Teruhashi stared at her blank wrist, while others were fawning over their marked wrists.
Normally, when people were born they would have a sentence or more of words and that would be the first thing that their soulmate said to them.
Teruhashi however has always had nothing.
Throughout her life she thought that it was because no one was worthy of her.
She later learned to stop thinking about it and move on with her life, because she could have anyone, she often thought.
People have even offered to leave their soulmates to be with her.
So over the years the thoughts of soulmates slipped her mind and she focused on perfecting her perfect pretty girl persona.
It was not until later in life that she found herself lying in bed with tears glistening in her eyes and hand clutching her blank wrist, that she found herself wishing she has Saiki's first words that he said to her on her wrist.
Saiki looked down at his wrist the words "Saiki, hi. I couldn't help but notice you look sad" and sighed.
He still could not understand why that annoying girl was his soulmate.
When he heard Teruhashi speak those words, he refused to believe that arrogant girl was his soulmate but it was hard to deny facts.
At school Teruhashi found ahe could barely concentrating, her mind was busy fantasising about what it would be like to be Saiki's girlfriend and soulmate.
This was a fantacy becoming more common by the day.
Yumehara picked up on it quickly and every time she noticed that Teruhashi had zoned out she would nudge her until the other girl focused on the lesson again.
Yumehara got curious as to why Teruhashi was always zoning out quickly and decided to talk to her about it.
She managed to bring it up while out at a cafe together.
"hey Kokomi, something has been on your mind for a while now and I was wondering if you would share it with me" Yumehara nervously spoke.
Teruhashi hesitated before answering with "you know about my crush on Saiki?" arfter Yumehara nodded she continued "well I don't have a soulmate mark" she paused at this and looked up to meet the other girl's eyes expecting to see revulsion, only to be surprised to be met with a look of warmth and acceptance.
So she decided to continue "so I fantasise about if me and Saiki were soulmates" Teruhashi confessed.
And to the surprise to the blue haired girl Yumehara squealed and blurted out "how romantic" in a dreamy voice.
Teruhashi was surprised by the other girls reaction, "you aren't disgusted by me?" she said in a soft timid voice.
Yumehara was shocked "No! Of course not! I know other people are freaked out by it but personally, I don't think whether or not a person has a soulmate defines them"
Teruhashi was in shock and she found that tears had crept down her cheeks without her knowledge.
After many, many talks with Yumehara, Teruhashi decided to get closer to Saiki.
This time she did not use the excuse of wanting him to say "oh, wow", instead she just wanted to get to know him better.
At school Saiki was surprised by Teruhashi's sudden flip.
But he was happy to stop having to hear her weird fantasies about him.
Until she started talking to him even more.
The guys at Saiki's school began to notice that Teruhashi has paying more attention to the pink haired boy than to them, and of course grew jealous.
Which ment more attention on Saiki, which ment an annoyed psychic.
Over time Teruhashi began to drop the perfect pretty girl act around Saiki.
Teruhashi was curious as to what was on Saiki's wrist and began to form plans to be able to get a glimpse, but unknown to her Saiki heard every single one of her plans through his telepathy.
So she grew frustrated as all her plans failed, miserably.
When his parents saw Saiki's mood was more annoyed than usual they were concerned.
So Saiki explained the situation with Teruhashi, and unfortunately they found it adorable and romantic.
Which, of course only made Saiki's frustration grow.
When Teruhashi's plans had calmed down, Saiki decided to wear his germanium ring to block his telepathy.
But unfortunately for him it was exactly the wrong day to do it.
While Saiki was changing for physical education, the room seemed weird.
Just as he just got his school shirt off a group of Teruhashi's fanboys came out of nowhere and ripped off his cuff, they took a picture of the inside of his wrist and ran away before Saiki could react.
But when he finally realised what just happened all he could think was "crap".
When Teruhashi received the picture she was overwhelmed.
The words were the first words she had said to Saiki she realised with a beaming smile on her face.
But then she felt guilty, he had not told her, she had to force it from him.
She began to regret her actions, she had assumed that there was no chance of someone that did not want to be with her.
But since he had her words and did not tell her did that not suggest that he did not want to be with her.
After she quietly apologised, Teruhashi began to avoid Saiki.
And soon enough he was the only thought on her mind.
Once again she found herself in bed with a river of tears begging to know why she does not have his words on her skin.
At this point Saiki was fed up, while he would normally be ecstatic because Teruhashi is leaving him alone but right now he finds himself getting frustrated by her new attitude towards him.
He decided to be direct.
Saiki waited outside school at the back exit, the place he knows that Teruhashi has recently started leaving through.
He only had to wait for five minutes until she appeared.