Trigger warning: death
Soulmates. It is something odd. To be honest, I don't believe in them. Yet they are real. My whole life long, I tried to cover my timer, but sometimes I still see a glimpse of it. The seconds slowly ticking away until the moment I shall meet my soulmate.
I am walking down the street, slowly. Observing the people on the street. I always observe people, I don't know why, I just do it. Like most of the times, I see a lot of couples, timers on zero. Soulmates. I don’t believe I’ll ever find mine, I just feel I won’t. Out of curiousity, I look down, at my timer. I see the second ticking away. One minute and seventeen seconds. Impossible, I won’t find my soulmate, I just know it. But why am I so exited then? Maybe it’s natural.
I keep on walking down the street, observing. The seconds keep ticking. I feel a spark of hope. Maybe I will find my soulmate after all. Thirty seconds, it will happen in thirty seconds. Nothing can go wrong now. Right? I keep on observing. Wondering who my soulmate is. Most people out here have already found their soulmate.
Suddenly, I see the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my life. Her smile lights up the whole street. Her raven hair falls perfectly around her charp cheekline. Her skin is dark like chocolate. It must be her. She is my soulmate. My heart is racing. I can’t believe this is happening. Nothing can go wrong.
Our eyes cross as she smiles at me. I cross the street without paying attention. I hear tires. A car. I brace myself for impact, but it never comes. I open my eyes, wich I didn’t know I had closed. There she is. Lying on the street where I should be lying. Her body in weird angles. Bleeding. No life left in her dark eyes. She pushed me out of the way and got hit by the car.
People are crowding all around us. I am checked for injuries. But I don’t care at the moment. All I care about is her. Is she still alive? I stand up and push myself trough the crowd. The ambulance arrives. The doctor pushes everyone away. Including me. I start to panic. I can’t leave her! This is all my fault! I go back to her body. ‘Dead’ is all I can hear the doctor say. I break down. I never got to meet her. She was my soulmate. The tears kept coming.
Soulmates. It is something odd. To be honest, I believe in them. I try to cover up my timer, but sometimes a catch a glimpse of it. One second. The seconds don’t tick away anymore. One second, ever since the accident.
