Chapter 7
I visited Claire in the hospital bringing her Sunflowers which her favorite. She's still in a coma. Her legs are still broken. Her injuries are not as worse as they were after the car accident. I started hanging back with Tonya. I've been consumed with nothing but hate over the fact that my mother took me out of high school and sent me to a mental intuition over words and rumors from strangers.
The relationship has come to an end. If the appealed was not successful then my four years would've been in that Hellhole. I do not step foot in that home. I visit my father only at his dealership or when we meet up for lunch. He speaks on forgiveness but this woman robbed me out of my graduation and having a high school expression. She feels as though she did right in her own mind. She tried to end my life. You are no mother to do that to your child. In the future, we possibly might have a conversation but I have moved forward.
The distance between me and Paul lasted for at least two weeks till he found me working at my new job at the Supermarket. I have no clue how he found me but he did. I stopped answering his phone calls. I stopped responding to his text messages. The fact that Rachel is painted as his soulmate is really hurtful. It comes from his family. He just showed up.
I look around the dark parking lot that's only lighted by a few horizontal light posts from inside of the supermarket. It's closing time. I got my keys in my right hand. I'm tennis shoes. You can never be too careful. "I'm gone!" I shout to my employees opening up the entrance door and making a run across the parking lot quickly to my car. I just had to come in when the parking lot was packed.
I quickly make it to my driver's seat and get in checking my surroundings noticing a few cars in the parking lot. Most of them are owned by the employees but I don't recognize two. I get in the car and lock the door. I don't even put on my seatbelt as drive out of the parking lot. The killings has increased in Seattle. The police don't even know what is going on.
Seattle is not even far from Forks. I wish God would fix the problem. I check my rearview mirror a couple of times on my way home. A fifteen minute drive it is. I pull into the parking lot seeing Paul's car parked. I park my car next to his to see him looking on his cellphone. Who he texting? I turn off the car and get out. He gets out too.
"Was you sitting?" I ask closing the door. "Twenty minutes." He say placing his cellphone in his back pants pocket. "Oh, okay." I say locking my car doors. I walk behind my car. He grabs my arm and pull me to him. "I was careful. I ran to my car. I checked my surroundings." I explain. I know he would be proud. He leans down and kiss on the left side of my neck.
I guess he really do like me. "Me and Rachel are back together. She's pregnant." He bluntly say coming off my neck. "Oh. Oh. Okay." I say in a low voice. Kind of crazy for him to blurt this issue out of nowhere out. I thought he was coming to choose me. "She's three months. She found out five days ago." He say. I just simply walk away heading for my apartment building.
I have no idea what the heck he is talking about but I am not gonna stand and listen. I open the door and head inside. I walk across the marbled lobby and head up the stairs hearing the entrance door closing behind me. The door closing is real loud at night. You can hear the echo. I make it to my apartment floor and go to my door.
He walks up the stairs just as I unlock the door. I open the door and walk in hitting the light switch in the kitchen on turning the lights on. "Her getting pregnant happened before we got together." Paul say forcing himself into my apartment. "I understand but I don't want a man who has a baby on the way." I calmly say heart racing.
He closes the door behind him. "Hurt?" "Massively hurt. I had time to think over the two weeks. Must be something strong that makes you and her to be considered soulmates. Just hard to compare to that especially when your cousin spoke on it." That's all I can say. It hurts as a woman. Really hurts. I head down the hall to my bedroom.
The moon illuminates a little bit of light. I sit my purse and car keys on the top of the dresser and take my shoes off. I remove my clothes ready to relax in my bed. It's almost ten at night. I'm so tired. I been working since eleven this morning. Paul walks in. I unbutton my bra and throw it in the dirty clothes basket. I have nothing to hide. He seen my body naked two times.
"What?" I ask leaning on the dresser. I want to know his thoughts. "Just thinking." "You want to stay over?" I ask. Is that he is speaking on? "Just want to be good friends." He say. "I can be good friends. Congratulations on the baby. What you want?" "Boy." "Every man wants a boy but some turns very spoiled when it comes to girls." I say smiling.
He walks down the hall. I grab a shirt out of the dresser and follow behind him. I put the shirt on. He grabs his jacket off the dining table and head for the front door. "Leaving?" I ask him. "Leaving." He say turning to face me. "Nothing is wrong with taking time. Nobody is going anywhere besides the baby who'll be growing. Life will work out, Paul. Even though you are struggling in some type of what, a soulmate is a blessing. Only the lucky ones find them especially to be married for than twenty years. Something you don't want to trash to the side for a regular person." Especially someone who is ugly as me.
"You'll wait?" He ask me. "I can't wait. I'll want my happiness but I'll wait for you, Paul. Come here." I say holding my arms out. He looks like he needs a hug. He throws his jacket back on the dining table and walk into my arms. He picks me up. I smile looking in his eyes. "She is my soulmate." He say.
"Nothing is wrong with that. Your soulmate is your soulmate. Very lucky to find her at a young age. Just a blessing that we met each other and bonded. It was beautiful but life happens. You'll be okay." I say running my fingers through his hair. He will most definitely be okay. She's your soulmate. How can you deny her that? He sits me on the floor.
"You'll be okay." I say rubbing on his arms trying to give him comfort. He grabs his coat off the dining table and leave out of the apartment. He'll be okay. He will be okay.