Chapter 4
Brittany led Finn and Rachel into a little side room and began to explain their strange connection, Finn and Rachel sat with their hands entwined tears streaming down their faces, listening intently.
"So you see you two are soul mates and are destined to be, you are both the reincarnated souls of Christopher and Rebecca, you have the same deep love and tether that they had, also the images you see when your bare skin touches doesn't happen with anyone else does it?" Both shake their heads in the negative "and you have always felt like something was missing in other relationships?" Another bout of head nodding answered the question. "Have you ever wondered Rachel why you don't like small enclosed dark spaces? And Finn you have always had annoyance with machinery when it plays up yes?"
Finn nods his head in the affirmative while rubbing his thumb over Rachel's thigh in calming circles, Rachel nods and sniffles a little while wiping her eyes, looking at Finn and trying to smile a little in support.
"Yes ever since I was a little girl I was always afraid of closets and caves and the like, but I never knew why I even asked my Dads if I'd had some sort of experience when I was little, but as far as they could recall from the very beginning I used to get upset if they put the shade all the way over on my pram, apparently I always had to be able to see the stars and sky".
"Well" Brittany says with a caring nuance in her voice "that is because the day Rebecca died she had gone down into the cellar", "now remember in the 1860's a lot of people didn't have modern stuff like electric lights and fridges, so they kept their perishables in underground cellars, anyway she had gone down to get the food to prepare for Christmas lunch the next day, she had always for some reason never liked going down there by herself, when she was startled by a very unkempt raggedy man stealing food, she surprised him by screaming and before she had a chance to turn around and run back up stairs he stabbed her with his sword." "But the last thing she did was to look upwards to the heavens and with her last breath tell her Chris that she loved him and would find him again one day, she knew he was gone because she felt their tether snap so she wasn't afraid to go because without him in her world she had no will to go on. Chris was the same as soon as his musket jammed and he felt the hot lead ball hit him in the chest he collapsed to his knees and said pretty much the same thing that he loved Becca and would search for her forever and he was so sorry for leaving her but he had felt the tether snap and didn't know what had happened to his love, but even though she was gone he loved her for eternity. The strange thing was they both died at the same time, 1 pm on Christmas Eve both souls forevermore searching for their other half".
Brittany spent an extra few minutes explaining to Finn and Rachel about why they had such a strong connection and now that they understood why the video players started when they touched it would calm down because their souls had been reunited and had another chance to become whole again, she let them stay in the back room to digest all the information she had given them. The two young people just sat as close together as the hard plastic chairs allowed, hands entwined, Rachel's head resting on Finn's strong shoulder, his head bent so his cheek lay on the top of her soft brunette hair.
"Do you really think we are lost souls finally reunited Finn?" Rachel asks in a whisper,
" Yeah Rach I do, you know I have never felt as comfortable or at peace with any other woman, not that there have been that many mind you, even though I thought I was in love with my girlfriend in college I even proposed you know", he chuckles at the thought "but luckily for me I guess she turned me down saying she didn't love me and admitted she only dated to me so she could get closer to my dorm buddy who she ran away with after college and eloped with, I was upset but soon got over it and have never bothered to really look for anyone serious since, but I want you to know Rach, I'm not the sort of guy who sleeps around but the moment you touched me in the elevator I felt at peace and it was like a piece of my heart slipped into place and it started to beat properly"
"Oh Finn I feel the exact same way, it's as though I have been on some sort of mystery hunt in a gigantic maze and every time I think I'm getting close to the prize the walls move and I have to start again". "I've had a couple of serious relationships over the years but have always known they weren't really the right guys for me but they made me happy at the time so I suppose it was OK, but with you even after we had coffee that day I felt everything I had been missing slip into place, and I would really like to see you more" As Rachel finishes talking and raises her head to look at Finn their eyes meet and lock as the tether they felt but didn't understand slipped into place and as soon as their lips made contact they both felt their bodies jolt with what they described later as being akin to a padlock being snapped shut.
The next day Finn asked Rachel on a date and by the end of the night after a wonderful dinner and a long stroll through Central Park culminating at Bow Bridge, Finn asked Rachel while they were sitting cuddled together on a bench overlooking the lake, to be his official girlfriend. Rachel couldn't contain her joy and answered him in his new favorite way by pressing her soft pink strawberry flavored lips against his and pushing her tongue into his mouth to tangle sensually with his own. When they finally came up for air with her chest heaving she managed to puff out that she would like nothing more than to be Finn's girlfriend and can see a definite future with him if he wanted to look that far ahead, as they kissed again a sight in the sky made them break apart and turn their faces towards the spectacle that nature had provided, as they sat speechless in a close embrace they saw with utter and complete amazement, not one but two shooting stars follow each other across the night sky lighting up the cityscape of New York like it had a million spotlights aimed right at it, and unbidden thoughts of a tall young man with cinnamon eyes and a dimpled smile arms tightly wrapped around the waist of a tiny brown eyed young woman with a beaming smile on her face, entered the minds of the two young people who after so long had found their rightful place by each others side to stay forever.