Soulmark 《Spiderman》

6.) Ice Cream

I have found my soulmate.

My soulmate is a superhero.

A decently famous superhero.

An easily known symbol.

A symbol which is forever on my back shoulder.

A soulmark that I will never be able to uncover for my safety. This brings me to wonder what his soulmark looks like.

"Holy crap, your soulmate is a superhero! That's so freakin' cool!" Dylan shouts.

My eyes tear up. "Dylan! You know how long I've planned and dreamed of not having to wrap my soulmark up anymore?! I can never dream or think of doing that now?! I'd be targeted. You'd be targeted. Everyone close to me would be a target because I'm some superhero's soulmate!" I don't realize how loud my voice gets.

Dylan winces back, digging a finger in his ear to stop the ringing. "Good point!" he shouts.

My eyes widen. "No! I'm sorry! I-I didn't mean to..."

"It's fine!" His ears finally pop and his hearing returns to normal. "But, think of all the good things too. You're both heroes, both have powers, can protect each other, and... both love the Avengers?"

I let out a chuckle. "Yeah, alright. But, I'm not a hero yet and this still sucks."

"Fair enough. How about we go out to celebrate you finding your soulmate as well as to make up for never being able to show it off?" Dylan suggests.

"Ice cream?"

"What else is there?" He types into his phone for the nearest ice cream place. "Alright, got a hit. We can walk there from here."

"Good cause I really didn't feel like driving."

We get ready to go and head on down the block to the ice cream shop.

"Almost there, we can take a shortcut this way and get there quicker," Dylan says, turning to an alley.

I quirk an eyebrow. "Dylan, we aren't going down some creepy dark alley just to get to the ice cream place quicker. We're likely to get jumped."

Dylan scoffs. "Mel, we're mutants. We can take some measly thugs. Besides, I'm bulletproof proof, so I'll just hide you behind me if they have guns or knives. I'll protect you. And look, there's nobody in there."

I give him an annoyed look before chuckling. "I'm the big sister. I'm supposed to do the protecting."

"Then lead the way," he teasingly bows, gesturing to the alley.

I roll my eyes. "We're not allowed to use our powers either, you know this." I enter the alleyway, not hearing anything.

Dylan follows behind. "Yeah, yeah."

We head through the alley and get to the ice cream place, ordering our favorite flavors.

"I can't believe they don't have brown sugar!" I complain, taking a lick of my other favorite flavor, coffee ice cream.

"That's why you gotta go for the basic flavors," Dylan grins.

"Yeah, vanilla whoopty doo," I roll my eyes.

"Hey, vanilla is simple and it's good. Don't @ me."

"You're a dork." I chuckle before sighing.

"Funny coming from you," he retorts with a smug smirk. "Anyway, I still can't believe he's your soulmate. Are you gonna tell him? Does he already know? Aren't soulmates both supposed to click at the same time?"