soulmates ; calum au

Prolouge.

Running. Screaming. Birds. Falling Down. Wake Up. This isn't real.

I shot up from the cold bed. I couldn't quite process what was happening. It was just a dream I kept telling myself but in my head it was more just a simple nightmare. I felt like it was more than that. I felt more real than a dream itself.

I turned on my desk lamp, grabbing my notebook. My dream journal (or nightmare journal as I would call it) was filled with the same dream over and over. Not a single detail changed. It was always the same thing. Birds chasing me, falling and the birds attacking me. Same thing over and over. After a while it can be quite a bore dreaming the same thing but I couldn't change it. There was no way I could.

I had talked with countless of doctors of this. They all had the same explanation.

"You've been away from your soulmate for so long your body starts having side effects."

When you're born, the only colours you can see are black and white (which may I add are quite boring colours). When your soulmate is around you or touches you, you start seeing in colour. 90% of the people meet their soulmates from sixteen to thirty-five. 8% will meet them when they are older than thirty-five. 1.5% will meet them when they are younger than sixteen. In extremely rare cases, .5% will never meet their soulmate.

Unfortunately I was born in this 1.5% of the population. The only cure was to reunite with my soulmate again but it hadn't happened since that one time.

According to my mother, when I was five I started yelling out in the store that I could see colour. She freaked out and looked around but she couldn't find my "soulmate". That was the only time I have ever seen colour and the only time I have seen them. Later on, I started having side effects.

At age eight, I started having this nightmare. The same one over and over. My mother took me to a doctor.

Doctors don't know a lot about this 1.5% of the population but they know exactly why this is happening. If you spend too long without your soulmate, your body starts having these god awful side effects. All which can include: migraines, nightmares, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and in rare cases death.

To me the whole soulmate thing made no absolute sense to me. It was a real thing for sure and I had no doubt in it but I couldn't quite comprehend how the world knew that we were all compatible. Although we never questioned it. It was this unknown mystery to me, to my friends, to family, to everyone.

Even more, the person who is my soulmate is a complete mystery to me. I wanted to know them and I wanted to ask them if they had the nightmares too. Maybe then I could live my life again but in all honesty who knew who they were and what they were doing. It was only a matter of time before I found out.

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a/n:

i hope i don't ruin this story and that i've gotten better at writing since if you don't know.

i like this idea (credits to the multimedia in the beginning) and quite frankly don't know if to make it a short story or a very long fan fiction.

anyways, please enjoy. share this with your friends and family. SHARE THIS WITH THE WHOLE WORLD.

-mari!