The perfect timing (Part VI)
This is based on a prompt I got: Soulmate AU: In which you turn 18 and see everything through your soulmate’s eyes when you’re not sleeping anymore but are not fully awake yet.
Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V
"I can't believe you! You knew all along and didn't tell me?", Sana exclaims, waving her arms around.
"Not all along. Just a few days."
"Do I look like I care? You should have told me!", Sana answers, her tone very serious.
"Sana, it was not my place to tell!"
Sana narrows her eyes at her older brother Elias, standing with her hands on her hips.
"Elias, I went around for days thinking Adam is my soulmate while I knew that him and Mikael are ...", Sana stops herself. In her excitement and confusion she lost her verbal-filter for a second.
She's not mad at her brother. Their conversation up until now has been with big smiles on both their faces and both of them trying to be somewhat serious.
After Sana met Yousef and realized that he is her soulmate, not Adam, they talked for a very long time and finally came back to the Bakkoush house. Of course the other boys were already here so Sana had to drag her brother away from them to the kitchen. She didn't want to fight with him or anything, she only needed someone to share her excitement and happiness with and who better for that job than her brother.
But now, talking about Mikael and Adam she stops. It's none of her business. They could also be just friends; they haven't said anything to tell otherwise. But Sana is observant. Still, she stops talking because she knows the boys are not doing their own thing in the living room. They're probably trying to hear what the siblings are talking about in the kitchen.
Sana doesn't have to turn around to see that she is right. She only sees Elias' eyes widen and a sheepish smile appear on his lips.
"Boys, eavesdropping is rude.", Elias says, raising his eyebrows at them. Honestly, it's just a way of trying to avoid an awkward tension after Sana's unfinished sentence.
Slowly Sana turns around and dares to look at them. Relief washes over her when she sees that none of the boys look mad or embarrassed or angry. They all smile at her. Then her eyes meet Yousef's and Sana's smile grows. They keep smiling at each other until Mikael speaks out.
"Sana, it's fine.", he looks at Adam, who is standing right next to him at the kitchen door, "We.."
Adam finishes his sentence: "... finally talked and we're kind of ... a thing now?"
With an unsure expression Adam looks at Mikael and when he smiles, so does Adam. Sana's heart melts for these two and she jumps up and down excitedly.
This is brand new information for all the people in the room so the next few minutes are spend with hugs and congratulations.
Sana hugs Adam and is really happy for him. He can see that. However, he doesn't miss this chance of teasing Sana. When they're hugging he whispers only for her to hear.
"So, you thought I'm your soulmate?", Sana can hear the smirk in his voice.
She quickly parts from the hug and hits Adam's arm lightly.
"That was only because you were wearing that shirt. How would I know? That was the only proper thing I saw from Yousef's room. Never borrow anything from Yousef again, please.", Sana answers, crossing her arms over her chest.
Adam mimics her and crosses his arms over his chest like Sana did. He also looks at her with the same 'this-is-so-clear' look on his face.
"Only because of the shirt? You don't think I'm soulmate material?", he tries to sound as hurt as possible but Sana sees right through it.
She rolls her eyes and smirks at him: "Don't even try to tease me. You found someone who thinks of you that way and I found mine. It won't work."
Adam's eyes go to Mikael who is still wrapped in Mutta's arms and looks like he has trouble breathing. Both, Sana and Adam, laugh about it and then look at each other again.
"Neither of us has seen our soulmate's room but I think I don't need that. We're fine now.", Adam says, looking very happy about where he is with Mikael now. This makes Sana smiles broadly. He doesn't give Sana a chance to answer anything to that. He continues talking.
"And I'm glad that you figured out that Yousef is your soulmate. You should have seen him talk about the possibility that you could be his soulmate. It was hilarious."
Sana raises her eyebrows in surprise and the tilts her head slightly, her eyes wandering over to Yousef and Elias who are now standing in the living room, whispering about something.
"Do you happen to have any video footage of that?", Sana asks jokingly but when she looks back at Adam, she sees him grinning with a knowing look.
"Sana, don't forget who you're talking to. Of course! I instantly pulled my phone out when I understood what he was going to tell us. I'll send the video to you."
-
"Leave the door open!", Elias shouts after Sana and Yousef.
Sana rolls her eyes and Yousef just shakes his head smilingly.
