div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);""I give up. I can't do this anymore. Screw this." I whisper to myself, making another deep slash on my thigh, watching the blood pool and drip down my leg before I wipe it off with a towel. I don't even feel the pain anymore. It feels muted, like everything else in my life. /span/div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"Being Tony Stark's daughter was horrible. Especially since I wasn't nearly as smart as him or skinny and beautiful like his fiancé, Pepper. I was fat, ugly, stupid, broken, and scarred. I know that not even my soulmate would want me, when ever I meet them. /div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"I looked down at the timer on my wrist. 27:03:38. 27 more hours until I met them. /span/div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"I continued to cut, not paying attention to the towel now saturated in my blood. I looked down at my work, sickly proud of it as it's nothing less than I deserve. /div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"It's pathetic really, how your mind can turn on you so quickly and leave you doing anything to take the pain away. At least, that's how it is for me. I started to feel dizzy, and tried to stand up to wash the remaining blood off my leg, but I fall down, hitting my head on the side of the bathtub. /div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"Then, Darkness. /div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"—/div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"They say you meet your soulmate when the timer on your wrist reaches zero./div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"I used to dream about my soulmate. What they were like, how we'd grow old together, a true happily ever after. /span/div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"What a fool I was. /span/div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"—-/div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"I awake to the sound of a heart monitor and I realise where I am. The medical wing of Avengers tower. Shit. /span/div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"I open my eyes, and it hits me, the timer! Frantically, I look down at it, and read what it says. /div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"00:03:27/div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"3 minutes! I've been out for over 27 hours?! Shit, shit, shit! I think back to the last thing I was doing, and freeze. I must have lost too much blood. /div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"I hear voices coming from down the hallway, my father's and a unknown male voice. /div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"00:00:30/div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"Fuck! My soulmate must be the other voice. This is emnot/em how I wanted to meet them. /div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"As the voices get closer, I can make out what they are saying. "Look Peter, I'll talk to you later!" My dad's frustrated voice exclaims. "My daughter is in there after trying to kill herself! I have more important things to do than work on your suit right now!"/div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;""I'm so sorry, mr. Stark. Yeah, I'll just, um, go then." Peter says in embarrassment. I can see them through the sliding glass doors but I can't see Peter's face. /div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"00:00:01/div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"He looks up, glancing at me, and our eyes lock. He gasps at the same time I do, both of us grabbing our wrists with the timers on them as the numbers fade completely. /div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"00:00:00/div
div class="UH8R2" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin-top: 16px;"Well, fuck. /div