18 years...
18, long, painful, boring years.
18, dread-filled, paranoid years.
When you see people falling in love left, right, and centre. This Soulmate stuff is Bullshit, that's what I've always said. The universe gives you some sort of direction as to who you should love. It's ridiculous. According to the universe, and our parents, our generation aren't allowed to do anything for ourselves, everything has to be picked and chosen for us. I was always told that if you don't believe in soulmates, you won't get one, you wouldn't deserve one, so, someone, please tell me, why I have a piece of red string looped and tied around my neck?? Why my neck? Why do I have a soulmate? I don't believe in them-
My head shot up from my laptop when a ruler slammed down onto my desk. My breath caught in my throat and I swallowed when I realised it was my teacher. I offered a forced and nervous smile before slowly closing the lid of my laptop. My teacher, with a satisfied nod, turned on her heel and walked back up to the front of the class to continue in with her lesson. I huffed and stared out of the window.
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At 18 years old, I had been so called 'gifted' with a soulmate despite my beliefs against them. Another reason I was against soulmates was the fact that some people got together before knowing their soulmates, and then when they find out they aren't 'destined' to be together, it's a horrible break-up, I've seen it, I've been through it, it's nasty.
I felt a light tap on my shoulder and looked up from my phone as I stood off from the main stage area.
"You ready?" I stared at the red haired girl in front of me for a moment before tilting my head. "There's a lot of people and they've been waiting a while..." I nodded and sighed.
"Maybe I'm too emotional....or maybe you never cared at all...." I looked across the crowd and noticed loads of couples, friends, and family's. My voice had begun to trail off. "Maybe I'm too emotional, your apathy's like a wound in salt...maybe I'm too emotional, or maybe you never cared at all~~" I even noticed an ex of mine with his proclaimed 'soulmate'. I sighed. "Good for you, you look happy and healthy, not me, if you ever cared to ask." My eyes continued to trail across the crowd, noticing a red string amongst the crowd. "Good for you, your doing great out there without me~" I followed the string from my own neck and into the crowd, noticing it attached to someone I had known since I was a child. "Baby..." My mind drifted back to my previous thoughts of soulmates. "I'm like a damn sociopath!"
The song and concert came to an end and I was very quick to run down from the stage and hurry over to the crowd barrier.
"Percy!" I called out over the noise, although he didn't seem to hear me. I motioned to the security guards and they gave me a hand in getting over the barrier. The crowd was screaming in excitement, but I was only concerned in getting to this childhood friend of mine. "Perseus!" The boy whipped around at the sound of his full first name, not having been called it in years. My arms immediately looped around his shoulders and I pulled him into a tight hug. He returned the gesture, hesitantly. "Warn me next time you leave so suddenly."
"S-sorry..." He buried his head into the crook of my neck. "All these years...and my soulmate was you..." He hugged me tighter and I smiled, doing the same.
