Youtube is for Soulmates

Summary: I was just another girl searching for her soulmate… on youtube. Call me crazy, but all the guys in my school were losers, or so I thought. One-shot.

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This was it, I was sure of it.

I scrolled through the videos and clicked firmly down on the right one. This would be my soulmate, I was sure of it. I scanned him over, longish brown hair that was swept to one side with a white hooded sweat shirt on and a guitar on his lap. I smiled, this was it, this was my soulmate, I was sure of it. The video started and the guitar part was amazing, he was so good that I was jealous, I had tried playing guitar, but I had been terrible. I stared at him, completely mesmerized and now he was opening his mouth to sing and…

Okay. He should just stop.

He should never open his mouth again to sing, I swear. I moved my mouse to the back button quickly and clicked it. So that didn't work, he definitely couldn't be my soulmate if he couldn't even sing! How hard was it to find a guy that could skate, play the guitar, sing, and have a wonderful personality?! I mean seriously. There had to be some in stock somewhere? Right? Right?!

This was not working, but if you went to my school, you would go to drastic measures as well. Every girl at my school was searching for their soulmate, their one and only, and they were definitely not going to find him at my school. Mainly because all the guys at my school were complete and utter losers, they were either jerks, jocks, the Goths, or completely obsessed with school that they didn't even want a girlfriend.

So I was officially screwed if I wanted to find a soulmate by the age of eighteen, which was a cliché, but I wanted it anyways. I scanned through the videos and rolled my eyes as I found that there was nothing that would suit me. I clicked on my favorites and went to Rejected Cartoons. Maybe this could cheer me up because suddenly I was completely depressed and I didn't know what I was going to do if I didn't find somebody by the time I graduated high school. I would be cliché-less!

"My spoon is to big…" The little stick figure with a huge spoon and a small bowl of cereal said as he looked at his big spoon. "My spoon is too big? My spoon is too big?!"

A banana walked in and stayed there for a second. "I am a banana!"

I laughed and smiled at the small cartoon that gave me joy. Screw guys, I could just have this cartoon as my soulmate.

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"So what are you doing today, Tess?" My best friend, Landon questioned me as I sat down at our regular table. I shrugged and smiled secretly at him, but I knew that he knew what I was going to do. "Oh. Still searching for your damn soulmate on youtube again? You seriously need to stop that, it's going to give you like brain-damage or something. Why can't you just find your soulmate here?! You're not going to find anybody on youtube."

I growled at him. "That's not true! My soulmate is out there," I told him and scanned the cafeteria. "Just not in this school, they're all on youtube."

You would think that I would want the easiest cliché, the one that I would fall in love with my best friend and we would live happily ever after and all. I would have totally gone for that one, if my best friend had been looking for a girlfriend and not a boyfriend. Yep. That's right, Landon's gay, which makes everything a lot harder if I wanted the best friend cliché. So I gave up on that one and moved onto the one of me getting a soulmate before I turned eighteen or graduated, whichever came first.

"You are obsessed." Landon stated.

"Am not!"

"Are too!"

"Am not!"

"Are too!"

"Okay, you guys are done," my other friend Hannah said as she sat down next to me. "You two fight like two five-year olds, I sometimes think that I'm the only sane one in this whole school."

"I'm sane!" I chirped.

Landon and Hannah both looked at me like I was crazy, because I had just claimed that I was sane and I clearly wasn't because I was looking for my soulmate on youtube. I'm sure that many girls looked for their soulmate on youtube! Obviously they just don't talk about it with their friends or something like that because as far as I knew, I was the only one who looked for their soulmate on youtube. Which was fine with me.

"If you're sane," Hannah stated calmly. "Then I don't know what I am."

I crossed my arms in front of my chest and frowned. "Fine, so maybe I'm not sane, but I'm close to being sane. I am saner then Landon, right?"

