requested by: VoidDrifterSakura1
A/n: this takes place in a high school, if you don't know what the red string au is here is a short summary,
the red string au is a soulmate au where the pair of soulmates are connected by a red string which is tied on their ring finger.

Y/n's POV
A fresh start. I can finally begin again. I open the classroom door and the teacher stands up to confront me, scanning me first.

"Good morning Y/n. Why don't you introduce yourself?" Mr. Watson tightly smiles as he gestures towards the rest of the class.

"Hello everyone, my name is  Y/n L/n. I like to f/h in my spare time.." I glance towards Mr. Watson, signalling that I want to quit talking now. Everyone's eyes are surveying me but some of them are as wide as the amount of fucks I give. Thankfully the dark haired teacher caught my signal.

"Thank you Y/n. You can pick any seat you want, we'll be having a free period today so don't worry about catching up on school work." Mr. Watson projects his words so I can hear as I walk towards a free seat in the corner,  I glance over my shoulder to flash him a smile as a thank you.

I tug on the sleeves of my hoodie down 'til they cover the tips of my middle finger and settle into my seat, trying to block out everyone else's conversations.

"Hello!"

I'm met with a green haired boy sitting to my left, "My name's Daniel!" His contagious smile makes me subconsciously smile back, "Y/n, right?" he continues.

"Yeah, how are you?" he maintains eye contact as I let go of my sleeves, revealing my fingers.

"I'm doing good, you?" Daniel turns the question onto me.

"Swell!" I reply with jazz hands in a sarcastic tone. When Daniel looks away I instantly follow his scarlet string to another girl in class. Now that I look at everyone, they all have a string. Ha! except me... I shift my eyes back to Daniel as soon as I notice that he's back to looking at me. I chuckle nervously and twiddle my thumbs.

We end up talking more, he told me about himself and his soulmate. He asked me about mine but I somehow managed to dodge the question.

"Hey how about I ask Mr. Watson if I can show you around? I mean we do only have half an hour of class left..." We both turn to our teacher's desk and notice that a blonde male is facing a seated Mr. Watson. "His husband! That's perfect, he's always in a good mood whenever they're together!" Daniel pulls out his phone and types a message to someone, "I wonder who it is.."

Daniel gives me nod signalling to stand up and scurry on over to Mr. Watson's desk.

"Hello Mr. John and Mr. Watson!" Daniel waves. Our teacher turns towards us, still smiling, and asks,

"Yes, children?" asks Mr. Watson. I can't help but smile at the couple's crimson cheeks and intertwined fingers.

"We were wondering if I can take Y/n on a tour of the school since we have loads of time left this period!" Daniel speaks up.

"Oh sure!" Mr. Watson exclaims.

"You're so sweet sometimes Sherlock." Mr. John compliments his husband. Daniel and I snicker and head outside,

"They're quite cute together." I smile, remembering the pair's smiling faces.

"Yeah..." Daniel lets his word trail off and I glance at him as we're walking.

"You look like you have something on your mind...?"

Daniel begins to walk stiffly, "Just say it Daniel. It's okay, we're alone!" I encourage.

"I just couldn't help but notice..." Daniel starts. "Oh no."  "How come your string...?" He glances at my string-less finger and looks away just as fast. I let out a sigh.

"I..did have a soulmate but he cheated on me. And when I shut things down with him.." I swallow the lump in my throat, "he cut our string." The upsetting memories flood back and I cross my arms.

"I can't believe someone would do that. Especially to you, you're so kind, pretty and honestly the most sane person I know." I could tell Daniel's trying to comfort me and that really warms my heart.

In the blink of an eye two boys appear in front of Daniel and I,

"Hello Daniel." the purple haired boy turns to me, "Hello girl conversing with Daniel."

"Her name is Y/n, idiot. If you had bothered to look at the text I sent you, you'd know that." Daniel rolls his eyes. The boy huffs and looks away, he shuts his eyes and clenches his jaw. My e/c orbs travel to the silver haired boy who has a sparkle in his eye,

"Hi there Y/n! My name is Hosuh and that's Stephen.."  Hosuh points to the purple haired guy.

"Hi Hosuh! Nice to meet you both." I beam. My eyes find their way back onto Stephen and his eyes linger on me as well. He's very... attractive, i'll admit it.

"I don't believe you've had the pleasure of meeting me, Y/n." he winks and holds out his hand for me to shake.

No string...

I side glance at Hosuh and Daniel, they don't seem bewildered at all. But I just can't believe there's someone else here that's like me...

"Pleasure's all yours.." I take his hand with mine and Stephen gawks at my empty finger.

"You're like-!" Stephen's voice gets cut off by a vermilion string bow appearing on his ring finger. We all gape at it, "What the goddamn fuck."  Our eyes follow the string that slowly becomes  visible, I pull my hand away but the string continues to materialize. I take a step back and shakily look down at my own finger to grasp there's a red string bow on it.

The string fully forms and connects Stephen and I together.

Stephen and I's jaw's drop to the floor and Daniel and Hosuh fanboy next to us.

"I told you they'd be perfect for each other, Hosuh!"

"This is amazing!" Hosuh eyes us as if we're his OTP.

Stephen takes a step towards me and my feet stick to the floor.

"Hi, soulmate.." He holds out his hand once more, "Ahem..I promise to never make you feel like crap, disrespect your opinion, or stop loving you."

He smiles and I can't look away, "Take my hand if you'd like to be my girlfriend." I cock my eyebrow and Stephen sweats, "We can start off as 'close' friends and build our way up, but I want everyone to know we're soulmates without even looking at our string."

My ex never talked to me like this even when we were together, all he ever gave me were empty promises. Stephen scratches the back of his neck, "What do you say?"

I hesitantly place my hand in his and grin ear to ear,

"I'd love to, soulmate!"