Please write a summary with a story,   "Soulmates
“Does science answer this question? If you ask scientists, they would tell you that soul is a gas that is solvable in glycerin.”
——Ealóte
Yeosty won’t come, Kona knows it for sure. They used to watch the moon 15th day of every month before they broke up. But they haven’t talked to each other since the last time they met, and that’s when Yeosty said he won’t get along with her anymore. Kona tried to contact him several times, but Yeosty won’t answer her call or reply to her messages.
	Nor could Kona find him on BraiNet.
* * * * *
	Based on the development of the brain-machine interface (BMI) of the last century, a company named Oasis designed this giant network where people could directly contact each other through their minds. Kona had just started using it for the past three months – the law only allows adults to get access to BraiNet – and she loved it wholeheartedly. “I can’t tell you how AMAZING it is!” she told Yeosty after the first time she signed up for an account on BraiNet for her 18th birthday. 
	She really couldn’t describe that feeling. Because unlike what curious teenagers would have imagined, BraiNet is NOT only a mere-updated version of the internet. It does NOT function as a platform that you controlled through your thoughts: there are no buttons to click nor hyperlinks to enter. In fact, BraiNet IS your mind. Users navigate on it as they navigate through their own memories – only that they are in a broader space now, and that there is a fixed “landscape” for this net, following which users are able to find their friends. Or to say, the minds of their friends. Kona had to learn how to navigate the intricate landscape of BraiNet. But because of the high speed that her mind reaches on the net – you can’t imagine how fast our thoughts can flow – she was able to glide through it adeptly within a few weeks.
* * * * *
	At the time, there was an activity on the BraiNet for lovers: Merging. By signing up for this activity, lovers could fuse into the thoughts of each other, which is why many called it “conversations between souls.” Kona wanted to try it the first time she heard about it. Yeosty was never a talkative person, but she knew that he had some splendid thoughts. “Maybe that’s why I like him so much,” thought Kona, “that he is mysterious in this sense.” But when she shared her excitement with Yeosty, his response was indifferent. “Well, let’s see then” was all of his comments on that thrilling event. “He probably just doesn’t know how cool it is to use BraiNet,” explained Kona to herself.
	She bought Yeosty a bright red BraiNet cap – his favorite color – as an 18th birthday present. It was two months after her own, so by that time she was already familiar with the net. Yeosty gave her his brightest smile when she appeared at his door, but after she showed him the gift, his smile vanished into a light beam.
	Kona was uncertain of his reaction. But as she looked right into Yeosty’s eyes, she knew for sure that he won’t be bothered to explain no matter what she asked. They were too familiar with each other. Words, sometimes, are redundant. “Maybe it’s just my illusion,” Kona decided to ignore what she saw.
	“Let me show you BraiNet, babe.”
	“…I don’t feel like doing this today. Maybe next time?”
	“Okay, it’s your birthday, everything’s up to you.”
	……
	Yeosty’s refusal went on for two weeks. And it is highly possible that he would continue declining if Kona wasn’t so upset by him, and Yeosty wanted to cheer her up. He agreed to try out Merging with Kona, only that he couldn’t promise how long could he stand for that. But that’s enough for Kona as long as Yeosty would like to try.
	The program ran.
* * * * *
	Kona tried hard to capture her feelings and recalled them from time to time ever since she set down the BraiNet cap after Yeosty quit the Merging program. It was breathtaking, in some ways. The program reminder informed her that during the Merging, some of their neuronal signals – tiny electric impulses – will be directly transferred to each other’s nervous systems. Not only brain signals would be transferred, but also neural inputs from body sensors. In other words, they were able to FEEL each other physically and mentally. 
	Kona remembered the quirky feeling at the start, that their two hearts thumping together at different paces. But after a while, their heart rates were united, a real scene of “two hearts beat as one.” She then noticed, or to say, sensed Yeosty’s emotions and thoughts. In just a split second, she was able to feel his anxiety, turning into pure surprise, becoming fear. She sensed his reluctance and his attempts to draw back. She began to wonder why Yeosty was frightened, which made her a bit annoyed. But by this time Kona was already unable to tell apart her own thoughts from Yeosty’s. Maybe it was he who got annoyed? Kona couldn’t remember what she was thinking then. Or maybe she did. Maybe she was experiencing Yeosty’s thoughts. What chaos.
	Just as Kona was about to forget herself and totally soak into this program, Yeosty quit. His absence stirred up a feeling of loss in Kona. It was as if a part of her was stripped off.
* * * * *
	“Kona?”
	“Yea? What’s the matter, babe?”
	“Eh, it’s just, I don’t mean there’s anything wrong with you, but I don’t feel like being your boyfriend anymore.”
	“But…why’s that?”
	“I’m sorry.”
	“Please. I really want to know what’s the problem.”
	“It’s just, I feel like another person when I was with you. No, no. That’s not what I mean. How can I say…… It’s just, there’s this strange feeling, after we did that Merging stuff, that I’m not myself anymore, when I’m with you. I feel like a…mixture of something. Can you get it? Whenever I felt something, I had to really focus in order to tell whether it was my own feeling or something I get from you.”
	“But Yeosty, we weren’t doing Merging for a long time! And after all, we only did it once.”
	“I know, I know. It’s just, I can’t drive it away. This idea of having my soul blending with someone else’ annoyed me. Even if that person is you.”
	“But we are girlfriend and boyfriend. I mean, we were. Isn’t it normal for us to share thoughts and feelings?”
	“Of course. But still, it’s not the same as having myself FUSING with another person. It’s even more disgusting than being naked in front of the public! I want to keep some privacy, you know.”
……
* * * * *
	A giant moon emerges from behind the skyscrapers, and Kona watches it alone. There is no one around, and Yeosty won’t come. But Kona feels a strange peace deep within her heart. It seems that her soul is more vigorous when being alone, of being independent. Or, is it really the feeling of Yeosty?"