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Third person POV (A couple hours before students woke up)
The halls were quiet before the soulmates woke up to see what had occurred to them. But at that moment, silence. The best time of the dawn breaking, no birds twittering about, no screams of laughter from students, just the wind and the silence. The type many bask in and breathe a sigh of relief that the past day is over and a new one is beginning. But of course this was all about to change.
James woke first as he did many mornings at 5am and with sudden jolt realised what had happened, piecing together why the gold strings led to the two beds across the room of his dorm. As many do when they realise that there soulmates are their best friends who they have had a crush o for many years, James broke down into sobs, gut wrenching sobs as thick droplets of water traced down his face onto his bed sheets that he had pulled over his head to try muffle the crying.
He wondered why it had to be him? Why were the fates so cruel to force his crushes to realise he was their soulmate and force him watch as the look of disappointment struck their faces. He was so stupid, stupid enough to believe the feelings he had would go away after a few weeks, stupid enough to believe he could be loved, stupid enough to even think he deserved love in the first place.
But then he thought about how the hell he got the idea that he had a right to feel sorry for himself. He needed to grow up and realise that his life was not as shitty as Sirius’, or Remus’, or Peters, he needed to fucking grow up because this self-pity wasn’t going to help him at all. Sit the fuck up James and get UP!
James sat up as straight as a rod and went about his normal daily run and his shower routine, he felt so detached from the world, almost like he wasn’t there somehow. He felt as if he was in a dream, he felt like he was floating on a cloud that had spikes digging into his skin as his punishment from Satan himself. He sat on his bed for an hour before he heard Sirius begin to wake and thought to himself, time to fucking compartmentalise my feelings in order to explain whats going on to one of my best friends a.k.a one of my crushes. What a fan-fucking-tastic day ahead of him.
TIME SKIP TO THE MARAUDERS AND CO WALKING TO BREAKFAST
Dorcas’ POV
As I walked down the halls of the castle with my best friends, I looked down at my gold string and saw it growing brighter as I kept walking forwards. I looked up and saw the Marauders and co walking down the steps that led to the gryffindor common room and realised with dread where my gold string led.
Marlene Mckinnon.
Of-fucking-course it was Mckinnon, the girl I had the hots for since only second year?!?!? FUCK ME (please Marlene). Damn it, my family is going to disown me and so are my friends. I can’t tell them, I can’t acknowledge her either. Damn it. Damn you fates.
Remus’ POV
Fuck me.