Chapter 9

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After the concert, Camila remembers, she had sat down on the floor of the back room, too shocked to even move. It wasn't until one of her friends approached her carefully and asked if it was real that she actually checked for a mark to make sure what she was feeling was actually soulmatching and not just a weird twist of fate and feelings.

She couldn't find it at first. All she felt was relief that it wasn't on her face, really, but she was also afraid she wouldn't have a mark at all. Afraid that the nameless girl she spotted in the front of the crowd wasn't actually her soulmate. Afraid the most beautiful person she had ever seen in her life wasn't her to have at all.

Camila had already stripped naked and was standing in front of the full-length mirror, examining her body in full. Not on her feet, ankles, shins, calves, knees, thighs... not anywhere near her crotch, her v-line, hips, stomach, ribcage, chest... not on her hands, fingers, arms, shoulders, not on her back either, her spine, or her ass. She couldn't see the back of her neck so she had Dinah look for her and Dinah said there was nothing there.

A sinking feeling like despair began to encompass her. After experiencing such a pull she had never felt towards another person before in her life, it felt wrong to consider that the stranger might not be her match. She desperately wanted the girl with green eyes and dark raven hair to be her match. She had already fallen in love with her curvy body, and the way her eyes twinkled with stars as if the whole galaxy was in them. The way her lips felt when they were on Camila's. The way she melted into her hold, like she felt so safe and cared for in that moment, so trusting of Camila that she felt she could let Camila keep her upright, no fear, no doubt.

Dinah was the one who found it.

"Hang on Mila, here it is." Her fingers brushed away Camila hair from her right ear, holding it out of the way so Camila could see in the mirror.

There, hidden beneath her curls and tucked behind her ear, in thin, girlish scrawl, the letters tiny but not compact:

Lauren

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