Our Lost Stars Excerpt: Souls

He was not what she expected for herself. She had been told that love sneaks up on you like that, yet she had been so sure before that she’d recognize it the moment she laid eyes on a soulmate. And yes, she thought “a soulmate,” not “the soulmate,” because you can meet many soulmates in a lifetime, but your life, your heart, your soul, will steer you toward one.

Gravity pulled her heart down to her knees when he stood so close to her now, listening, smiling, laughing––familiar. Warm. But that did not quite encapsulate what it felt like when she first met him. 

In fact, in the beginning, her stomach churned and a fist gripped around her heart, her teeth clenched and something cold tingled down her spine and she recognized this feeling all too well: fear. Run, her brain screamed. Run, because this can only end, whether it a consequence of mortality or of the capricious nature of humans—it will end, and it will hurt. 

But maybe courage is knowing that it’ll hurt and loving them as much as you can, and for as long as you can anyway. And that’s the magic born from loving someone like this.