Northern Lights

Chapter 1

When Aurora met her soul mate, she knew immediately that she would not be the dumb idiotic girl who will pine away from far, imagining fantasies where he would be in her future and they were going to get married and have four kids and a cat. 

No, she will be the talented, smart, involved girl who will pine away from afar, imagining fantasies where he would be in her future and they were going to get married and have four kids and a cat.  

She also needed to ditch her violent ways of solving things so she started to dance again.

She'd start with taking the hardest classes signing up for all honors, all AP classes freshman year. She had no idea how she was going to survive that since she was that type to prefer lazing around and sleeping more than anything in the world, but she's got to prove herself through that she was willing to sacrifice to catch the attention of that said soul mate.  

Oh, did she mention she actually never met that said soul mate and just happen to glance around the auditorium on orientation day and just happen to see the most beautiful being she has ever seen.  

She questioned herself continuously why she ever found him beautiful or even attracted since she already had a type before he came along and he was far from her type but seeing him, her mind decided to rewrite her description of a man to get obsessively attracted to.  

It was rather odd to call him beautiful, the broody boy the next isle over. He had his head down, inky black hair plopping over his eyes, and was not paying attention to the overly cheerful student council as they enacted dress code violations. She couldn't see him clearly in that dim lighted auditorium but she was fairly certain he had a crinkle in the middle of his forehead as he brooded. He wouldn't be called broody boy for nothing. She imagined meeting and seeing his face outside in the sun, all clear for her to see.  He was probably beautiful, but he was also beautiful now.

She almost fell out of her seat when she was tapped from behind.  

"Stop staring at him, you creep." Skye Ivan had leaned forward to scare the living daylights out of her.  

"I'm not staring. Shut up. Pay attention." She hissed at him, trying to stamp down the warmth in her cheeks.

"You pay attention, you little hypocrite."  

She was about to turn around and punch her best friend since birth in the nose when one of their chaperones turned her head sharply at them and Aurora immediately quieted down.  

Skye teased her mercilessly when she told him of her plan to get notice by him and have him fall madly in love with her, but nonetheless signed up for the same classes as Aurora got.  

They ended up having all classes together, all eight. Except that was diminished when Aurora decided to join the dance team and concert choir. Now they were down to six classes. Her classes were arranged in blocks that spanned a total of two days. For day one, block one to block four and the next day, block five to block eight.  

"Are you sure you can do this?" Skye annoyingly asked her for the hundredth time as they waited in line for their textbooks.  

"Yes, because you are going to help me with my classes." She grinned up at him.

"You're not copying my homework." Skye's eyebrow rose while his lips tugged into a smirk.

"Why not?" Aurora whined, both from Skye's cruelty and the four thick textbooks she was given. Skye rolled his eyes and took two, adding to his own four books.  

"Because that would make you dumb and lazy in the eyes of your soul mate."  

Aurora pouted because she knew that he was right. That had been her reason to take all those backbreaking subjects. But he still helped carry her books all the way to the car.

She thought she had been lucky to have Skye in six of her classes. The other two were electives and both of them had their own interests. Skye was taking drawing and guitar class while she was taking choir and dance. 

Concert choir was certainly fun. She found out that she would be going to a lot of field trips and singing in hospitals and charity events. At the end of the year, they were also going to perform at Disneyland, her favorite place in the whole world. 

She loved how easy it had been to get into the advance dance team without an audition since she brought records of her own dancing history. And she absolutely loved it when the veterans of the dance team looked down at her on her first day in class and she blew all their judgments away when she kept up easily in learning new routines. Another perk was that Skye was stuck outside on the football field for PE class while she was in an air conditioned dance room.

Her dance class continued on even as the bell rang for school to end as the class switched to the dance club. There, other students can come watch them and the dance team could teach these newbies a thing or two.  

Skye attended these daily since he had nothing to do and he has to wait for Aurora to finish since they both have the same ride. He caught a lot of attention from girls the first day and he was catching more as her dance team members noticed the cute blonde freshman who sat in the corner and did his homework. Aurora couldn't help but snicker at him. 

They've been best friends since she could remember so she was used to it. She certainly saw the appeal but for reasons she didn't want to think too hard about—like moving on from her childhood crush on Skye because of a certain broody boy—she couldn't find herself blushing or stuttering around him anymore, as most girls found themselves to be around the famous Skye Ivan. 

But Skye got a girlfriend and he didn't spend time watching her dance anymore.