Audrey Snow was peacefully sleeping in her queen sized bed until her alarm clock went off. Normally she would've groaned and set the snooze button but unusually, immediately sat upright with a big grin on her face.
Today was the day that all her hard work was put to use. She is a professional artist and today was the opening of her own gallery which contained almost 65 paintings that she made from the day she learned how to paint. She was excited for this already but more excitement came for today she would meet her soul mate.
You see, she was given a very special gift when she was a child from her grandmother. She was given a watch that had a countdown of when she would meet her soul mate. Whoever gets a hold of the watch would get a countdown of when that person would meet her soul mate. There was a time that her countdown almost ended when she was eighteen but she got in an accident riding her bicycle that the watch reset. She cried for almost three days with everyone assuming that she was crying about the accident and scars she got, little did everyone know that she was crying because she missed the chance to meet her soul mate.
She checked her watch and it displayed: 00:00:00:05:14:28
She checked her phone and a small smile set on her face when she saw a message from one of her best friends, Cher.
Cher: Good luck on your big day! ;)
Audrey: Thaaanks :D You're coming right?
Cher: Of course! Me and Jazz will go together and we'll meet you there :)
p.s. You wouldn't mind me bringing Feli right?
Audrey: Of course not! What about Jazz? Will she bring anyone?
Cher: I'm not so sure. I haven't talked with her yet about it.
Audrey: Oh ok. I'll ask her :)
She texted Jazz, another one of her best friends.
Audrey: Hey Jazz! Are you bringing anyone to the gallery today?
Jazz: Nope. Allistor's busy today... I heard Cher's bringing Feli though...
Audrey: Oh ok. Thanks :)
And she went on with her usual morning routine but with a little more peppiness and went to the gallery.
-Time Skip-
Arthur was patiently 'queuing' for the entrance at this new gallery that had a premiere opening. He was supposed to meet Roderich here after being invited countless times claiming that the preview paintings were 'exquisite'. He and Roderich weren't that close but they learned that they could relate to something after all, so Roderich invited him. Elizaveta was probably busy and couldn't go with him. Arthur thought to himself.
At last he got in front of the queue and he handed his ticket to the man collecting it. He roamed around the gallery still wondering where the hell Roderich was at, but also admiring the beautiful paintings that were hung on the wall.
Audrey met up with Jazz, Cher, and Feliciano at the gallery and none of them could hide the excitement and they all complimented her paintings. There were times that Cher and Jazz would make jokes about some of her painting but nevertheless she enjoyed her time with them.
"Wow Audrey! These paintings are great! One day we should open up our own gallery with our paintings collaborated." Feliciano said.
"Aww thanks, Feli. And I would love to open our own gallery someday." Audrey replied.
Audrey couldn't get any happier that the premiere opening of her gallery was a success and the tickets were sold out. She checked her watch it read: 00:00:00:00:03:57. She excused herself from her friends that she would talk to some of the guests and excitedly walked around her gallery.
Arthur was busy on his phone trying to contact Roderich. Where is that man? He's almost an hour late and he's missing the paintings! Arthur thought.
He decided to stop calling for a while and typed out a message instead:
Arthur: Where the bloody hell are you?! The gallery opened an hour ag-
He didn't realize that he was walking while texting until another body collided with his and their foreheads hit each other.
Arthur was about to say something rude until he opened his eyes and saw a beautiful girl with black hair and slightly thick eyebrows with her eyes closed and her hand rubbing her forehead.
Arthur snapped out of his daydream with the beautiful stranger and helped her get up.
He helped the girl up and both of them said "I'm so sorry!"
The girl couldn't help but giggle that they apologized at the same time. That giggle is probably the most angelic thing I've heard in my life. Arthur thought.
"I'm sorry for bumping into you I wasn't looking where I was going. My apologies Ms...? Arthur said.
"Snow. Audrey Snow." A beautiful name to put on a beautiful face. Arthur thought to himself.
"Oh... So you're the owner of this gallery? Compliments to the artist behind these paintings"
"Thanks. My apologies too Mr...?"
"Kirkland. Arthur Kirkland."
"Mr Kirkland. I am so sorry for bumping into you I wasn't paying attention to where I was going."
"Call me Arthur. It's fine Ms. Snow. To apologize, may I take you for some tea?" Arthur said with much confidence.
"If you're going to let me call you Arthur I think it's alright if I let you call me Audrey. And yes. I would love some tea. I just need to get my things and I'll be right back" Audrey replied.
"Sure. Take your time. I'll wait here." Arthur said.
It was when she walked away to her office when she realized that her watch had been beeping for the last five minutes.
Roderich - Austria
Elizaveta - Hungary
