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Rundown: Ian and Mickey live in a world where soulmates can feel the other persons feeling emotionally and physically when they turn 6
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It started when Ian hit his 6th birthday he was sitting in his room throwing a ball up and down when he felt a strong punch in the face
He had never been hit like this before so it was a whole new kind of pain and he rushed downstairs half excited but in pain, he had been told since he was younger about the whole soulmate thing but this definitely wasn't how he wanted to first feel it
"Fiona! Fiona! Guess what!"
"Ian you alright?"
"Yeah I just felt my soulmate!"
"Why are you holding your face are you alright?"
"Sort of I guess I got hit in the face"
"Oh no! I'll get you ice"
Later on that day Ian was in his room playing with his ball again when he felt something else
Their was a wave of heat in him like worry or as if he was scared he got up to the side of his bed and hugged his legs tight
Eventually it passed and he felt really tired and fell asleep
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Throughout the next months Ian was constantly getting hit and kicked or just small pains every now and then but he thought nothing of it, maybe his soulmate was just clumsy
The next week he tasted something with a horrible flavour it burned slightly and made him cough, the same flavour repeated multiple times until he started feeling dizzy and ended up going to sleep again
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4 years had passed since then making him 15 and Ian had started to get used to the constant hits and falls which now at this age was becoming concerning as either his soulmate has a really bad falling problem or some other even worse problems going on
He hated the fact that he didn't even know who his soulmate is let alone not be able to do anything about his soulmates constant injuries
The only slight good thing on his side was that if you are feeling some type of pain from your soulmates side it only last for about 1 minute before it goes away, whereas if you get hit you feel it for a normal amount of time
Around this time Ian had started feeling other emotions like heat, a rage that would often come on so strong it made him want to beat someone half to death all he saw was blank and often Ian would go slightly crazy and hit walls and throw stuff around the room for no apparent reason
One other feeling he had which made it so much more confusing was sexual attraction he would find himself getting turned on for no reason then angry for also no reason this seemed to happen a lot as it would be very enjoyable one moment and the next anger
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Another 5 years go by and he's in high school, this year Ian excepted himself for being gay but for obvious reasons he wouldn't go around bragging about it
For the last year the most often emotion was numb and rage he couldn't remember the last time he had felt happiness from his soulmate and that exact thought made him sad
The punches got worse and the numbness went on for hours after every hit, he constantly tasted cigarettes and alcohol which wasn't much of a problem since Ian didn't mind smoking nor the taste
One day he was in class listening to a boring science lecture and he saw this other boy walk in, his hair was black and messy, his eyes were blue and his clothes were all baggy and he had a lot of holes in his shirt in it yet he wore it so well in his opinion. He had recognised this boy from his younger school he had asked him for a pencil and the boy just threatened him which scared him off at the time
