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Warning for extreme fluff, and mentions of bullying. Word count is 2,305 words. I hope you all enjoy Schoolhood Soulmates.

The world was a cold grey place until I had met him. Teddy Lupin. The boy who had turned my grey world into one full of color. It may be odd to say that you met your soulmate during your childhood. But in my case, that is the truth.

A truth that I can't help but think about as I stand here with my mother getting ready to marry the love of my life. My soulmate. My best friend.

We'd met at the tender young age of six years old. Which in a world where all you could see was grey and varying shades of white and black until you met your soulmate was interesting. Guessing at colors was always a fun task in pre-school and kindergarten. Especially when your teacher had found her soulmate and you hadn't.

But I digress from the story that I was trying to tell you. I had been six years old at the time when Teddy and I first met. It had been his first day at kindergarten. He had been held back a year in school because of his parents' sudden illness and death. The school board didn't want to take any chances of Teddy carrying the illness upon him and causing a pandemic to break out. So, he'd been stuck at home with his dying parents and his grandmother.

He'd looked so scared and all alone when his grandmother, a rather stately woman had walked him into the classroom. I can remember it all as though it was yesterday and it very well may have been the way that I was feeling.

I had been dropped off early by my mother who was on her way to work. She worked as a tv news personality and had to be at work early for the afternoon news. They needed to get her into makeup, not that she actually needed any, and then give her the script to run through before air time.

My teacher a family friend, Miss Hermione, had told me to go unpack my things and that I could play with whatever I wanted until the other children started arriving. She usually allowed me to play until the other children arrived because she didn't think that I'd be interested in helping her around the classroom. Secretly I had found it to be a fun way to pass the time sometimes but I wouldn't have told her that.

But as the first few students started to arrive, I could see a child that I hadn't seen enter the school before. He was a rather small boy with what I would later learn was short blue-green hair that was styled in spikes upon his head. He was rather pale as though he'd never seen the sun in his entire life and he probably hadn't either. He was rather skittish around the other children who bustled past him and the woman who was holding his hand.

I knew the tall woman with salt and pepper hair by sight. My parents had pictures of her and said that she was distantly related to us. Her dark grey eyes scanned the hall for something and she must have found it too. Because soon she was marching herself and the boy down the hall towards the principal's office.

"Who's that boy, Miss Hermione?" I asked, walking over and pointing to where the boy and his adult had just disappeared into the principal's office.

Miss Hermione joined me and looked at the door only to see it close sharply. "What boy, Victorie?" she asked, looking around the hallways.

"The one that just…." I looked at the closed door. She wouldn't believe that there was a boy in there. She hadn't seen the boy or the woman who was with him walking down the hall. "Never mind, Miss Hermione." I went back to coloring in the coloring book that I had taken from one of the shelves. Not that I knew what the colors actually looked like. But I could read some of the names.

I had chosen to color at my seat so that all I had to do was put the coloring book aside when the other students showed up. Which they were starting to at the moment. My best friend a girl named Anita that had little grey freckles across her white skin waved at me as I put my coloring book aside.

"Did you get a look at the new kid at school yet?" she asked, looking towards the curiosity plain on her face. "I passed him on my way here."

"Before or after he disappeared into the principal's office?" I asked, looking towards the doorway. My own curiosity was piqued now.

"Before. He didn't seem too happy about being here. I don't think that he's actually been to a real school before. His grandmother was saying that he could make lots of nice young friends here when I passed them."

"But why would his grandmother be taking him to school and not his parents?" I asked. Even my own parents made time to drop me off at school. That's why mother had decided to take the afternoon news coverage instead of the early morning one. "Are his parents at home sick or something?"

"Girls, we don't gossip about people behind their backs," Miss Hermione said, walking over as though she'd magically overheard our conversation. "Would you like it if you were new to class or school and two people who didn't know you started to gossiping about you?"

"No, Miss Hermione," we said, looking down at our feet.

"We have to remember that not everyone is as fortunate as we are. Perhaps his parents have to work and his grandmother is the only one who can bring him to school?"

"I didn't think about that," Anita said, sounding sorry.

"We have to think of these things because if we don't we can hurt someone without meaning to, do you know what I mean?"

We both nodded. That was when the rest of the class started to arrive with their parents or older siblings holding their hands. The conversation seemed to be finished for now at least. But it still kind of made me feel sad that the new kid's parents couldn't bring him to school. Even if it was because they needed to work.

"Okay, class," Miss Hermione said, standing at the front of the classroom as students started to take seats at their assigned tables. "I'm going to hand out our first worksheet of the day. It's an alphabet coloring sheet. I know that none of you can see in color but please try and do your best, alright?"

"Yes, Miss Hermione," we chorused as she started to walk around the room giving us the coloring sheets.

"Miss Hermione?" Anita said, raising her hand.

"You only just got her, Anita," Miss Hermione said jokingly.

"It's not that. I have a question."

"What is your question?" Miss Hermione asked, sounding very serious about answering the question. Which was a thing that we'd all liked about her the most. Miss Hermione always treated our questions like they were the most important matters in the world.

"You can see in colors, right?"

Miss Hermione nodded. "Why do you ask, sweetie?"

