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Xena

I woke up by the blaring sound of the alarm near my bookshelf.

I sigh and trudge to the bookshelf to shut my alarm. Once the alarms was shut I walk to the bathroom and take a quick steaming shower.

I walk out of the bathroom and change into my some comfy light grey—almost white—sweatpants and a cropped ribbed grey sweater. I left my hair down. I wanted to wear something comfy.

I picked up my bag and walked downstairs and my dad wasn't there. Yesterday he told me that he would leave earlier for work today.

I grab an apple from the fruit basket and I ate the apple while I scrolled through my phone. It was already 7:15, so I decided to head to school.

Once I was out of the house I closed the door behind me and locked it shut.

I was really on edge since Cam had called me yesterday. I couldn't stop thinking but what she wanted to tell me.

Once I reached school I parked my car and walked into school. It was already 7:35, class start at 8 so Cam had a few minutes to explain to me everything.

Once I entered school I saw Brie and Cam talking, resting against my locker.

I walked up to them and they suddenly stopped talking and stared at me.

"Hi?" I greet them, in a little bit of confusion since I was confused as to why they were staring at me like that.

"What did you want to tell me?" I ask Cam.

"Uh..." Cam mummers looking behind me.

I look at her in confusion and I follow her gaze. And there walked in Archer.

But what pissed me of was who he was walking with. Right beside him clinging onto him like a leech was non other that the dipstick, Vera.

What made my heart sink was that Archer was laughing at whatever she said and had his arm around her waist.

What the fuck is happening?

"Yeah..." Cam says.

"Vera lied about being being Archer's soulmate, didn't she?" I sigh and then back to Cam and Brie.

"Yeah. I found out yesterday" Cam explains. She looked at me like I was about to break if she touched me.

"I was going to tell him today..." I explain looking at the floor.

Fuck it. It's fine, I'll tell him anyways, maybe he'll believe me?

"How did she even convince him that she's his soulmate?" Brie asks.

"I don't know, but I'm going to find out" I say.

"I'll help" Cam says, Brie nodding along.

"Xena, what the fuck" a deep voice behind me says.

I turn around startled and I come face to neck Owen.

"Vera lied" I state.

"Yeah, no shit. I don't like her anyways, I'm helping you as well. Anything to get that idiot away from Archer." Owen shakes his head looking at the back of Vera's head as she walks down the hall with Archer.

Other people look at Vera in disgust.

You can clearly see that I'm not the only one that hates her.

"What do I do?" I ask Brie, Cam and Owen.

"Well, first of all. This happened all because of you" Owen states while he crosses him toned arms over his chest.

"What? How is this my fault?!" I glare at him.

"You should have told him as soon as you found out" Owen shrugs.

Yeah...but still.

"It's not my fault that I was scared and nervous" I defend.

"I'm with Owen on this one Xena. You should have told him" Brie says.

"Enough with this, let's find a way to convince Archer" Cam says.

"I'm just going to tell him, if he doesn't believe me then we can plan a way to convince him. Okay?" I turn to all three of them.

"Yeah" Brie nods. Cam and Owen nodding along with her.

"So I'll tell him during history class" I say.

Just then the warning bell rings. Everyone scatters away into their respected classes.

Owen and I head to History, Brie heads to French while Cam heads for Calculus.

"You're just going to go up to him and tell him?" Owen looks down  at me.

"I mean...what else am I supposed to do?" I shrug.

We enter class and I make eye contact with Archer, he immediately looks away. He was sitting all the way at the back.

"I'm taking your spot for today, sorry" I pat Owen on the back and took a seat on the desks next to Archer, I heard Owen groan but he didn't say anything.

I turn to Archer and he was looking at the front of the class.

His jawline is so sharp...I want to just...touch it.

Wait, what?

Focus Xena!

"Hey Archer—" I start but I was instantly cut off by Mrs. Ward, our history teacher, cutting my off.

I'll tell him right after class.

History was a blur and before I knew it, class was over.

I quickly got up and I saw Archer getting out of his seat, he looks and makes eye contact with me again, I smile and wave, he smiles back and looks away again.

"Archer" I tap his shoulder.

He turns and looks at me, a little bit in surprise.

"Yeah?" He says while he adjusts the bag strap on his shoulder.

Behind Archer I could see Owen smiling and giving me a thumbs up.

"Umm...I wanted to talk to you about something" I say looking at my hands.

"What is it?" he looks at me expectantly.

How do I say it without being too straight forward? Think Xena!

"I just wanted to say that—uh-I-I—I'm your soulmate" I say.

Totally not straight forward.

"What? How? I already found my soulmate. It's Vera" he smiles at me.

"No. She's lying" I shake my head.

"Listen Xena. You've probably got the wrong person" he shakes his head with a frown.

"No. I don't have the wrong person. You're my soulmate, I was the one that kissed you at—" I shake my head while looking up at him and I try to explain but he cut some off.

"Xena. You've got the wrong person, I need to head to my next class" Archer says with a serious tone and walks of.

That totally went the way I planed it to go...

I was being sarcastic...if you didn't notice.

"How'd it go?" Owen walks up to me.

"It went horribly, he didn't believe and now he's pissed." I shake my head.

I already knew from the beginning he would reject me.

"I tried explaining to him that I was the one that kissed him at the party but he didn't listen" I continue.

"Wait. You kissed him?" Owen looks at me with wide eyes.

"Owen! That's not the point!" I groan.

"Right. Right. Don't stress, we'll think of something during lunch, I don't what it be any where near Vera anyways" Owen shakes his head.

"Thanks. I need to get to my next class, I'll see you at lunch?" I ask.

"Yeah" Owen smiles and we part away getting to our next class.

I reached my biology class and let out a long sigh before entering the class.

Stupid Vera. She literally steals people's men.

Well, he isn't my man...yet. BUT HE IS MY SOULMATE! So he technically IS my man.

Today is going to be a long day.

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