𝐿𝒪𝒱𝐸𝑅-- 𝖏.𝖕, 𝖑.𝖊

i could be a nightmare dressed like your daredream

"HEAVEN HAVE mercy on me" Alex whined to his best friend Pandora Rosier who was watching him moan with an amused expression on her face.

She snorted, "It's not going to be that bad"

Alex groaned even louder, 'Why would the Golden Couple even need my help in the first place?"

Pandora hummed out a reply, 'That is interesting to think about"

Alex continued, 'Both Potter and Evans aren't stupid and get decent grades, there are rumors that next year there going to be Headboy and Headgirl"

Pandora raised an eyebrow at him, "Maybe that's why they're doing the tutoring in the first place, so they could get decent grades"

Alex looked at her confused, "But why me though, like there are a million other people that can tutor him"

They both were walking towards the Ravenclaw dorms while Alex was complaining his way through and Pandora offered sound reasoning.

"Alex you have the highest grade in the O.W.L.S as well as the class, it makes sense why she asked you to tutor them" Pandora mentioned to his unamused face

Alex grumbled, "Doesn't mean I have to like it" after Pandora answered the riddle, which was: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

"Footsteps"

And the door opened with Alex continuously complaining when Pandora finally turned to him and stated, "It gets you a decent excuse out of dealing with Slughorn ''.

Alex thought to ponder for a moment, "That's true"

Pandora rolled her eyes, "You'll be fine"

Alexander dropped himself on one of the couches and sighed even louder, "I don't want to tutor anybody"

Pandora cheekily grinned, "Well smartest wizard of his age you have too, have you met up with them yet?"

Alex looked at her with a deadpanned, "I just found out today, I have to set up a meeting time soon"

Pandora snorted, "Let me guess you want me to ask Regulus to ask Sirius to ask James and Lily when to set up an appointment"

Alexander furiously nodded with a puppy dog eye on his face, "would you?"

Pandora grinned at him, "Yes I will you lovable doof."

Alex finally dragged himself off the couch with a, "Tell Barty I'm in my dorm if he needs me"

Pandora called out after him, "I will"

The Ravenclaw dormitories were Alex's sanctuary in peace and prosperity. He had his own room too because of his stellar grades and role in being a prefect. Alex walked in his room tugging off his perfectly cinched tie as well as the canvas bag draped across his body.

He unbuttoned the top two buttons of his crisp white shirt and collapsed on his bed utterly done with the day. Alex was fazed at the different stars that shone brightly on his dormitory and felt the hazy of sleep tugging at him. He couldn't go to sleep, he knew that with the amount of work that he had pressing from today and the previous classes.

The lull of sleep was too much and Alex wandlessly put a time limit for two hours and then knocked out into oblivion.

Hours later he woke up from his alarm ringing and he felt even more dazed out than before.

He dragged himself out of bed and went to the bathroom to splash some water on his face. Alex stared at himself in the mirror with bloodshot eyes and messy brown hair. His skin looks paler than usual but made it work somehow.

He sat criss crossed on his bed with all his work surrounding him with a tired thought permeating his brain, "When will I get to leave this place".

Alex had always wanted to explore the world instead of being stuck in England forever. He was born in London but his family moved to America when he was 3 then came back to England because Alex's father used to go to Hogwarts and wanted Alex to go. His relationship however with his Mom and two sisters weren't great.

All three were muggles and weren't really interested in magic or Alex. His dad was a disgraced pureblood after falling in love with his mother and his family promptly disowned him. The thing was that only his father got disowned, not any wizarding/witch descendents from him.

That's how Alex got his pocket money from the vault that was secretly opened by his father that was opened just before he got disowned. His father made sure that every month 400 hundred galleons should be transferred to the account and there was nothing his family could do about it. His family name was Raleigh and they were pretty close to being named the sacred 28 but for some reason, weren't.

Wizarding magic was kind of funny since magic officially decided that Alexander was going to be the future lord of the Releigh family much to their consternation and to his father's amusement.

His Aunt and Uncle despised him because they and their kids were supposed to be the future lord lady and heir but instead he "cheated" and took the title from them.

Alex couldn't find it in him to care about all that drama at all and just wanted to finish his studies and leave the hellhole that was considered Britain.

Alex looked down at the paper in his hand and thought of song lyrics or something that began to look like lyrics.

He thought about the city that he loved most, "New York"

So with a quill in hand and stacks of paper surrounding him he wrote

Walkin' through a crowd, the village is aglow

Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats under coats

Everybody here wanted somethin' more

Hours later with the sunlight blinding him and his body aching he had a finished song.

Alex looked at his work and smiled

He was going to figure out the beat and everything on his guitar but before he could he glanced at the time and panicked. It was currently 8:20 in the morning and he had potions in like 10 minutes. Alex flung himself out of bed and looked at the mirror. He looked like crap but that was nothing new.

Alex didn't have time to take a shower soo he had to spell some cleaning spells and then tugged on a button down and put on his cloak forgoing the headache of a tie. He hated wearing a tie because of how constricting it was. His brown hair was a mess but he dragged a brush through it while making sure he had everything in his bag.

It was only Wednesday and Alex was already done with the entire week and wanted Friday to come soon enough.

He looked at the time again and noticed he only had three minutes left to make it from the Ravenclaw dormitories and book it to the potions room. So Alex did what he did best, hauled ass like someone was chasing him. He was infinitely grateful that most students were already in different classes so they didn't see him run like a manic through the halls.

Alex was distracted so he didn't have time to stop when a flash of someone came into his visions.

"WHOA" James Potter yelled and easily caught Alex by his waist

Alex felt a jolt and already compressed whatever that was

He simply didn't have time to think about what that even meant because he had to go. Alex struggled himself out of James Potter's hands and pushed up his glasses with a muttered, "Sorry" before jogging while his heart was beating out of his chest.

After making it to the room with barely any time to spare and Alex breathing periodically because he was not used to that much exercise for a long period of time. No one was paying attention to him when he sat at his usual seat and he held his arm and carefully pulled a sleeve up under the table.

Just as he suspected, James Potter was one of his soulmates which meant Lily Evans was too. Alex stared at the mark which had an intertwined J and L and he wanted to laugh or cry hysterically because there was no way.

Alex did not expect a lot of things but being actual soulmate with the two people he never thought would be his soulmates. That was interesting to think about.