Please review! Yes, I got the idea from the tv show The Ex-list. Haha. :)
"You've got to be kidding me, Alice." I groaned as she held tightly onto my palm and looked over to her 'magical glass ball'.
"I see yourself man-less, child-less, and all lonely if you do not find the perfect man of your dreams in the next year. He is your soul mate...and the time is ticking." She spoke in a monotonous voice, freaky and very unbearable to hear.
"Please, you're not psychic and we're both 22. Get a grip." She leaned back on her chair and looked at me with stern eyes.
"Right, well if you want to be lonely for the rest of your life, I dare you to defy my words and not heed advice. Try it Bella." She tilted her head to the side and smirked at me.
Okay, there were two possibilities. Alice was faking this out and telling me to just find someone I would love for the rest of my life. Easy? No. The list of people, men, that I dated in my lifetime, could be longer than a grocery shopping list on Thanksgiving. Yes, the amount of ex's I had is huge. They were never what I wanted, some too self-centered, some too annoying, some too caring to the extent of not ever letting me see my guy friends, some too boring. Heck, my list can go on. I sighed and leaned back on my chair too, eyeing Alice suspiciously.
She was expressionless, watching me as I watched her. Awkward. How does someone so short, and small, be so annoying and painful to ignore?
I let out a frustrated sigh and gave in. "What's the catch to this?" She smiled brightly at me, flashing her brilliant white teeth and leaned closer to me with her two hands grabbing one of mine and holding it up.
"Your soulmate's one of the guys you dated. So start finding one." She dropped my hand and began getting up.
"Hey! Wait! Who is it!?" I yelled as she began to get ready to go out.
"Can't tell. Sorry!" She called back and opened the door.
"Hey! Did you want to stay at my house or get out? I wouldn't mind if you want..." I stood up, my eyebrows knitted together and decided it was time to leave. I wouldn't get to ask anymore questions from Alice anyways.
I took a deep breath of the December air, cold and frosty with snow already falling and staying on the ground.
"Well, I'll check back with you later in a month or so as your psychic helper to see if you've got yourself a man yet." We walked together to the bus stop.
"Ha-ha. I really doubt it's true, but I'll just have to take your word for it. I really do want to find a man I could love..." My sentence trailed off as a catalog of men that I dated whizz through my mind. I had almost all the phone numbers of them, either my co-workers, my friends, or my friend's friends.
"But as a friend, I'll check everyday and see the hot men you see. Geez, I can't believe you dumped so many of them..." She shook her head in disgust at me.
"If you were with them, past the one hour mark of a normal blind date, then you'll see why I did what I did." I laughed, humourless, at the many fasade of the men I met.
The bus arrived and seeing as I still had 365 days of searching for the right man, I would just sleep it off today and if I still felt like what Alice said was true, would start searching through my ex-list for 'the one'. I waved goodbye to Alice and yet, somehow, I felt her prediction was correct. Like a sixth sense of my being to know that, I would really stay all alone for the rest of my life if I couldn't find someone I could love.
So basically, Alice is a psychic and she tells Bella that she will be LONELY for the rest of her life if she doesn't find the man of her dreams in a year. Wow, wanna think of the adventures Bella goes through to find, 'The One'?" :D