Soulmates

Chapter 11

Mike's POV
I rushed into the room and stood by the door frame and scanned my eyes across the room to try and find where Izzy was in case they moved the bed. I'm thankful to see her up and her bed is in the back left corner of the room with Grace's bed next to hers.

Grace is awake but is only talking in low whispers as it still hurts her ribs and chest. I see Izzy smiling and talking to Grace and I look to the other side of the room to see Eddie still unconscious in a medical-induced coma. I rushed over to Izzy and bombarded her with loads and loads of questions.

"Oh my god, are you okay? Is there anything wrong with you? Are you hungry? Do you feel any pain? Should I get a nurse? What about-" I'm interrupted while I was in the middle of my rant.

"G-Grace!" Bill exclaimed as he ran into the room and smothers Grace in a bear hug. She starts giggling softly and hugs him back.

"I missed you, Billy...but the hug hurts just a little" she whispered loud enough for me to hear her say to him.

"Oh sh-shit, sorry sorry s-sorry. I didn't mean to hurt y-you" Bill says, backing away from the hug. Grace pulls him back softly into another hug.

"I didn't say let go, please hold me, you make me feel safe" she whispered. He wrapped his arms back around her and buried his face in the crook of her neck.

I turned back around to face Izzy and she just had a huge smile on her face watching Bill and Grace reunite.

"Bill and Grace are adorable... I wish I could have that" she whispered softly. What does she mean by that?

"What do you mean by that?" I ask her confused, she just looks at me a little shocked, and has a fixated facial expression on her face.

"Do I know you?" She asks me, with her head tilted to the side a little, while biting a little bit of her lip softly. My eyes widened and tears started to appear. However, I refuse to let them fall. Everyone else walked into the room and Izzy looks towards them.

"Izzy! You okay?" Ruby asks standing by Stanley.

"Um.... how do you know my name? Bev, Ben, Rich, how does she know my name? And who are you?" She asks Stanley.

"Izzy, name the people in this room that you know" Bev tells her calmly. How can she be calm right now? My soulmate doesn't remember me! Oh my god... my soulmate doesn't remember me! She is gonna fall in love with someone else and reject me. She told me she loved me before but I never said it back, so I never confirmed our bond... that means that it's-

"Um, okay? I know Bev, Ben, Grace, Bill and Richie" she says, confused on why she has to.

"Do you know who this is?" Richie asks pointing at me.

"Should I?" She says curiously.

Everyone looked at me with widened eyes as they saw I avoided eye contact. I couldn't look at anyone, I felt my heart shatter to pieces. I hear a wince from beside me.

"Izzy? You ok?" Grace whispers to her, reaching out to grab her shoulder.

"Y-Yeah. Just, my heart hurts that's all" Izzy says as she rubs her chest over her heart softly.

"Your heart hurts?" Ben asks, while furrowing his eyebrows.

"Yeah, like a heart break but a million times worse" she says, clutching to her heart, wincing again.

"I think we should go and get a doctor" Stanley says as he runs out the room to find nurse McCall. A few minutes later, he comes running back in standing next to Ruby and without thinking grabs her hand. Ruby blushes slightly at the contact, not really expecting the sudden touch between the two. Nurse McCall comes into the room a little after Stanley, as he was running and she was only walking fast.

"What seems to be the problem? This young man only said pain, but not the cause. Could you help fill in some blanks?" She asked with a warm smile.

"Well, there is this aching pain in my chest that feels like there is a huge metal pole being shoved through me (*wink*) and at moments it feels like I can't breathe..." she says, her breath gradually getting slower. By habit, I take a step towards her and she looks at me with confusion. Hurt filling me even more, I take a step back, fidgeting with my hands, I look down at my feet trying to hide my tears eyes.

"It hurts more!" Izzy complains as we all stand there, baffled, yet useless because we can't do anything about it.

"I think I know what the problem is" nurse McCall informs us. A long silence fills the room as we all grow impatient.

"So are you gonna tell us or stand here all day wondering what the fuck is wrong with Izzy?" Richie complains, throwing his hands in the air.

"Oh, right. Sorry, um, you are suffering from Broken Heart Syndrome" she tells us.

"Broken Heart Syndrome?" Beverly asks.

"Yes. It's caused by physical or emotional stress. Some symptoms that come with it are shortness of breath and chest pain. This explains why you felt as if you couldn't breathe. However-" before she could finish, Ruby interrupted.

"However? What do you mean by however? Is she gonna die?" Ruby asks, abruptly.

"No, no, she is not going to die. As I was going to say, she is not the direct person to receive the Broken Heart Syndrome" nurse McCall explains.

"What do you mean by that? We are too stupid to understand your intelligent smarty pants brains stuff" Grace whispers madly towards to nurse.

"It means, that her soulmate is currently heartbroken and it is causing the effects to happen to Izzy, but worse than it is affecting her soulmate" as she explains, the losers all look at me.

"It's-" I was going to say.

"Don't you dare say that you are ok! We all know that you aren't" Stanley demands while pointing a finger at me.

"I- I wasn't gonna-"

"Yes you were, Mike" Ben agreed.

"Mike?" Izzy asks, still clutching to her chest.

"Yeah?" I say, confused. Izzy starts breathing heavier, is she having a panic attack?

"Izzy? Are you ok?" Stanley asks.

"Y-Yeah, I just-" she cuts herself off mid-sentence and passes out on the bed.

"What happened?!" I ask, frantically.

"Alright, everyone out, she needs room. NOW PLEASE! Move it!" Nurse McCall urges us out of the room.

I swear that is the fifth time that's happened today. I rolled my eyes and sat on the chair, right opposite the door, staring at it.

"Y-You ok Mike?" Bill asks, placing a hand on my shoulder.

"Just peachy" I say sarcastically.