The two of them have left the boys in the living room and now Sana is leading the way to her room. Right in front of her door Sana stops. Her hand on the door handle but she can't open the door right in that moment.
Yes, they are pretty sure that Sana is Yousef's soulmate and that he is hers but what if she opens the door now and Yousef realizes it was not really her? It could happen.
"Sana?", Yousef asks, worry very apparent in his voice. He steps a little closer to be able to see Sana's face. She has a worry line in between her eyebrows which makes him also frown.
"You know, I don't have to see your room now to be sure.", Yousef says in a soft voice, making Sana look at him.
She just shakes her head, a small smile on her lips. Taking a deep breath she opens the door and whispers more to herself: "Okay, let's go."
Sana steps aside and lets Yousef walk into the room first.
His eyes wander all around. All these years he has never been in Sana's room once. It was never a question because he didn't have a reason to. Her room is private and Yousef only ever was here as Elias' best friend.
Now that he is looking around, the imagines he saw on his 18th birthday come back to him vividly. He remembers the exact tone of the blue walls, those he actually sees in front of him now.
His eyes fall onto the ground and he remembers the white carpet he saw. Not only on his birthday but also once when he was standing in front of Sana's room. Then he wasn't sure that it meant anything but now he is.
With a smile his eyes go to the tall window with the white curtains. They look exactly like he remembers.
The desk, the posters on the walls. He can see all of it clearer now and a wave of happiness overcomes him. Since Sana and him talked at that coffee shop a few hours ago he couldn't wipe the smile off his face but right now, right now it's on another level.
Even the books lying all around one end of the white carpet make Yousef happy.
He turns around to face Sana. She sees his excited look and starts smiling. Yousef closes the distance between the two of them in two big steps. There's only a very small step in between them now. Yousef beams at Sana, unable to try and play it cool. He's just so happy.
He is sure that Sana is his soulmate and she is sure that he is hers.
"Can I hug you?", Yousef asks without thinking about it for even a second.
As soon as the words leave his mouth he regrets it. What kind of question is that? He shuts his eyes in embarrassment and shakes his head. Well done, Yousef. Go ahead and act like a 12 year-old in front of your soulmate, he thinks to himself.
Then, however, he can sense something. He opens his eyes slowly and now Sana is closer. So close that their noses would touch if Yousef leaned down a little. Sana looks up at Yousef and he lowers his head a bit.
Sana looks at her soulmate with wide eyes and smiles, showing off her dimples. Does she know that that smile makes Yousef so weak?
She stands on her tiptoes and wraps her arms around Yousef's neck. His arms instantly circle her and resting on her back. They both have the biggest smiles on their faces and end up standing there until Adam calls for them when the food has arrived.
-
"I'm just saying. How is it fair that you know who your soulmate is at age 18 and I don't know yet.", Elias says, waving around the spoon he's holding.
Sana raises her eyebrows at her older brother and asks half-jokingly, half serious: "Is someone going through heartbreak?"
Elias head snaps up and he shakes his head. Well, that's not very convincing when his best friend laughs at that.
Sana turns to Yousef, who is sitting on the chair right next to hers and looks at him questioningly. Their parents are sitting outside, in the Acar's backyard, but since the WIFI is a lot better inside the three of them decided to spend their time here.
Yousef's parents had invited Sana's parents over for dinner. Thanks to Elias and Yousef being friends since kindergarten, their parents meet quite often with the boys just tagging along. Usually Sana wouldn't. She didn't have a reason to, before. Yousef was just her older brother's best friend and he did not have a sibling she was close with.
Now it is different.
Sana doesn't even realize how lovingly she looks at Yousef. But he does. It makes his heart grow and he doesn't look away from her eyes for a while, just smiling.
"Well, since the rest of the boys and I are in a relationship Elias feels left out.", Yousef explains, very aware that Sana is paying a lot of attention to him. It makes him nervous, in a good way.
Elias narrows his eyes at Yousef. "Traitor!"
Sana looks confused at that. She turns back to her brother and asks: "Since when do you have difficulties finding girls to date?" He might not tell his sister all the details but she knows enough.
"I don't.", Elias shrugs, "I just don't want to date around anymore just to date someone.", he continues, looking down on the table.
