[ WP ] All those nicks and bruises that show up on your body seemingly out of nowhere are injuries received by your soulmate .

I've always wondered where they came from. I spent my life on a padded chair in front of my computer so it's definitely not coming from my end. It surprised me at first, scared me even. A scrape here, a bruise there. Eventually I just kind of stopped noticing. Except that one time. That one time a damn papercut showed up on my thumb right as I pressed the Space Bar. Stung like a mother fucker. 
 
 I kind of forgot about it. It was just something that happened once in a while, probably just my body being weird again. Did n't even notice it again until 4 months into our relationship. She walked into a shelf and bruised her shin. Mine was too. We had a chuckle over it, making jokes about quantum entanglement and whatever else geeks like us like to talk about. Did n't take it seriously. Went on with our lives. Forgot about the whole thing. 
 
 We could n't sleep. It was a Saturday night and we seemed to have synchronized insomnia. We decided to talk about whatever old bullshit popped into our minds trying to bore each other into dozing off. She told me about how she gets random bruises and scrapes around her body and I tell her it happens to me too. Did n't really think about it that much. Maybe we were too tired for the memory to be encoded properly. Maybe I just thought it was something that happened to everyone. Could n't tell ya. Forgot about it again. 
 
 One day she cut herself while chopping celery. I made a joke and distracted her. My fault. 
 
 Her finger started bleeding. So did mine. What. The. Fuck. 
 
 Slapped some band aids on and sat down. Talked about the time she kicked the shelf. Talked about the papercut. It all made sense now, and at the same time, made even less sense than before. She punched me in the arm, her arm bruised too. Made a little cut on my leg. Hers bled too. How is this even possible? 
 
 Decided against going to the doctors. More trouble than it's worth. What if men in black showed up at our door and kidnapped us for research or something? Ca n't risk it. Got ta be careful. Ca n't put my life in danger. Ca n't put *her* life in danger. Got ta stay low. 
 
 She got pregnant. She gave birth. My anus started bleeding and a placenta fell out. 
 
 
 
 

