~~~Reki POV~~~

***Alarm Blaring at 7:00***

I get up with a start before turning off my alarm, grumbling about how early it is before starting to get ready for they day. After getting dressed in my normal outfit, I go over and grab my headband that supposed to smell like my soulmate, I look around my room, making sure none of my family is around, before I bury my nose in the soft fabric and inhale the scent that always seems to calm me down and make me feel safe.

Ok little breakdown, when you're born you are given some item of clothing, in my case it was my headband, that smells like your soulmate. I don't know how they know who your soulmate is or anything like that, but your soulmates scent is woven into the article of clothing, the most often one is a hoodie or jacket, but I've heard of people getting underwear and things like that, so I'm lucky mine isn't anything too embarrassing and it's something I can easily add into my wardrobe. But, when you find your soulmate, you usually don't know until you have grown close, it's not like you just walk around one day and smell them like a dog and live like that. You have to have some sort of connection and be in close contact, or that's what I hear. And no one else can smell their scent on it except for you and after you become close, your soulmate.

After smelling the soft fabric and putting it on my head, where I can get a faint whiff of it throughout the whole day, I head out to the kitchen to eat breakfast and make my bento box for lunch today.

"Morning, Okaa-san." I call out to my mother as I enter our kitchen and see her cooking breakfast.

"Morning, Reki." She says back while still focusing on the breakfast, we continue with mindless conversation as my 3 younger sisters start to emerge from their rooms to eat and make their lunches.

"Morning, Onii-chan. Morning Okaa-san." My sisters say as they enter the kitchen one by one.

"Morning" we reply to them. After breakfast, I grab my skateboard and yell out to them that I am heading out, as I leave the house.

I'm mostly in my own thoughts as I ride to school, thinking about how much I resent it being the first day back after summer break. I long to go to the skate park or even to my part time job at Dope Sketch, anything to do with skateboarding rather than school. Once I reach school grounds, I get off my skateboard and head to my class, with my head down trying to bring as little attention to myself while I'm thinking over my next design for a skateboard I wanna try or a new sticker design, I'll sketch out when I get to class.

I sit down as soon as the bell rings, I'm in the back of the class right by the window so my guess is I won't be called on much and I can zone out or chill if I need too. Apparently while I was zoned out the teacher was introducing some new kid named Langa. I don't know what I think about him yet, seems like he doesn't know Japanese that well or just doesn't care enough to speak. He doesn't say much except his name and that he's from Canada. Kinda cool that he's from Canada but I don't know, I might try to get to know him later on since the teach put him in the seat by me.

~~Time Skip because I'm lazy~~

After school, I skate right over to my job at Dope Sketch, excited to see what my manager, Shokichi Oka, will have me doing today. As I walk inside, I see that he isn't there, I know I'll get to mess with him for that later on and decide to start restocking the shelves while waiting on him to show up.

He inevitably shows up and after helping a few customers he tells me to take a break and go skate around since I had been there for around 4 hours and need to relax for a bit. As I'm skating, I notice something on a sign and hop off of my skateboard for a sec, before realizing that was a bad idea as it started to roll away, with me chasing it. I see Langa ahead of me and yell out to him, "Hey, can you stop that skateboard?"

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Hey guys!!!! Emory here, I've recently gotten into Sk8 the Infinity and wanted to write something for it, while I was trying to come up with ideas this popped into my head. Let me know what you think of it and any improvements you can think of. Just an FYI, there will be no Adam in this story and if I have to mention him, it will only be in passing and he will not have any lines, I can't stand him so yeah, if that changes I will put a disclaimer because honestly he makes me so angry that it annoys me so yeah. Oh also, I do not know Japanese or their culture or anything and honestly I would love to, so if their is anything wrong with my story in a culture level if y'all could correct me, I would really appreciate it, honestly right now I'm going off of google and stuff like that so yeah, it would be a big help. Love y'all!!!!

-Noelle