FamilyofWriters

Author’s Note: Based off/inspired by the movie TiMER on Netflix! Totally recommend you guys watch btw, it’s great! Idk if this is any good but it’s been in my drafts for a while so I decided to finish it up and post it! You couldn’t sleep, your body thrumming with nervous energy. Today was the day. The day you finally got your TiMER. You had been waiting for this day, since, well your mother explained to you what TiMERs were. TiMERs were simple. As soon as you got yours implanted, it would count down the days and the hours and the minutes until you met your soulmate. Unless, of course, they didn’t have theirs

    The endless tick tack of his worn fingers over the grease marked keys of his laptop battled the annoying steady sound of the clock. Chiming and startling him at the hour every hour, slowly patronizing him. Teasing him, and calling out to him. Marking every hour that he is away from his friends and family, stuck here at the desk. Like a ball and chain, this job kept pulling at him until he would be done. But it never was, not for long. His sister, twin sister; baby by just a few minutes was getting married in a few short hours and he would not be there. Her brother, would not be at her wedding. Her one wish and he would not be able to make