Authors note: This is my first FanFiction so please leave reviews on how I can improve, what you like, love, don't like, hate
Chapter 1
I chased after my brothers, we all wanted to get the best room. It was a matter of first one there gets the room they want and nobody can argue with them. We all knew the deal even my little brother, Theo, understood that if he didn't get into the house fast enough he would get one of the worst rooms. We spent our entire life moving from house to house, it seemed like we had been to all the possible places in England but my parents always found a place that none of us had heard of before.
My oldest brother, Isaac, swung open the door of the house. As soon as this happened we all seemed to increase the pace we were running at, none of us wanted Isaac to get the best room again. It wasn't entirely fair since the guy was already 22 and when he was still in school, he was always asked to join the track team for the brief moment that we were there. It was an unfair advantage that none of us liked when it came to claiming a room.
I had five brothers. After Isaac there was Blake who was 20, the twins Kael and Hayden, who were 18, then there was me, I was 16 and finally my youngest brother Theo, who was 10. Moving around a lot meant that me and my brothers were really close.
I was a shy person and didn't really like talking to people much, I never had enough time to drum up the confidence of being the first to talk to the people in my classes so I just sat at the back of class and ate lunch on my own. But I wasn't a complete loner, I had one friend who I had known for about 10 years of my life, her name was Liana, I guess i found it easy to talk to her at the beginning because she understood me and the kind of life that I lead.
You see mine and Lianas families were part of a community known as 'Savants'. Everyone had special abilities and all of us could use telepathy and telekinesis. Savants were everywhere, but nobody knew about our existence, we wanted to keep out of the limelight in order to protect the people that we cared about, letting our powers known to the world brought too much risk and to be honest the world wasn't ready for such knowledge.
Even Savants had flaws, the same way humans could be evil so could we, just because we have powers didn't mean we were resistant to all the evil that surrounds the world.
My parents moved us around not because we were running or hiding, but because they just never found a place that they 'felt was right' or they felt we had to broaden our horizons. It wasn't just over England that we travelled but abroad as well. My parents were travellers and it was like it was embedded into their bones and it seemed like they wanted to pass it down to us.
I ran up the stairs on just behind Blake, I was pretty fast for someone who was 5ft2. I was a midget in comparison to my brothers, they were around or over 6ft, well, except for Theo, who was my height even though he was six years younger than me.
I sprinted through the upstairs hallway looking into all the rooms until I found one I liked. I gave a sigh of relief, my brothers had a habit of looking for the biggest and best room, whereas I looked for the room that I would feel comfortable in. I chucked my bags onto the room floor, it was a way of marking my territory.
"Arghhh!" Isaac screamed
"What?" I laughed
"I wanted that room!" He whined
"Well, too bad I've already claimed it" a huge grin spread across my face. That meant I got the best room in the house, it didn't really matter, but it meant that I won, which was pretty amazing. "If I was you I would look for the next best room before the others claim it"
His eyes shot open, realising that he had very little time, he sprinted towards his next option. I heard Kael and Hayden complain that they were going to claim the room. I guessed Isaac jumped in before they could throw their bags down. Kael and Hayden shared a room so did Blake and Theo. Me and Isaac were the only ones who got our own room, me because I was the only girl and Isaac I guessed because he was the oldest and needed his 'own space' as he put it. Though we all wanted the best room, we all knew that the biggest was left for our parents, because if we didn't our mum would see to it that we regretted our decision. She was one scary woman when she was mad , so we all knew not to make her angry.
I walked around the room, we bought the house pre-furnished so the room had furniture. I walked over to the mirror and looked at my reflection. I had olive skin with auburn hair and light brown eyes. I rubbed at my red eyes, I hadn't gotten that much sleep on the way over to the house so I was extremely sleep deprived and I was beginning to show the signs.
