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Draft 13: And Thus, She Tries To Recall Draft 12

Dear Peter,
I think my memory is really bad. I mean, I know I can't recall a lot of stuff from two years ago but, I can't recall even more recent things. I don't remember yesterday. I don't remember this morning. I don't remember anything that happened last week. It's like they never happened...
Source:
15 years old Jinnx's journal.

~Jinnx~

I felt warmth. The type I hadn't felt in years. Wanting to be greedy, I snuggled closer to it's source sighing in contentment when it helped to pull me closer to it.

Source? Helped me??

I opened my eyes. Aksel was sitting upright, resting his back on the headboard of the bed and using his phone.

And I?

I was half lying down, half sitting down, half straddling him. I was literally draped over him and together, we were a mess of limbs with his free hand wrapped around my waist and my both hands wrapped around his neck while my head was on his chest.

And even worse, my red string of fate which I hadn't seen since the last time I saw my soulmate was there,wrapped around my pinky finger. Using my eyes to follow it's trail, I realized with horror that it was connected to Aksel's own pinky.

How… ? I felt myself starting to panic.

“You're awake." He said as he dropped his phone on the bed. Using that hand, he gently held my cheek turning my face left and right as he assessed my features.

His pretty face looked genuinely worried about me. “Are you alright? Do you feel better?" He asked as his thumb stroked my cheek. I flinched away at the pain. And with that pain came the memory of Damien hitting me.

Ah yes. That asshole almost killed me. How could I forget?

He brushed away my curly baby hairs away from my face. I could feel his mind running many miles per second. Worried that he'd made the slight swelling on my cheek worse. Wondering if he should get an ointment for it. Feeling guilty for making me cry “like that."

His thoughts made me realize that I was having a terrible headache literally behind my eyes and temples. My eyes and throat hurt, which meant he was right.

I cried. I actually cried at some point last night.

I felt my panic increase. I cried last night and I couldn't recall it nor a greater part of the night. The red string of fate was making me invade his privacy and feel his thoughts which meant he could feel mine too.

Were really soulmates now? Aksel and I? And he actually succeeded in making me cry last night? Too much was happening at once.

I quickly unwrapped my arms from his neck and tried to make some space between us by putting my hands on his chest and pushing but he held onto my waist, not giving me what I wanted.

My eyes were wide as I looked around me and back to him. “What's going on? Why are I here and…” I trailed off as I tried to remember the events of the previous night.

He had a look on his face at my reaction. Like he didn't know whether or not to be happy at my lack of memories. “Of course.” He muttered before looking into my mismatched eyes with his sea green ones. "What do you remember from yesterday, after we got into my car?” He questioned.

I thought about it. That was exactly where my memories stopped initially but, the more I thought about it, I could make out little snippets of more memories. My eyes widened as I recalled the general theme of what we spoke about the previous night. “We bonded…”

He sighed looking upwards as he rubbed his face. "Some crazy stuff is going on." He looked back at me. “I have a few theories of what might be happening but yeah, we're soulmates now. Although I also don't remember the details of how that happened yet."