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y/n's POV ˎˊ˗

Five days until soulmate assignment.
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I sighed as I swung my feet under the table, humming in time to a song in my headphones. I flipped a page of the Fantasy book i was reading, ignoring the TV report about soulmate numbers on the rise.

I saw people running around and holding out their wrists, showing the glowing soulmate symbols. I rolled my eyes, but was secretly excited for my eighteenth birthday in five days. People were already meeting their soulmates and making plans, and yet here I was in the library.

I flipped another page of my book, falling almost back into the world of aged yellow book pages, until someone new walking into the reading area caught my eye. I carefully looked over the rim of my book, and my eyes widened as I saw a very cute boy walk in.

He looked really familiar, and a feeling was tugging at the back of my brain that he was famous. He looked about my age, and he was wearing a blazer from the world-renowned Umbrella Academy. Wait a second...he was Five! The time-traveling and spacial jumping kid!

When they had saved the world about two years ago, they were the hottest thing to talk about. I was sure that everyone believed either Klaus, or Diego were the best looking, but for me it had always been Five.

One fact was that I was born on the same day as the Hargreeves siblings, only four years later. So Five and I had the same birthday. Five was my age, and I had appreciated someone else with an insanely sarcastic nature.

They had died down after a while, but I still harbored a small crush for Five, even after knowing that I would have an assigned soulmate. So to see him walk into the library jarred me.

I heard him walk around for a bit behind me, and I kept reading, but I heard a loud thunk from beside me, and I looked to my right, seeing Five pull up a chair beside me and give me a slight side smirk.

I shoved my nerves down and turned to face him, putting my bookmark in between the pages and effectively hiding the Umbrella Academy drawings on them. "Hi, Five." His face showed no surprise that I knew his name, but he smirked. "Hey. What's your name, cute girl?"

I felt a blush rise to my cheeks, but I fought it down and spoke up. "Y/n." Five smiled at me, his eyes sparking with amusement. "Nice name. I'm assuming you already know who I am, from the fact that you knew my name." I laughed quietly and smiled at him.

"Of course. Who doesn't know who you are?" Five looked down and scratched the back of his neck, and looked up. "No one, honestly." I laughed, and pointed at the TV showing soulmate reports. "Have any of your siblings gotten their soulmate marks?" Five looked down, his mood downcast.

"Yeah...they did." I sighed as I messed with my shirt, realizing that I had messed up our conversation. "Five, you don't have to tell me if you don't want to..." Five sighed and looked up, smiling at me. "We haven't reached that level of friendship yet." He said, laughing.

I rolled my eyes at him in jest, and punched him on the arm. "Wow, Five, and here I thought we were best friends!" Five laughed, and disappeared, and reappeared behind my rolling chair. He placed his hands on the side, and I realized a second too late what he was going to do.

"No, don't you dare-" Before I could finish my sentence, Five ran off through the library, pushing my chair in front of him as I clung into the edges of the chair for dear life. I let out a laugh mixed with a yell, and swung my arms around me, smiling as Five pushed me around, laughing.

We managed to get back to our desks after a very grumpy librarian gave us both the evil eye. I went back to my seat, Five following me closely behind. We talked for a while about our favorite things to do, until we went back to the topic of soulmates.

"Y/n, how old are you?" I smirked, looking at him. "Seventeen. My eighteenth birthday is in five days." Five's eyes widened. "Wait...you have the same birthday as us?" I giggled, smiling at his wide-eyes expression.

"That means that we're both getting our tattoos on the same day! This is awesome!" Five yelled, his excitement shining through. I quickly placed a hand over his mouth, shushing him as I spotted the librarian heading our way. I pointed at her quietly, showing Five the fact that we were most likely about to get yelled at. "Can we head to the academy? I don't feel like getting yelled at by an old lady who needs better dentures."

Five nodded, and looked into my eyes. "Do you trust me?" I gulped nervously, but I nodded as Five looped his arm around my waist, bringing a blush to my cheeks.

"Well then, let's get to the academy." I felt Five tighten his grip on my waist, and a blue flash took over most of my vision as everything went blurry.

first chapter down!

I'd like to thank Madrcar , webslinging , and -soultosell for inspiring me to write this 💕

-lily