~when you are born, you have different colored eyes. your right eye is your natural eye color and your left eye is the same color as your soulmates. when you meet your soulmate, your natural color takes over both of your eyes.
"Come on El!" Max yelled at her best friend. Ellie Hopper had always hated the mall since she was a young girl. She rolled her eyes and, reluctantly, let Max drag her into the tall building. Max smirked knowing that she had finally won and El just rolled her eyes.
Starcourt Mall was the main hang out place for the teens of Hawkins, Indiana. Max normally didn't like the mall either, but today she was trembling with excitement. She had finally met her soulmate, Lucas Sinclair, and they were going on their first date later that night. Of course, she needed a cute new outfit for one of the nights she would remember for the rest of her life. El was of course happy for her red-headed friend, but she couldn't help but long for her eyes to be changed to their natural color. She wanted to be normal, but there was a bigger reason, she wanted to find her soulmate.
"Oooooohhh!" Max drug El up to a store window and El just stood there, envy evident in her eyes. El had a few crushes in her lifetime, but they had always found their soulmates before she'd have the chance to even talk to them. She sighed as she was deep in her thoughts, bringing her hands to her face, attempting to prevent tears from rolling down her cheeks. Failing, she stood in the middle of the mall, hands on her face, now sobbing.
Max was too caught up in the outfits in the tiny store to notice, so she took off for the bathrooms, not daring to look up. She was almost to the bathrooms, when something suddenly stopped her, well someone.
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Mike Wheeler was your average teenager: tall and lanky, with beautiful dark brown, curly locks. He had two beautiful eyes, but were still, unfortunately, two different colors. Mike has still not found his soulmate, but he knew she has to be beautiful.
"Broooooo," Mike looked up from the ground and turned his attention to his friends, guessing he must have been lost in thought again,"So, are you in?"
"I'm sorry I wasn't paying attention. In for what?" Lucas rolled his now perfectly matched eyes and inhaled deeply.
"Dude! You never listen anymore! Ugh, we were talking about going to the mall later so I can get an outfit for my date tonight." Mike sighed and shook his head yes.
"Yes!" Lucas started his personal victory dance and Mike lightly chuckled at his friend. He must really be excited for tonight. He hasn't done that since we won our first D & D campaign... six years ago. Mike thought to himself and smiled slightly at his friend's happiness, but there wasn't only happiness for his friend. Of course he was happy for the boy, Max was great, but he longed for what they have. Their soulmate.
They all walked along the street and eventually came to a building with the words Starcourt Mall written in huge, pink letters. They walked in and stopped at a few stores on their way to the foodcourt, but Mike didn't really pay attention to anything as he was lost in his train of thought. He left all the clothes advice to Will and Dustin, well mainly Will because all Dustin cared about was getting to the foodcourt.
"Mike! Mike! Earth to Mike!" He looks again and sees the three boys staring at him again. "Sorry guys, but I'm bored, so I'm just going to walk around for a while." Mike walked quickly out of the store, ignoring his friends protests. He made it down the mall a bit and slowed his walking to a stroll, keeping his eye's fixed on the ground.
Once again, he is taken from his thoughts, but this time it was by a girl around his age, crying. He furrowed his eyebrows and stopped her from walking, almost as an instinct. The young girl kept her eyes on the ground and mumbled a sorry before beginning to take off again.
Before Mike could even think, he grabbed her hand before she could run away. He didn't know why, but something just told him to. She took her other hand away from her face and looked into his eyes.
Before they could even say anything, their eyes slowly began to transform their natural color. The young girl, El, gasped in realization, as Mike just stared at her in disbelief. They both unconsciously begin to lean in, their now natural eyes finally look away from each other and move to the other's lips. They share a small kiss and pull away with the biggest smiles on their faces.
"You have beautiful eyes." Mike says, making El giggle.
Yep, they are definitely soulmates.
