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Saffron's POV

The boy whose arms I was in was my soulfinder. My soulfinder! I keep repeating the word 'soulfinder' in my head, again and again until it doesn't even sound like a word anymore. Uriel was incredibly good looking. He had dark hair with natural blondish highlights, warm and friendly hazel eyes and a smile which just made you want to join in with him.

'What's your gift?' He asks suddenly, surprising me.

'Emotions, I can make you feel different things like happiness for example.'

'Are you using your gift on me now?' He accuses.

'Nope. That's just the magic of soulfinders. What's your gift?'

'I can read the past: people's memories and stuff.'

My body stiffens in his arms and I hold my breath.

'What's wrong?' Uriel's face is mixed with confusion and worry.

'Nothing. It's just that…the past should stay in the past.' I say quietly.

'What's your surname?' He asks, sensing my distress on the subject of past and purposely changing it.

'I don't have one, or I don't remember it anyway. Why?'

'I want to know everything about you. I'm Uriel Benedict.'

'You have a nice name Uriel.' I smile.

'You can call me Uri. So does everyone call you Saffron, or is it Saff?'

'Saff mainly. Only Grandma calls me by my full name.'

'That's my family, up there.' He says pointing to a large group of people by the dance corner.

'Wow, you take up nearly half the beach!' I laugh.

'Yeah. That's not even all of them. My other brother and his wife and baby are at the town today.' He chuckles.

'Hey, Uri, that doesn't look like a smoothie?' One of the boys laugh.

'Everybody, I would like you to meet Saffron. My soulfinder.' Uriel says proudly, beaming to his family.

Uriel mother gasped and got up to congratulate us both.

'Oh well done!' She exclaimed and then noticed my foot. 'Oh no, you're bleeding. Xav, get over here.'

'It's really fine Mrs Benedict.' I say as Uriel puts me down on the ground and sits next to me.

'Call me Karla, dear.'

'How did you manage to cut your foot?' Xav asks.

'I dropped a glass. Uriel kind of surprised me.' I giggle as Xav places his hands on the top of my feet. It was a strange feeling; sort of like pins and needles but it was sort of pleasant.

'Are you okay? Are you hurt?' Taz asks curiously, coming over to where I was sitting with the Benedicts.

'I'm fine, Tazzy. More than fine actually. Go find your brother; I need to tell you both something.' I grin at her and she runs off to the football match.

'Hey that's that little girl who dances, right?' Another girl with blonde hair asked.

'Is she your sister?' Uriel asked.

'Tazzy is my daughter. She's always dancing. She's a big show-off.' I laugh. A lot of people seemed surprised at this. I wondered whether they were looking down on me but none of them looked disapproving.

'But your 24, right?' Xav says.

'Yup' I say, not really wanting to go into detail about the circumstances of my pregnancy.

'She looks just like you.' Uriel smiled.

'Yeah, we get that a lot.' I laugh.

'Mama, is everything okay?' Jos frowned as he got closer. I could tell that he didn't like me sitting so close to Uriel as he gets a little protective of me.

'Everything's fine, Jos. You remember when I told you about soulfinders, right?'

Jos and Tazzy nod. 'Well, this is Uriel. He is my soulfinder. This is his family.' I tell them, smiling.

Taz's eyes open wide and she throws herself at Uriel, wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing him on the cheek.

'My name is Tazzia but you can call me Tazzy or Taz.' She says excitedly to a very scared and surprised looking Uriel.

'Tazzy, calm down.' Jos rolls his eyes and sits down next to me.

'So are you going to be our dad now? Can I call you dad?' Tazzy asked Uri enthusiastically.

'Ummm...if you like.' Uriel said, looking at me in surprise.

I groan, blushing deep red. 'Tazzy, quit embarrassing me.' I moan.

'But mama, I'm happy.' She objects, nestling into Uriel's arms.

Jos and I exchange a look and roll our eyes at Taz's behaviour.

'It's lovely to meet both of you.' Uriel smiles at Jos.

Tazzy suddenly gasped and quickly hurried over to the small girl with blonde curly hair. The boy sitting next to the girl tightens his arm around the girl's waist out of protection.

'Wow! You've got beautiful hair.' Tazzy exclaimed, running her fingers through the surprised girl's hair.

'Tazzy!' I complain.

'No it's fine.' The girl smiled at me, letting Taz braid her hair.

'Your daughter is very confident.' Uriel's father chuckled warmly, smile lines appearing around his eyes.

'That's one word for it.' Jos laughs.

'Sorry, dear, what was your name again?' Karla asked Jos.

'Josiah, ma'am.'

'And you're Saffron's son?'

'Yes ma'am.' Jos smiles. I could see everyone trying to work out in their heads how old I was when I got pregnant. It didn't help the fact the Jos looked a little bit older than 10 as well.

'So polite!' Karla exclaims. 'Some of my boys could take a few lessons off you.' She said, glaring at the boy sitting next to the blonde haired girl.

'Thank-you ma'am.' Josiah said politely.

'Call me Karla, dear. Let me introduce you to the rest of the family.'

'So…did you get all of that?' Xav asks me after Karla goes round with the names.

'Umm…' I frown.

'It's okay, it takes a while for the names to sink in.' Uri chuckles.

'Hey, you work in the smoothie bar, right?' The boy who brought a smoothie asked…Yves I think.

'Yes, did you enjoy your smoothies?' I ask smiling. Tazzie had finished playing with Sky's hair and had gone back to sitting on Uri's lap, looking very comfortable indeed.

'They were delicious!' Phee exclaimed.

'Josiah! We need some more players for Volleyball!' Jengo shouted from across the beach, jogging over towards us.

'Jengo! Mama found her soulfinder.' Jos said, looking pleased for me.

'No kidding! Nice to meet you, man, I'm Jengo. Congratulations by the way.' Jengo grinned, offering his hand to Uriel.

'I'm Uriel, it's nice to meet you too.' Uriel grinned.

'Well, we need a lot more players if anyone's up for it?' Jengo asked around.

'Sign me up.' Xav said, finishing healing my foot. It was amazing, almost as though there hadn't been a cut at all.

'Go on then.' I say

'Yeah, I'll play.' Said Uri

One by one, most of the Benedicts decided to come and play with us. Jos ran over with Jengo and his friends.

'Come on, dad!' Tazzy yelled before running off after her brother.

'Congratulations, son. Welcome to fatherhood.' Saul said smiling and clapped Uri on the shoulder.

'Sorry. I could tell her to stop if you like.' I say apologetically to Uri.

'No, no. It's fine. It's just a little strange getting used to it.' Uriel laughed and wrapped his arm around my waist.

I didn't win but I sure had a lot of fun. All of the Benedicts were extremely competitive and gave Jos and his friends a run for their money. Karla insisted that me, Tazzy and Josiah come round their house for dinner. Uriel said that we should stay the night since it's quite a long way home. He said that he would walk us home where we could get our clothes and everything together whilst the rest of the Benedicts go and make a start on dinner. It's so strange because the day started off as any other day and just got stranger. I mean…what are the chances?