SS: NOT-Just another Love story

Chapter 1

Soul Mates

Fairy tales, love stories, happily ever afters and little girls - a dangerous combination. Nothing affects a little girl's mind more than a juicy love story with a happy ending. Indeed, I would go so far as to say it shapes a girl's life - it certainly did mine.

I was five , bedtime stories were common but what was uncommon was the tragedies like Romeo and Juliet ; something that befell my ears one evening as my aunt (with whom I lived) recounted the main plot for the benefit of one of my elder cousins for a school project. I heard just enough to appreciate that it was a very romantic tale , then I drifted off to the familiar drone of sounds around me, my mind unconsciously waiting to hear the magic words , "...and they lived happily ever after".

Instead, I was jerked awake by Romeo's death, followed by Juliet's. I was appalled.

"Why didn't they live happily ever after?"

I'm sure I surprised my aunt. She was certainly caught off guard. My cousin intervened,

"They did...in heaven."

"Why in heaven?,Even as I asked this, it made sense to my five years old brain , what better place to be than heaven? It was, quite literally, a happily ever after.

"Because they were soulmates!" Spying my look of confusion my aunt explained. "It means they were meant to be together... if not on earth, then in the heaven!"

"We all have soul mates?" Firmly believing that I'd find my Prince Charming when I grew up, I'd assumed happily ever after was for everyone. Naturally, soulmates were the next step.

My aunt smiled. "Yes!" I think she told my cousin to get out too, but I wasn't listening really. The idea of soul mates was much more enchanting than the regular once upon a times and happily ever afters.

Still thinking, I drifted off to sleep but just as I was blacking out I prayed, "God, Let me see my soulmate!"

They say sometimes, prayers are heard soon as they leave your lips. I think that's what happened to me. I had a dream that night.

I saw myself; older of course. Wearing a beautiful dress, looking stunningly good but crying; I was standing under a tree, at a place that looked like a park; I'd never been here before. Then, someone says my name... "Ivory?"

Tragically I woke up. I never got to see my Prince Charming ... in my dreams at least. And I guess that was about all God was going to show me , because I prayed afterwards, over and over but that's all I ever saw. Bummer? I know. And as I grew up, I decided that I'll know my soul mate when see him. I mean, how hard could it be?

Chapter 2: page 4

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