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Days like then were nice.
Though she was usually a cold weather person, a mix of warm and cool could be good. It was a day when there was a balance of forget-me-not blue sky and fluffy white clouds. They would manage to obscure the sun briefly, allowing a fleeting moment of shade, before letting the sun's warmth shine again. There was a slight breeze in the air that helped counteract getting stiflingly hot. It was lovely, and Taylor happened to be alright with it.
Her outfit that day was a loose, dark gray sweater with a knit pattern, whose neckline dealt off her left shoulder. She wore short shorts made of a dark blue denim, with a rip or two on the front. Her feet had on the usual boots, worn and scuffed lightly with dirt. Her hair was done up in a half-hearted bun.
She was walking at a very leisurely pace, in no hurry to get somewhere. Her attention was lost in a sea of thinking - thinking about life, thinking about her future. She had a job at a bookstore in town, who her parents happened to be friends with. It was a privately owned place, and the owner divided out very decent salaries to the workers, so she was keeping up pretty well. She was off on weekends, mostly just working the weekdays.
She passed by a man and a woman who were staring at one another in complete wonder, their hearts aglow underneath the man's shirt and the woman's blouse. Taylor couldn't help but grin, allowing her gaze to linger a bit before looking away. It was a sweet sight to see people meet their soul-mates. Some would embrace them, some would kiss them, and some would just stare in disbelief and awe. She hadn't met her soul-mate yet, and though it did tug on her heart at times, she tried not to let it get to her.
To get herself out of that train of thought, she decided to drop by a particularly popular coffee shop - another smaller business - for some coffee, maybe a cinnamon roll. She knew they had the best cinnamon rolls out of any bakery she had been to.
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There was a weird energy in the air that day. It felt like ... well, something, was going to happen. He rarely got that feeling nowadays, so it was one to keep in mind. However, the boy didn't have much at all to do, so with him just sitting on a bench dozing off, something significant was very unlikely to happen.
That day, he was wearing a loose black t-shirt underneath a dark blue, completely unbuttoned button-up shirt. His jeans were a dark shade of beige, and he wore the same old Converse sneakers as he had been wearing for a pretty long time. Nothing special.
His position, for once in his damn life, was relaxed. He was more-so trying to think of what the hell he should do instead of actually wanting to sit on the bench for the entire day. He could go get coffee - he'd been craving something strong to help keep him up. Or, he could go visit a couple of his friends where they were working. Or he could just walk around and decide what he wanted to do on the way. It was all a big clusterfuck of decisions that after a few minutes, got tiring to try to make.
For a moment, he was distracted by two men who passed by, holding hands with one another. He could see their hearts glowing warmly underneath their shirts, and they looked smitten with each other.
He found himself huffing a sigh. He was never an entirely lovey-dovey person. He was ... he was Kai, and a soul-mate had never been a priority to him. He had his friends, and they were all very nice people, so that was enough for him. Yes, a soul-mate would be ... interesting, and new, and who knows, even nice to have. But they could be all around the world, for all he knew. The matching was a strange process that nobody quite understood.
He let his eyes drift to the grass, getting lost in his thoughts again as he contemplated what he could possibly want to do.
