They say time stands still when you first meet your soul mate, your breath catches in your throat and your heart skips a beat. But it wasn’t love that made all the people around me freeze, but fear. I saw him across the street, that same smile on his face I saw so long ago. I couldn’t move, if I did I knew that time would start again and I could not escape. The seconds passed like hours, and as much as tried to stop it, to wish it away, in an almost perfect slow motion he was next to me, his arm wrapped tightly around my waist as he guided me away.