"Uh, sorry, no honey," he stated and I hissed at him, not very happy that he was disagreeing with me. "I am saner then you by a hundred miles. I'm not the one, who is going around on youtube looking for their soulmate, I'm sure that you don't mean any harm by it. But seriously, Tessa, it's absolutely ridiculous."

"No it isn't," I defended.

I looked at Hannah for support, but she just shrugged. "It is kind of weird; I mean what's wrong with everybody around here?"

"Oh! Don't even give me that, Hannah, they're all losers, you know I've tried to find some good in some of them, but they turn out to be really weird or assholes." I told her for the five hundredth time.

"What about Emmett?" Hannah questioned, saying the name of my next door neighbor and my worst enemy. I frowned to show my disapproval. "I don't see why you hate him so much, Tessa, he's really nice when you get to know him and he told me that he thinks that you're really cool."

I shook my head. "He's just telling you those lies so that you'll like him and I'll seem like the devil."

The only reason I didn't go with the two enemies getting together cliché was because, well Emmett was really nice and stuff but he never seemed to like me in that way. He was always going out with other girls and we weren't even friends so much as enemies. We didn't talk at all even though we had lived next to each other for too many years. We barely knew each other even though we had hung out twenty-four/seven when we were children. Emmett and I were complete strangers now.

Hannah laughed. "I don't think that that's why he told me those things," she giggled again and turned away from me before I could ask her what she was thinking. I shrugged it off and looked at Landon who was doodling in his notebook.

"Please tell me that you don't like Emmett," I pleaded.

Landon shrugged. "He's nice enough; I've never really talked to him, Tessa so I couldn't tell you what I really thought of him."

"He's taken all my friends," I groaned as I banged my head against the table, startling Hannah to the point where she yelled at me to stop. "He's turned you all into mindless robots that follow his every command!" I told them teasingly and Hannah rolled her eyes as I looked at her and smirked. She knew I was just kidding.

"You're so weird," she told me sweetly. "Maybe this is why you don't have your soulmate yet."

I rolled my eyes, knowing that she was just kidding. "Yeah, well sometimes I wonder why you don't have your soulmate either and then I realize that it's because you're too strange." I told her and it was her turn to roll her eyes again.

"Okay you guys, you're done now," Landon soothed. "It's probably time for class, anyways." I looked at him and rolled my eyes, he was such a good-two-shoes.

I grabbed my bag and waved to my friends. "I'll see you guys after school," I said in parting and walked away towards my new class. I walked amidst the crowd, wondering how I was going to stomach another day of not finding my soulmate. Today would be the day, I told myself as I entered the classroom of my math class. I was not incredibly excited, but I knew that today would be the day.

I would find my soulmate if it killed me.

Okay, so not if it killed me. If I had to chose between my soulmate or living, I would chose living because seriously, who would give up their life for their soulmate? Obviously, not I. I moved fluidly to my seat until I realized that there was somebody sitting next to me, which did not happen often. And it wasn't just anybody, it was Emmett. Wait, what was Emmett doing sitting next to me?! It wasn't like we had assigned seats or anything, but it was weird because we hadn't talked in awhile.

"Hey," he greeted and I smiled in return.

I sat down at my seat, noting how awkward the whole situation seemed. Maybe Hannah had something to do with it and if she did, I would totally slaughter her the next chance that I got. "What are you doing?" I asked bluntly and Emmett looked at me.

"Sitting next to you?"

"Oh. Like I didn't know that before," I muttered under my breath, hoping that he didn't hear.

He did and he laughed. Oh great. "We haven't talked in forever," Emmett pointed out like it wasn't obvious that we hadn't talked in forever. I nodded and waited on bated breath for him to stay something else. "It's good seeing you again."

Like he didn't see me every single day since we went to the same exact school, I shrugged. "Yeah, I guess it is," was what I said because I couldn't manage to point that out loud to him.

"I heard from Hannah that you've been searching for your soulmate on youtube," Emmett began.

