╰☆╮[Everyone is born with a timer, everyone. People who eagerly count down the days when their wait will be over. People who think the little numbers on their wrist always changing take away their choice, and people like Jim, somewhere in-between.]
╰☆╮[Since the age of eleven he'd grown up afraid of his number, fear turned to hate. What did one expect when the first example he had of two 'soul-mates' were his parents who, to put it very lightly, didn't 'work out'.]
╰☆╮[Since the age of sixteen, he'd gotten himself off a destructive path with the help of a stand-in-Father, who'd healed a lot of scars over the course of time they spent together. Including his phobia of love and closeness.]
╰☆╮[Still, the idea of being barely eighteen and about to meet his soul-mate made him sick with nerves. He tried to block out the ill feeling by focusing on walking his dog.]
╰☆╮[The attempt was hardly working as his timer continued to beep, almost obnoxiously. He tried to think about the person he might be meeting in less than a minute but he'd never given much thought ot the idea.]
╰☆╮[00:00:00, that's the number that had his timer beeping the loudest before it went quiet at the same time as a girl came running by and Morph sped up to try and catch a bird. He stared at the girl sprawled out on the grass before him almost blankly before he snapped to attention and reigned in Morph at the same time as he bent down to help the girl up.]
╰☆╮"Sorry...about that." [His breathe caught in his throat just a bit as he caught sight of her face for the first time, not in an entirely romantic way but not in a bad way either.]
╰☆╮[He looked around briefly, trying to get rid of the uncomfortable butterflies he was feeling and to check if anyone had just seen his dog create the worst soul-mate meeting since perhaps his friend, Rapunzel, who had hit her soul-mate over the head with a frying pan.]