Soulmates were strange to Basil. How could the universe possibly know who he’d fall in love with? Would he fall in love with his soulmate? Not everyone did, he knew that. But he wanted to fall in love, and the idea of being linked to someone he wouldn’t love was kind of terrifying to him. But from a young age he’d always been sort of excited to meet his soulmate, for two reasons: one, he’d be able to see every color there was once they met, and two, he was fairly sure his soulmate had heterochromia because he, unlike most people, could see two colors. His world existed in shades of green and brown, and while it wasn’t unheard of it wasn’t entirely uncommon. He always told himself he’d ask them about it on his eighteenth birthday, the day everyone looked forward to.
On a person’s eighteenth birthday, a telepathic connection was established with their soulmate, and Basil waited eagerly for that connection to form. And when that day came, he asked about the heterochromia. Having two different eye colors wasn’t abnormal. Having two soulmates, now that was abnormal.
Of course, he wasn’t the only one surprised. Tirza had never had reason to suspect anything was out of their ordinary with their soulmate, because of the three she was the only one with a different eye color. Both her soulmates had brown eyes, and so the world had always just been that one color. But then she’d tapped into that new telepathic connection, and instead of finding one voice she’d found two; Rose’s and Basil’s. It was weird at first, sure, all three of them had to adjust to this new realization, but it didn’t take them long to move past the surprise and start bonding.
Basil would talk about his science classes and theories, and Tirza would test potential song lyrics with the two, and before long the trio were chatting nearly all the time, about just about anything. These days, most of their conversations were about how they were all in the process of moving. It was, admittedly, a little bit coincidental they all were moving at exactly the same time, but none of them thought anything of it until Basil walked into his new apartment and found his two roommates staring back at him in surprise, and he stared back with just as much surprise because the world was suddenly definitely more than green and brown, which meant-
“Oh my god, it’s you. It’s you two,” he gasped, slowly breaking into a grin. “Out of all the people in all of London, it’s you two!”
// @goldenacolyte