The Thing About Soulmates || Tony Stark

The Voices

In eleventh grade, you learned the third, and final thing, that you needed to know about soulmates. 

October 15, 1990 - 11:23 a.m.

"During someone's lifespan, there are little check points on their timeline," the teacher began. 

"Your birth would be the first one, and your death, the last one. But in between those points, there are millions of other things that you experience- your first steps, the birth of your siblings, meeting your best friend, etcetera, etcetera."

"And out of all of your experiences, most of them will have to do with your soulmate. For example, how many of you have learned something about soulmates in school that has helped you find yours?" she paused, looking around the room for hands; about seven were raised. 

"See, now for the seven of you, those moments will be on your timeline." Some kids began to shake their heads in agreement.

"Yes, Kevin?" Mrs. Pigeon asked to the boy with his hand held high.

"What if we haven't met our soulmates?" he questioned, continuing after receiving a confused glance from the teacher, "Like what if we haven't met our soulmates yet but we still used something we learned. Would it be on our timelines then?"

"Of course," she answered, "anything that you learn now that helps you in the future will be on your timeline."

"And since most of you still haven't met your significant other, I think this lesson will play a big role in your lives," she smirked, making the teens even more confused than they were before.

"Today, you will be learning the last element that soulmates share. First you learned you could not lie. Then you learned about soulmate marks, and finally, you will be learning about the psychological bond you and your soulmate share."

You heard gasps all around you, students amazed at how powerful soulmates could be over their significant other. 

"Mrs. Pigeon?"

"Yes, [Y/N]?" she replied.

"How come we haven't already felt the bond?" you wondered, genuinely curious. If we had a bond, I could help him through his pain every night. 

"That's a great question, [Y/N]. You haven't been able to feel the bond because the bond doesn't form until you are eighteen."

"I'm eighteen," a senior shouted from the back, "Where's my bond?"

"Have you already found your person, James?"

"Yes," the boy, James, answered, confusion clear in his voice.

"Then you will not form the bond. The bond has rules and conditions, and if one of them is not able of being followed, then the bond will not form."

Mrs. Pigeon turned around to write on the board, implementing that we should start writing as well. When she was finished writing, she moved out of the way so everyone could see them.

The words written against the chalkboard erupted groans out of some of your fellow students.

"Now, now children. I know some of you are disappointed, but would you rather have already met your soulmate or formed a bond that would break when you met them anyway?" The question seemed to shut everyone up.

"As you can see, there are only two rules that go along with this special bond. First, you must be eighteen," she paused to turn around and grab a worksheet off of her desk. "And since most of you are still seventeen, you have some time to go."

"The second rule is that you must not have met your soulmate. If you have, then this bond will not form when you come of age," Mrs. Pigeon walked over to Bea, handing her the stack of papers. Knowing what she had to do, your best friend stood up and turned to you, sticking her bottom lip out in mock pout. All you did was shrug as she started to hand out the papers. 

"On the paper you'll be getting, it says everything that I'm going to say, so I thought I would save you the trouble of writing it down so you could actually listen and learn."

"The sheet says that if you meet both of the requirements, the bond will form. On the day of your eighteenth birthday, you will hear a voice in your head. But it won't just be any voice, it'll be your soulmates. For fifteen minutes everyday, you will have your soulmates thoughts in your head. The thoughts will come at any random time of the day, although many people believe that the universe specifically chooses the thoughts you hear," Mrs. Pigeon smiled.

"The farther away you are from your soulmate, the louder the thoughts will be. The same goes for vice-versa; the closer you are, the softer they will be. Now if you come within a five foot radius of your soulmate, the voices volume will be silent. But if you actually touch your soulmate, the thoughts will disappear permanently. And your soulmate won't know when you will be inside their head, so they will have no way of controlling them. It works the same way for you as well. Actually, if your soulmate is already eighteen, which is completely possible because of how old you are right now, they might be reading your thoughts at this very moment."

"Or not," she mumbled at all the worried faces, "the world will never know."

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Sorry that this chapter was mostly the teacher talking. I wasn't really sure how to convey this explanation so I decided to explain it through the teacher. Most of the other chapters won't be like this, I just need a way of explaining. 

And I didn't really get to edit this one, so goodluck.