Prologue
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Its summer of 2018, I decided to go up north to see my friends in Cranford, New Jersey. My best friend Morgan lives up there with her fiancé Frank. I haven't seen my friends since last February, when they came back to Brick for the night.
I've been in Morgan's family for years now, so I call her family my family too. I call her parents and her pop, my parents and my pop. Her older sister Lacey is like my older sister, James the oldest out of the three, I'm with him now.
When I first met him was the first time I had a sleep over with Morgan and another friend of ours, I went inside for some water, when I saw him put stuff in the attic. I tried to say hi, guess he didn't hear me. I thought he was cute then.
The second time I met him, I was with someone else who I thought was supposed to be my soulmate. He had most of the characteristics the psychic said my soulmate has. Tall, very skinny, dark brown hair, beautiful green eyes, gotten in trouble with the police, doesn't like his father, and artist was all the things my soulmate was described. The guy I was with, had almost all of that.
Well you see I get deja vu a lot more than I should, as I got older I gotten it more often. When I was with this other guy and I met James again I started getting it more and more, I mean everyday all day. I thought it was because I was with this guy, but it was because I saw James again. So for a bit I thought the guy I was before James was my soulmate, I was wrong.
The second time I met him, I knew something was special with James didn't know what then. I couldn't stop thinking about him, I tried to fight it because I was with someone else.
The third time was February 2018, Morgan, James, and Frank came down from Cranford to help mom, dad, and Lacey pack for them to move to South Carolina. I was just getting over the other guy. We had dinner together and a bunch of drinks, I tried to flirt with him. I was scared I wasn't sure if he just saw me as another little sister, so I held back. I remember it was just Lacey and I in the basement, Lacey had asked You know all of our friends at one point thought James was cute. She was hinting that James thought I was cute, but I was pretty drunk. So I didn't know what she was trying say. There was a point during that night, where it was just James and I sitting out back alone. I was back there by myself at first I tend to do that I a lot when I'm drunk, vanish for awhile.
I wanted to kiss him so badly, but I was too scared. James is seven years older than me, I didn't think he could ever like me. Thought maybe he thought I was too young, she's my little sister's best friend. So I didn't kiss him, I wish I did.
It's June 2018 I had been dealing with a lot of depression, so I never been up north where Morgan and the gang are. So I had decided to go one weekend, get out for awhile.
It's Saturday everyone was at work expect for Morgan, we were both in the basement hanging out. I asked her how come she doesn't like coming to Brick all that much. "I don't know just prefer for you to come up here," she answered.
"Well the last time you came down it was fun," I told her.
"Yeah," she said.
"You know that night Lacey said that all of mine and Morgan's friends thought James was cute," I said. She started to laugh and I started to laugh with her. "James had asked if it was okay to ask you out, we told him it was fine. He thought you were cute, but we weren't sure if you would," Morgan admitted. At that point I could feel my cheek turn pink. "How come?" I dared to ask.
"Well because of his age and because he gotten in some trouble with the police," Morgan replied.
"Wish you told me I was going to kiss him that night, I tried to flirt with him and everything," I said. She shruggled. "You think he still likes me?" I questioned.
"He had a big crush on you then you could try," she answers. "You won't be able to see him until my wedding though," she contuined. I grabbed my phone and I messaged him. I had a feeling I was finally going to be with my soulmate.
