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I rub the nerves out of the back of my neck while I lock eyes with her "Charlie? What if…e broke up…we screith destiny?"

I wait for her to laugh, but instead, a rush of chills covers her arms She makes to rub them away as she slowly takes a seat back down on the bed "That’s ridiculous," she mutters But there’s no conviction in her words, which means

I sit down in ain and position ether? Andwith that caused some sort of…I don’t know…rift"

She rolls her eyes "So what you’re i is, the universe wiped away all of our memories because we broke up? That seems a little narcissistic"

I shake my head "I kno it sounds But yes Hypothetically speaking…what if soul ether, they can’t fall apart?"

She folds her hands together in her lap "How does that explain why you remembered this time and I didn’t?"

I pace the room some more "Let me think for a minute," I say to her

She waits patiently while I rub the floor raw I hold up a finger "Hear ," she says

"We’ve loved each other since ere kids We obviously had this connection that has lasted our entire lives Up until external factors started getting in our way The thing with our fathers, our faainst uilty There’s a pattern here, Charlie" I grab the notebook that I wrote in earlier and look at all the things we naturally res we don’t "And our s that weren’t forced on us Things we had a passion for all on our own You remember books I remember hoork a cas We res that were forced on us by others, we forgot Like football"

"What about people?" she asks "Why did we forget all the people we’ve met?"

"If we remembered people, we’d still have other memories We’d remember hoe met them, the impact they’ve had on our lives" I scratch at the back of my head "I don’t know, Charlie A lot of it doesn’t ht, I felt a connection with you again Like I had loved you for years And this …I didn’t lose nificance in that"