The missing piece

Chapter 7

Alexander's pov

What is happening? I just found my soulmates. I have barely known them and one of them already called me baby. The only pet name I got from Stefan was whore or slut and believe me it was not in a nice way.
To be totally honest, I forgot about Stefan until now. I bet he's not even worried, usually by now I would be at his place and apologizing for whatever I've done and half of the time I don't even know what I'm apologizing for.

But I know who is worried, Ben. Ben is my best friend. He's the only one that stuck around, he's also protective of me but still let's me make my own decisions. When it came to Stefan I wish I would've listened to him. I've known him since I was 12. He found his soulmate when he was 18 and they are perfect for each other. His partners name is Sage they are two years younger then Ben and are really quite, sort of like me. On the other hand Ben is very much extroverted and loud when he wants to be.

I need to let him know I'm okay, I'm worried he'll call the police. And I need to tell Stefan it's officially over, I can't have him calling people I know and asking where I am.

And I think I'll give this soulmate thing a try. Of course I won't be staying because I have to go to school so I can get my business degree. I've been working on it for three years now and I will not give up now. And I still have to wrap my head around the fact that my soulmates are in the mafia.

I've been up here for about an hour and I think I'm ready to go down there and tell them what I'm comfortable doing at the moment. I really hope this goes well.

I'm at the top of the stair and I can hear talking. I can't make out what they are saying and if it's good or bad. Fear starts to build up but I push it down and start walking down the stairs. Once I reach the bottom I see them all staring at me.
"C-Can we talk?" Again with the stutter, I really need to get that under control.

For some reason they're just staring at me. Maybe I shouldn't have come down yet, I probably interrupted something. Before I could apologize for interrupting and go back upstairs Matt speaks up.
"Of course we can. Come sit." He has such a soft voice, it's nice.
I slowly walk to the chair in front of the couch. It seems like Rowan wants to say something but I just brush it off and start talking about what I came down here for.

"I need to go back home so I can call Ben..." "Who's Ben?" My eyes surprisingly landed on Joseph, he looked mad maybe, I really don't know what his expression is telling me but what I know for sure is that it's not a positive one.
"He's my best friend. I call him every two days and we update each other on, well each other. And if I don't call him he'll know something is wrong and I don't need him calling the police." Wow I didn't stutter, am I already warming up to them? No that can't be it.

This time Rowan spoke. "If you know his number than your more than welcome to call him from here." He looked satisfied with his solution.
"W-Well that's not the only r-reason I need to go home." Aaand there's the stutter again.
They waited for me to elaborate.
"I-I need to go see S-Stefan."
"Is he another worried friend of yours?" Oh right I never told them his name. This is probably not going to go well.

"He's my...b-boyfriend."
My head was down because I really didn't want to see their reactions. Before I could explain why I needed to see him Rowan spoke again. "No." That's the only thing he said.
"What?"
"No, you are not going to see him."
"But I-I need to, I need to..." Again before I could explain someone interrupted me. This time it was Matthew. They just keep surprising me left and right.

"Why in the hell would you need to see him?" This time his voice wasn't soft like it usually was, it was rough and much like Rowan's. "If Rowan wouldn't have found you, the injuries that he gave you would've killed you. And you want to go back?" He wasn't exactly yelling at me but he did sound very mad.

"Matt, babe you need to calm down."
"Rowan don't start with me, you are thinking the exact same thing."
"Yes but I would've let him finish explaining himself.And you are getting punished for talking back to me like that." Matt nodded and looked down to his lap.

Did Rowan just say punish? He doesn't mean like punish punish right? There's no way. Rowan probably saw me overthinking because he got my attention.
"I'll explain that one to you later. It's nothing bad I promise." I could only see honesty in his eyes so I nodded.
"Now why do you need to go and see that boyfriend of yours?"

"Because I need to break up with him." They looked relived and they started relaxing back into the couch. But the next thing I said made them tense up again. "And I-I can't stay here." Now it was my turn to speak before they could and in all honesty I really need to explain myself faster, cause this really ain't working.

"I-I have to go to school, luckily for me I still have a few days off so I didn't miss anything but I will h-have to get back soon."

"Okay." Wow didn't see that one coming. "But..." of course there's a but. "We will come with you to Stefan's and one of us will drive you to school and pick you up from school every day." Why would they want to do that? It seems more like a chore and I for one hate chores.
I didn't want to argue but curiosity got the best of me.

"Why?"
"Why what baby?" Again with the baby, for some reason when he calls me that it makes me feel, I don't know, warm.
"Why would you want to drive m-me and pick me up from s-school everyday?"

"Because we respect your wish to go home and figure things out and take things slow. I'm guessing that's why you don't want to stay here right?" I nodded. "But we want to make sure you are safe and I don't think we could handle not seeing you everyday, even if it's just for a short period of time."
"O-Okay."

Than they told me we would go to Stefan's the day after tomorrow. Of course I protested and said it was okay and we could go tomorrow but Joseph said I really should get some rest and after Rowan gave me a stern look I didn't dare to protest.
So I said good night and went to the guest room and went to bed.
What an eventful day.

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Btw English is not my first language, so if anything sounds weird or grammatically incorrect I'm sorry