Why do I tend to get myself in trouble? All I wanted to do was see if he had my soulmate mark. Now I'm in the universities Student affairs office.... I understand why. I mean it did look suspicious that I was standing outside the men's volleyball locker room. I hadn't peaked....yet.

"Talla, I expected so much more from you. You are the girl's volleyball captain. You also are on the university's honor roll. I never expected you to be a peeping Tom."

I rubbed my neck, as I felt my cheeks burn, "I have a reason...."

Mrs. Bailey looked down at me. She was definitely intimidating to say the least. She had dark black hair and a very fit physic. In her free time, she had picked up mixed martial arts and man did it make her authority even scarier. She had a slight tan, I imagined she ran quite often as well.

"It better be a good one."

The door opened and in came Mark Alonzo. He was the reason, I was in this situation. We had been friends, best friends, since we were three. You see soulmate marks appear after you say I love you to your soulmate for the first time. Mark being the friendly person he is, would say it to all our friends and family growing up. That made it second nature when I started to do the same thing. Issue now is that I have a soulmate mark and have to best guy friends that it could belong to.

"Sorry to barge in Marie." Mark hurriedly says.

"It's Mrs. Bailey to you."

Mark laughs as he takes a seat next to me. "Yeah, okay Marie. Listen I know for a fact that Talla wasn't pervert peakin."

Mrs. Bailey rubs her temples and looks at Mark. "Yeah let's not call it that."

I turn to Mark, "can you please just go to practice? I've got this."

"I just don't think it's fair that you get in trouble, when I asked you to wait for me."

Now I know what you are thinking, awe her possible soulmate is so sweet. He is doing this for two reasons. Reason one, he doesn't want to have a co-Ed practice without me and reason two, he loves when I owe him favors.

Mrs. Bailey looks between us, "when she was caught she had her hand on the door like she was going in."

He smiles, "I told her to yell in if I was taking too long. We tend to make our practice plans together. It's how we both are heading to the championships...at least in my opinion."

"Fine, I will let you off with a warning, but stay away from there and you don't tell here to wait for you there."

We nod as we head out of the office and toward the courts. I attempt to speed up, so Mark won't stop me. He speeds up to match my pace. I roll my eyes as he stops me kabedon style.

"Nope, you aren't getting out of this that easy."

I lean back against the wall and cross my arms, "how did you even know I was in there?"

He rubs his neck with the hand not pushed against the wall. "I was waiting for you. I know you always get ready early and I wanted to meet you before the teams showed up....now your turn."

"I was there for you."

He looks at me with a squint. "You aren't lying. I know when you are lying....so you came to see me change?"

I give him a little shove back, "why would you even think that?"

He groans as he follows me again. "That wasn't an answer! Which means it's partly true! You can't lie to me so you are trying not to."

I go to open the door to the gym, but he slams it shut. "What the hell, mark? We have practice."

"You aren't going in there until you talk to me. What is so crazy that you can't tell me? You tell me everything! I mean I thought you did."

I give him my best angry face. "It has nothing to do with you." I storm off into the gym. "Mark seriously! Who said you could dismiss the team?"

"I thought everyone could use a break."

"God, I hate you!"

He grabs my arm, "you love me and you know it!"

"That's what got me into this mess, you ass!"

He drops my hand and stops following me. "What?"

I put my hands over my mouth, "nuting."

"No, you don't get to pretend that you didn't just say that."

I turn on my heels, "please just forget it."

His head drops, "I love you too, but I want you to know I have a soulmate mark."

"Where?"

His face lists in confusion, "my hip."

I pull grab the side of my spandex shorts and go to pull down the side. "Does it..."

"Hey Talla, Mark what are you still doing here?"

I turn to see my teams manager, "heya Connor..."

"Well everyone went to the nearby pizza king if you are down."

Mark stopped me before I turned around, "we will meet ya there Con. We are just running through a few ideas for tomorrow."

I turn back as Connor walks out, "Mark, I..."

Mark leans in and passionately kisses my lips. I feel a sparks tingle down my spine. I had never kissed someone before and to be honest Mark was now the closest person to me. My parents were murdered at a hotel on a family vacation. Since then Mark had been my constant. The issue was I didn't want him to get close. I couldn't lose someone like that again. It was also the reason, I never dated anyone.

"Mark..."

"Let's see if we match marks,eh?"