SOULMATES

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Scorpius and Cassiopeia were dismissed after a short evaluation of what they did inside the library. Being the good girl that Cassiopeia is, she told the disciplinary officer that Madam Maxime, the librarian, had to close the library early and most of their time was spent in the lakeside. Officer Dawson shrugged his head in disappointment but let them go. It is not like he can do something about it. The said officer just dismissed and told them to go back the next day, for another work.

Beaubaxton School is a non-sectarian academy which focuses on the three major points: The Arts, The Sciences and The Literatures. Like any Scottish schools around, the co-ed school mentioned comes with a dorm for foreign students who wish to improve their artistic and thinking skills.

Cassiopeia Ara Parker came from Manchester, United Kingdom who came to Beaubaxton School in Scotland. Her parents were pair of soulmates who met at the same school. She had to rent a room in the ladies'dormitory and be away from her family.

The young lady did not realize that studying in Beaubaxton is difficult – she had to be away from home, and stay with her foes, Corvus Zabini and Daphne Patil.

Getting in trouble is not listed in her to-do list. That is why she is known as the school's good girl. She has straight As; she reads books, studies hard and makes her mama proud.

Corvus destroyed her image – her almost perfect image. Daphne destroyed her morals, and their friendship, Cassiopeia wished she did not offer her help to her the first day they met at Beaubaxton.

Cassiopeia Parker cannot wait until she leaves the school and enter a university as a scholar.

Lathering her hair with her favorite strawberry-scented shampoo, the girl glanced at her left wrist. She felt guilty at the slightest, forgetting all about her soulmate when with Scorpius, her enemy's close friend.

She immediately grabbed a pen right after she was done with her bath. She sat down and turned on the lamp beside her bed.

"Your soulmate is wondering if her pair is still awake," she wrote down her pale wrist. Opening her current read, The Catcher in the Rye, the youngster waited for her pair to reply.

Reading a few lines from the said book, she looked down to her wrist, seeing that he finally replied, "And your soulmate wondered where his pair had been the whole afternoon, not replying to his messages."

Cassiopeia felt the bile from her stomach rise up to her throat, threatening to be spilled. She wiped the message written in her wrist, making enough room for her reply.

"Your soulmate says she had a busy afternoon at class, listening to her lecturers'demands. Your solemate apologizes," Cassiopeia felt a kick in her gut when she lied.
"Okay, okay. Let's cut being formal, yeah?" a smile crept into her face upon seeing his reply.
"Okay then, how was your afternoon?" she felt like talking so comfortably with this man she knows nothing about.
The girl blushed slightly, contemplating at his response, "Too much trouble for a day. But, please do not ask about it. Just tell me anything about yourself."
"Why?"
"What do you mean why? I am your soulmate, I have the right to get to know my pair, have I not?" Cassiopeia swore not to ask questions such as why again. This man is highly agreeable, and yes, he has all the right to get to know his soulmate.