Soulmates
A/n: not proof read
I've been teaching at the school for good for two years now and been the assistant to the headmaster and I still haven't found my soulmate in all this time. The purple circle tattooed into the skin on my thigh at birth mocks me.
Unfortunately for me I've fallen in love with a certain red-headed dean and gosh she hates me.
Today was a hot summer's day the students haven't arrived yet, so I decide to go to the lake for a quick swim. I cover my soulmate mark with concealer as I'm wearing a bikini. Grabbing everything I need I sneak off to the lake.
Diving into the lake, the ice-cold water hits me with relief. A few minutes later I hear a voice.
"I guess we had the same idea princess." I turn and see Lesso, standing on the bank in a black bikini. And holy shit did she look good in it.
"Seems so." I somehow reply without making a fool of myself and with a small smile. She dives in with me. We spend an hour in the water in silence. I stay quiet so I don't anger her.
"We should head back the students are arriving shortly." She breaks the silence.
"you're right." I sigh out and move to get out. I grab my towel and start drying myself off. Starting with my hair. Lesso jumps out too and begins drying off. I use my magic to dry my hair before I dry off the top half of my body. Lesso does the same, using her magic to dry and style her hair before following suit and drying the top half of her body. I begin to dry my legs forgetting about the concealer covering my soulmate mark. I'm sure Lesso saw it.
I finish drying off and use my magic to banish my towel to my room and summon the dress I'd planned to wear for the welcoming ceremony. The dress appears on my body. I look up and see the same purple circle on Lesso's arm. That wasn't there before. My jaw drops. She was my soulmate.
She finishes putting her shirt on and tie. She quickly leaves back for her castle. I stand frozen for a few minutes. Mind reeling from what I'd just learned. My soul mate was someone who doesn't like me. Fan-fucking-tastic.
I head towards the school for good to prepare myself for the welcoming ceremony that will start in ten minutes. I had to stand next to the evil dean like nothing has changed. And maybe it hasn't and will never change.
Arriving at the hall, I greet Clarissa and nod to Lesso pretending we hadn't just seen each other at the lake. Pretending we hadn't just figured out we were soulmates. After the ceremony she disappears. And I rarely see her again after that day. She seems to be deliberately ignoring and avoiding me like the plague. As soon as she sees me, she leaves the room.
After months of her avoiding me, I've had enough and decide to talk to her.
"How long do you plan to avoid me Lesso?" I ask softly cornering her in the library. Her sleeves are rolled up showing the skin where the mark is, covered in concealer.
"As long as I wish. I have no obligation to talk to you."
"Is the little matching tattoo on our skin enough obligation?"
"No. it's a tiny mark that means absolutely nothing to me. I don't give a fuck who my soulmate is. Your existence doesn't matter to me, seeing you daily is torture and not the kind I enjoy. You see your existence is an insult to me especially this tiny fact you are an ever. And Nevers and Evers don’t date. You are a waste of time and space. All I have to do is flick my finger and look at that. They’re gone." I look at her arm as she swipes the concealer off and she's right it's gone. She turns and leaves. Tears fill my eyes as I walk back to my quarters.
I cry quietly in my quarters for the rest of the day. I wake up the next morning in a coughing fit. I ignore it and get ready for the day. I avoid seeing Lesso when I can. I arrive at meals early grab an apple and go. I didn't attend the staff meeting due to a massive coughing fit that keeps appearing every few hours for the last week.
The coughing gets worse to the point where I cannot teach any longer. Huddled In my room I cough once more a red flower petal appears in my hand. Great just great. Hanahaki disease.
"How are you doing today?" Dovey asks
"Dove..."
"Yeah?"
"I have Hanahaki disease."
"I – What?!"
"It turns out that I found out who my soulmate Is, and I have been in love with my soulmate unknowingly for almost two years. They don't love me back and will never love me back."
"What are you going to do?"
"I may as well get the surgery, she hates me and wishes I didn't exist called me a waste of time and space, said my existence was an insult. So, I have no reason to remember my love for her."
"We need to hold a staff meeting to get your lessons covered till you can come back then."
The next day, Dovey helps me to the library for the meeting.
"what's this meeting about princess?" Lesso asks as we arrive in the room.
"y/n has Hanahaki disease so, we need to find a replacement till she either gets better or chooses to have surgery."
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Arriving at the conclusion that because Emma has the periods I'm teaching off, she'll take over as it was her subject beforehand. Dovey helps me back to my room, but not before I shoot a quick look back one last time at my soul mate. Lesso.
"When's the surgery?"
"In three days."
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Lesso's POV
After three months of ignoring y/n and then another two months of remembering the tears filling her eyes when I said the most horrible things to her and using magic to pretend that our mark disappeared. I haven't seen her in months. Now she has Hanahaki disease. This is my fault. I did this.
The mark stings on my arm. Instantly I know she's going to have the surgery. I hurry over to the school for good. And to the med wing. I see Dovey outside a door.
"What are you doing here Lesso?"
"y/n's about to have the surgery, right?"
"Yeah why?"
"She can't I'm her soulmate." I rush out lifting my sleeve to show her the mark I hear her gasp, before I rush to open the door. I see a nurse standing over her.
"Stop!" I call out.
"You can't be here nor do that..." she begins
"I'm her soulmate..." I say. "I need to talk to her before she goes through with this,"
The nurse nods and helps Dovey and I move her to her room, where we sit for hours till she wakes up from the drugs.
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y/n's pov
I slowly feel myself waking up. I look around and see I'm in my room. I see red hair in the corner of my eye. I groan as I sit up.
"Hey, take it easy." Lesso says helping me sit up. And move my legs to hang off the bed.
"What are you doing here?" I ask as she sits back on the chair in front of me.
"I had to stop you from having the surgery."
"Why, why would you do that? You hate me and my existence. And you got rid of our marks."
"I didn't actually, it was a complex illusion spell." She says removing the spell. "And I don't hate you or your existence. I never did and I didn't mean anything I told you that day."
"You do, you always have since the day I arrived, you hated me."
"I didn't, I just didn't know how to handle the feelings I had for you. And I pushed you away so far away that you were going to get the surgery."
"Can you blame me for wanting the surgery, when you told me you hated me and my existence and that I am a waste of time and space. And a whole lot more. The illusion of the marks was the icing on the cake that made me want it."
"I can't let you have it. I love you too much to let you do it." She says. I start coughing and petals fall out of my mouth.
"If you want to give me another chance then I'd like for us to give us a proper chance."
"You would?" I ask softly but incredulously. "You really hurt me Lesso. Probably a lot more than you intended."
"I took you for granted, I understand that you want nothing to do with me now. I would absolutely hate me too."
"I don't hate you, even if I wanted to, Im unable to. I’ve loved you for two years secretly.” I reach for her hands which are resting on her lap.
"I will give us a chance. I have never wanted anyone else Lesso."
"Nor have I Princess." Her hands reach up cupping my face as she leans up to kiss me.
"I love you, Leo."
"I love you too darling."