"Samara!" My mum shouted from the bottom of the stairs
"Yes ma?!" I replied
"Come help me with the dinner while your brothers bring in the boxes" She liked getting me to do those odd tasks, I really didn't like them, but I was the only girl she had and I was probably the only one stopping her from painting my brothers nails or doing their makeup, which she totally would do if my brothers didn't bring me up every time she suggested something like it.
"Alright" I said as I walked out the room and pulled the door behind me. Blake walked out his room at the same time
"Do not let mum cook her monstrosity of a tuna, cheese and sweet chilli" he begged
I loved seeing my brothers grovel it was a sight i could never get tired of. "Yeaa okay. I'll get her to cook salmon and tuna burgers" I smirked, it was so fun messing with them
His eyes shot up "Don't you dare you know how I hate that" he shouted
"What do you hate Blake?" Mum was standing at the bottom of the stairs waiting for me. He was so easy to trick it was hilarious
"Umm...umm I umm hate not spending time with you" he stuttered
I looked at the corner of my eye to see the Kael, Hayden and Isaac eavesdropping on Blake digging himself a whole.
"Aww my poor baby. Okay tomorrow its going to be mummy and Blake day, oh I have so many ideas" she squealed. Oh it turned out so perfectly that i was literally on the floor holding in my laughter so my mum didn't hear. Blake looked like a dear caught in headlights.
"I am so going to kill you" He sneered
"Aww take a picture tomorrow I want something to keep as a memento" I giggled.
Kael, Hayden and Isaac shot up and gave me a hug.
"That was truly epic, I have a newfound respect for you" Hayden sniggered
"Blake, Blake, Blake how you gonna let our 16 year old sister play you like that?" Kael said. He was enjoying rubbing it in
"Boys go outside and help your father! Samara what is taking you so long" My mother shouted.
I shot down the stairs, if i kept her waiting too long my mum would kill me, my brothers were just behind me.
I swung round the end of the stairs to go into the kitchen while my brothers went straight through the door to help my dad at the car.
"What we gonna cook ma?" I said
"What you hungry for?" She replied
"Take out"
"Not happening we are cooking today, you lot have had take out this whole week"
"Alright umm can we have Lasagna?"
"Alright, can you go shop and get the ingredients for me" she smiled
"Umm how about something we can cook with what we got?" I really didn't want to go shop, mainly because I was really tired but also because of the fact that I had no sense of direction and would probably get lost.
"Unless that is air then no" That was her plan all along, she just wanted someone to go shops for her.
I gave a sigh, I couldn't really argue with her she knew that . "Let me get my phone so i can talk to Liana while shopping" I said, if i was gonna go I would need someone to talk to. I ran upstairs and grabbed my phone, when i got downstairs my mum was at the bottom with the grocery money. "Umm where is the shops exactly?"
She smiled knowing that i lacked any sense of direction "Just at the bottom of the road Samara, it really is impossible to get lost even for you" I could sense that she was making fun of me even my mother found it fun to do those kind of things, I couldn't really blame her, it was really fun.
I pulled my jacket on and ran out the door. The shops were literally at the bottom of the road I was so relieved had it been anywhere else I probably would have gotten lost. As I walked down the road I rang Liana begging she wasn't busy.
"Heeey Samara"
"Hiya, I really needed to call you I could not go shops by myself without talking to someone" I said, it was always best to be truthful with Liana because she could always tell when you were lying, her intuitions were always amazing
"Ohh so how's the new house" She replied
"Haven't looked around yet" I really should of looked around the house more, I didn't even know where the bathroom was yet. "But I think I got the best room because Isaac seemed pretty angry when he saw that I got it" I smiled
"Oooo! You finally won! How many times have you lost now?" She giggled
"This was the first time I've won Liana" I tried to give her the evils through the phone but i don't think she could sense it. "Anyway what's going on with you" I said as i entered the shops it was like every other supermarket, extremely huge, I was definitely going to get lost.
