Love Me {Sequel To Last Hope}

Chapter Seventeen-Soulmates

"I've been in love. It's painful, pointless, and overrated." - Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries

T E L L I E

I never pictured spending a night following Corey around London because we had become the next search party for team Bella. It had mostly happened because Dad wanted to get rid of me as soon as possible because apparently I was bring insensitive. I didn't particularly think so. I think I was right. Bella was gonna turn up soon and it'll just be because she need to escape the chaos of facing her parents demands. But me blandly pointing that out landed me here in another one of Niall's search parties.

"Where the hell do you find an Eleven year old?" Corey snapped. I wasn't sure how long we'd been walking, or where we were. But I still followed with my hands in the pockets of my jacket, wishing I had just stayed home. Why hadn't I just stayed home and not bothered? Bella was gonna be fine. "Where do kids run off to?"

"We went to Dover." I pointed out.

"I don't think Bella went to Dover." Corey replied.

"I hope she didn't. Let's face it; you don't go there by yourself if you aren't planning on jumping."

"And when you do annoying thirteen year olds try to stop you."

"And when you jump the poor thirteen year old is screaming in front of a bunch of strangers and ends up having a paramedic hold them back until they're forced to face their father."

"And then you plan to die, but you wake up alive after your suicide attempt."

"Then the poor thirteen year old gets haunted at the thought."

"Then the poor thirteen year old grows up, gets engaged, and doesn't even tell you in person or at all because who are you? No one?"

"Oh."

"Oh exactly."

I followed him cautiously. I hadn't even thought of telling Corey about the engagement. Honestly I hadn't actually told anyone. I just kind of put it online and let it flow from there. I was still in shock that it had happened. I could love Zach as much as I did but I was still waiting for him to leave me; throw me away like I was nothing. As much as it never came, I had the fear.

"We should go back." Corey said. "We've looked all around this part, there is absolutely nothing here. We can't find her."

"We'll go back and she'll be fine." I told him. Then he turned and walked past me, again I followed wearily. "Look... About Zach and I-"

"It's fine." He drawled. It totally wasn't fine. I knew from the expression on his face. "I don't care."

"That's a lie."

"Well what do you want me to say?" He snapped. "That I'm offended two of my best friends got engaged and I found out through an Instagram post? That I think your jumping into this to quickly? That I'm pissed because I never got to be with you the way I wanted? And when you come back, and there's possibly a chance he snatches it away with a diamond ring?"

I bit my lip and let my stomach sink. I was dreading this. Corey and I had always had that odd relationship. The odd we almost dated thing. I still shuddered sometimes at the thought of being in his car that time, telling him why I wasn't good enough. I could remember the way he looked at me; I knew because Taylor looked at me the same way. I like to pretend I never heard Corey say your good enough for me. Simply because back then it had been to hard to deal with.