While Andy may have been smart enough to leave his soulmate a note the night before, it seemed that he'd lost his braincells overnight when he woke up in a small bedroom with sunlight streaming down on his face. For almost a full second he was filled with panic, until he remembered that it was his eighteenth birthday and yeah, this was normal, he was supposed to be in a stranger's house. Although, upon closer inspection of the trophies, it didn't seem to be a stranger after all. All of them were from competitions from the general Bremin area, there were even a few Bremin High-specific ones, and a small voice in the back of his mind told Andy that he knew damn well who this was. It also told him that he was lucky.
He remembered what his nai nai had told him about his parents. How his mum had woken up in Singapore and nearly freaked out, thinking that the past five years of living in Australia had been a dream. How his dad had woken up in Australia and been freaked out by the fact that there was a kangaroo right outside the bedroom's sliding doors. Since his mum used to live in a pretty rural area, that was nothing new, but to his dad, who'd been raised in the city, it was everything but.
Yes, Andy was lucky that it was someone from Bremin. It wasn't lucky that it was Jake Riles. Because, based on the trophies, there was no one it could be apart from Bremin's golden boy. Every coach's favourite. Even Bates seemed to like him more than the average student. But that might have something to do with the rumour that he and Sarah Riles were dating. It was quite the scandal. People over eighteen didn't date. Why would they when they already had a soulmate.
Andy continued looking through the collection of sports paraphernalia on the dresser while imagining a future with Jake Riles of all people. Maybe a good first step would be to just start thinking of him as Jake. Yes, that was nice. Jake. For some reason Jake's existence suddenly calmed him, when it used to do the opposite. Jake and Sam Conte and all their friends used to strike fear in his heart. But now that he and Jake were soulmates, maybe Jake could get them to back off for a bit.
Yeah, that would be nice. Just he and Jake against the world. Bremin's biggest nerd and Bremin's biggest jock, taking on life together. Andy could get used to that. He couldn't wait to tell his family all about it. Would they be happy? Would they be sad? He had no control over who his soulmate was, they knew that, but nai nai had been so happy when she found out that his mum's family was from Singapore too.
Well, that was a problem for tomorrow.
Or maybe a little later.
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There's A Line
Fanfictie//polyam nb\\ Jake Riles had expected to wake up in his soulmate's bedroom on his eighteenth birthday, of course he had, it's just that he'd also expected to wake back up in his own bedroom the next day. But based on the black curtains he was facing...
