Juleka knew who her soul mate was before the words were even said. The two were so close in friendship that it was so hard to imagine their lives without each other in them. And as they were close friends, she knew Rose's handwriting anywhere. The loops and swirls that made up the girls neat yet romantic handwriting were too similar. Not to mention the sentence that wrapped in light blue around the goth girl's wrist, making it near impossible to see the whole sentence was so alike to what the sweet girl in pink would say, it was hard to imagine another person saying them, or another being able to complete each other as well as the two of them do.
However, Juleka dared to not reveal her suspicions. After all, handwriting, eye colour and words were all just that until confirmation was made, and revealing something like this to Rose could ruin everything between them. Juleka did not know how to feel about it all still. There was the whole thing of soul mates after all, the person who would complete you, were generally a romantic interest. Leading to where the two would actually stand as something more than friends or still best friends.
Juleka was one of the older classmates in the year, that her words appeared early on. Her brother teased her before her birthday over her worry of the words, and after as well for the worrying over if her soul mate was Rose or a complete stranger she was having. Juleka still thinks it was uncalled for, but Luka then raised a point.
"Doesn't matter who it is, you and them will understand each other better than anyone. If it's Rose, that's great, if not, it doesn't mean a thing." And in a surprising moment when her brother struggles to communicate what he feels, expressed exactly what she needed to hear, though the melodies on his guitar as he told her probably were helpful.
A couple weeks later, the school photos incident occurred. To say the least, she was glad to have Marinette to help her out, and Rose there as well to make her feel better and defeat her curse of the selfies. Rose had taken to creating a new chapter in their friendship scrapbook, to showcase the curse had ended. The two had taken to going to their favourite places one at a time over the months to take more photos together and add factors to the scrap book.
"You're going to run out of space very quickly if you keep up with the amount of photos you have Rose." Juleka mentioned when she came over to see the bludging binder that was covered in glitter and roses in pink. She then noticed the cover, actually read,
"Juleka and Rose, Vol 2.?" Juleka saw that Rose's cheeks were burning to match the outfit of the sweet girl.
"That may have already happened…." Juleka smiled and pulled out another binder for scrapbooking.
"I guess it's going to happen again soon?" She revealed the binder that was black and purple, covered in netting and fake purple fur (it won't get everywhere like feathers) labelled Rose and Juleka. Rose's smile was like a small child on Christmas (or Marinette's when Adrien talked to her), as she squealed over the book and grabbed it, flicking through to see that Juleka had added a few things, that made the book something for them.
"I love it!" Rose hugged her bestie that started to blush, "Thank you!"
The two were rushing around the shops together, trying to find the perfect purple scarf to go with the growing cold weather. They had been lucky with finding the pink scarf for Rose, but Juleka was having difficulties.
"Nothing here. Never mind, we'll try the next store." Rose tugged her friend out, and to the next they went. The shop was crowded, the closer it crept to Christmas. Juleka went to the next, and the next, they must have gone through the whole shop twice, and this purple scarf refused to be revealed. They bumped into Marinette.
"Hi guys, what are you doing here?"
"We are looking for scarves, but to find one for Juleka is proving difficult. We found one for me, but the dark purple is just either not fashionable or everyone wants one." Rose pouted, Why must she look so cute when she pouts, it's not fair. Juleka blinked, her cheeks turning a soft pink. Marinette sighed.
"Alya worked out that with the akuma object generally being purple, as well as the communication light a purple, Hawkmoth's signature colour must be purple. Since then, most people stopped wearing and buying it, replacing it with red and spots." Juleka hummed in agreement, there did seemed to be a lot of ladybug stuff around now that she thought about it. Marinette shrugged.
"I'm sure you'll get something you like Juleka, I'll see you later." Marinette hurried off, making her way through the crowds out of sight. The remaining two then continued to look for a miracle scarf.
They did not succeed, and Juleka remembered something drastic.
Rose's 15th was coming up after Christmas.
And she still did not know what to do on the soul mate situation.
Rose's birthday. The day Juleka had been waiting for to find out if the two were going to be always a part of each other. To need each other in their lives forever. The two had arranged to meet at the local shopping centre to go and look for more stamp collection bits, and help chose what Rose would spend her birthday money on this year. The two had been doing it for years, for each other, looking for something different, pink, or whatever it was they wanted that particular year. Juleka had gotten black net fingerless gloves the year before and then purple fabric to sew together to make longer armbands to cover her words, so Rose would probably do something similar, to cover her own words.
At the thought of soul mates, Juleka glanced at her wrist.
"There's a new shop on the corner, and I think it is meant to have a different vibe to it. I think you would like it, want to check it out?" It wove completely around her wrist. The words may be covered by her longer glove, but she knew the words by heart. And she felt that going into this situation that she knew already. All she was getting was confirmation if Rose was or was not her soul mate.
She walked towards the area that they had agreed to meet at, the first scrap-booking shop of the day. She waited out the front, watching her phone for the time. Rose would be here soon.
She saw the pink ensemble, complete with a pink scarf first, and with a wave had Rose join her with a smile.
"There's a new shop on the corner, and I think it is meant to have a different vibe to it. I think you would like it, want to check it out?" Rose looked at her with a beam. Juleka blinked,
"Yeah, that sounds great. It does seem pretty cool, Mum got her incense from there and really likes it." Rose's eyes widened before glancing down to her foot, where Juleka guessed her words were.
"Um…"
"Yeah, I know." Juleka smiled.
"This isn't what I expected." Rose gave a small grin.
"Not at all. But it's all fine, right?"
"Yes, it totally is… just…. Can we be friends please? I don't want anything to change between us." Rose looked up at Juleka sweetly, the trouble and fear in her eyes.
"It's no problem, just because we are soulmates, does not mean anything other than how compatible we are. We're friends for life, okay?" Juleka smiled, watching her best friend's face light up and beam.
Even as her own heart sank down with a feeling of despair.
Before any one screams at me over this ending, IT WILL BE OKAY, I HAVE A PLAN AND I WANTED TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT!
Okay, now that's done, if any of you complain, I will redirect you to this A/N. I understand people are wanting it to be like the romantic styles shipping (If anyone wishes otherwise, you will have to make note of that in your requests).
I apologise, but fate defied me, I wanted to update ages ago.
Guess the tech gods hated me because my precious story holder and work of a laptop decided it was not going to charge. At all. I dealt with having to try and save and backup as much as I could to be able to future access it on 5% battery. Problem has since been solved, and I'm back. Yay!
I hope you enjoyed this, Juleka and Rose are one of my favoured ships, even if they were in a best friends kind of way, they are adorable, and play on this shows 'light and dark opposites' thing. They're cute
In other news;
I am shocked that Spain released the first episode of season 3 so early, Season 2 finished, let's air the first episode season 3.
But the first episode is pretty cool, I feel that the third season is going to be epic.
Someone did not read my notes, and we have more added yay! To Diane, I know the character you mean, Mirelle I think is the name. I'll consider it further down the line as she is not a familiar character, so her part would be even shorter than Theo's, a main part I think on reflect that his was so short.
The list as it stands is
Rose x Juleka (half complete)
Alix x Kim
Ivan x Mylene
Sabrina x Max.
I have a lot to think about on what to do with these guys…This will be fun.
I have a love of Plusheen now thanks to this show that I have 2 shirts with cat puns, and one is Christmas related.
And that is all, have a Miraculous Christmas/Festive time, and a Meow-vellous Mew Year!