You had been on your "quest" for months, but you were nowhere near finding the other half of your necklace.

What could be so important about a broken necklace pendant? You didn't really know. Your parents never told you.

You weren't sure what to expect, but mom and dad said you would just...know apparently.

As you hiked up a narrow path overlooking a beautiful lake in some town called...dare-ville? -Sanville?
Whatever. You weren't quite sure where you were, let's put it that way-
And took a deep breath, filling your lungs with the fresh pine scented air.

It was a gorgeous day and the sun was bright and warm. So warm it felt like you were toasting under the heat, but not quite burning.

You were comfortable, but if you had to pinpoint where the warmth seemed to be coming from, it wouldn't be the sun, but somewhere near your neck.
Which was weird because that just didn't seem right.

You looked down and saw your
metallic yellow necklace pendant, the shape of what seemed like half a sun but with a rounded edge instead of a flat one opposite the sun's points, that seemed to be glowing in the light.

Laughter suddenly eminated from ahead of you, the top of the hill where you could see smoke, probably from a campfire, and it peaked your curiosity.

Who's up there? You wondered as your pace sped up.

"Hello!" You heard a cheerful voice say as you reached the top and others waved.

You had accidentally stumbled upon a small camp site and a group of friends were gathered around a camp fire that was being poked with a stick by one of the others like he was trying to get the flames to go higher.

Awkwardly, you waved back and offered a small polite smile before continuing your walk on the path.

You were just about to dismiss the group and continue on your "mission" when you felt an odd pulse come from your...necklace?

It felt similar to a phone when it buzzed on vibrate in your pocket, but not as strong.

You took a couple more steps and ignored it until it went away, but when you were about 15 feet from the group, your necklace pulsed again, but with multiple short pulses.

Confused and curious, your eyes flicked back to the group where there was one boy looking almost as confused, but more embarrassed, as you felt.

Something was happening with your necklace and you didn't know what, despite your parents saying that you would.

There were a few snickers and couple "shhh's" from others, mostly the girls, while one boy, the red-head, was grinning along, with one other girl.

You honestly didn't know what to do.

It felt like a joke was just told and you were the only one out of the loop.

"Hey, why don't you join us? What's your name?" The red-head asked from his spot next to a girl who you assumed his girlfriend, by how close he was sitting to her.

You hesitated, but walked over nonetheless and sat down on an empty log between a guy with light brown hair that came to his ears and an Asian girl with long black hair who was to the right of the guy who's cheeks were tinted pink. Even though you were feeling out of place, you stated your name anyway.

"I'm (Y/N). What about you guys?" You motioned to the rest of the large group around you.

It was a fairly large group, six guys and seven girls, all around your age. There were three that obviously stood as the "leaders" of the rest, but it seemed that they were very nice and weren't snotty about it, or anything really.

"I'm Phineas and that's Ferb," the energetic teen pointed to the closest boy to your left who had striking green hair. "he's our "man of action"." He added.

"Nice to meet you." Ferb said in a rich British accent.

You were surprised. You had assumed everyone here was American, but you thought the different nationality among the group was cool.

You nodded with a small smile as if to say "you as well" and the others introduced themselves as Isabella, Irving, Baljeet, Gretchen, Buford, Milly, Katie, Holly, Adyson, and the two on either side of you were Ginger and Django.

Ginger's family was obviously not from America originally, but she herself seemed to be American. Holly had the dark skin of an African American along with wild black hair and Isabella seemed to be Mexican, or have a little Mexican somewhere in her family. Her fair olive skin and long, sleek raven-black hair gave her away.

Baljeet was Indian. That was cool, but you now felt silly for assuming everyone would be American, though it was very likely they could have been.

"So, (Y/N)." The guy named Buford drawled, with a mischievous glint in his eye.

"What's your shape?" He asked.

Your eyebrows furrowed since that wasn't what you were expecting.

Your shape? What?

"Your necklace, lov-" Ferb cleared his throat. "(Y/N)." He corrected and pointed at the necklace around his own neck that looked to be around the same color as yours.

"Smooth," someone muttered with a chuckle.

Okay, this group officially seemed off.
The reason they invited you over had something to do with your necklace, apparently. Now you felt stupid for not knowing what was so special about it.

