Beshert

Chapter 1

Today is the first day of my senior year, now most would think I would be excited about this. But no, I just found out that my arch nemesis (aka Viktoria one of my two best friends older brother) will be my third period English teacher. I have know him since I was 9 and he and his family moved from Rinia, and next door to my family. We got along okay at first him being 15 and me being his little sisters annoying friend. In fact I had a huge crush on him, a fact I was now embarrassed by.

The biggest reason I couldn't stand him now is because of how he acts towards me. One minute he's all nice and sweet and the next he's cold and distant. It made no since at all. Also last year when he saved me from the guy I was kind of seeing from raping me and letting me cry in his arms, he has been only cold towards me. I just didn't get it. So I made it my life's goal to be as big of a pain in his ass as possible and I certainly was.

I was however excited for next week and a bit nervous. Why you ask? Well its my 18th birthday which means that I will not only be legally an adult but I will start the search for my beshert or soul mate. You see when you reach the age of 18 you are fully an adult and your done cooking so to speak. So you are able to marry, but you can only marry your beshert. In fact when growing up you can date and even kiss but don't you dare have sex because if that person ends up not being your beshert you will be in huge trouble like jail time for adultery. It's a big deal, that's why what Dimitri (Viktoria's brother) did was such a big thing.

Some people were lucky and found their mate right away. Well the women seeing as the man was always older. For instance my other best friend Lissa who had known that my brother Christian was her beshert since childhood. He was five hours older then her and they received their beshert mark on their 18th birthday. The beshert mark is a mark like a tattoo that appears when you see your mate for the first time. They all have the same placement beside your left eye and the s shape but the rest is unique to that couple and there are never two alike except for your mate of course. Lissa and Christians was the common black s with pink flowers a red heart and green vines. It was beautiful but also very common shapes and colors. You see there was also things to state what kind of love and how perfect you were for each other by the colors and shapes you got. Things like a black s, flowers, and hearts were common as well as basic colors the more rare were things like lightning bolts x's and stars. And your s being silver and black and having colors like hot pink and gold. If you had things like that it meant that you had a once in a millennia kind of love. So you can see why I was both excited and nervous. Not to mention the fact that I had to see my beshert to know him. My biggest fear was that I wouldn't find him for years.

I heard a car horn and knew it was Viktoria ready to go. Lis and Chris already left so I was riding with Vika. I ran out and hopped in and greeted her with a hug and we were on out way.

Once we go there we met up with the others and got to home room. It was the normal first day crap and then we went to our first periods and so on until third. I was so not looking forward to this.