A/N: I'm so sorry for not updating, but I have had exams and loads of coursework lately. I know this chapter is short, but I promise I will upload a lot more during the summer.
Chapter 12
I sat in the café and stared at my cup of caramel coffee. I could feel Raphael's eyes on my skin, but I didn't want to look up. I knew that I would be caught in the grey pools that were his eyes. After the kiss, he took me to a nearby coffee shop so we could configure our thoughts. Yeah, he was my Soulfinder but he was going to have to work at winning me back. I was not going to let him get away with being a jerk so easily. I knew that I would end up being with him, but he was going to have to prove that he wasn't always a jerk.
"We should tell our families," he said suddenly
"No," I said urgently
"What? Why?" I could tell that he was hurt at my rejection
"One, I want to wait until this whole kidnapping thing is sorted before we give them the news. Two, our siblings just had to deal with watching Jael and Liana being Soulfinder's. That's a serious blow to them, even if they don't want to admit it. "I looked up into his eyes and smirked "Three, you still need to win me over"
He contemplated my reply and nodded in consent. He then looked up into my eyes and returned my smirk "I thought I had with that kiss"
"Nope" I popped the 'p'
"Well how about another when" he leaned over the table and closed the distance between us.
He was inches away from my lips when I put my finger up "No kisses until you win me over" I had a feeling I was going to enjoy teasing him.
I flopped back into his chair and sighed exaggeratedly "It seems like my Soulfinder is going to be extremely troublesome"
I let out a cackle. It seemed like Raphael had already got a good grasp of my personality.
"Question time!" He said.
"Go on then"
"When's your birthday? It must be pretty soon if you're my Soulfinder"
"It's tomorrow" I watched as his face filled with shock. I was guessing tomorrow was too short notice for him. I was trying not to grin at his facial expression, but it was so bloody hard.
"And you didn't want to share this information before hand?"
I shrugged in reply "It never really came up"
"Oh gosh..." he ran his hand through his hair in frustration
"My turn! What's with the names?" it was really bugging me how unique Raphael's and his brothers names were. Not that I could talk, my name was just as 'unique'.
"Urghh... Only you would immediately jump to that." I could hear the underlying humour in his voice "My mum named us all after angels. Saying that we would be the angels of the world or something like that"
I bit my lip, trying not to laugh in his face, I didn't know why I was being so nice, but it was probably only a one-time thing. You are not meant to be making this easy for him Samara. I had realised that I was being too nice, even though I had said he would have to win me over. "Kay I need to go home, now." I said suddenly
"Why?" His voice had an urgency to it
"Because it would not be fun if I let you win me over so easily," I said truthfully.
He loosened up slightly and nodded his head. I got up and followed him back to where we had left the bike.
I got home and sauntered into the house. My family asked about the date and I gave them vague replies. Once I had my dinner, I said goodnight to everyone and went to my room. I fell asleep thinking about Raphael and a smile sprawled across my face. I have my Soulfinder
The next morning I woke up to a tapping, it sounded like it was coming from my window, but it could have been anywhere. My hearing wasn't that good when I just surfaced from dreamland. Who could that be? I looked over to where I thought the sound was coming from to see Nathaniel sitting comfortably on my window sill. His smile had the same iciness that made my heart crawl into a dark cave.
As soon as I saw him I opened my mouth to scream, I hated those people in the movies who just stood there and looked at the person that they knew were going to kill or kidnap them. But before a sound could even leave my mouth Nathaniel's hand was already clasped firmly over my mouth.
"Now, now. We don't want that do we" I bit on his hand and tried to escape, but he didn't even flinch when I bit as hard as I could. His skin was sweaty and disgusting, it left a foul taste in my mouth "You're a feisty one aren't you?"
I closed my eyes and tried to use my gift, but there was nothing. My eyes shot open in shock. Why wasn't my gift working? I looked at Nathaniel, it was him. It was his gift. I tried to scream, but because his hand was clasped firmly over my mouth it came out all muffled. I didn't give up. I continued to scream and fight, it was useless. Suddenly I felt all of my energy sucked out of me. My vision became hazy and my body went limp. The last thing that I saw was the inside of my eyelids. But that didn't stop my thoughts from swirling in my head. When would my family realise? What were they going to do with me? Why me? Oh gosh- Raphael! We had just realised that we were Soulfinder's yesterday. He had me and then he lost me. I really am a troublesome Soulfinder.
