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"So what you’re suggesting is…ere soul mates But then external influences ruined us as people and we fell out of love?"

"Yeah Maybe I think so"

"And it’ll keep happening until we set things right again?"

I shrug, because I’m not sure It’s just a theory But itelse we’ve come up with

Five le word She finally falls back onto the bed with a heavy sigh and says, "You knohat this means?"

"No"

She pulls up onto her elbows and looks at me "If this is true…you only have thirty-six hours to make me fall in love with you"

I don’t knoe’re on to so, or if we’re about to spend the re a dead end, but I s to sacrifice the next thirty-six hours for this theory I walk over to the bed and fall onto it beside her We’re both staring up at the ceiling when I say, "Well, Charlie Baby We better get started"

She throws an arroans "I don’t know you very well, but I can already tell you’re gonna have fun with this"

I sht

"It’s late," I tell her "We should try to get soet a serious workout tomorrow"

I set my alarm for 6:00 am so that we can be up and out of the house before anyone else wakes up Charlie sleeps closest to the wall and is out cold in a matter of minutes I don’t feel like I’ll be able to fall asleep anytime soon, so I pluck one of her journals from the backpack and decide to read soit crazy But ame he forces me to play sometimes called Silas Says It’s exactly the same as Simon Says, butyou know With his name instead of Simon’s Whatever He’s way cooler than Simon

We were on Bourbon Street today and it was so hot and ere both sweating and one off to and eren’t supposed to meet them for another hour When it comes to me and Silas, I’m always the whiney one, but it was so hot this ti a little

Anyalked past this guy as propped up on a stool and he had painted hiainst his stool that said, "Ask me a question Get a real answer Only 25 cents"

Silas handed me a quarter, so I dropped it in the bucket "What’s theof life?" I asked the silver man