When you forget-

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The teacher was standing at the front of the class. Jasper, who was sitting beside me, was doodling on my notes.
"Class~" the teacher sang, "today we will be talking about mates. Can anyone tell me what a mate is?"
A few people raised their hand, including Jesse, who was sitting near the front.
"Jesse?"
"A mate is someone you are destined to be with, even if it is just as friends, they are the person who you are made to be connected to throughout your life."
"Yes, excellent job! Now, can anyone tell me how we know who are mates are?"
Jasper raised his hand, "you have the same mark."
"Great job, now, as you know, depending on where your family originated from, is where your mark is, for example, people who are originally from here have theirs on the back of their neck" the teacher said, turning around and moving her hair to show her mark, it looked like a bird. She turned back towards the class, "every set of mates have their own mark, and they may not always be in the same spot as your mate. Now I want you to partner up with the person next to you, as you are all sitting beside someone of the same sex, and go into one of the rooms to show them your mark. After all, it could be close to anywhere."
Jasper and I stood up, and walked to the room. My mark is on my chest, but I wasn't sure where his was. I locked the door and faced him. "Where is yours?" I asked.
He turned away from me and moved his shirt down a bit to show it. "I don't know what it looks like, but it should be there."
I stared at it, it looked like half a heart, with a line through the side, exactly the same as mine.
He turned around, "are you alright?"
I nodded, "mine is on my chest," I pulled off my uniform sweater and unbuttoned the first the buttons on my shirt underneath. I showed him my mark, it was directly over my heart.
"Hey, it looks like half a heart, on your heart, that's kinda romantic huh?"
I sighed, putting my shirt back on, "Yeah I guess".
We went back to our desks, shortly after, the rest of the class returned.
"Class, now we know what a mark can look like, who knows when our mate will know they have a matching mark?" The teacher asked.
"Miss! It's when you are of-age. That day, as long as your mate is already of age, you will know. You will get like a mental image of them."
"Yes Kylie, next time wait for me to call on you".
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I sighed, 'that was years ago, and now, today, Jasper will be of age...I miss him' I thought as I took my shoes off. I had been erased from everyone for almost a year. I had been here, in the other world, for eleven months. I missed my friends more than anything, but the only one that would remember me...was Jasper. There was a knock on the door and I looked up.
"Your temporary best friend is here~" Mike sang walking over to me and giving me a hug.
"ack! Bro-" I was still trying to get my shoes off, and him hugging me only made it harder.
"Your mate is of age now isn't he~? How cute! You know, you could always use your yearly visit~"
"Mike....don't tempt me, I don't even know if it really is today yet," time moves differently in the other world.
"Awe but-"
"No."
"Michael, are you trying to persuade him to use his one chance to visit?" Zeke said from the door.
Mike let go of me and pouted, "ze, babe, you know I am just trying to help" he whined.
"Tsk, you know the rules, and that is borderline breaking them".
"I still wish my mate was more like yours Lue, you see how mean he is"
I tried not to laugh, watching the couple bicker always brightened my mood. With Zeke being our leader, and Mike, being his mate, still pretty new, they bickered a lot.
"You know he can't persuade me, after all, I have been saving it for the right moment."
"Yes, most people would have used it the first week, you, however, are much smarter than them, as your term choice as well as this one proves."
"Awe Lue is a little prodigy being better than all the others"
"Mike, you should really go now, you know I get today off and I would like to rest, I work for twenty straight hours tomorrow"
"Ah yes, and I work fifteen today, home can't protect itself from the monsters of the other world." He smiled before Zeke drug him away.
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It was thirty minutes later, and I was laying on my bed when I felt it. Jasper was of age, and he knew I was his mate. I put a hand over my mark, it was giving off a warmth. 'I have to go-' I shook my head.
"Lukas, I am not going to persuade you, but you should go,"
"I...yeah...Mike was right" I stood up, after over a year, I got used to hearing their voices in my head.
"Don't give him credit- it will go to his head"
"Yeah alright, I will meet you at the portal then?"
"Right, you can't go alone... Michael and I will be there"
"Alright" I got a bag of stuff together, I had only a day, but I would need certain things to survive there. After all, I was born to live in the other world, not the home one.
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At the portal, I met up with Zeke and Mike.
"All of his memories of you has returned, his is likely a bit confused. We will accompany you to the other side, and wait for you there, it should be in the park of your home town. I trust you remember where he lives"
I nodded, and with that, we walked through the portal to our home world.