SIGNIFICANT OTHER • DANIEL SEAVEY

1.

Alex

"Alex, sweetie, are you really going to watch another season of the Vampire Diaries tonight?"

This is what happens every day, this is what my life has become. I can't even enjoy a day at home without my mom scolding my life choices. She keeps pestering me about finding my soulmate and it's really starting to get on my nerves. She keeps going on and on about me going out more instead of being locked in my room all weekend. What she doesn't understand though is that I have no one to go out with. All my friends have recently found their soulmates and the only thing they do is spend time with them. I get it, I really do, even though I haven't found mine yet. The first couple of weeks you just can't stay away from each other, you're falling in love. But is it so hard to just spend some time with other people as well? Especially your best friend.

"I was actually planning on watching Teen Wolf instead, why?"

My mom purses her lips and shakes her head at me.

"Why don't you go out with Melissa tonight? You haven't seen her in a while."

"That's because she's been busy with her boyfriend." I mutter, trying to not have my mom hear me but she does anyway.

"When you find your significant other, you will be like that as well hun, I remember-"

Here we go again. I can't even have a normal conversation with her anymore without her bringing up me not having a soulmate yet and her history with my dad. At this point, I don't even want to find him or her anymore. Why can't she just stop bothering me about it? When it happens, it happens right?

"Mom." I interrupt her, standing up from my bed. "I'm actually going to see if Mel is free tonight, like you said I haven't seen her in awhile so..."

I grab my backpack from the ground and put in all the necessaries, my phone, my charger, my wallet and some perfume. I look in the mirror and examine my outfit which consists of a simple white sweater and black flared jeans. I nod in agreement to my outfit and put on my white converse. After grabbing my black jean jacket from my bed I turn towards my mom, who's still standing in the doorway talking to me.

"Have a good night mom, I love you." I tell her before walking past her and down the stairs. I faintly hear her call something to me but I'm too busy rushing out of the house.

When I walk outside I'm immediately hit with a small autumn breeze. Even though it just turned October, the temperature in New York can dip pretty low. I regret not wearing a warmer jacket but continue walking anyway. I'm walking in no particular direction because I have no idea where I even want to go or what I want to do. I don't know if I want to go to Mel's right now since I haven't heard from her in a while. She met her soulmate, Nathan, two weeks ago when we went to a bar together and basically just left me there to go home with him. I know how it works with soulmates and I know that I'm probably going to be like that as well when I find mine, but it still hurts. It hurts just being treated like that by your best friend, just getting a couple messages during the week instead of meeting up almost everyday, and I actually can't imagine me being like that. I will always have time for my friends.

I make up my mind and decide that I'll just show up at Mel's house unexpected so she will have to make time for me. I don't care if Nathan is going to be there, I don't want to lose my best friend because of this stupid soulmate thing. She just lives a 15 minute walk away from me and without realising before, I actually already made my way down there. I can see her house in my view when I feel my phone vibrating in my pocket.

Melissa is calling - is showing on my screen and I press the green button to answer it. "Hey."

"Hey girl. How are you? Haven't heard from you in a while."

I roll my eyes because I'm annoyed that she's saying that but I still feel happy that she's finally calling me.

"I'm good, I'm actually in front of your house right now."

I hear her gasp and before I know it, the front door opens and Mel comes stumbling out. She throws her arms around me and hugs me while squeezing the life out of me.

"Oh my god, I missed you." she says while she finally releases me.

I smile at her and squeeze her arm looking into her now blue eyes. It will always feel weird to me not seeing her with one blue and one green eye. "I missed you too."

"I've just been so busy with Nathan, and he's been so amazing to me, I really want to spend some time with you two together, I have to properly introduce you guys but I'm so sorry we haven't met up in like two weeks, I miss our movie dates."

I shrug and awkwardly laugh. "It's okay, I mean soulmate stuff."

She laughs while she grabs my arm and drags me into her house. "Yeah but it's so amazing Alex, like I can't wait for you to find your soulmate, you're going to have so much fun with them, you just really belong together, me and Nathan we have so much in common-"

I zone her out and focus on the drink she just gave me. I haven't even been out of my house for half an hour and there's already another person pestering me about my soulmate. I mean, how do they even know I'm going to find them? If they are a good person? What if they committed multiple crimes? I know your soulmate is supposed to be your other half, your significant other, but there's just so many things that could go wrong.

"...and he gave me this ring when it was our two week anniversary yesterday, he's so happy I'm his soulmate and I totally feel the same about him, he's the best thing that's ever happened in my life. I can't wait for us to get married."

I laugh and shake my head at her. "You just met him two weeks ago Mel."

"So? We're soulmates, we're meant to be. Of course we're going to get married."

"Can we maybe talk about anything other than soulmates?" I sit down on her couch and look around for a bit. Nothing changed much expect there is already a picture of Mel and Nathan on the windowsill. I cringe on the inside before turning back to Mel.

"YES! Oh my god, that's why I was calling you. Gwen got me these tickets for a concert happening in the Radio City Hall tonight and I thought maybe we could go together? Like old times."

I look at the clock and see it's 4pm already so we would definitely have to leave soon. "Who is playing?"

"This band called Why Don't We, I heard a couple of their songs on the radio before and they're really good, really good looking as well." she gives me a wink which makes me laugh.

"Okay, sounds like fun. I'm not really dressed for a concert though."

She grabs my hand while running up the stairs. "I probably have something cute for you to wear, we still have time to change before we have to leave. Maybe we can grab a quick bite to eat before as well?"

"Yeah definitely, I missed you Mel." I smile.