Written the Romance Awareness Challenge for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments)
Prompts:
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Word Count: 1, 551
Dominique Weasley.
It was written elegantly around her right wrist, the loop of the D and the curve of the W made Delphi trace a finger them. She counted her lucky stars to have both the first and last name of her soulmate at this time of age. The time on the back of her left hand had a timer: 13:45:9:35:09. She had seen others before her struggle to figure out who their soulmates with just their first names run against the clock as it tick-tocked on by. There had been a few rare cases like her own, where the first and last name were stamped on their right wrist written all pretty like and very easy to access to, now with the internet and all.
She turned her attention back to her laptop and her finger hovered over her pad, indecisiveness lingered in the back of mind. The moment her timer and soulmate's name appeared she had been saving up as much money as she could to fly over to London. The plane was pricey, a nice hotel was pricey, and Delphi simply didn't have the funds to take care of both. The money that she had saved up in the past year was barely enough to afford the plane!
She had thirteen months, 45 days, nine hours, thirty-five minutes and now 4 seconds before the inevitable happened and they both suffered a slow death. There was no pressure at all as she clicked out of the plane tickets and she opted to go back to the girl's Facebook page. Delphi took in the strawberry blond hair and the freckles and the blue eyes and her bright smile that made her smile too. Dominique came from a big family and a model as a mother and a banker as a father; she had an older sister that had found her soulmate, who happened to be her childhood best friend, another rarity; and a brother that was too young to have a timer and name of his soulmate.
A hand went through her black hair and she held it up in the air as her other hand moved the mouse towards the Send Friend Request. Thankfully the profile was often used sometimes to share memes and those test to describe your personality. Her own page was lacked activity and there were a few pictures of herself here and there, every two months or so. Her profile picture was of her holding out her phone looking very serious at the camera, her hair all to one side, wearing a white tank top, and a barely visible bracelet over her soulmate's name.
She leaned back in her chair as she pondered if she should take another picture with Dominique's name written on her wrist before she thought better of it.
One step at the time.
Dominique flopped onto her bed and turned on her back as she reached for her phone and took it off its charger. She powered it on and watched as it took its long process of turning on before her lock screen pop up with her, Victoire, and Louis all mush together with the biggest smiles on their faces. She smiled softly at the picture as she put in her password and immediately checked her social media accounts.
The moment she had gotten her soulmate's name: Delphini and her timer, she spent most of her time searching for her. There hadn't been awaken hour before today where Dominique wasn't on her computer or phone searching for her soulmate. Surprisingly there were a lot of Delphinis in the world and each picture she seen didn't scream soulmate and when she decided to push her luck, each girl said that Dominique wasn't written on her wrist.
Finally, her family had enough of her obsessing and Victoire had promptly removed the phone out of her hand as her dad and brother took the computer out of her room. She protested loudly and pointed out that she needed to find her soulmate or else but they had counterclaimed that she had thirteen months to look, one day off wasn't going to hurt. So they took her out, they went shopping, watched a movie, and ate out. Dominique grudgingly admitted that she had a great time but she proudly pointed out that nine hours of her timer were gone. Victoire rolled her eyes and handed her phone but to Dominique's horror, it had died so she had to charge it. While it charged, she decided to have family game night with them and forgot about her phone for another two hours.
She checked Instagram first then Twitter, Tumblr, Snap chat, and she finally came to Facebook. Dominique had a few notifications from her friends and extended family and her mother tagging her in the many pictures that they took. She had four messages that she guesses were from her friends and Lucy, who refused to get another social media other than Facebook. The friend request had one icon and Dominique felt her heart jump in her throat. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes for a second before she opened them and clicked on it.
Delphini Riddle sent you a friend request.
Her eyes widen and Dominique let out a scream of excitement. She covered her mouth with her hand as she stared at it for a moment not quite believing her eyes. Just as she was going to click accept, her door opened with a bang and she jumped at the sound. Her father and mother were staring at her with concern and she smiled sheepishly at them.
"Are you okay?" Her mother asked.
"We heard you scream," her dad said.
"Uh, yeah, It's just my soulmate just sent me a friend request," Dominique said as she showed them her phone.
Her father slumped against the doorway relieved that there was nothing wrong with his daughter as her mother squealed herself and hurried to the side of the bed.
"Who is she?" Her mother asked.
"Delphini Riddle," Dominique said, as she accepted the friend request and click on the girl's profile.
She was gorgeous and Dominique felt her mouth go dry. "Oh, how is this fair? She's too beautiful!"
"You're beautiful too, sweetie," her mom said, as she kissed Dominique's forehead.
"Inbox her," Her dad suggested it.
Dominique numbly allowed her dad's suggestion and went on messenger.
Dominique: Hello.
Three dots appeared.
Delphini: Hi
Dominique: If you don't mind me asking. . .
Dominique: Are you my soulmate?
Delphini: Unless there's another Dominique Weasley out there, then yes.
Dominique blinked and turned to her mother. "She has both my first and last name!"
"Ask for a picture," Her mom said.
Dominique: Can I have a picture.
They waited for what seemed like forever before Delphini sent a picture. Sure enough, there right on her right wrist was Dominique Weasley. She and her mother squealed as she started typing.
Dominique: Omg this is great :D!
Delphini: :)
Dominique: We should meet up right away! Where do you live?
Three dots appeared before disappearing a minute or two passed before three dots appeared again. Dominique frowned slightly wondering what was wrong.
Delphini: About that, I live in the States.
"She's an American," her mother noted.
"How are we supposed to meet now?" Dominique sulked
Her mother and father exchanged looks before her dad started talking.
"Tell her that we'll cover the expenses for her to come over."
Dominique: My parents said that they will pay for the expenses.
Delphini: Tell them not to worry about that with my next paycheck I'll be able to get a plane ticket.
"Hm. . .I like her already," her dad joked, as he read the last message.
"Dad!" Dominique scoffed, turning to hit him.
Delphini: but. . . I won't be able to afford to stay at a hotel or anything like that.
"Stay in a hotel?" Her mother said, she was already shaking her head. "We have plenty of room, tell her she can stay here and just tell us when she's flying over.
Dominique: My mom absolutely refuses you to stay at a hotel anyway, we have plenty room at my house, you can stay here.
Delphini: Are you sure?
Dominique: Positive.
Delphini: Alright, I'll let you know when I'm flying over.
Dominique: Great!
Two weeks later, Delphini stepped off of the plane and walked around the airport. She had a duffle bag on her shoulder and a suitcase rolling behind her as she searched for strawberry blonde hair in a sea of people.
"Delphi!"
The dark-haired girl turned her head to the sound of her name and a smile graced her lips as she saw Dominique hopping up and down waving at her, behind her was her family, her older sister rolling her eyes. She walked over to her and as she pulled the girl into a hug, their timers went off blinking and chiming in harmony. The airport was too loud for anybody else to hear it but they didn't mind.
