Soulmates

One with the birthday

Today is my birthday the day I turn 18 and the day I might find my soul mate and see color for the first time. I live in a world where you see black and white until you find your soul mate but and can go back to seeing black and white if you lose your soul mate or if you get refused. My name is Laurel June Davies I am a werewolf, yes mythical exist in this world dragons, vampires, and demons you name it and it probably exists. You see all mythical creatures have a soul mate, someone, to love for the rest of our lives and I am at the age to find mine. Today is my 18th birthday the day where we can start finding our mates.

My mother greets me with a hug and a kiss on the cheek, my father greets me with a hug and a happy birthday, and my brother just says "Happy birthday June," he has a thing with calling me June mostly because I was born in June and my middle name is June because I was born in June. This Friday is the annual ball for 18-year-olds to 20-year-olds. As of this moment, I have 3 days to find a dress and put my name on the list for the ball.

Before I do any of that, I’m going to celebrate this day, I start celebrating by; eating pancakes, fixing my face (hair, makeup, etc.) and heading to school for an embarrassing day of my friends shouting that I’m 18 and teasing me. By the middle of the day, it is no secret that I’m 18. I’m pretty confident that the surrounding packs know that my birthday came as well. Now I sit in Mrs.Browns mythical history class, And of course, being the alpha’s daughter, she happens to call me out about my birthday so anyone who is in this class and didn’t know about my birthday knows.

School just ended and now I get to sit blindfolded in the kitchen while my family sets up my birthday party, I can hear everything that’s going on but I still can’t tell what’s going on due to not being able to see, It’s quite annoying not being able to see but I know it’s going to be worth it in the end. My wolf who has been with me since I was sixteen has been running around in my head wondering who my mate will be, will it be a werewolf, a demon, dragon, or even a human. My mother says I should cherish him or even her every day like it’s your last that is the key to happiness, according to her at least.

Next thing I know is that my blindfold is carefully taken off and I’m met with the beautifully decorated backyard, to my left is a stage and to my right is a buffet table, In the middle is tables and on the other side where the end of the tables is a dancing floor. Everything is decorated and (I think it is decorated with blue and green, but that’s just what others tell me) with twinkle lights everywhere. I see a large cake with my name and age on it in silver with fake flowers surrounding it.

My best friend Juliana came up and bear-hugged me, it was awesome! My brother Jake and his best friend Xander, I’ve always had a crush on him since we had been in the 8th grade, Xander is my age but Jake is a year older. Jake is only 9 and a half months older how my mom was able to get pregnant again well the answer that we heal quickly. Enough with the explaining lets get back to partying!

I think that those appetizers look very appealing I go over to grab a few, but my mother stops me saying that they have something that we got to do first before eating, confused, I let her lead me over to where she has me stand, aka the middle of the dance floor. I quickly get blindfolded then I feel something get put on me, but I don’t pay much attention until someone takes the blindfold off. When I look at what they put on me, it’s a sash saying, birthday girl. I see that a bunch of pups holding letter spells out ‘Your 18 Congrats!’

I could find my mate before the ball but that has to be someone who’s already been to the ball. When we are at the ball, we go through a ritual that allows us to feel the soulmate bond unless we have been at the ball already, it’s kinda weird but I’ve been told it’s painless, but my brother, my parents, and anyone else I know who had gone to the ritual. Amell hasn’t gone either so this is also his first time, he is only two months ahead of me.

Pretty soon after we have eaten and after we dance half of the night away, my mother announces that it is cake time. I go up next to the cake, and the pack starts singing happy birthday I make a wish, the wish to find my mate and blow the candles out. Of coarse many to ask to know what I wished but I kept my lips sealed. It was quite funny they made silly comments like “I knew she would say that” Julianna remarked that one.

By now It’s the end of the party and I am wiped out! It was so fun but so tiring. I very excited for tomorrow because this morning we had put my name on the list for the ball and tomorrow we will get my dress, Julianna already has hers.

The next day after school, we go to the dress shop to try on a few gowns, It’s Thursday by the way. My mom says the dress is perfect on me, it’s satin, in the shape of a mermaid dress, and what my mom says is dark blue, I don’t know what dark blue is so I will just have to wait and see but from what I can tell it’s pretty. Now I just have to wait for the ball.