AH collections

Everyone has a color

Jeremwood
Word count: 4275
Chapters: 1

Everyone has a color. To Jeremy, his mom's voice sounded like warm oranges and his dad's was army green with hints of black. The difference between their voices and his soulmates was that their voices were muted, still there but just not as vibrant. People's soulmate's voices are supposedly as vibrant as a color could be. Michael always described Lindsay's color as someone walking out of their house after being indoors for their whole life. Being bombarded by warm yellows and pinks, but in a good way.

Jeremy only ever saw Lindsay's color, or anyone else's color in fact, as muted as the disgusting mustard color of his locker. He slammed it shut as the lunch bell rang. He slumped his backpack onto his shoulder. He heard classroom doors close as students flooded the hall. The air became muddy with colors, matching the walls of the hallways in Jeremy's opinion.He saw a flash of ginger hair and green shirt in the sea of people and quickly raised his hands up to his mouth.

" Jack!" He called, starting to walk towards the other. Jack turned and smiled at the sight of the shorter one. He pulled to the side, letting people pass him.

"Hey Jeremy, how was the zoology test?" Jack asked as Jeremy caught up. Jack's voice sounded so homely. It was brick red with specks of warm browns and oranges. Jeremy sighed and hung his head a little.

"It fucking sucked. I never want to hear about gastropods ever again." He said as they started to walk with the crowd of people. Jeremy felt Jack's shoulders move with his laughter, making him laugh a bit.

"Well, you will be pleased to hear that Mrs. Sue isn't laying it easy with the english essay." Jack said as people talking became louder and echoey.

"Fuck!" Jeremy whined as they entered into the huge cafeteria of white and blues. The air sounded the same as it did in the hallway just a bit more distributed. It was still just as muddy but you could pinpoint where the the voice of purple mixed with blue came from.

"LIL J!" That mix of light blue, gold, and brown Jeremy could tell from a million miles away was the one and only Michael Jones. He looked over to see Michael sitting with Meg, Lindsay, Gavin, Geoff, and someone he didn't recognize. Odd. He waved to them and started walking, Jack trailing a step behind him.

"What's up?" He asked, sitting between Michael and Gavin. To Michael's left was Lindsay and to her left was Geoff. To Gavin's right was Meg and to her right was the stranger. Jack sat down to Geoff, kissing the other on the forehead.

"Well we have a new recruit. Jeremy and Jack, Ryan." Meg's purple and brown voice cut through, gesturing to the stranger. Ryan looked frozen, just staring at Jeremy. Shy?

Jeremy waved to him, offering a small smile. Ryan seemed to break out of it and turned to Meg. He started to speak in sign language to the girl .

"Ryan said he is in your animation class, Jeremy." Meg translated. Jeremy nodded.

"Well at least I'll have someone I finally know in that class." He said, smiling. Ryan smiled back before started eating.

"Ry, why are you mute? Do you not have vocal chords?" Gavin asked, his voice dark green with gold specks. Before Ryan could even lift up his hands, Geoff's black and gold voice cut through.

"You are an asshole, Gavin. You don't just fucking ask that." The senior lightly spat.

"Wot? He doesn't have to answer if he doesn't want to." Gavin said back. Jeremy and Michael shook their heads as Ryan seemed to be silently laughing. The older one signed to Meg who laughed at Ryan's message.

"Ryan said he chooses to be mute for personal reasons, but he can make you mute for free if you ask questions like that again." Gavin squawked as everyone else laughed. Jeremy pulled out his phone and slid it to Ryan who raised an eyebrow.