May watched the letters on her own arm disappear. Val had to be in the bathroom, then. Maybe it wouldn't hurt to ask this now… Can I ask you something? Why are we you always getting hurt? If you don't want to say, that's ok, she wrote, adding the last bit on hastily. It was something that she'd always kind of wondered and worried about.
Val stared at the words for a moment. Sorry about that its nothing. I'll try not to as much She wrote handwriting even worse than before. She then almost immediately washed the words off. Scrubbing to make sure there was no sign of the ink before leaving the room. She walked back to her class. She had lunch next. She sat at an empty table needing to think.
(Ack sorry, I've been busy)
May hummed to herself, gently swinging her packed lunch at her side. Several of her friends had already sat down at the table they normally occupied, and a few of them were still in the lunch line. As she approached the table, May noticed Valentina sitting alone at an empty one and frowned slightly. "Guys, I think I'm gonna sit somewhere else today. Nothing against any of you, obviously, but–"
"You gonna sit with that new girl?" One of her friends asked. She nudged May with her elbow, grinning. "She's not too bad-looking, I'll give you that~"
May's cheeks pinked. "Wh–No. I mean, yeah, I'm gonna sit with her, but it's not like that–stop laughing Jack I swear to god–" she stammered. It… wasn't like that, right? She'd know if she was getting a crush. Right? Sure, she was certainly pretty, and she seemed cool and nice, but May didn't really even know anything about her! "I–y-you guys are terrible, I'm gonna…yeah. Bye."
"Go get her, champ!" someone at the table cheered as she left, causing May to wince and her blush to deepen. By the time she reached Val's table, she'd managed to mostly turn down the red on her face, though her cheeks were still a little bit pink.
"Hey, mind if I sit here? You looked kinda lonely," May commented with a slightly awkward smile. Just be cool, don't fuck up–wait, why am I treating this like I'm talking to a crush? Just because she's my soulmate doesn't mean we're… destined to date or whatever, right?
(Bump?)
(sorry haven't been active that much lately but I'm back)
Val didn't look up from her sketchbook until May spoke. She shrugged. "Sure why not," She said before looking down at her sketchbook. She had a paper bag next to wit her name but she hadn't opened it yet. too busy trying to think of a way to avoid May. Well inviting her to sit at her table was probably not the best start but she didn't want to jump straight to being an ass.
(bump?)
(Aaa, sorry! Also happy New Years!)
"Cool, what'cha drawing?" May asked, sitting down next to Val with a smile. She wanted to talk about the whole 'soulmates' thing at some point, but maybe that wouldn't be the best thing to start off with. They knew, so why waste more time on it? And thank god that the noise at her table had died down, she really hoped that Val hadn't heard that. That would be pretty awkward…
"Nothing much," She said closing her journal. If May had caught it she would have seen a garden landscape. She had overheard some of the cheering from the other table but she didn't comment on it. Deciding to still play dumb and no bring up the whole soulmate thing. Sh knew it was only a matter of time before May brings it up though.