The Legend of Love

Preface~

I was thrown into the world in a blur of bright lights, cold tables, and lots of noise by people I had never met which caused my many screams, and hours of crying. No, I don't remember this, but my mother always tells me about it since she says it was the best day of her life. There is a specific detail of the story she always likes to include.

"And as you were handed to me, a screaming bundle of joy, I was asked by doctors if I wanted you to be the first baby on this Earth to receive the Pathfinder. At first I said no, but the doctors told me this would be an excellent addition to your life so I finally accepted. Within five minutes you were back in my arms with a very thin, gray band on your right wrist."

It always makes me feel so special to know that I was the first baby to get the non-experimental Pathfinder. Everyday I look down to make sure that its there. I shouldn't worry since the doctors told me that the special rubber it is made of won't ever tear, and will stretch as my body decides to grow. I am not supposed to take it off unless I necessarily have too,and in that case I have to go get it taken off at the doctors where they have this special tool that heats it up just enough for it to expand off my wrist.  I only had to take it off once which was when I broke my wrist playing soccer, but after it healed, the Pathfinder immediately went back on. 

It is such a neat little band. My Pathfinder is a very light gray which goes with pretty much everything in my closet. On the side of the band is my full name engraved, Leah Marie Wilson. The band has a small screen with the time, date, and temperature of the band. According to the doctors, when I was first born they had to take a super small amount of my blood which had my DNA in it, and they put it into the band which activates it. Ever since that day it has been icy to the touch. On the screen it has stayed at an icy 32 degrees for as long as I can remember except on our family trip to Missouri where it went up to 40 degrees. I have gotten so used to the band that I don't feel the cold temperature it emits. My mom told me that during one of the many meetings she had to attend in order to learn how the Pathfinder would affect me, she was told the closer I got to my DNA match(true love), the warmer the band would get. They also told her that the person that is my match is a male, but that is all they are allowed to say.  I never really have much thought about who my other half might be, but instead where. I know he has to be somewhere closer to Georgia than my home in Athens, Maine. I always wonder if maybe he has a Pathfinder too. That way we could maybe find each other half way, but I doubt it since our hospital was the first to give them out. 

Maybe, just maybe he has one which would make finding him so much easier.