Chapter 17

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"The Aforementioned Melancholy"

Summary: Ling ask Jin help for a story she has to do for creative writing class; Jin then uses his book, "The Aforementioned Melancholy" and somehow leads Ling into telling Jin of her adventure into her past life. (Continued from Chapter 6 "Triumphant as Fate")

Ling: I need some help Jin.

Jin: Sure Ling, what is that you need help with?

Ling: Well I have to write a short story on anything for one of my classes.

Jin: Well that sounds easy enough. Do you have an idea of what you want the story's plot to be?

Ling: I really have no clue. You're the one writing a book. What is your book called?

Jin: Well you read it. Well half of it.

Ling: Yeah, but it didn't have a title.

Jin: The Aforementioned Melancholy.

Ling: Alright. Your book was about the book, Ruby and Matthew.

I shutter at the words. I still haven't told Jin about my past life adventure. My adventure, when Ronnie had led me to a woman who believed in the past lives. For me into running into a gravestone of a man named Matthew. Of his lover, Ruby. How I ended up being Ruby in another life. And how oddly enough Jin's characters were Ruby and Matthew. But maybe Jin's latest adventure with Mr. Hirchou would make Jin more opened minded. I can hear Jin, he just keeps talking. I should be paying attention.

Jin: So practically it's an ill tragic romance from the start where Ruby and Matthew were friends since childhood, but with war and death and famine, the relationship was doomed to fail, well on a physically level that is, but deep inside they will always love each other.

Ling: You always have to be complicated with your reviews.

Jin: That's me Ling.

Ling: Always being complicated.

Jin: Well when is this project due?

Ling: It's due in a week.

Jin: Well let's relax and we'll think of something while we watch television.

Ling: The past few weeks of television has been boring.

Jin: We could watch Alias.

Ling: Jin it's a rerun.

Jin: How about Will and Grace?

Ling: Rerun.

Jin: Seinfeld?

Ling: It's always going to be a re-run Jin.

Jin: Alright, no more television. Let's go back to the story.

Ling: Jin, there is something I have to tell you.

Jin: What is it Ling?

Ling: Something weird happened to me a few months ago..

Jin: Okay, tell me.

Ling: Well I remember having dinner with Ronnie, and you and Julia were there too.

Jin: I don't remember that.

Ling: Are you going to let me finish?

Jin: sorry.

Ling: Alright. You remember I had to get a human interest story for the school's paper?

Jin: Sure do. You complained about it for weeks.

Ling: Back to my story. Ronnie lead me to a woman named Martha who believed in reincarnation and that post hypnotic regression to gather the knowledge of one's past life.

Jin: Yeah.

Ling: Well I was driving back and I see this strange man in the road and I stop for him. Well actually I slam on the brakes and swerve off the road.

Jin: I remember that, I called you and you needed a ride home.

Ling: Well I found a gravestone with the name Matthew.

Jin: Oh.

Ling: Well I felt connected to it somehow. I checked out the name on the internet and he was in love with a girl named Ruby. Though they didn't know much about Matthew they ID's him by a locket he wore of Ruby. After a scary incident at my apartment, I went to Julia to find the locket.

Jin: Continue.

Ling: I found it Jin. I then went to the place where they tested post hypnotic regression and somehow I turned out to be Ruby. Then my mom calls Ronnie and tells me he's dead but I could have sworn I saw him.

Jin: The, I'm sorry but my daughter was dead, and there is no way you could have picked her up on the road story?

Ling: The emotional factor is again sucked out by Jin Kazama. Everyone give him a round of applause.

Jin: Sorry Ling.

Ling: So, then I read that part of your book you let me read and your characters were Matthew and Ruby. I then see the strange man but when I tap his shoulder, he turns out to be you.

Jin: So, we're soul mates?

Ling: Yeah. I guess soul.

Jin: Well its better than Christie Montiero. A trillion, billion times better.

Ling: Again with the emotional suck age. You don't believe me Jin?

Jin: I do believe you. It coincides with my story about time slowing down and the certain little things that reminded me of you, the song that was playing the time we first met and so on. But who knew a book could be would play such an important role in your lives.

Ling: What do you mean by that Jin?

Jin: Well I gave Kazuya sample of my book and that was how I became friends with him. And then the part where I supposedly tapped into my subconscious mind and made my characters based on my past life and my soul mate.

Ling: You know you're taking the whole, soul mate thing pretty calmly.

Jin: I've always suspected it.

Ling: The question though, what about that weird stranger?

Jin: Was he wearing a green hate and an old black jacket?

Ling: Actually yes.

Jin: Odd.

Ling: Who the heck was that guy?

Jin: Some things aren't for us to know.

Ling: Jin you never told me how you knew Baek was trying to kill me?

Jin: I had a conversation with Kazuya. Actually numerous conversations with him.

Ling: Okay then.

Jin: Don't Scully me Ling.

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