Soul Mate

Chapter 24

Andy's P.O.V.

I fumble to get my phone out of pocket as I race out of the studio. The last thing I need is more grief from the guys. Once I see her beautiful picture on the screen I slam my finger on the green answer button so fast I think I might knock the phone out of my own hands.

"Hello?" I hear her beautiful voice, but something sounds off.

"Hey beautiful, are you okay?" I ask concerned as to how she sounds. Was her first day really that rough?

"I am now." She says after taking a deep breath.

I turn to walk back to the "compound" as we guys call it, but Ashley taps me on the shoulder and beckons me to follow him to his car. If it would have been anyone else I would've just walked, but Ashley understands. I climb in his car and continue the conversation I was having.

"Rough first day love?"

She lets out a small laugh, "you have no idea"

"Tell me about it, maybe I can help"

"From across the country?"

"Well, maybe not that, but I am a good listener" Ashley shoots me a look and a smirk, while I smile back and flick him off.

"Well,"

I settle into the seat as I listen to her recount her first day. She talks about how she stood up for me in her music theory class and was the only one to pass a "pop quiz". I chuckle at that part. Then she talks about her three other classes and how nothing exciting really happened in them. She met a girl in one class that was paired with her for a project, but she doesn't see a friendship blooming there. Then she pauses. And I sit a bit straighter in my seat, even though Ashley is pulling up to the compound. "What is it?" I see Ashley look at me, concerned by my tone and change in demeanor.

"I, I did something that I still can't wrap my head around."

I wave a thanks to Ashley as I climb out of the car and head to the space deemed my room in the compound. I lay on the thin mattress, counting down the days until I sleep in a tour bus and hotels again. "I don't think there is anything YOU could have done that would be bad. Maybe you are over reacting. What happened?"

She then proceeds to tell me what happened when she went to have dinner in the mess hall and that Jenny was sitting with these dudes. Everything was fine at first then, wait WHAT!?

"He what?!" I shout into the phone

"Yea, he just kept hitting on me, and when Jenny told him to stop and that I have you, he, he just"

"He what?" I ask. I feel anger coursing through my body as every worst case scenario plays through my head. If he touched her, if he so much as hurt her I swear I will book a flight tonight.

"He said, and I quote, 'I don't SEE him anywhere' while looking at me like I was a piece of property for him to own. Then,"

I wait in anticipation for her to say what this asshole did to her. I will end him when I get to New York if he so much as laid a finger on her.

"Then I, I, slapped him."

I stop. Like my brain legit factory resets as her words sink in. Then I laugh. Like full on laugh. I don't remember the last time I laughed this hard. Leave it to my sweet, never even says a bad word Lilly to panic about slapping a well deserved douche in the face.

"It's not funny Andy! I never slapped anyone before. I don't want to get in trouble. I don't want to get kicked out of Julliard"

I try to contain m laughter, I really do, but I can't. She is worried about getting kicked out of school? "Babe, I, I," I struggle to catch my breath, "I think this guy is the one who should be worried. He just managed to piss of a soul mate who will be in your city in a few short weeks to slap him again. Probably even harder. Plus, on top of that, he could be in trouble for sexually harassing you."

"But he,"

"Love, did you ask him to stop? Did someone else tell him to stop? Did you explain that you were already taken? Then yes, he did."

"Whatever, I will not be sitting with him again."

"What happened after you slapped him?"

"I told him you were preparing for a tour, and..."

"And what?"

"I may, possibly, have called him an asshole"

I laugh. Again.

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Lilly's P.O.V.

Andy laughs at what I tell him. I roll my eyes as I get to the door to my dorm. I go in and settle down. I get my books out and prepare to do my homework for the night while Andy is still howling like a hyena in my ear.

"Are you done yet?" I laugh at him

"Yes, yes, I think, I think I am good. But dang babe, physical violence and fowl language all in a matter of minutes? I hope I am not becoming a bad influence on you, your father will never accept my request to marry you MANY years down the line if you turn into a delinquent."

Now it's my turn to laugh. "It will be our little secret."

We both laugh as I hear someone jingling keys outside the door, "Oh, my roommate is here"

"You haven't met her yet?" Andy asks

"Nope she," but I stop.

"Babe? Hello, babe? Lilly?!"

But I don't answer him, because standing in the doorway, just as shocked as I am, is Jenny.

"NO FUCKING WAY!" she shouts as she flies into the room and I throw myself off the bed.

We embrace and hug and scream out in joy.

"I can't believe this!"

"What are the odds!"

"This semester is going to rule!"

"Semester? Honey we got years together"

"Years? Try a life time" I laugh

"Hell to the yea."

Just then my phone rings, who? Oh shit!

I fly to answer the phone, "Hello?"

"Are you okay? You stopped replying and then I heard screaming"

I laugh as I put him on speaker, "yea, just met my roommate."

"What up beard nuts!" Jenny yells into the phone.

I can practically hear Andy's expression over the phone. "That wasn't funny the first ten times Jenny."

All three of us laugh out loud.