"I met a guy" Her voice was quiet now, she probably didn't want any of her family to hear her
"Wait! What? Details" stopping myself from shouting in the middle of the store i forced my voice into a whisper
"He's like extremely sweet and smart he's the youngest of 6 but he doesn't act like it at all!" She said I could tell that she really liked him "I think he might be my soul mate!"
"Excuse me?" I replied. She couldn't have been serious.
"Okay, okay I know how I must sound but it's true, I can feel it" She said, her voice sounded as if she was pleading with me to understand
"Are you sure that wasn't a result of how good looking he is?"
She laughed at me "No I think it's much deeper than that! I know this is pushing it but he may be my Soulfinder!" she dropped the word 'Soulfinder' in there like it was nothing. Our Soulfinder was our 'one true match' , someone we were bound to be with. My parents were Soulfinder's and they made sure all of us KNEW about it. One of those things that made everyone in our house gag. 'Oh by the way what's the name of the town you moved to I forgot to ask before" she added
"Umm Salcona I think"
"Oh my gosh Shut Up!" Her screaming penetrated my eardrums, boy she could scream
"Umm I'm confused. Explain"
"That's where I am! Okay what shop are you at right now?"
"Tesco's" I said on response, it took a while for it to sink in what Liana had just said
"Ohh that's literally next door to me, I'll be right there!" I could hear a door slam within seconds, she was probably halfway out the door before I even told her I was at Tesco's.
When she walked into the supermarket I couldn't help but have a huge grin spread across my face, I hadn't seen her in literally forever! I ran towards her and jumped on her, hugging her as tightly as I possibly could. I was a cuddler what could I say? When our hug broke apart I saw the huge grin that was on her face.
"Luck cannot begin to describe this right now" she giggled, we both moved around so much that we never really thought that we would cross paths again.
"I know. But enough about this tell me about this Soulfinder thing it is so not cool to drop a bomb like that and leave it!" I crossed my arms, Liana was the kind of person who would never fully explain herself and would leave you to figure it out for yourself, it kind of irritated me.
"Okay, okay...this is a long story so lets walk and talk?"
I sighed with relief she was actually going to tell me. "Yeaa I needa get ingredients for Lasagna, directions please?" I added a drop of sweetness at the end, that was the best way that I got help, pathetic I know but no one would bother helping me otherwise.
"Your sense of direction still as bad as before?" She laughs
"I think it's gotten worse" In fact I know it has, at least before I could probably follow the path I took before, but it then progressed into me getting lost on routes that I walked for 3 weeks before.
Liana just laughed and I rolled my eyes.
As we walked around the store picking up ingredients for the lasagna Liana told me about how she met the guy who she thought was her Soulfinder. Apparently she fell for him the moment their eyes connected and she could feel that he was special. The story made me want to gag I got enough lovey-dovey crap from my parents, but now my best friend also felt the need to torture me with such cruelties.
I hold up a finger "Wait do you even know if he's a Savant?"
She raised an eyebrow "Of course I know he's a Savant it was so obvious he was using telepathy with his older brother!"
"Ohh, I'm surprised you didn't say the older brother was your Soulfinder" I said sarcastically
She snorted at me "I'm not stupid he's in the year above, no way is he my Soulfinder. But..." I had a feeling where she was heading with this and I really didn't like it "he could be-"
I cut her off "Don't even finish that sentence, yes i may possibly be close to him in age but that does not mean he is my Soulfinder" It was unbelievable but I was quite a bit older the Liana, the only reason we were in the same school year was because I was born after September.
I felt Liana stiffen beside me "What is it?" I sighed
"That's him!" I saw a huge grin spread across her face. Following the direction of her eyes, I had to hand it to her she had pretty good taste, even if she was a bit extra with the whole 'Soulfinder' thing.
Authors note: I made a quick change to her age. She started off as 15 but I thought maybe 16 would fit better than 15 did. Sorry if I confused you all
