symbol | h.s

three

I strolled through the school's parking lot, freshman running towards their parents' cars, juniors and seniors crowding the front entrance of the school like they dominated the place. Stupid, I know. I pulled out my keys from my back pocket, messing around with the buttons on the remote before unlocking it.

I smiled in content as I opened the back door and threw in my backpack along with my phone. 

"Imani!" I jumped at the voice, quickly turning around to be met with Astrid. 

"You have to stop doing that," I placed my hand over my heart, "You scared me." 

Astrid rolled her eyes, tossing her backpack into the back seat along side mine, walking towards the other side of the car. 

I shut the car door, opening up the driver's door and jumping in, eyeing Astrid. 

"You got gas money?" I raised my eyebrow at her as I pushed the button to start up the car. Astrid let out a sigh as she reached in the back seat, moving things around in her backpack before pulling out twenty dollars and throwing it at me.

"You couldn't of handed it to me?" I scoffed, "I'm being nice here and driving your ass home so you don't have to walk." 

Astrid let out a laugh as I pulled out of the parking spot, trying my best to get out of the cramped place.

High school was genuine hell and I am sure anyone could agree, unless you enjoyed school and were insane. Starting high school, I had this image in my head that it would be the best four years of my life just like everyone had told me but I was wrong because it wasn't. 

The moment I entered high school, everyone was worried about their symbol and just their symbol. It was the only thing you would hear people talking about in the hallways. I wanted to graduate and get out of this hellhole. It was the only thing I had going for me besides Harry potentially being my soulmate. 

I drove through the neighborhood before pulling up beside my house, turning the car off. I reached for my bag in the back seat and opened the door. 

"Can we get pizza?" Astrid asked, catching up beside me while I walked towards the front door.

"Yeah, you order it," I turned the key in the lock, opening up the door to be greeted with a hug of cold air. 

"I'm gonna go change," I headed up towards the stairs, earning a small 'okay!' from Astrid before disappearing into my bedroom. I lied, I wasn't going to change. I grabbed my laptop from my desk and jumped onto my bed, typing in my password and logging on. 

I opened Google and typed in 'symbol soulmate cases', clicking the first link that came up. I scrolled through the page as my eyes skimmed over the stories, none referring to their wrist stinging nor burning.

I let out a loud groan as I fall back onto the bed, rubbing my eyes in frustration. Why was this shit so difficult? Especially for me, why couldn't it be easy, why does everything always have to be complicated for me? I didn't get it, I tried too but I just didn't. I guess that's what irritated me the most. 

I looked down towards my wrist, watching the small symbol intently before it flickered. "What the fuck," I stood up, staring at it, hoping that maybe it'll flicker again or maybe burn but nothing came after that, just a blank drawing implanted on my wrist that caused me so much frustration and anger. 

"Stupid fucking symbol," I mumbled to myself, taking a glimpse of it once last time before pulling my blouse over my head, throwing it on the floor. I found a random t-shirt lying on the floor, reaching for it and throwing it on. 

"Imani, what's taking you so long?" Astrid barged into my room, both of us stopping our actions to stare at each other. Her eyes moved towards my bed, looking at the window that was open on my laptop screen.

"Are you serious?" She looked at me annoyed, letting out a long sigh.

"What?"

"This," She pointed to the symbol on her wrist, "This stupid fucking symbol, it's making you delusional to the point where you're looking this shit up and talking about it all the time." 

Her words slapped me across the face and as much as I wanted to deny it, she was right.

"Astrid-" She cut me off before I could start.

"No Imani, you're delusional," She walked towards me, "Why do you care so much, you're only an eighteen year old and a senior in high school, get over yourself and get over the fact that you aren't going to find out your soulmate anytime soon."

I stood there as I took in every word she poured out, not even realizing I was holding in my breath until I opened my mouth. 

"Are you going to say anything?" Astrid looked at me as she reached out to touch my arm, my body not even flinching at the contact.

"Get out." Was all I managed to say, moving away from her.

She stared at me for a few mores seconds, trying to read my face before walking out of my room, leaving me in my bedroom hurt and confused. 

Maybe I was letting this get to my head.

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i'm so sorry for this shitty chapter omg kfhsdkhsdiu i was so stumped on what to write so i kind of just winged it and wrote whatever i could. i hope you guys like it so far!! in the next chapter it will for sure include harry and will be longer than this!! <3