Thanks to everyone who has reviewed, faved and followed! Hope you are all enjoying the story, here is chapter 10!
It has been exactly a week now since I found out Jeremy is a murderer.
Everyone is concerned about me. Family constantly crowd round me, thinking their words will help. It doesn't help. My friends at school have picked up on my bad mood and try to comfort me. It doesn't help.
Nothing helps me.
When I was younger I was told stories of my dad slipping before he met my mum. Vic and Trace both were slipping also, before they met their soulfinder's. They all told me to stick to the goodness within me and my soulfinder will come to me, all the waiting will be worth it. I know for a fact that they all now regret their 'bad boy' days. They told us this entire story to stop us from becoming the same. But I'm not waiting for my soulfinder, I have found him.
Yet I can't be with him.
I know I he is a murderer. I know he has a psychopath of a father. I know he probably has done unspeakable things, evil things. I know all of this, but most of all I know that it's killing me to be apart from him. I want to be with my soulfinder.
I haven't seen Jeremy since that night. He hasn't come to school, hasn't come to the house again, and hasn't even tried to contact me. My family won't let me go out in fear of me going to see him.
Currently I'm laid on my bed, staring at the pictures covering my walls of family and friends. Every picture displays a happy me, smiling and laughing. Those pictures seem so long ago, despite some of them only being taken merely weeks ago.
Knock, knock, knock
My thoughts are disturbed by knocking at the door. It will probably be someone just checking up on me, despite them all knowing full well how I am.
"Come in." I shout, irritated at whoever interrupted my inner monologue.
The handle turns and my white door opens to reveal Maddie, looking anxiously towards me before walking further into my room and closing the door behind her. She walks over to me and sits on the edge of my bed, before speaking.
"I don't know what to say…I know this is difficult…but…"
"Maddie I appreciate the concern and all, but if you don't have anything to say…" I don't speak the end of the sentence but simply point my thumb towards the door. I know it's rude and she doesn't deserve it but right now I can't handle any more little so-called comforting chats from my family. Maddie follows my gaze and looks like she is about to leave but shakes her head and seems to reconsider.
"Do you want to come out with me?" She says but immediately sighs afterwards, thinking her plan is the wrong idea.
"Actually, yeah I do." I reply shocking Maddie and myself. It won't cure the situation, but maybe it could distract me from the pain; have a numbing effect. Maddie smiles at me brightly; clearly glad she is able to at least get me to get out.
"Great! Why don't we go for some retail therapy, hey?"
"Sure." I smile, but it feels weak.
"Okay, meet you downstairs in ten minutes then." With another large grin, Maddie leaves and lets me get ready.
I pull myself off the bed and get up to have a look in the mirror. The sight before me is not good; my eyes are puffy and red from crying and my hair a complete mane of frizz and curls. Quickly I set about applying makeup and cover most of the redness, and then I run a brush through my hair along with some anti-frizz serum to reduce most of mane. Once I'm reasonably happy with my appearance, I slip on a blue hoodie over my jeans and t-shirt and put on my converse.
As I trudge down the stairs, I take a deep breath preparing for the full impact of my family. I walk into the living room to find Maddie waiting for me, my coat in her hand. My mum and dad were nowhere to be seen and it was just Luke in the room, sat watching TV. At seeing me he turns and smiles and tells us to both have fun. He doesn't get up to kiss Maddie goodbye like he usually would, obviously for my benefit, thinking I wouldn't be able to handle it.
I think about saying it's not necessary but I decide not to. It seems like everyone is trying to avoid the situation and not talk about it, and that's fine by me.
Putting on my coat, me and Maddie walk out the house and to the car. Maddie drives, us both agreeing it's probably best with me not being in the right frame of mind at the moment. For the first few minutes of the drive we don't speak, but Maddie decides to brake to silence first.
"It must be terrible having such a horrible soulfinder, hating your own soulfinder must be difficult."
Her words hit me like and blow to the stomach.
"Hate?"
She stares at me and gives me a duh look. "Well yeah, you must hate him…"
Maddie stops talking when she sees my face, shock and confusion clear on her face.
"But…surely you hate him?"
"He's my soulfinder Maddie. Whatever he has done it can never change that bond between us, I can't just break our bond, and you unconditionally love your soulfinder. Would you hate Luke if you found out he killed a person?"
"Luke would never do that, though."
"How do you know?"
"Because I know him!"
"And we don't know about Jeremy yet, were not sure of the circumstances of the case. It could have been self-defence!"
"Come on, Amelia! You aren't so naïve as to believe that are you?"
How dare she? She doesn't know Jeremy! Anger rages inside me at her judgement. I go to respond to her but I'm cut short by the sound of a car horn.
I have a spilt second to turn and see a truck heading towards us, before it slams into the passenger side of the car and everything fades to blackness.
Sorry for the cliff hanger! Will try and update soon, please review and let me know what you think! Thanks for reading! :)