I See My Future In Your Eyes [Shirbert One-Shots]

the time we have left together

⚠Trigger Warning: mentions of drowning⚠
Not sure if that is a trigger warning, but I'm putting it there so everyone can be safe.

831

The students who were going to Queens next year, were at Miss. Stacy’s house. It was a little small for the amount of students were on there, but they found a place to study, since the school burned. Anne and Gilbert were sitting together, talking about what had happened to the school. They both were furious about it, it held sweet and not so sweet memories.

Then Gilbert started talking about how he didn’t want to be a country doctor, since he would have to deliver death sentences, instead of making people feel better. Anne thought of the time when they were walking on the field and he had told her the same thing.

“Can I borrow your pen?” He asked her suddenly.

As she was about to give it to him, she noticed there was something on his arm, as she tried to look closer into it she saw what it was and her heart felt heavy. How could this be? No. Gilbert was not her soulmate. No, his soulmate was Winnie, it must be her. But that was the least of her problems.

In their world, destiny chooses your soulmate, although not in the kindest way. If you saw one of their arms, the own person could not see it, Anne couldn’t see her own. What was on their arms was numbers.

Numbers that counted the days until your soulmate’s death.

And in Gilbert’s arm was the number 834.

“Um, Anne?” He asked, looking at her.

Anne snapped back to reality, which she wished wasn’t true. “What?” She asked, forgetting what he had asked her for,

“May I borrow your pen?” Oh yeah right.

She gave it to him, and that’s when Ruby came with Jane, Jane was annoyed at Ruby for doing geometry into hearts. But she didn’t hear the rest of the conversation, not even when they brought up Winnie and Gilbert looked at her to see her reaction. She felt she couldn’t breathe, like she was drowning, and there was no one to help her get out of there.

“Anne?” Gilbert whispered, she turned at him and saw the concern and kindness in his eyes. She looked around and felt all of her friends' eyes on her, she awkwardly stood up and walked towards the kitchen. What had happened?

Miss. Stacy walked to her and said. “Anne, are you alright? You were crying.”

Oh, so that had happened. God that was embarrassing. She nodded and lied by telling her she just felt stressed. Miss. Stacy seemed to believe her and walked away, leaving Anne alone with her unpleasant thoughts.

•••

829

She thought about this for the next couple of days. Gilbert couldn’t die in two years. No, he would live a long and happy life, the soulmate thing was lying and just wanted her to be scared, or maybe she had read it wrong and she missed some numbers. Yeah, that was probably it.

But the next time she saw him it read 832, and that’s when she knew her fears were true.

“Hey, are you okay?” Gilbert asked, looking at her in concern.

“Yeah, I’m fine, just nervous for the Queens exams. Where is Delphine?” She asked trying to get away from him as soon as possible.

“Bash went out with her,” He said. “I’m not sure when they will be back.”