Hi! I have a multitude of excuses none of which are important right now. This oneshot is based of a prompt from imagine your OTP which is this sick tumblr with all these great prompts.
Prompt:
What if your OTP lived in a universe where whenever someone touches their soulmate for the first time they get a matching tattoo in that spot.
Disclaimer: I literally own nothing.
There are lucky ones out there, ones who start with a handshake or a high five. Ones that are left with a small multicolored heart tattooed on their wrist or palm. And then there's us.
It started at the local pool on a warm sunny day in the summer. Although most days in Retroville were humid and disgustingly warm, it was one of the rare occasions where a dip in the pool was not nearly as comfortable as laying out to tan.
However there was a certain risk to this kind of skin exposure in a public area. Somewhere over the course of human development, a gene was inserted into our DNA. Some think a mad scientist did it, others believe it's just God's way of leading us down the right path. I think it's a load of horseshit. Basically it plays on the age old belief that everyone has one specific soulmate, someone they're meant to spend the rest of their lives with. When you first make physical contact with your one true love you're both branded for life in that spot. Namely with a small heart shaped tattoo, colored with you and your sweets eye colors, and engraved with your initials. It's completely painless and that's what lead people to believe it was some other force behind it all. These tattoos were more like birthmarks than anything else if we're being honest.
Either way being out in public was a little bit terrifying which explained the lack of people at the pool. Humans had evolved out of being social purely because they were afraid of accidentally bumping into their soulmate and not realizing it until they were far away in their homes. I mean can you imagine the horror? You look down at your hand and there it is! But which mysterious stranger could it be!
In case you couldn't tell I'm being sarcastic. Yes I would prefer to know exactly who my soulmate is but I'm not going to exile myself out of fear. I'm just really very careful when I go out in public. Except for right now. Because right now I'm about ten seconds away from slamming into a rather angry looking blonde who's getting out of the water.
"Watch where you're going!" And now she's shouting in my face. Lovely.
"Aw I'm so sorry princess! Did I ruin your majestic exit from the water?" I sneered irritated at her.
"I am not a princess you jackass!" She angrily flicked her hair out of her face with her hand. It was already starting to dry on the ends and was curling prettily. Admittedly she was very attractive. Long blonde hair, pale skin coated with freckles, blazing green eyes that matched the green polka dots of her bathing suit.
"Are you gunna move or are you going to keep ogling at me?" She said with her hands on her hips.
"Well you are rather attractive so I think I might just sit and stare at you." I answered crouching into a fake squat.
Instead of charming her, like I had assumed it as would I am a rather charming male, it only irritated her more. She marched passed me shoving me roughly in the shoulder as she went. And then it happened.
You're not supposed to feel anything. The only ones who really feel something are the ones who are genuinely destined to be together for life. But I felt a tingle and judging by the way she stopped walking she felt it too.
And there it was. Not even ten seconds later. Just below my collar bone, right above my armpit. A small green and blue heart with the initials JN and CV in elegant script.
"Well shit."
