Hullabaloo

Set in an uncommonly written narration of a second-person point of view, this story focuses on you, the reader.

You are living life as Jesse Aleks, full-time senior in high school, part-time record shop employee. Every dull and, frankly, miserable day of your life is spent with hopeful glances and quick exchanges because you, just like others, do this as you are all too painfully aware of the Soulmate Selection, a rather tedious and torturous system that everyone is born with. Once a person's eyes and their soulmate's directly meet, it is said that you can hear music. Real music. Not the kind that music-deaf people make to try and get around it. You too, are music-deaf, as you still have yet to find the girl meant for you.

The story shares rolls with the snarky Jake White, a man two years your senior. His side is told in a simplistic, third-person viewpoint. Unlike most, he's not too keen on finding his person, as he wears his signature pair of shades even in his dreams. He's a handsome man, albeit. The girls adore him, parents idolize him; he really is the man of the future.

Literally.