I will wait for you trilogy: 1

"Braelynn..." "Braelynn." "Braelynn!" The voice of her best friend finally managed to get her attention, lifting her head to meet her friends' ocean eyes. "You okay? You've been spacing out a lot lately..." Braelynn nodded slightly before finally lifting her sleeve on her right shoulder, there was a mark; a Purple Heart with wings. A mark everyone gained when it was their time to meet their soulmate. While gently poking her mark her best friend smiled excitingly, "You got your mark! You must be so excited! Lucky you since the ceremony is so close!" She tried to show a smile. "I guess so? What about you Kathy?" Kathy lifted her sleeve and shook her head as both of them saw the bare clean skin, no mark to be found. Kathy sighed at the sight and spoke aloud to herself wondering if she would ever get her mark, "I'm sure you will, there's still a week left! Maybe you're just a late bloomer?" Braelynn only hoped she sounded convincing, she couldn't imagine her best friend not gaining her mark again. There was even a poster on the wall of Kathy's room with all the known soulmate marks; The Pink Rose, Purple Heart Wing and Black Roses were more of the rarer marks. On the tv they would usually see people with short-sleeved clothes to show off their mark, Kathy's recorded series were mostly things about people dating random guys while they didn't have their marks. Daylight slowly slinked out from the room, the bright yellow room growing darker with every minute. Most of the time they watched the tv together until it was midnight, enjoying the same shows together. Kathy was older than Braelynn by four years but the two of them were as close as sisters, even staying over each other's houses like this night. The snow outside had turned into a small flurry, coating the trees in a thick coat. Sometimes the two would need to put the heating on because even though the window was closed the air was still chilly, neither of them minded too much, especially Kathy's mum who was the most excited for this month. Braelynn sipped her hot chocolate carefully while the voices of the tv hummed, strands of her hair falling past her face as she stared into the swirling abyss of hot chocolate. She mostly just listened to her best friend as she stared but her thoughts did wander about the ceremony, her supposed soulmate. As far as she knew there had never been records of someone getting the wrong soulmate, everything to do with their marks and partners was always perfect. Was she the only one who worried about getting the wrong soulmate? What would he even be like? Sometimes she imagined him, although, not as much as Kathy imagined hers. If she focused hard sometimes could see his face in her head, what she thought he would look like; it would change from a blonde to a brunette, blue to green eyes, freckles to glasses and so forth. "Braelynn? What names do you think our soulmates will have?" She shrugged before yawning and stretching her arms to the sky, Kathy continuing to speak. "I hope it's something I can make a nickname out of." Braelynn rolled her eyes before smiling at her romanticising friend, asking in a half-mocking tone. "Do you ever think about anything other than soulmates? Like, I don't know, work?" A pillow gently smacked against her arm as Kathy stuck out her tongue which was blue from the ice cream from earlier that day, "You're always focusing on that stuff Brae, you know it's not healthy to always focus on that? You should have more fun!" Braelynn retaliated with a pillow of her own pushed into her friends face. "I'll have fun after I ace my studies and get a good job, that's most important." Both of them settled down afterwards, it was easily past 2:00 AM by now. Kathy whispered with her eyes closed tightly to the top bunk where Braelynn was, "Hey Brae?" "Yeah?" Kathy yawned as she spoke. "We'll always be best friends right?" Braelynn grinned very slightly, closing her eyes to fall into the abyss of silent shadows, resting peacefully. "Always."