"I was just curious," Anita said, looking down at her sheet of paper.

"Why can you see in colors and the rest of can't?" asked a younger boy named Johnny Finnigan, forgetting all about raising his hand and just shouting his question out.

"Mr. Finnigan, we raise our hand when we want to ask a question," Miss Hermione said, nodding for him to go about it the right way.

His hand went into the air and after Miss Hermione gave him permission to he asked his question once more. Miss Hermione seemed to go into deep thought about her answer. It took a great long time to think of the answer or at least it seemed to for us. But finally, she seemed to have come to the right answer in her head.

"Do any of you know what Soulmates are?" Miss Hermione asked, looking around the class at each of us in turn.

"My Mummy says that Soulmates are just lies that people make up so that they don't have to marry someone they don't want to," the school bully said, glaring at everyone in turn. "They don't really exist."

"That is entirely untrue, Franny," Miss Hermione said, sounding as sad as she looked. "The only people I know who say that haven't found their own one yet. Do you children want to know what Soulmates are?"

We all nodded, even Franny McMillan who had said she didn't think they existed. Perhaps she wanted something to prove her mother wrong about. Franny and her mother were always in some sort of argument when Franny was dropped off at school.

"Well, Soulmates are the missing piece of yourselves. It is said that there is someone out there for everyone. This is why we only see greys, blacks, and whites until we meet our Soulmates. We can only see colors once we've found our whole selves."

I raised my hand feeling excited to hear the answer to the question that had just popped into my head. I knew that Miss Hermione would know the answer. "Does that mean that anyone can be your Soulmate, Miss Hermione? How will you know when you've found the one?"

"Don't be stupid, Victorie," snapped Franny. "Miss Hermione already told us how we could know. It's the stupid bit about being able to see color."

"It's not stupid," I shouted, jumping to my feet and folding my arms over my chest. "It's rather nice to think that there is someone out there for all of us, even you. And that we might be able to find them by seeing colors."

Franny was about to answer back when a sharp knock on the door was heard. We all quieted down and I sat back down in my seat. Miss Hermione raced over to the door and opened it to reveal the principal. Behind the principal stood the boy I'd watched disappear into his office, and the boy's grandmother.

"Miss Granger-Weasley, I hope we aren't interrupting something important," Mr. Potter said, looking at each of us in turn.

"No, Mr. Potter," Miss Hermione said, motioning towards the class. "I had just handed out a coloring worksheet on the alphabet and one of the students asked a question about Soulmates. How can we help you today, sir?"

"We have a new student that will be joining your class today, Miss Hermione," the glasses-wearing man said, motioning towards the boy who stood awkwardly next o his grandmother. He then whispered to Miss Hermione for few minutes before turning on his heel and motioning for the boy's grandmother to follow him.

The boy stood awkwardly looking between the doorway where the adults had left and the classroom which made him look smaller than he was. He shuffled his feet nervously and then looked down.

"May I ask your name, sweetheart?" Miss Hermione said, getting down to the boy's level and making it much easier for him to talk to her.

"My name is Teddy Lupin," he said, sounding like he was about ready to cry.

"Well, welcome to the school and our class, Teddy," Miss Hermione said kindly, putting a hand on his shoulder. She stood up and addressed the rest of us. "Class this is Teddy Lupin and he will be joining us. Can you say a friendly hello to Teddy?"

"Hello, Teddy," we all said, watching the boy cringe away from the noise we were all making.

"I know school can be a lot to take in on your first day," Miss Hermione said, smiling at him in a friendly manner. "So, you don't have to join in right away unless you feel comfortable, alright?"

He nodded shyly.

"Why don't you go on over to that table and take a seat next to Victorie?" she asked, pointing towards my table of friends and me. "Victorie, can help Teddy get situated and comfortable?"

"Yes, Miss Hermione," I said, standing up and walking over to where she and Teddy were standing. I turn towards Teddy and was shocked by the explosion of color that was his blue-green hair. I held my hand out with a smile. "I'm Victorie. Victorie Weasley."

"I"m Teddy," he said, shaking my hand and blushing. "Teddy Lupin. You look very pretty in pink, has anyone ever told you that?"

"Only my parents," I said as I led him over to our table and seats. "Your hair color is really rather interesting. I've never seen anyone with blue-green hair before."

With the fading sounds of excited chatter long passed, I looked into the mirror and see my reflection. I am just as pretty as I had been that day. But the white gown I'm wearing for my wedding has made me even prettier. Although I didn't forget the first compliment that Teddy ever gave me. Which is why I reached over and added a pink rose to my hair.

"Are you ready, princess?" my father asked, taking my arm and leading me to the door.

"I'm as ready as I'm going to be," I said, looking over at him with a smile as we slowly made our way out the door and down the aisle.

Teddy was standing there waiting for me. He looked as handsome as he ever had. With his blue-green hair styled perfectly and a smile that was as heartfelt as anything.

"You are the color of my world," Teddy said as we walked up towards the altar and the priest officiating our wedding.

"And you are mine," I said, smiling. "And you are mine."

I hope you all enjoyed Schoolhood Soulmates as much as I enjoyed writing it.