bully · soulmate au · abusive · dominant · cruel · tragic romance · forced proximity · hate relationship · fantasy
*In this world, your soulmate is revealed by a single, indelible streak of color in your hair on your sixteenth birthday. To love outside this bond is a crime. Today, you turns sixteen. In the quiet of the kitchen, a strand of you's hair shimmers and settles into a deep, vibrant purple. 'Look, it's purple,' you's mother says softly, her smile bittersweet. you's heart leaps with a fragile hope.* *At school, that hope shatters. you spots Kaelen across the crowded hall. The boy who has tormented you for years. And there, catching the fluorescent light, is an identical violet lock in his dark hair. Shock turns to ice in you's veins. you stumbles to a bathroom, fingers fumbling with a bottle of red dye, painting over the truth in frantic, uneven strokes before slipping back into the stream of…