I made a mental note to slaughter Hannah for real when I got the chance. I blushed slightly and looked away from him. "Yeah, it's just kind of a thing that I do whenever I get bored and stuff. Maybe one day I will find my soulmate or something like that," I joked and Emmett grinned at me.

"Sounds pretty cool, I am looking—!"

And then the teacher walked in which made it harder for him to talk to me and easier for me not to talk to him. This was a good thing for me because it was way too awkward to talk to Emmett who all of a sudden decided that it would be awesome to talk to his childhood best friend again after years of silence. Whatever, Emmett could do whatever he pleased and I could do whatever I pleased. Which meant that he had the right to talk to me if he really felt like it.

Oh damn.

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It was the afternoon and I was sitting at my computer on a very fine day.

It was beautiful outside and I was still sitting at the damn computer. That was because I wouldn't give up until I had found my soulmate. I sat there, searching under covers of songs that everybody would make and I realized that there was one video that I hadn't looked at yet. I smiled as I looked at the boy, who had covered his face and wasn't really looking up at the screen, with a guitar in his lap. The guitar was black and he was wearing a orange hooded sweatshirt with the band Backseat Goodbye written across it. It seemed familiar, but I didn't know where it was from. The video had been uploaded today and it had already gotten many views. I smiled at the thought of the boy uploading the video and clicked on it.

The strumming of the guitar was mesmerizing as I watched as his fingers went at work. This could be my soulmate, this was him, I didn't know who he was, but I promised myself that I would be able to find him, that maybe we could be together since we were destined to be soulmates. He opened his mouth and I was scared that it would sound horrible, but it was beautiful, something that I had not expected.

And I knew that I was in love with him.

He was my soulmate!

After years of searching, I had finally found what was mine, what would be mine if I could just figure out who he was. I grabbed the URL for the video and jotted it down on a piece of paper before bolting out of the door and to Hannah's house which was just down the block. As soon as she opened the door, I waved the piece of paper in front of her face and handed it to her to type into her computer.

"This is my soulmate," I introduced and she laughed, like she knew something that I didn't know. I looked at her, completely confused. "What's going on?" I questioned.

"Nothing," she muttered as she watched him play. "He's amazing."

I grinned. "Don't I know it?!"

She smiled back at me and grabbed her cell phone to call Landon who bolted over when he heard the good news. He watched the mystery guy start playing on his guitar and he started grinning. "He's perfect for you, Tessa," he said and chuckled.

"What is so funny?! Both you guys had the same reaction when I showed you him," I growled and they both shrugged, like they had nothing to hide even though they did.

I rolled my eyes at them before telling them that I had to leave to do my homework, I was just content that I had finally found what I was looking for. I wandered home and did my homework and I couldn't wait for the next day to find out who the mystery soulmate really was. I was excited for what was going to come next.

The next morning, I wandered into school, sleepy-eyed and content and sat down at my usual seat in my math class while Emmett sat down next to me. I looked at him and smiled, I wasn't bitter anymore because of what had happened overnight and how happy I was. Emmett smiled back at me and I wondered why everybody was being so nice to me all of a sudden, I mean seriously, nobody had been really nice to me, but all of a sudden Emmett was being really really nice to me and I wasn't complaining.

"Why are you really happy all of a sudden, Tessa?" Emmett questioned.

I shrugged and since he knew about my soulmate searching, I decided to fill him in. "I found my soulmate yesterday, it was amazing and I was overjoyed when I finally found him."

Emmett raised an eyebrow in my direction, in concern. "What if he turns out to be some crazy stalker or something like that? Or a molester? Or like fifty years old or something like that, Tessa?" He questioned and I shrugged.

"Well I saw what he looked like and he definitely wasn't fifty years old and I bet he isn't a molester." I informed him. I looked at what Emmett was wearing and realized that he was wearing the same sweatshirt that the boy from the video was wearing. I inhaled sharply and looked at him. "Where did you get that?"

