She was sitting in the coffee shop intently focused on the story lit up on the screen in front of her, sipping her steaming hot latte. She briefly looked up when a new customer came in and ordered his coffee. He noticed her and smiled briefly in greeting. Sarah was soon immersed in the story before her again. Her mind completely absorbed in the words before her, it took a moment for her to realize the foreign sensations that had begun assaulting her lips. Sarah’s mind went completely blank with shock. Then as the horror of the realization hit her with full force her gut lurched and she quickly covered her mouth. The ticking in her lips would not stop. They actually intensified. She blinked her eyes as the tears began to well.

Sarah had been 16 the last time she had felt this. Her lips had started tickling and the sensation was unsettling. She was not at all sure why she was so put off by the feeling that she just wanted to go home and talk to her momma about it. As she zipped her backpack, she threw it over her shoulder and went in search of DJ to tell him bye. Trepidation running through her, she barreled around the corner of the locker room only to stop short at the sight before her. Lips locked together was DJ and his ex girlfriend Heather! DJ looked up with her startled gasp and immediately dropped his hands and removed his lips from heathers and in that instant her lips stopped the tickling sensations. This had happened two other times and it meant only one thing. The man that she had gave her heart to, her soulmate of 6 years had just kissed someone else.

Sarah hastily gathered her belongings and was barely out the door of the coffee shop before the tears overflowed and the ragged emotions of the ultimate betrayal completely overtook her.