"Aww, my brother is growing up!", Sana says in a sickeningly sweet tone which makes Elias roll his eyes and Yousef smile fondly at her. "But wait! Who does Mutta have? Is he in a relationship?"
That would be brand new information to Sana. She knew that he was talking to Chris for a while and for Chris, who moves pretty fast with guys because that's how she likes it, they were honestly just talking for hours most times they met.
"He thinks he knows who his soulmate is.", Yousef answers with a knowing smile.
Sana gets really excited all of the sudden and sits up really straight and looks back and forth between the guys at the table. She's obviously waiting for some details but they don't say anything.
So she sighs and asks: "So? Who is it? Please tell me it's Chris. Pleeease."
Elias and Yousef laugh at Sana's excitement and share a looks, both having a grin on their faces. Sana sees that and raises her eyebrows at them.
"Don't torture me here! Tell me!"
Elias is the one to answer: "Mutta thinks it's Chris."
As soon as Sana hears that she jumps up and claps, happy for her friends. Chris will be so happy about this when she finds out. Of course Sana won't be the one to tell her, that's something they have to figure out on their own but Sana is so happy that she can't sit still. She walks a few steps up and down and it itches in her fingertips to just text Chris. But she can't and won't.
"You want to tell her, don't you?", Yousef asks Sana.
She nods and opens her mouth to answer but Elias beats her to it.
"But you can't and you know that. So, don't you two have a room to look at? That still didn't happen. It'd be good to distract Sana from trying to text Chris."
Sana wants to retort with a sarcastic comment but he's right. She still hasn't seen Yousef room. Yousef looks at Sana, silently asking if she wants to and she nods. So he stands up and holds out a hand to her. She looks down at it and forgetting that Elias is with them in the room she takes it and intertwines their fingers.
Once they are in the hallway, Sana smiles to herself because of the tingly feeling she gets whenever Yousef holds her hand, they hear Elias call after them.
"Leave the door open!"
Yousef leads the way and rolls his eyes at his best friend while Sana shakes her head smilingly.
Without hesitating a second Yousef opens the door to his room and lets Sana walk in in front of him.
Sana walks in and stops in the middle of the room. The dark-grey wall is the only thing she can look at for a moment. It's just a wall, nothing special, but it makes her heart beat faster. That damn grey wall was the only thing on her mind for a lot of days.
One or two minutes later she can finally move her head.
She sees that the other three walls are indeed white; she sees the shelves with a lot of video games right next to the window.
She sees more details than she did on her birthday. Family pictures and pictures with the boys are at different spots of the room, sports clothes and equipment in one corner and a few books on a smaller shelf.
Then, she sees that shirt hanging over the same chair as on her birthday.
That blue long-sleeved shirt with the dark-grey and white splatters on one side.
That one shirt that made Sana think there was a possibility that someone but Yousef was her soulmate.
Now she is sure that it's him. It's Yousef.
Turning around to him, who's watching her with a fond smile on his face, she starts smiling even more broadly.
They stand there, looking into each other's eyes communicating their happiness just through their look.
Out of nowhere Sana breaks the silence.
"Can I have that shirt?", she says, pointing to the shirt hanging over the back of the chair.
"Wow.", Yousef says, laughing sarcastically and shakes his head. "I asked you if I could hug you and you ask for my shirt."
Sana rolls her eyes at him and steps a little closer. She looks up a bit, meeting Yousef's gaze.
"I was planning on giving that to you anyway.", Yousef almost whispers, obviously pleasantly affected by this close proximity.
"Well, apparently great minds do think alike.", Sana answers in the same whisper tone.
"And when those great minds happen to be soulmates it's even more likely."
Have they gotten closer? Are they standing at the same spot as two minutes ago?
It doesn't matter. Either way, neither of them notices anything but their soulmate.
Trying to contain her smile, Sana raises her eyebrows as she asks.
"Do you still want that hug?"
Yousef presses his lips together. His eyes search Sana's face like he wants to memorize every single tiny detail of it.
Slowly he nods and waits for Sana to make the first move.
Standing up on her tiptoes Sana wraps her arms around Yousef's neck. He hugs her as tightly as she hugs him and rests his chin on her shoulder.
"I'm happy that you're my soulmate."
----------------------------------------------------
That’s it. This is the last chapter of this AU. Thank you fo reading! xx
