POV: Max:


And isn't it ironic...
Don't you think
It's like rain...
On your wedding day
It's a free ride...
When you've already paid
It's the good advice...
That you just didn't take
And who would have thought...
It figures.



"Isabel and I found each other first."
-Max, Balance


Well, not really. She found me. And that's when I fell in love with her. Something inside me was pushing me towards her, telling me that I had to spend the rest of my life with with her. Maybe it was cupid's arrow. Maybe I'd been programmed to fall in love with the first girl I saw. My pod was closer to Tess', so they probably thought I'd see her first. But Tess wasn't "born" until six months later, so I fell in love with my sister.

Once my sister. Now my sister. But for the hour before the Evanses found us, she wasn't my sister. She was my soulmate.

Once Michael's soulmate. Perhaps now Michael's soulmate. But Michael had left her. And I'd stayed.

So this was my reward?

I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. I'm spending all of my childhood life with her.

That hadn't exactly been what I'd meant.