Us

You always said you didn't believe in fate, you were apparently the reasonable one.

No matter how much you talk about magic and fictional creatures, fate was fake. Relationships weren't written in the stars, they happened by an awkward move forward. That's how I landed myself here.

It was lunch and everything was lively. Rows of uniformed students sit at the lunch table inside the huge ancient cafeteria. Every so often a comment from some of the loudest students will be heard, it's not like you would know. You've never stepped foot in the cafeteria. You always said that cafeterias were horrendous, I think you watch too much movies where food fights break in the cafeteria.

Nevertheless I walk to the little spot in the library that we've called our hide out since freshman year. Your dirty blonde hair sparkles from the sunlight coming from the tall window to the side of you. Your perfect green eyes are scanning a book curiously, probably deciding whether or not to read the thick book.

"You're staring again, Alfred." Arthur mumbles without even looking at me. I smile and sit down next to him, trying to get up the nerve to ask him.

I stare around me, it was the perfect place. We were in a place we both grew to love, despite the smell of old books. The long wooden bookshelves that seemed to go on for miles and then window lighting up the corner where we both sit and daydream.

I stare down at his arm. It still hasn't healed completely. The strap where your watch used to be is till as pale as ever, it's been three years since our watches have gone off but nothing has changed like I wanted it to.

All I've ever wanted was to find the one, you but you didn't believe in the one. You refused to accept that I was your soulmate, and I refused to fall in love with you, at first. But everything you did was addicting, the way you smiled whenever I tried to make you laugh, the way you spoke about rights, and most of all the way you looked at me.

I know looking at me isn't a big deal but something about you noticing me, someone you never wished for and accepting me is all I've ever wanted… other than you.

"Arthur… do you remember what it was like before everything was in color?" I ask, I know Arthur didn't believe in fate but us meeting, written in the stars lovers it changes us. Before Arthur my life was grey and just that first time seeing him across him hall my everything was in color. Filled with thousands of unexplainable colors.

Arthur looks up from his book, looking curiously at me "It's not like you forget everything from your past once your clock stops, of course I remember, why ?"

" … I guess after our clocks stopped everything changed for me, and as much I want to deny what is happening and my feelings for you, I can't stand not being with you. To kiss you, to be your soulmate." I stare at Arthur, waiting for him to say something, anything, but all he does is freeze.

I sigh, I knew this was going to happen. Confessing and all of the denial I've held for years has been emptied in the span of 15 seconds and I can never erase them. Soon everything in my life will become terrible, I would never be able to talk to Arthur again and once he regrets me my vision will return to gray and the beauty of the color around me will soon disappear.

I stand up from where I sat on the floor, and start to walk away. My life isn't a fantasy, and Arthur wouldn't come after me confessing that he has loved me since the day we met. Instead I was hit in the head from the heaviest book in the history of the world.

I turn around to see only Arthur staring at me like he was about to kill me if I moved from my place in front of him. "You're a complete idiot, why don't you give me time to talk before you leave?!"

I stare at him in awe, trying to comprehend why he stopped me and why he was acting so strange, he never got angry. "… But Soulmates…"

Arthur looks at me sharply but blushes soon after and breaks eye contact to stare at the window. "I've realized that just like all great romances in plays and novels our relationship was written in the stars, and no matter how much I want to go in denial or go against my beliefs. The universe, fate has given me the best thing in the world, you."C

A Cute little one shot for you \\\\ It's the start of the Pages, I hope you liked it! Most Oneshots will be sweet and short, just a quick read for you to get all happy and sad in a matter of seconds. I update every Friday since I publish these stories every Thursday on my Instagram!

xoxo, beret 101