WIP Wednesday: 03.20.2024
The full scene from last Sunday š
Marinette had a soulmate.
Luka stared at the dark pink words on his arm, swallowing thickly as the words rattled around in his head.Ā It didnāt matter if she didnāt know them.Ā She had still found them, at least once, and they were out there, somewhere, waiting to find their fairy again.Ā Sheād met them years ago.
ā¦Luka didnāt even remember the last time heād been in the city.Ā He had been what?Ā Three, four when theyād left?Ā Definitely not long enough to find his soulmate, and heād only had his words for a few months now besides.
Still.
He had hopedā¦
That day had been so crazy.Ā It was only a few weeks into the school year, but there had been a delay and their flight had gotten in late.Ā The mayorās daughter was supposed to show them around the school, but even though ChloĆ© Bourgeois always seemed to be sniffing around for social clout apparently Jagged Stoneās kids had nothing on the model son of Gabriel Agreste, some big wig fashion somebody.Ā She had ditched them the moment she had spotted the modelās golden hair glinting in the sun, and Juleka and him had been left to figure out the bustling campus of FranƧoise Dupont themselves.
Which was fine.Ā They were used to being ditched.Ā Fending for themselves.Ā Thatās what happened when your dad tended to be too famous to bother with you.
But just because ChloĆ© hadnāt been interested in the Rock Giantās kids didnāt mean others ā nearly everyone else ā wasnāt.Ā There had been so many people that day, and it had all been a little overwhelming.Ā They had been swarmed, because even though Penny had always done her best to keep them out of the spotlight everyone knew Jagged Stoneās kids.Ā Penny was good, but there was only so much even someone as good as Penny could do.
Heād lost track of how many people had spoken to him that day, vying for introductions and trying to suck up in the hopes of meeting his famous dad.Ā When theyād finally gotten home and heād shrugged off his hoodie, heād been shocked to find the words glimmering on his arm.
Thank you.
They were soā¦soā¦generic.Ā There was nothing special or unique about them, and they could have come from anyone.Ā There was nothing about them that made any one person stand out, even if one person that day had stood out.
The cute 5ĆØme girl, the one he would later learn was friends with his sisterās soulmate, from the library.Ā Heād been waiting for the librarian at the desk when heād seen her struggling to reach something on a top shelf, and he had gone to help.
āHere, let me help,ā heād said, laying a hand on her shoulder as heād reached above them to snatch the book sheād wanted.
āTh-th-thank you,ā sheād squeaked, staring up at him with impossibly blue eyes and the prettiest blush heād ever seen dusting her cheeks.
He had hopedā¦he had really hopedā¦but he hadnāt said anything about fairies, so there was no way the thank you burned into his arm could be hers.Ā His first words had been an offer of assistance, not a greeting.
And now he knew she already had a soulmate.
Someone she had met long before heād ever come into the picture.
ā¦heād be lying if he said he wasnāt disappointed.Ā Marinette was an amazing girl with a beautiful song.Ā He hadnāt been able to get her song ā to get her ā out of his head since that first day, and even if she was sometimes shy and anxious around him, they had struck up an easy friendship ā one that had quickly turned into an easy crush, at least for him.
But Marinette, like Rose, was a romantic.Ā She firmly believed in all that soulmate stuff, and why shouldnāt she?Ā Sheād had her words for years.
He was happy for her.Ā He was.
He tugged his hoodie back on, not really wanting to see those taunting pink words anymore.Ā Either way, their very existence let him know that his soulmate was somewhere in Paris.Ā At his new school.
ā¦he justā¦was it so wrong, wishing that that someone was Marinette?
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