Board Thread:Short Stories and Fanfictions/@comment-34411796-20191127185041

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"Unmatchable," Fitz paced through the reception hall of Everglen, Sophie sat on the bottom steps of the staircase, her eyes bloodshot and rimmed red. "Unmatchable."

"Yes," Sophie's voice caught in her throat."

"How...?" Fitz stared at her, but Sophie didn't have an answer. "Why...?"

"I'm not sure," Sophie's nervous habit kicked in and she reached up and tugged out an eyelash. "I think it might be because I don't know who my parents are." Fitz looked unsure and Sophie's hand moved to the necklace Fitz had given her. "It doesn't matter though. Juline and Kelser were a bad match, and they're happy, and Dex and his siblings are fine."

"It's a bad match though," Fitz pointed out, as if that mattered at all.

Sophie didn't get why this mattered to him so much. "So?" The conversation was continuously making her more and more nervous, by the end she was sure that she will have tugged out all her eyelashes.

"We can't... I'm a Vacker..." Fitz began.

Sophie felt like her throat was closing up. This was what he cared about? "You care more about your status? Your heritage? You care about all that more than me?"

"I'm a Vacker," Fitz repeated, like it made up for anything at all.

Sophie's eyes filled with tears, she'd been crying all night, and here she was crying again. "Then," tears rolled down her face as she reached through her hair and unclipped the heart necklace Fitz had given her. "I guess we're done."

She stood up, took his hand in her's, unfolded his fingers, put the teal heart in his hand, then folded his fingers back over it. "Goodbye." She spun on her heels and headed for Everglen's gates.

"Sophie! Wait! I didn't mean---"

Sophie didn't hear the rest, because she had taken out her home crystal and light leaped away. 