Everlasting

Chapter One

Wynn’s POV  

                        I’ve waited all my life to find my Everlasting. It’s similar to what most call a mate but it’s more sacred. At least that’s what I’ve been told. There is no infidelity. Everyone has one. The moment it happens they become your entire world. If you were a selfish human, you become selfless. Your world revolves around them. Everyone finds their Everlasting. There has never been anyone who hasn’t. In RARE RARE instances you may have two. You know you’ve met your Everlasting when you hear their voice in your head. That is called a Vocem. You will also look into each other’s eyes and feel a locking in place. An angel will visit you and give you your wedding date. You have until midnight that night to get married or otherwise you lose your Everlasting forever. 

                        There are a couple different ceremonies you can have. You can have the typical Everlasting ceremony. Which is a normal wedding followed by a soul connecting ceremony. The other one is a claim. For a claim to work both parties must agree to a s****l act. You bite your partner, drink their blood, and say a few words in latin. Your teeth marks are left on their body. People who have two Everlastings will sometimes do a claim and a soul connecting ceremony. That way they can keep both partners. If they don't, the other partner is kept alone forever. 

                        From an early age child are taught about Everlastings. They learn the ins and outs. The things that are allowed and not allowed. At the age of eighteen is when you start finding your Everlasting and usually the ending age is twenty-five, but it can be longer. People make the mistake of believing it’s someone new you meet. It can be someone you have known all your life, two years, or two days. Something just snaps one day, and everything becomes clear. 

                        This weekend is my eighteenth birthday. My father rented out the old revival house theater for a showing of The Exorcist and Nightmare on Elm Street. I’m a horror movie buff. I can’t wait. My best guy friend Sebastian is coming in from college for it. He is bringing his roommate Cooper. I haven’t met him yet but WOW! He is hot. Maybe for my birthday I can ask for a lap dance. Hell, it’s my eighteenth. I’ll no longer be jail bail. I deserve a little harmless fun. 

                        It’s Thursday and I’m out of class for a four-day weekend. Friday is a teacher workday and Monday is a holiday. I love four-day weekends. My best girlfriend Ava is meeting me out by my car. We are going to the mall to get out nails done with our other girlfriends. I am almost to the car when my phone starts ringing. It is Sebastian. “Hey Bash. What are you doing?”

“You’ll never guess it?” Sebastian sounds very happy.

“Leaving you last class.” I unlock the doors so Ava and I can get in the car.

“I am almost back home.”

“Seriously? What about Friday classes?” I asked. I’m shocked and happy about this turn of events. 

“It will be Friday. It’s just a Friday. I also don’t have to leave until Monday due to the holiday” Sebastian sounds happier and happier.

I am driving to the mall with him on hands free. “That’s great. I’ll see you shortly.”

“Are you going home?”

“No to the mall. Call or text when you’re in town.”

“Okay. Have fun. Bye.” Sebastian ends the call.

                        I smile the rest of the way to the mall. Ava always teases me about Sebastian. Saying that we should be a couple. That if, we just kissed once that would be the end of it. It would never happen though. I love him as my friend. He loves me as his friend. That’s how our relationship works. I would never ruin it. We go into the mall and catch up with our girlfriends Katy and Colleen. 

                        We are coming out of the shop when I hear someone yelling my name. Sebastian is heading towards me. “BASH!”

“Hey Wynn.” 

He hugs me tightly. He is a nice-looking guy six feet tall, brown hair, hazel eyes, a runner’s body, and a rock-hard stomach. Okay I’ll admit it, he’s hot. I happen to catch a peek at the guy behind him. OH MY GOD!  Now he is H-O-T.

                        “Wynn, I’d like you to meet my roommate Cooper Richards.”

Cooper comes forward and shakes my hand. “Nice to meet you, Wynn. Sebastian never shut up about you.”

Sebastian drops his head. His face is turning bright red. I smile at Sebastian.

“It’s nice to meet you too, Coop. Do you guys want to go to Hot Topic with us?”

“Sure,” They both say.

Now Cooper is about five foot ten, dark blue eyes, muscular, black somewhat wavy hair, and I bet rock hard. Not like that though. Just his body. Oh lord help me. “Are you okay Bash?”

“Yes, I’m fine.”

                        We get to the store, and I look at the wall of corsets. I pick out a couple and skirts to go with them. “You are not going out in something like that.” Sebastian says.

“I’m no longer jailbait. I can wear what I want.”

Ava goes back with me. I try on a black one with silver swirls. There is a tapping on the door. “Can I see?” Sebastian asks.

I open the door. He looks absolutely stunned. Colleen can see it from where she is standing. “I’m getting the black and silver skirt.”

Cooper is not standing where Colleen was and smiles brightly at me. “I love it, Wynn. I think you should get it.” He winks at me. Which makes me drop my head down and take a deep breath to keep from turning red. 

Sebastian, I notice turns to look at Cooper but he is already gone. “It looks nice, Wynn. You should get it, but you stay by me.”

“Yes master.” I roll my eyes.”

I turn around and shut the dressing room door.