James always got excited whenever he realized his soulmate was drawing or writing on his skin, whether it was intended for him or just a doodle or a reminder. He liked the little glimpses he got into his mystery man's life whenever he could see an impromptu shopping list written on his palm or a quick doodle of a cute little character when he was bored. That was how they'd started communicating, after all. James had noticed at age 13 that mysterious little doodles kept appearing on his arms and it took him a few days to finally realize it was his soul mate. He hadn't been sure what to expect when he'd written back, saying that he thought the little doodle was cute, but he'd been ecstatic when he'd gotten a response. Normally, James was so shy he was unsure that he should comment on people's talent, but he'd always been of the opinion that a person's soulmate was their soulmate for a reason, and that if anyone would understand and accept him, it was his soulmate. Sometimes, being able to talk back and forth was the only thing that kept him from feeling lonely, especially when he'd first started college.<br/><br/>Over the years, James' soulmate had only gotten more and more talented, and he liked to think it was at least partially for his sake. The drawings he gave to James through his skin evolved from doodles in pen to full-fledged illustrations, sometimes in multiple mediums. James' favorite had been a dragon on his upper thigh, sketched out in oil pastels and embellished with paints and opaque marker when it was dry to clean up the lines. James always makes it a point to take pictures of the drawings before they fade away.<br/><br/>When James felt the familiar scratch of pen on his arm, he eagerly looked to see what his soulmate was writing. By now he knew how different a doodle or a drawing felt from a message, and when it was for him, James knew he always made it a point to put it somewhere easy to notice. He smiled, rolling his eyes. "<i>What's wrong?"  </i>he wrote back, his flowing, looping handwriting standing out starkly beside the neat lettering of his soulmate's.<i>"You stuck on a design?"</i>