Valentine's Day

eight

"can we at least see your tattoo?"

wilder stood up and rolled up his left sleeve.

oh. my. god.

on wilder's left wrist is the tattoo that i found on mine this morning.

a lavender prick beside a bush and a fox.

i may have just found my soulmate.

crap. 

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luna gazed towards me, her eyes wide. 

i gave her a look saying "keep quiet". 

thankfully she understood. my heart is beating at twice the speed it normally does. 

"that's cute," soleil said. 

"it is, but i haven't got a clue on who it would be," wilder said. "i'm not going to stop trying though." 

i stayed quiet. this is big. a lot bigger than i can handle. 

the one kid everyone has been teasing me about liking is my soulmate. 

i didn't think i would have to deal with soulmate stuff this year. 

i should be excited for all of this, because this is an exciting day. 

but i'm not. 

I'm more scared if anything. 

what is this all supposed to mean? 

and wilder said he's not going to give up. 

everyone's words around me were all a blur. the thoughts in my head kept clouding my mind until i couldn't handle it anymore. 

i stood up, and walked out of the cafeteria. i walked out to the auditorium, where i found hailey and cyrus. 

"hey lavender," cyrus said. "you okay? you look like you've seen a ghost." 

"y-yeah. i'm fine. just a lot going on," i said. 

"what brings you here?" hailey asked. 

"too many people in the cafeteria. just had to get out of there." 

"well, stay here as long as you want. mr. davis only lets theatre and production students sit in here during lunch." 

i sat in the row of seats in front of them, listening to their conversation. 

they didn't know if they were soulmates or not, yet they are happy together. 

but no one really knows why this soulmates thing works, it just does. 

i sat there in my thoughts for another while, until luna came in. 

"lavender! there you are. everyone's worried about you," she said. 

"sorry. just had to get out of there," i said. 

"oh i know. that can be overwhelming," she said. 

i sighed. "i just- i never actually tried to find out who it might be, and now that i know who it is, i feel freaked out." 

"what are we talking about here?" cyrus asked, leaning over the seat. 

luna and i looked at each other. "you wanna say or should i?" she asked me. 

"i'll say," i said. i took a deep breath. "i think i found my soulmate." 

hailey nearly jumped over the row of seats and cyrus' jaw dropped. 

"oh my gosh, lavender! that is so exciting," hailey said, now jumping over the seat to give me a hug.