Souls apart

Chapter Eight: An old memory comes to Life

Mercy's POV

I woke up with a migraine. What happened? I thought, I feel so tired. I closed my eyes but got nauseous at the movement. I grabbed my towel and went to the bathroom. The shower was running, as the feeling of losing the contents of my stomach grew stronger, I started banging on the door. As I felt it rise to the back of my throat I opened it and ran over to the toilet to start throwing up. I began crying at the pain that flooded through my body but the cries made me throw up more. Just my luck, Jem hopped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around his waist before grabbing my hair and moving it out of my face.

"You better not be Pregnant" he muttered.

"There is no chance" I told him "Sorry about barging in." I looked up at him. All the males in this family have well-formed abs. I noticed a faded scar running down the centre of his chest.

"I need a shower" I told him flushing the toilet.

"You feel like you have a migraine don't you?" he asked.

"I don't remember what caused it" I tried to remember what happened before I went to sleep.

"You bashed up the new girl, she was from your other school. You gave yourself a grade 2 concussion and she might have a broken jaw. What happened that was so bad between you two that you ended up fighting each other?" He asked.

"I need a shower" I repeated as I dragged myself over to the shower. I twisted the knobs and turned the water on, moving to hop in but not before Jem grabbed me.

"Hey, put me down" I told him.

"I'll help you since... you know... you were about to have a shower in your clothes" he said.

"Maybe that's the way I like my showers" I responded.

"I wonder if you're like this when you're drunk" he thought out loud.

"Jason says to pour a scotch and take a couple aspirin. I'll take a dose of that" I said as Jem undressed me and put me in the base of the shower.

"I'll give you the aspirin and a lemonade" he bargained.

"Fine" I closed my eyes as he turned off the light leaving me alone in the warm shower. An old memory floated into my dream, the memory I wanted to burn and forget.

"Hey Rosie" I walked up to her locker where she waited for me.

"Hey Mer" She had a huge smile on her face.

"What's up? What's with the face?" I asked.

I could tell she had something huge planned.

"My parents are leaving for the weekend and I'll have the whole place to myself, but I think I might get a bit lonely, so I was thinking that you might like to sleep over if you know what I mean..." she asked.

"Yeah Absolutely" I responded without hesitation.

"Great i'll see you tomorrow then" she smiled as we went our separate ways.

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"Hey girl, are you as excited as I am?" Rose asked me skipping up to me as I waited at the gate for her.

"Definitely" I smiled as we walked down the street together.

"I have some things planned for tonight" she said with an evil smile on her face. I had a funny feeling about this but I still went with her.

"Ok sounds fun" I smiled brightly as we turned the corner to get to her street.

We made it to her house. I'd been here before but I was always so in awe at all of her nice furniture, not to mention the size of her house.

"Pizza or Thai?" She asked as she grabbed a bunch of take out menus from a range of places.

"Thai, Pizza is boring" I told her. She chucked the menus onto the side table all except the Thai one and read through it.

"I'm going to have Green Curry what about you?" she gave me the menu.

"I'll have the red curry, nice and spicy" I told her licking my lips.

"That was kind of hot" she bit her bottom lip, watching where my tongue had swept over my own.

"Oh... uh thanks" I blushed.

I noticed that she was still staring at my lips but after a few seconds she met my eyes again.

"So do you want to watch a movie?" she asked me.

"Yeah sure, what should we watch?" I smiled.

"I'm thinking a rom com or something" she winked.

"Okay" I felt tingles rush through my body.

She called the Thai place to have our food delivered to us and went through her movies while we waited.

"I love that movie" I told her as the pointer landed on 'The Babymakers'.

"Yes! We're totally watching this" Rosie giggled excitedly as she clicked on it.

Just as it was about to start the doorbell rang and Rosie left me for a second to go and get out food. She got back just in time with some plates, forks and delicious looking curry. The movie started and we watched it as we ate. We paused it quickly to put our plates and rubbish away and for a quick bathroom break about halfway through. When we put it back on, Rosie scooted closer to me on the couch. She laid her head against my shoulder and took my hand in hers. When the movie finished, she looked up at me. She was so beautiful, I remembered thinking how I must have been the luckiest person on Earth to find someone so amazing. I couldn't believe what she did to me. I saw something flash in her eyes before she leaned up so that her face was close to mine. I could feel her hot breath against my lips. Her eyes wandered to them and I knew what she wanted. I wanted it too. Our lips connected... and the night went on from there.

Everything went dark before the memory of the day after flooded back to me. I still couldn't believe she filmed us doing it, and then she had the decency to put it on the school website for everyone to see. The humiliation almost killed me, oh I would have died if Jason had found out. It took a lot to convince the principal to not tell my parents at the time. Walking down the halls during breaks was the worst but everything was almost back to normal when we moved.

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"Mercy are you okay?" Sable was shaking me.

"Oh god, what are you doing here?" I asked as the water almost choked me when I spoke.

"Oh... Mercy..." she saw what I did during the broken period.

"Out, get out!" I snapped, trying to cover the cut scars. I dried myself and went to my bedroom to get dressed. I locked the door. After a while there was a knock.

"Go away Sable" I rolled my eyes, doesn't she have a life to live.

"I'm not Sable and this is her room too" Jason's voice came through. She told him didn't that little tattle tale. I put a jacket on to hide the scars and unlock the door before sitting on my bed.

"Why are you here? Shouldn't you be at home? Your home?" I asked as he came in.

"I got a call from a worried young woman who was concerned about her sister. Do you know what it's about?" He asked.

"You tell me" I looked down at my hands and fiddled with them.

"When did you start cutting yourself baby?" he had tears in his eyes, I could tell him was blaming himself for not noticing.

"At Ashford after Rose and I stopped being friends." I started crying at how stupid I was.

"Baby" he hugged me, crying as well. I don't think I can trust that girl, I don't think we will be getting along anytime soon.