I've Walked Where You've Been: A Soulmates Story by Marina Vivancos

Author:Marina Vivancos [Vivancos, Marina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-04T16:00:00+00:00

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Turned out, it was a little hard to build a normal friendship with someone you had that much history with. The truth was that Matty knew a lot about Ethan—way more than he would ever know about someone he was just trying to be friends with.

It wasn’t just Ethan’s likes and dislikes that Matty was familiar with, but his little everyday habits and quirks. He knew that Ethan wet his toothbrush after putting paste on it, knew that he hated the smell of cooking cauliflower and would leave the house if he caught a whiff of it. Knew he made his bed every day and liked it being tucked tight even when he went to sleep. Knew it took him a while to get out of bed, but once he was standing, he was wide awake.

Matty knew that Ethan was a lot kinder than Matty had ever given him credit for. Knew that he thought about other people, worried about them, considered their needs before acting. Knew that, unless it came to Matty, he didn’t tend to put himself first. And even that was changing—Matty found himself more and more caught in Ethan’s orbit.

Matty knew Ethan’s ambitions—how he wanted to be a conservation biologist, was learning about the complex relationship between animals, climate, and habitat, in order to better protect them.

Matty had been walking beside Ethan practically his whole life, and it was only now that he was starting to realise they had trodden the same paths, gone through the same things, and had each done it pretending the other wasn’t there with them.

It was strange how lonely Matty’s experience had been when, looking back on it, Ethan had been there all along.

There was a lot yet to discover about Ethan, too. Little details he’d been ignoring—how alive Ethan became when he talked about something he loved. How bright his smile could be. How it felt when it was directed at him.

Ethan, too, showed every day how much attention he paid to Matty. He always made sure there were electrolyte drinks in their mini-fridge and that Matty didn’t just collapse in bed after basketball practice, ushering him to the showers. He somehow managed to find the raisin-nut chocolate Matty loved and gave it to him after tests, no matter how well he had done.

Matty talked to Carly, Jess, and Josh often on Skype, and Ethan would pop up in the background with a shy expression that did Matty in, asking them questions so specific that Matty sometimes wondered if Ethan remembered more things about them than Matty did.

And, maybe the best thing of all, he smiled every time he saw Matty—a bright thing that made the bond glow.

Matty was starting to think he’d wasted a lot of time resenting Ethan instead of empathising with him. He couldn’t change the past, but the future was looking brighter by the day.

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