Plato has Aristophanes present a story about soulmates. Aristophanes states that humans originally had four arms, four legs, and a single head made of two faces. It is said that humans had great strength at the time and threatened to conquer the god...
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Waking up to the sound of her loud alarm clock, she glanced at the calendar mounted on the crème-colored walls of her dorm room. It has been a week since the incident. A lot of things happened all throughout the whole week. She believed that it was the most depressing week at school, not because of the incident that happened at the classroom, but because of the school's trio not being active enough with their bullying to her.
It shocked Cassiopeia because it has been a week since she received a proper snarky remark or a disgusted face directed towards her coming from Corvus. Their class looked depressed enough – Corvus and his friends stopped bullying and making fun of Cassiopeia since last week, the class have no source of entertainment now.
She noticed that Corvus had been so silent after the incident happened, almost making her believe that he was sorry for what he had done to her and for all the nasty comments he spat at her. The said git looked so depressed – his hair unruly (like hers), bags under his eyes, his skin paler than ever – as if he has not been getting enough sleep for the whole week. Corvus cannot seem to focus in class either. His cheekbones and jaw looked sharper and more highlighted compared the day he emotionally attacked her; he was obviously not eating enough and was losing weight.
Not that Cassiopeia was complaining but, her body, mind and soul was readied to his remarks and violent reactions every single day. And that week, she was scared that Corvus will act like that this week, and then the next following week, he will stab her in her back without her knowing, planning more hurtful and embarrassing pranks for her.
Him not bullying her, made the girl more anxious than ever. Every time she walks back to her dorm room, she turns around to see if somebody is following her. He made her so paranoid!
Cassiopeia cannot help but be really happy and satisfied those seven days – she slept early with a relaxed body and mind. But waking up to her soulmate writing messages all over her arms made her almost mad at him for vandalizing her arms, not even bothering to read his messages (knowing that he will just be asking stupid questions about her and about mathematical functions and how to do the four basic operations on it), she steps into the shower to remove the ink seeping in her epidermis. She is not ready to talk to her soulmate, yet.
It has been exactly a week since the Corvus incident happened and she is mentally, physically and emotionally preparing herself to what is coming to her. She is thinking that maybe Corvus got tired of his depressed act and now he decided to go back to his usual attitude to her, she is preparing for his words and actions.
Entering the classroom, nobody looked at her, clapped for her and shouted Fuck the school system to her. This has been going on for a week. Most of her classmates were cowards – bunch of cowards. When Corvus and his friends are around and leading them in bullying, her classmates go after them and sides with him. But when Corvus is not there to command them, her classmates are like a flock of trembling birds around her. Because, they all know how good Cassiopeia is, especially with her bullet-like words and sharp-as-a-knife tongue. Cassiopeia's words can be very offending sometimes (and she often drops her words like a bomb with an emotionless face).