"Oh? This?" He pointed to his sweatshirt and I nodded. "I went to a concert awhile back and I got it… why?"

"Nothing… just the boy that is officially my soulmate was wearing the same thing and I thought that it was really weird that you would have the same sweatshirt." I laughed and turned away from him, not before catching a weird smile from Emmett. I shook it off; I was too concentrated on finding where my soulmate was from and how I was ever going to meet up with him. How would I meet up with him? I had never even thought about that.

As I left the math classroom, I was surprised to find Emmett still following me. "So how are you going to find this soulmate of yours, Tessa?" He questioned and I shrugged.

"I don't know," I muttered. "But I'll find a way." I promised. I always did.

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I stepped out of Hannah's car and walked to my house where I found a hooded figure on my porch steps, strumming a guitar. They were wearing the same outfit that the guy in the video was wearing and my heart started beating too fast for my own taste. It was the boy; it had to be the boy that I had been pining over for about twenty-four hours. I looked at him as I approached my steps as he started singing Risqué by Cute is what We Aim For.

My heart stopped. It was him.

And he was sitting on my porch steps! It was so weird that he was actually sitting here, that he was actually on my porch steps. How had he known that I had been pining after him and how had he known that he was my soulmate? Maybe I had sent out a mating call and I hadn't even known it. I shrugged it off and stood a couple of feet away from the guy that was my soulmate.

He lifted his head and his eyes met mine.

And I just about died.

"Emmett…" was all that I could manage to say when I realized who it was. He grinned and kept singing, not even caring that I was there in complete shock. When he ended his song, he stood up and smiled at me. "What the hell," was all I could manage to say before fainting?

If my body had let me, that is. Emmett fidgeted with his strings of his guitar as he met my eyes. "I'm sorry… I just… I just thought that you would realize it was me when I wore that sweatshirt today and I—"

I wasn't disappointed for some reason that Emmett was my soulmate. "Oh my god, how?"

"Well you see," Emmett started. "I was talking to Hannah about how much I like really liked you and stuff and how you never really went out with anybody from our school and then she told me about how you were searching for your soulmate on youtube and everything and I decided that I would do something and hope that you would chose me as your soulmate." I made a mental note not to slaughter Hannah anymore but to send her a fruit basket to thank her. It was then that I realized that Landon and Hannah had totally set this whole thing up.

He stopped and I looked at him awkwardly. "Why?"

"Because I really liked you a lot," Emmett laughed. "I already told you that."

I finally regained my senses and smiled at him, thinking that this was fate, this was right, he was my soulmate. Right? "So…" I trailed off and he looked at me, he was still nervously touching his guitar strings. "You're my soulmate?"

He shrugged and laughed. "I guess, I mean if you… want me to be."

I walked towards him and smiled as I looked down at his guitar that he was strumming with his right hand. "I mean I guess you could be my soulmate, but if you want to be my soulmate, you have to play that song every single day because I love it so much," I teased and he nodded as he eyed my features and lips carefully. "Now the real question is, are you ready to be my soulmate?" I questioned.

He smiled. "I'm ready for anything," he said as he leaned down and captured my lips smoothly in one fluid motion.

I had gotten my cliché, I had gotten my soulmate before I was eighteen and it was going to stay like that forever. I had found my soulmate on youtube and some people thought that it wouldn't be possible. So it wasn't all thanks to youtube, but mostly it was. So thank you, youtube, for finding me my soulmate!

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author's note.

Okay. So I've disappeared from the face of the earth for forever and I finally came back to give you this wonderful one shot. So it's not like amazing and the end is kind of stupid, but it's the best I could do in like an hour and a half because I was in love with it. It's fictional, of course, but personal, because I am looking for my soulmate on youtube as well! Just kidding. But LOL. I will be back with more one shots sometime later this year or month or like May or something. My birthday is May 7th so if you feel like being nice, you could leave me a little note on my birthday! Well I hope that you enjoyed it! Review please.