nova. What if I meet him and I don't like him? What if my time is too long? What if my time is too short?

I look at myself in the mirror while I brush my hair. I watch the brush slowly move through my auburn hair, it barely goes past my shoulders. I should have grew it out a long time ago but was too lazy to take care of it all. I put the brush down and stare at my reflection in the mirror, I guess I'm average Nova tells me I'm beautiful but she's the one that's beautiful. I have blue eyes and full lips but I don't wear makeup because I don't see the point.

Looking back I can't remember ever liking anybody except for one person and his name was Theo. That's the first time I can remember thinking that this whole love watch thing was ridiculous. I didn't need a watch to tell me when to fall in love because I loved Theo. He was a couple of years older than me and he was mesmerizing. He was perfect, he had dark blonde hair with sky blue eyes that sprinkled when he looked at me.

The first time he kissed me took my breath away and when he whispered I love you for the first time, well I think my heart stopped. We dated a short 6 months and when my parents saw things where getting serious they told me I was to young to fall in love. They said since I was only 15 and he was 17 that he was going to find his soul mate soon so we needed to break it off. I truly believe he was my soulmate but he disappeared a couple years ago and nobody knows what happened. I promised Nova I would try and not think of him today but it's hard.

Like so many people today Nova doesn't see the point in dating or having serious relationships or even falling in love until after you get your watch. So nobody understands me when I say that I loved Theo. Don't get me wrong everyone still hookups and does the hole "friends with benefits" thing but that's not for me.

After putting on my chapstick I walk over to my closet, grab a white t-shirt and some cut off shorts. Heading towards my bedroom door I slip on my flip flops and head downstairs to my birthday breakfast.