Sorry I haven't updated in SO long! Been on holidays but here is the next chapter. I haven't checked for mistakes but oh well! Enjoy :)
Uriel POV
Today's the day. The day we go home. Sammy and a few others from the office had come to see us goodbye. I couldn't quite believe I was going home. Half of me wanted to but the other half knew this would be it, no more soulfinder, it was tough but I tried not to be a wreck in front of everyone. We got to the gate, which they couldn't go past.
"So this is it." Said Will. "Dankie." Oh, I wondered why he wanted to know what 'Thank you' was in Afrikaans. I think they appreciated it though. "And Sammy, Ek ruik sleg kaas" We all laughed, remembering the hilarity of teaching Will that phrase. He hugged her a quick goodbye and was talking to one of the Malda.
"Sammy, I want to thank you for all…" I started but she shushed me and hugged me.
"I'll come and visit in the next couple of months, I think I should see Molly as well. I will miss you Uri, I haven't had a friend like you in such a long time." She squeezed one more time before letting me go. I had to admit, I was going to miss her… A lot. We packed our stuff up and moved through the doors and I didn't look back, because I knew it would hurt to leave everything behind.
Will thought it would be a good idea for me to take a sleeping pill on the plane, mainly because I was fidgeting but also because I couldn't stop thinking about what the rest of my family which I could never have. A soulfinder. So for the next, 13 hours, I slept like a baby. Fortunately, I woke up about 10 minutes before we landed.
About half an hour after being on American turf once more, we got to the place where people were picking us up. I then realised that only my parents and Xav was there. It was odd that no Crystal was there with Xav, or even little Sky. I was a little confused and strangely upset but tried to hide it because I knew there was a reason. My mum rushed over to come and hug me, clutching me like I was the last bit of oxygen on Earth. I missed my mum, she can usually comfort me when no one else can, tell me everything will be okay and it is only temporary. But, she can't, she has her soulfinder, and so doesn't know that the pain can't go away. She lets go of me reluctantly so I can give my dad a hug. His was comforting and strong like he knew how to handle a broken person. Which is what I was- or at least felt like.
We got into the car and Will was talking about how he learned a new phrase in Afrikaan. He told them it meant 'it's nice to meet you' but I corrected him. Xav laughed at this so hard and really wanted me to replay the memory to him. We soon settled down and it was quite quiet, we had an hour in the car before we got home. I couldn't resist any longer.
"Where is everybody?" I asked no one in particular. I saw mum and dad exchange looks in the front. Dad was the one to reply, he always knew what to say in situations like this.
"The Trace and Vick are at work but are coming around when they have done. Yves and Zed are still at school so Xav was the only one free."
"Because you have no job." Will joked and Xav swatted him over the head.
"What about the girls?" I asked but I was met by silence. "Well?"
"We thought you might want some space, so the girls won't be here for a couple of days, until you get used to things here. We didn't know how you were going to react to soulfinders, so no one is seeing them for a little while." Mum replied after a long time of silence.
"WHAT? That's stupid. I know my soulfinder will never be with me again but that shouldn't stop you from seeing yours." I said loudly. To be honest, I wasn't sure how I would react but now I think of them more as sisters than soulfinders.
"We will still give it a couple of days, everyone has taken days off work and we will take Yves and Zed off school so we can do stuff together. We have realised that we haven't done anything just us since Zed met Sky." Dad said in a matter of fact way so there was no argument. I guess that wouldn't hurt anyone too much.
Nothing had changed when we got home apart from the fact that there were fresh flowers and the fridge was full because Xav hasn't had the chance to get his face in it. I went pretty much straight upstairs and into my old bedroom, and opened my case. I might as well start unpacking, I had a lot of clean clothes because we were meant to be away for 2 weeks but only stayed for about 4 days. Still, I sorted a pile of dirty clothes that needed washing and put away the rest of the clothes.
Uriel? Will said. You know that present that Sammy gave us? Mine was an English to Afrikaans dictionary…. I burst out laughing! That is a genius idea, and a great gift for him. What was my present? In fact, where was my present? I scoured my bag to find it at the bottom, I carefully unwrapped the gift and it was a baking set. It had everything from tins to piping sets. It was perfect. I should say thank you. I set up my laptop and opened up my emails. Bad idea. 11 new messages entitled:
-Soulfinders
-Have you found her?
-So sorry
-It'll be fine
-Work arrangements- time off
Soulfinder, soulfinder, soulfinder. This was a lot harder than I thought. I'm not sure I can cope. I haven't thought about the real world, I wasn't ready. I wanted to cry, to scream and shout but I knew there was only one thing that I could channel my energy through. For my brothers, its skiing and snowboarding but for me, it's baking. So I grabbed my new equipment and went downstairs.
About ten minutes in, my mum came into the kitchen and stopped suddenly at me baking. I looked up and smiled a small smile before going back to what I was doing. I glanced to see mum go rather quickly up the stairs. She wanted to know what I was doing so went to Will for the answers. He knows I do it when I'm upset about something, because I have done it a lot recently.
2 hours later and I had made 27 equally sized vanilla cupcakes, with chocolate icing. They looked identical apart from the decorations that I had done. I used sugar paper to make everyone's initials onto 3 cakes each. I cut them out so carefully and placed them so they were perfectly in the centre. I had just finished clearing up when I heard Yves and Zed come into the house. I knew it was them because they were arguing when they came in.
"I'm telling you, know matter how much you teach me it Yves, I will never understand the particle theory to… Mmm something smells good. MUM? WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN BAKING?" Zed shouted the last bit as he dumped his bag and kicked his shoes off. I could hear that mum entered the hallway from the living room.
"I haven't done a thing. It's all Uriel." She replied with a slight smile in her voice. At that point I decided to emerge and I was greeted with two wide mouthed, gob-smacked brothers staring at my mum. Yves was the first to notice me.
"Uri! So good to see you." He came up to me and we embraced each other, then Zed. It seems years since I've seen these two. Yves hasn't changed a bit, maybe looks a little more tired but that's it. Zed is pretty much the same but has had a haircut. Shorter round the sides and a bit longer on the top so it's curly. Before Sky, he wouldn't have bothered but no I think he makes an effort on his appearance. I also noticed he had a tiny bit of stubble, which makes him look older.
"How have you guys been?" I asked and they both nodded and said different things.
"How have you been?" Zed asked but quickly got an elbow in the ribs from Yves and a frown from our mother.
"Thank you for asking but I have been better. Do you want to try the cupcakes I made?" I asked them walking into the kitchen to see Will was already there.
"Erm, Uri, they won't, like kill us or anything?" Zed questioned cautiously and I laughed.
"No bro, Uri's cakes are the best." Will said eating the second of his three. That gave me, and everyone else, a vote of confidence and I felt a lot better. "Just wait 'til you try these chocolate things he makes. They are heaven in a mouthful." He said, unsurprisingly, with HIS mouthful. Everyone tucked in and loved it which is great. Baking gives me the release I need to forget and the results at the end are all positive so that's good. I don't know how to feel at the moment but with baking, I just feel relaxed.
Please review this, do you like it? Sorry for the rubbish ending by the way. Thinking of ending soon so please review to tell me what you think should happen! :)