A bunch of you were confused, so here's a rundown of what has happened...

Nayla works at a public pool. Gary has been brought back by a crazy witch who says they're soulmates. Nayla and Gary find out they are also soulmates when she saves him from drowning. Abelia has no idea what is going on and Gary and Nayla are very confused. Everything will be sorted out in this chapter...

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Gary POV:

"Abelia!" I exclaimed and jumped up.

"Gary honey," She stroked my hair, "Why did you do that?"

"I knew how to swim before, thought I could do it now." I mumbled. It was true, I was hoping my muscles would have remembered the old days and kept me above the surface, I had been wrong. I had a heck of a time keeping afloat, if you can even call my pathetic attempt that.

"Well, now you know better." Abelia beamed at me. She then turned to the life guard who was, mysteriously, my other soulmate. "Thank you for saving my, "she looked over me, "foolish soulmate."

"Soulmate?" She said, shocked.

"We are very much in love." Abelia laughed.

"How is it possible?" She whispered. I was wondering the same thing.

"You'll understand someday." Soulmate number one replied.

"Mmmm," the life guard said while looking at me.

She turned and began to walk away. Not wanting her to leave, I grabbed her arm. Resisting the sparks and other heavenly feelings I said, "I'm Gary."

She had stopped and turned around while I had been fighting off the feelings of initial surprise, love, and… other things.

"Nayla." She whispered harshly. Nayla pulled away and went back to her watch.

"Come on!" Abelia said impatiently.

"Do you mind if I rest?" I pleaded, eying the shady arena of chairs.

"Okay, Doodlekins." She ticked my chin, "We can try the swimming thing later."

As I sat down I thought, I choose Nayla. Abelia is just plain freaky.

(later)

Nayla... Nayla... Nayla... I thought as I ran my finger down the yellowed page of the phone book.

I was almost positive this afternoon had been a fluke- I mean, who has two soulmates?- but I needed to be sure.

Here! 73774 (A/N: recognize the number? Seriously- all you have to do is text 104563!) I dialed the number listed and the phone rang. 1… 2… 3..- "Hello?"

"H- hi," I stuttered. What should I say?

"Gary?" Nayla said cautiously.

"Yea…" I said quietly. "I was wondering if… m- maybe y- y- y-you wanted to-"

I was cut off when she said, "Meet one more time and figure out what is going on?"

"Yea."

"Well," she snapped, "we don't need to because you already have a soulmate and obviously this afternoon was a mistake."

"No, I mean, maybe. But, I need to be sure!" I hurried; worried she would hang up on me.

"I can't tonight. I'm going… out."

"You're with someone?" Not that this surprised me, she was very attractive, but… I don't know. I thought… I don't know what I thought.

"No, this is more of a solo thing." She chuckled.

"Could I help?"

"No, you aren't cut out for this type of work." With that, she hung up.

The same boring sound of rejection droned the same note for some time before I finally put up my end of the phone.

"Darling, do you want to go for a walk?" Abelia sang and sat on my lap.

I leaned back and scowled. "Later." I was in the mood to mope right now.

If you don't look now you'll never find her! A voice in my mind shouted at me.

Right!

"Or now," I hopped up, causing her to fall off my lap and onto the floor. "Come on!"

She just sat, looking bewildered by my sudden mood change.

"Why are we going down this road again?" Abelia complained.

"Because," I glanced around. I was hoping I would see her somewhere, but I was severely disappointed.

Aside from the occasional party, that I severely avoided at all costs- I didn't want a repeat of my last life- there was nothing.

"Let's go home." I sighed.

We walked in silence for quite a while, and then we heard a scream.

Nayla, I thought and began to run.

I came up on a terrifying scene. A vampire had Nayla pinned underneath him and his fangs were fully extended.

He heard Abelia and I approaching and looked our way.

"Get. Off. My. Soulmate!" I hissed as an uncontrollable anger took a hold of my being. I raised my hand and the vampire raised with it.

Nayla bounded to her feet and staked him.

"Soulmate?" Abelia's bottom lip trembled, but I hardly noticed. Rushing over to Nayala, I grabbed her hands.

"Are you okay?" I whispered and pulled her close. She pushed away almost immediately after, though.

Abelia came rushing for us and tried to knock Nayla down, but only succeeded in making a fool of herself.

"You're a vampire hunter?" I asked.

"What is going on, Gary? I'm your soulmate!" Abelia commanded.

"Yeah…" Nayla trailed off and looked at the corpse on the ground. "Ever since they got my sister." She stopped and turned to me. "Actually, I kill any Night Worlder I can, you'd better run." Seeing her warning glance, I just smiled.

"You wouldn't kill me, you can't get rid of me without getting rid of yourself."

"What are you talking about!" Abelia shrieked. "I am your SOULMATE!"

I roughly grabbed her hand and held it up. "NO SPARKS! NO HAZE! NO SILVER CORD!" I yelled, getting annoyed at her. "Nayla is my soulmate. Whatever you did to try and make me love you it didn't work." I realized what had happened as I said these words.

Abelia must have cast some spell to create the illusion of lightning but it was broken when Nayla saved me at the pool.

"I'm sorry Abelia." I whispered.

"Who says you're leaving her?" Nayla asked.

"What?" I replied, confused.

"I didn't want a soulmate, especially not one from the Night World." She said, breaking my heart.

"Nayla, I've seen the silver cord at work before, it's beautiful." I smiled and stepped forward.

"We don't even know for sure," Her voice was weak, this was good for me.

I held out my hand, "You want to see?"

"No she doesn't want to see!" Cried Abelia, snatching my hand away. "We are going home and you are grounded for a week!"

"You aren't my mother!" I argued. How dare she?

"I'm your soulmate!" Abelia countered.

I took a deep breath, "I don't know why you are doing this, maybe because you are lonely, maybe because you are cruel, but leave me alone. I love Nayla, not you."

Her face twisted into a mask of anger and she started murmuring under her breath.

All of a sudden I was knocked to the ground and the heat of a fire surrounded all of us.

"If I can't have you, nobody can!" She shouted.

I soon saw Nayla was the one that had pinned me down before the flames reached me, and we had to get away from here fast.

We ran, ran for our lives.

When we finally stopped we were at the pool house and the flames were nothing more than a distant memory.

"You care, you saved me." I smiled.

"Yes," Nayla looked down. "But don't think anything of it. We still have a lot to work out."

I agreed wholeheartedly, and reached for her hand…

Abelia POV:

The fire trucks soon arrived and put out the fire, but I didn't care.

The only thing on my mind was revenge…

(To be continued…)

I am evil for leaving you hanging. Unfortunately, I won't continue this one for a while. I have another chapter in the progress.

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