Clone Your Lovers

If you really love each other, then clone your lover.

Priscilla has been with her boyfriend for several years. They met in high school. Ryan noticed her in first period, and by lunchtime they were going steady. It was a veritable romance.
They went to football games together, grabbed pizza after school, studied for finals and of course, went to prom together. From the moment they woke up to the minute they went to sleep, they were together. Inseparable. Their parents were not concerned because they could see the love they had for one another. Their friends didn’t mind, because, well, they didn’t have any friends.
When they graduated from high school, they went off to college together. They rented an apartment together and they both got jobs at the same restaurant.
They studied the same subject and joined the same clubs and teams. They volunteered at the same hospital and frequented the same shops.
They got married and a child and named him Priscyan, because they had made him together and so he was of them.
They moved into a small house in town and worked from home that way they could stay at home together and go to work together.
One day, Ryan turned to Priscilla and asked, “What will I do without you? What will I do when one day one of us gets sick and passes?”
Priscilla caressed her dear husband’s head and said softly, “We won’t ever leave each other. We will get sick together and die together.”
Priscilla and Ryan both began to think of what the world would be like without the other. Priscilla was beside herself. Ryan was beside himself. Priscilla thought about the memories they shared and how Ryan would always be in her thoughts. Ryan thought about how he would carry her in his soul and they would always be together in his heart. Neither of them thought the abstract and intangible would suffice. She didn’t just want a memory of him, she wanted to feel him, touch him, and talk to him. He didn’t want to just remember the past; her wanted to look to their future. She wanted to eat with him, watch television with him, take walks with him… He wanted to discuss poetry with her, go dancing with her and anything else his little heart desired.
“I have an idea,” she told Ryan. “When one day we will no longer be here, let’s make another one of us.”
Normally Ryan always knew what Priscilla meant; they finished each other’s sentences, shared one another’s thoughts. But today was different. “I don’t follow. What do you mean?” Ryan asked.
“I mean, let’s clone ourselves and die together. We do everything together, we have lived every moment together, we must die together, but we can’t leave Priscyan alone. So, let’s clone ourselves and live on together.”
Ryan truly loved his wife Priscilla and upon hearing her idea he realized just how profound her love for him was. He touched his hand upon her cheek and kissed her softly. “Well, that’s a great idea. Clone my lover, I like it.”

To this date no one can be sure if this modern-day Romeo and Juliet ever did clone their lovers. No one can be sure, but one thing is for certain, Priscyan grew up to be a very strange man.