SOULMATES

Sixteen...

PERCY'S POV.

I couldn't stop pacing up and down the length of my room. When I finally found her, she was lying unconscious by the roadside, her top soiled and her footwear missing.

My mind kept playing different scenarios of what exactly could have happened to her. Did she get rapped?...or robbed? Or drugged?

Shaking my head, I climbed beside her on the bed and took her hands in mine.

"Please wake up....please.." I whispered.

On cue, she began to stare.

"Phoebe!....oh God!.....Phoebe...."

She groaned and tried to sit up...I held onto her to help her sit up..

"Ouch....my head..." She mourned.

"What happened?" She asked before turning to me.

Her eyes went wide when she realized where she was. She yanked her hands from mine and bolted from the bed.

"Phoebe..." I began to say...

"Don't!......"she started looking around for her footwear..

"Where is my slippers?" She demanded.

"Could you just...calm down please? How are you feeling?"

She only glared at me and continued to search..

"I couldn't find them....so I brought you here barefooted.." I explained.

She stopped and looked at me for a while. Then shrugging, she began to walk to the door.

Thank God it was locked.

"Phoebe talk to me please...I need to know if you are OK. I found you by the roadside unconscious..!"

I try to hold her but she shook me off.

"Open the door..." She demanded.

"OK...I'm sorry....for everything....." I breathed

"Open the door Percy!" She yelled.

"Phoebe come on.....I said I'm sorry....just tell me what happened ..." I said

"What do you care! Just open the door and let me out...now."

Tears began to spring up in her eyes.

Signing, I took a step towards her...

"I know what I did was unforgivable and there's no excuse for my actions,but I'm sorry OK....please..."

I was now in front of her and I rapped my arms around her....

"Let me go!....Percy...don't touch me.....let me go!!"

She was crying now. Oh boy...what have I done to this girl...

It surprised me how I'd do anything right now to stop those tears..

"I thought I meant something to you..."

That actually caught me off guard.

"Of course you do! You mean everything to me!"

I said sincerely. Not because I wanted her to stop but i really meant it. Finding her like that yesterday really did something to me.....

it turned something in me...it made me realize that I didn't just feel connected to this girl...I loved her....

when she saw me with another girl last night, I died a thousand times.

Usually, I wouldn't give a dime about getting caught. But with Phoebe,it felt like a major crime. It felt like I didn't deserve to live anymore..