"Um..." You picked up the little warmth radiating pendant with your fingers and looked at it, even though you knew perfectly well what the shape was since you stared at it for hours a day wondering why everyone had something similar.

"Half of a sun." You let the charm fall back onto your chest and looked at the group who now had shock written on all their faces.

"That's the same shape as Ferb's." Isabella pointed out.

You laughed nervously.

Was that supposed to mean something? Sure, you had seen some shapes that were the same, but you usually dismissed it as nothing. You hadn't heard anything so it mustn't be too important.

"What's that supposed to mean?" You asked as your eyes darted to Ferb then to Isabella.

The shock from before was still there, but it was intensified to the point where you thought their eyes would pop out of their heads and they eyebrows fly into the sky!

Ferb suddenly stood up and all eyes shot to him.

He walked over so he was almost in front of you and lifted the chain around neck over his head so he held it in his hand, then he held his opposite arm out towards you.

Guessing he meant your own necklace, you took yours off and handed it to him and he proceeded to let the pendants drop while still holding the chains so the two similar shapes swung next to each other in the air.

As you watched them dangle to in front of you, you noticed that the two shapes seemed to be one that had been split in half and both halves glowed furiously while some magnetic force pulled them closer to each other until they were one.

Suddenly, something sparked in your brain. It wasn't a little spark, but more like a match lighting a pool of oil.

You knew. Just like your parents said.

You didn't know how they managed to keep this from you, since more people than you thought, knew about it, but that didn't matter. Not when your apparent soulmate was standing in front of you.

Quickly you stood up and you felt a blush spread across your cheeks when you realized that the teenager in front of you was much cuter up close than you had realized when he was farther away.

Slowly Ferb handed you your necklace back with a tiny sheepish smile on his lips.

"Would it be incredibly premature of me to want to kiss you?" He asked quietly.

"Probably. I've only known you for five minutes." You giggled.

"But we're soulmates," he bantered.

"And you're nice,"

"So are you."

"Not to mention your pretty cute..." You added shyly.

"I still don't know you." Ferb smirked.

Both of you silently stared for a second while you tried to to decide what would happen next, but it would seem that everyone else would decide for you two.

"Well, kiss already!" Someone laughed.

You felt your blush grow deeper as you covered your face with your hands.

This was so awkward and
embarrassing.

There were people you barely knew telling you to kiss a stranger you knew nothing about and you weren't sure what to do.

You knew from basic "street smarts" that you should probably take your price of jewelry back and go home, but something compelled you to stay.
That something also compelled you to peek through your fingers and look back up at the dark ocean blue eyes that were trying to find your own (Adjective) (E/C) ones.
(Ex: mossy green)

"Embarrassed easily?" Ferb teased lightly.

You scoffed and dropped your hands as you tried to cool your face down.
"Only when I'm being told to kiss a stranger."

Ferb smiled.

"Well, I don't think you're strangers anymore. You've known each other for ten minutes now." Django grinned.

You rolled your eyes as the others began to chant.
"Kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss!"

You opened your mouth to protest, but you couldn't find anything to say.
You barely knew Ferb!

You weren't sure whether to run away or go through with it, but before you could decide, on a wild instinct, you stood on your tiptoes and kissed him.

You felt Ferb smile and kiss back as he gently put his hands right above your jaw line and pulled your head forwards a little to deepen the kiss.

(A/N: you lucky duck, you *winks*)

Right before you two broke apart, there were claps and whistles from the others and you felt yourself blush again.

This was crazy. If your dad knew that you had kissed a strange boy...
No, you didn't want to think about that right now.

"Do you live close? Because I think I want to get to know you better." Ferb asked.

"I don't know. It took me a couple days to find this town, but I can give you contact information." You answered.
"You guys too," you motioned to the rest. "You guys seem like fun."

"If only you knew," Isabella giggled.

Ta-da! What did you think? Good ending?

Today is my last day of summer :( but I don't think I can complain because I got a longer summer than most even though I spent most of it moving...
I'm not sure if I'm dreading school or not...

Anyway, have a great Monday!
~Joy

Edit: First day wasn't too bad, my mom is behind in scheduling our school so I only had three assignments to do.