heartbeat

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"it's hard to trust someone when you don't know who's going behind you"

Your soulmate, the person who'll be forever with you until the end. It's always a hit or miss with these types of things, either the date of your soulmate will stick itself onto you or you'll live your life free, comforted or alone. As this goes, a small, forgotten town in Oregon goes through hell as multiple bodies drop dead without a trace of whos committed these crimes. College students are familiar with the sound of sirens outside their dorms and the sight of random bodies being pulled into an ambulance. Then days later an article about the death of the victim.