As I was busy inwardly complaining about my wasted lunch opportunity, Tristan grabbed my hand and started running to the playground. "Where are we going to now?" I pretended to not know this was the playground as he was leading me.
"Well now we are going to have our playground time, come on you have to see tetherball it's one of my favorites here." He said in between breaths excitedly sprinting to the group of people playing with the ball tied to the pole.
"Not much I can do besides follow you since you're holding my hand so firmly." While I said that to him, something that I noticed was even though we were sprinting. I didn't seem to get tired at all, now that I'm thinking about my birth, doesn't the goddess who created me technically become my mother?
While I was thinking about useless things for a few seconds, Tristan came to a stop while he walked over to the line standing behind 5 people.
"Awww Tristan you in line? Just because you bring yo girl doesn't mean you finna win." Said a black boy with some jordans and black eyes. He also had a red shirt with some black school shorts.
"I'll admit she hot doe, the hottest chick I ever seen but you still gonna lose today. What's dat gone be? The score gonna be 8-4 and boy I'll tell you I plan to get 10." Spoke the boy in what seems to be a street'cent?
"Naw bro I'm telling you I'm about to violate your whole set right now better be ready Choyce," Said Tristan with visible determination.
'You guys are for real getting this serious over a game of tetherball? Oh, yea if I remember they were like classmate rivals for a while right? I guess I answered my own question, why do I keep asking questions and not paying real attention just to answer my own question.' As the boys were exhausting themselves over this game of tetherball, I decided to walk around the courtyard talking to everyone else in 6th grade and getting their names. Obviously, I couldn't just know everyone in 6th grade but I at least got everyone in our 25-person class.
As it happened the rest of the periods were pretty uneventful so I mainly kept to myself until the final bell rang.
"Ava! Wait up!" I turned around to see Tristan chasing behind me. "What bus do you take home?" He asked with a hopeful expression. 'whichever bus you do' I inwardly thought "I'm not sure they only gave me numbers, but the number they gave me was 22 can you show me which bus it is?".
"Nice! That's my bus come on I'll show you where it is!" Tristan said excitedly while grabbing my hand. 'He's gotta stop grabbing my hand it just increases the urge I feel for affection and it's weird to act like that on the first day.' Our soul fluctuations are at 105% the absolute peak you can have. For some reason, I could feel something along those lines. I have to avoid too much contact for now.
"Ok, but how come you keep holding my hand when we leave? I can walk too you know I'm not fragile." Gotta distract him or something from touching me, otherwise, I won't be able to resist and I'm pretty sure randomly hugging someone you just met is considered extremely weird.
"Oh sorry, I keep doing it without thinking. It's like an instinct, sorry that might sound weird I'm not sure why." He said as he apologized extremely quickly and scrambled for his words, however this proves my theory since he feels it too.
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"I mean it's fine, I kind of feel something similar just be sure not to do it too much" Hopefully controlling the contact in moderation will help seethe the magnetic force of our souls. Normally based on the basic knowledge the divinity transfer gave me, two souls will only be attracted to each other when 2 souls duplicate. From what I know though by now, let alone 7 hours, even after 20 minutes one soul will either be erased or forcibly fused by balance itself. This is because 2 souls can't exist in the exact same timeline, It's way worse than doppelgangers and even nature kills those.
The only explanation is that our souls are not the same. That doesn't make sense though because directly meeting the only person with the absolute limit of compatibility is too much of a coincidence. Since there is only 1 person like that for everyone in the world, well you can't deny what's right in front of your eyes.
While I was thinking about useless things he suddenly stopped, "This is my bus that's why I was so excited." When we went inside the bus I decided to sit on the other side just in case. Tristan looked at me with a clear sad face, I just shrugged my shoulders innocently while flaring my arms. Just to give a 'What, I don't know' kind of feeling.
While the bus was coming to the 4th stop, which was the apartment complex Tristan was in. I willed chaos in my hand to live in the apartment just next to him. However, once I did this it seemed my parents lived in a house 20 minutes away from here. I don't know the situation on that and I can't be bothered to use chaos and figure it out.
"Ava, you live here too? Cool! Hey, this means we can hang out pretty often, Hey you should come and meet my friends while we play soccer." I looked at him and thought about it, fine I guess there's no harm in it. Plus what reason do I have not to go? "Alright, I don't mind going let's go." Once I said I would come he grabbed my hand and proceeded through the apartment complex from the front where the bus dropped us off.
As we were going through the complex I noticed a lot of grey-shaped apartments, They didn't have second floors on some of them they were a little bigger. For example mine and Tristan's apartments are around 40% bigger than the ones that were connected. Finally, after cutting around and through apartments, we got to a green field where I saw 6 other people.
"Guys! I brought someone new to play soccer with us." After Tristan said this they looked at him and he said "Her name is Ava, and Ava meet my friends, Nathan, Ceasar, Mikey, Brandon, Selene, and little john.
Little john seemed to be a whiter boy with green eyes too but messier blonde disheveled hair seemingly 14 years old. Nathan was black but he also had a side wave with more baby-face features, he seemed 15 he had black eyes (whenever I say black I mean super dark brown).
Ceasar and Mikey were kind of twins but one had a mohawk and the other had curls in a mushroom shape they both looked more Mexican and my same 'age' with seemingly lighter brown eye color. Brandon looked kind of the same as Tristan but he had little johns hair, and it was black in color instead of blonde.
Selene was different she had straight hair and kind of the same complexion as me however unlike me she didn't have many baby face features to mix with her sharp defining features, also black in eye color.
Once they started arguing about teams and arguments about the team captain, I decided to practice before we start. I willed myself into a tracksuit and some basic cleats and grabbed a ball. I noticed that I had perfect control over everything related to my body so the ball was easy to control, I have never played soccer before but I could already juggle like a pro because of perfect control.
Once the teams were formed Tristan said I'm on his team with Mikey and Little John. So we all got on opposite sides of the grass field, luckily there even is a field in this apartment complex. Once we got ready with little john as the goalie Tristan immediately called out to me to be midfield.
"OK, I got it!" I said as I snapped open my eyes with vigilance, in sports, I'm noticing you have to pay attention to a lot.
As soon as the game started john threw the ball to Tristan, he reacted extremely fast instantly sprinting forward. Unfortunately for him, Nathan was on him he tries to maneuver around but Nathan won't be broken so easily so he trips and falls right in front.