[ WP ] The entire world is colorless - unless you 're touching your soulmate .

“ Hey man, get up! ” Daniel awoke from his slumber to his best friend and roommate, Jessie, punching him in the shoulder and shouting at him. 
 
 Jessie jumped on to the bed and Daniel immediately pushed him off. “ What do you want man? It ’ s a Sunday. Fuck off. ” 
 
 Jessie lay on the floor laughing in hysterics. “ I just got a hit, man, just got a hit. ” 
 It took Daniel a while to realize what he was talking about. “ Where ’ d you get the money to get a hit? What was it? ” 
 
 “ Got a free one off Booker down the street. Blue, dude. Blue was awesome. He threw in a tinge of red to make it purple too. So fucking awesome. ” Daniel could see the difference in Jessie ’ s pupils. It wasn ’ t obvious but it was definitely smaller than usual. 
 
 “ Cool, good for you man. Been a while since I got hit. ” And it was true. Getting a colour hit was not cheap nowadays; Daniel would have to spend a week ’ s salary on it. 
 
 “ I ’ m just going to lay here a while more… ” Jessie whispered as he drifted off into sleep, right there on the floor. 
 
 - 
 
 They had first lost the darkest colours. Colours had become so natural in life that no one noticed it at first. It didn ’ t happen till someone posted on the internet about the sea not seeming so dark blue anymore and seemed more…grey. It was then people started to realize. Leaves became black. Tree trunks became white. The soil became grey. 
 
 Then the lighter colors started disappearing and people started losing it. Yellow became black. Pink became black. Orange became black. 
 
 Then finally the sun became black and everything was just colourless. 
 
 Humans didn ’ t do so well with losing colours in their lives. Suicides and murders and violence rose dramatically and depression rates shot through the roof. Someone described it like going blind, but worse, because everything was still there. 
 
 It was all gone. There was no more colours. Not unless you considered black, white and grey colours. But no one did. The colourless age was upon the world. 
 
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 Daniel was six when the colours went out. He remembered waking up one day and not having any more coloured television to watch. He remembered it was a gloomy day for everyone, and he remembered the President coming onto the black and white screen to announce that it was going to be okay. 
 
 Was it okay? Daniel guessed it was. He had lived through it till now, till he was twenty-four now. He couldn ’ t even remember how colours looked like anymore. 
 
 Daniel pulled on his gloves and set out into the raging cold. One thing about colours not being there was that there was pretty much no difference in winter, where everything was still white. It looked beautiful to him and that was all that mattered. 
 
 As he ran down the street for a quick jog, he spotted ahead someone moving boxes. Someone was moving into the neighbourhood, which was new. No one had moved here in a really long time, as this neighbourhood was an old one and Daniel knew everyone down the block. 
 
 He couldn ’ t see the person behind the blocks, but he could see that the person was moving rather unsteadily. He guessed that it was a girl, from the size of her legs that he could see, but he wasn ’ t sure. 
 
 Then the person tripped and upon instinct, Daniel rushed over to try to save the boxes from falling. He managed to, but only after having the boxes smacking him in the face first. 
 
 “ Oh my god, are you okay? Thank you so much for saving my boxes! ” It was a girl alright, and a pretty cute one at the same time. Daniel smiled a comforting smile, “ No worries. ” 
 
 She wore a beanie over her head, her long hair flowing out under it. Her fringe covered her forehead and she wore owl glasses, which captured her big round eyes within its lenses. She had a tiny soft nose, and small lips that seemed rather…kissable. 
 
 “ Let me get that back, thank you very much! ” She said bashfully as she reached for the boxes. It was then their hands came into contact and Daniel screamed. 

