Raphael had always just thought that he didn't have a soulmate. After decades and decades of not getting there scars or pain from soulmates, you start to lose hope. Simon was never a believer in soulmates. I mean after all he had never felt the sudden pain or got random scars from his soulmate so how would he know what it is like. That is where our story begins the midway point between these two nonbelievers and their findings of each other.