I don't know if I need to mention it or not but I'm gay, of course this has nothing to do with me not having a name on my wrist expect for if I were to have one it would be a guy's name. I love women, I do, I can certainty appreciate a beautiful woman when I see one but to me women are like paintings at a museum, lovely to look at but I certainly don't want to fuck one of them. Wow that was crude, I'm sorry. I should have found a more gentlemanly way to put that.

"Maybe he is mute or something." My friend Jeff said suddenly.

"Who?" I asked.

"Your soul mate, and that's why you don't have his name." Jeff replied.

"Even if he were mute he would have a name Jeff." I reminded him.

"True. So maybe he doesn't have a name."

"Why wouldn't he have a name?" I asked.

"I don't know. Oh! Maybe when he was a baby his parents were killed while on safari or something and he was raised by chimps!" Jeff said excitedly.

"So, you think my soul mate is Tarzan?"

"Probably not." Jeff conceded.

"Maybe he's in the witness protection program and the fates didn't know what name to put on your wrist, his real one or his fake one." Nick suggested.

"So now he's in the mob? Lucky me." I said dryly.

"Not necessarily in the mob...just wanted by them...wow, that would suck." Nick replied.

"Maybe I just don't have one."

"You guys keep acting like Blaine should be pitied, like it's a bad thing he doesn't have a name. don't you see? He has something the rest of us don't." the new kid Sebastian told us.

"And what's that?" I asked.

"Free will."

We all looked at him.

"We all know who were are going to end up with, we have no choice in the matter as soon as we meet whoever has our names on their wrist that's it. But you," he said pointing at me, "you get a choice, you can date anyone you want, you can fuck anyone you want and you get to decide if you are going to call them back or not. You can decide who you want to marry, if you want to marry anyone. You have options Blaine."

"In theory I do, but in reality I am the only person without a name. I don't have options as every other guy out there is already spoken for. The only way I could choose to marry someone or not is if he didn't have a name either. And that is not likely." I argued.

"You could still fuck anyone you wanted." Sebastian said with a sly grin.

"Oh goodie, I could be the guy that other guys practice with until they met their soul mate."

"Sounds like fun to me."

"Not to me Sebastian."

"It's either that or be a virgin your whole life."

"I would rather be a virgin than a slut."

"That's boring."

I shrugged.

"You guys forgot one explanation for why I don't have a name." I told my classmates.

"Do tell." Sebastian said sitting back with a smug grin on his face.

"Maybe he's dead." I told them I could see their faces fall before I walked out of the room.