Soulmates

Chapter 10

Mike's POV
Nothing.... I feel absolutely nothing. You can barely see my soulmate mark, which means she is barely hanging on, merely by a thread. Bill and I aren't allowed into the room so we are sitting in chairs by the wall in front of the door so we can be there quickly in case something happens. I feel my eyes start to get droopy so I slowly start to close them, tiredness taking over. When I'm drifting off, I start to dream of Izzy and how we were happy.

Bill's POV
I look to my left and see that Mike has fallen asleep so I decide to let him, he needs a break from all the stress. I look at my mark and decide to trace my fingers over it slightly. A small smile comes to my face as tears start to form in my eyes. They fall and I quickly wipe them away and luckily no more fall. In the corner of my eye, I see a few people bombard the receptionist with questions and by a few people I mean Richie, Ruby, Stanley, Ben and Beverly. But most of those 'questions' are threats from Richie.

"G-Guys!" I shout over to them. All of their heads shoot over towards me and Ruby runs towards me grips my collar and throws me against the wall.

"HOW? HOW COULD YOU LET THAT HAPPEN!! AND WHY ARE YOU OUT HERE INSTEAD OF IN THERE YOU FUCKING WIMP!" Ruby yelled at me. I swear I could see steam coming out of her ears. Stanley came up behind her and put his hands on hers trying to get her to let go of me.

"Let go" he whispered softly to her. She let go with Stanley still behind her, his hands on hers as they both stood back and walked to a chair.

"Oh god" I muttered to myself. I walked back over to my chair and sat down. I put my head in my hands and look at the floor. I see a pair of worn down trainers and know that belong to none other than Richie Tozier.

"So?" He asks, tapping his foot impatiently.

"H-Huh?" I ask, looking up at him, my hands resting in my lap.

"My soulmate is basically on the edge of their life right now, do you know who it is?" He asks quickly, lifting his hand up to his mouth to start biting his nails anxiously.

"Yeah, we do" we hear a voice say next to us. We realise it's Mike waking up from his nap. There was suddenly a tension filled silence.

"WELL?" Richie shouts, waving his hands in the air. I took a deep breath as I started to explain.

"W-Well, um... so we gathered that y-your soulmate was one of the p-p-people that got shot s-so the only people to get sh-shot were Grace, Izzy and..." I hesitated, how is he going to take the news? I don't think he has ever thought 'what if I'm gay' because that is not an option in Derry, especially if you know or get bullied by Henry Bowers. I looked at Richie and he looked impatient as fuck.

"-Eddie," Mike finished for me," the only people to get shot were Izzy, Grace and Eddie" Richie's eyes widened.

"S-So, Grace is Bill's soulmate... Izzy is Mike's soulmate... my soulmates initials are E.K. and the only other person to get shot was Eddie?" His voice gradually got quieter as he put his back against the wall and slowly slid down.

"And his full name is Eddie Kaspbrak, E.K." Bev said while walking towards Richie and sitting next to him on the floor.

"How are you Rich?" Stanley asks, as the rest of the losers just sit and stare at the boy with glasses.

"I-I... I think I'm ok with that" Rich says, looking up so we can see his face. He has red puffy eyes.

"W-Where you silently crying Rich?" I asked him kindly.

"Yeah, I was," he sniffled, "but how is Eddie gonna react when he finds out that we are meant to be together? This isn't how I thought life would be" he said as more tears start to flow down his face. Beverly wipes his tears away and makes him look at her, cupping his face in her hands.

"It's ok Richie, cause we all love you and will totally support you no matter what happens. And maybe I can help you both with outfit choices when it comes to dates" she says, with a wink at the end and a cheeky grin.

"I suppose... if he even agrees to being my soulmate" he says, looking at the floor, taking his face out of her hands.

"What do you mean?" Ben asks, sitting on the floor in front of Beverly as he holds her hand. It's as if those two just can't separate.

"You don't know?" He asks us all. We all shake our heads, "of course you wouldn't know, your soulmates accepted you... If your soulmate doesn't want to be with you, they can reject you" he says, fiddling with his hands.

"Reject you? How does that work?" Ruby asks playing with Stanley's hand.

"So, they can say 'I don't want you' or 'I will never love you' to their soulmate and that ends up burning the mark out of their skin, so they no longer have a soulmate. I don't know if you get a second chance or anything but... I find it very hard to get one if you are loveless" Richie explained.

"Loveless?" Mike asks, worried.

"It means someone who doesn't have a soulmate" he answers.

"S-So Henry is l-l-loveless?" I ask, tugging on the end of my shirt.

"Why would he be loveless?" Beverly questioned.

"Greta was his soulmate" Mike said.

"Was?" Stanley asked.

"She d-d-died, she got sh-shot today" I carry on.

"Right in the middle of her heart" Mike finished. The others looked horrified but never questioned who shot her. Suddenly a nurse walks out of the room. As she walked out I saw a bit of life come back into Mike.

"Hello, I'm nurse McCall and you need to be very, very careful. One wrong move and she could lose her life, so can the boy. The other girl is fine though, but she may have trouble breathing at times. But um... there is one thing you should know about Miss Eglington's state, she-" nurse McCall got interrupted by Mike scrambling out of his seat and rushing straight into the room to see Izzy.

A/N
Quite a shit chapter if you ask me.
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