Soulmates

So... where am I going?

(Anthony's POV)

It's finally Saturday, but I'm no longer excited. 

In the span of 2 days, I've lost all of my hoes. Chelsea and Aurora won't answer my texts and even Jordan wouldn't look at me yesterday. 

I text Aurora again for the 5th time since Wednesday asking what time she wants to meet and get no reply. I exit out of my messages with her, and just when I'm about to text Chelsea, I go back to Aurora and tell her the time I will be at that same cafe. I'm not gonna dwell on this too much. If she shows up, she shows up. If not... then whatever, I'm no simp. 

I decide to spend my day doing fun things since I have no homework to do. I text Melanie and a couple of other friends asking if they all want to chill at my house. 

While I wait for a reply, I catch up on season 2 of All American. I love soccer but football is a close second. I think I'm gonna try out this year.

A ring of the doorbell interrupts my thoughts. "Knock knock, open up bitch" my friend Jeremy yells from behind the door. I chuckle as I open the door. My smile slowly fades when Melanie walks through the door. Melanie and I haven't really hung out since she told me about my soulmate. Seeing her right now made me realize how stupid it all was. 

"Hey," she says with a small, awkward smile. 

"Hey," I let it linger for a second and then pull her into a hug. 

"I'm sorry, our friendship means more to me than a couple of random girls," I say and let her go. 

She stares up at my eyes with a smile but doesn't say anything back. "It's fine," she smiles a little bigger and we both walk back to join everyone. I can tell something is off but I'm not going to press her.

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I close the door for the last time as Melanie leaves. I pick up my phone scanning my notifications for a text from either one of them. I set it down on the couch and sigh. Suddenly I get a message from Aurora. 

*I might show up*

I jump off the couch and start dancing happily. Yesssssss!

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I put on a blue button-up and some khaki pants. I might have overdone it but I don't care. Aurora wants someone who will overdo it. 

When I pull into an open parking spot I see someone that looks like Chelsea walking inside. Maybe I'm imagining it. 

I turn off the car and step out feeling the cool breeze and light rain. I grab an umbrella out of my trunk and head inside. 

Right away, I spot Chelsea and Aurora sitting in a booth together. They both see me and react with disgust. Aurora rolls her eyes and turns away and Chelsea just stares at me with an angry expression. I slowly walk over to them, wishing I had never come in. 

I sit down and neither of them speak. We sit in silence for a minute before I start to explain myself. "I'm so sorry, it really was all just one big misunderstanding." 

Chelsea lets out a chuckle and shakes her head.

"Can you hold off on the lies for just a sec... we're waiting for someone before we start this" Aurora says turning to look behind her.

"Ok..." I say and play with the string of my umbrella resting on the window pane. I tap my fingers on the table until Aurora orders me to stop. I look around at the other people in the cafe, all happy. I would be happy if I had followed my instincts and never come!

All of a sudden Chelsea whispers, "There she is" to Aurora and I follow their eyes to the door of the girl's bathroom. 

JORDAN??

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"You know why you're here right? I mean we don't have to spell it out, do we?" Aurora asks watching me suffer. I shake my head. Chelsea frowns, "I don't know about anyone else at this table... but I really want to know why someone would be so sick to do this to a group of girls. I literally broke up with my boyfriend for you!" she says staring into my eyes.

I begin to speak but Aurora cuts me off, "You're just like the other boys. I don't know why you're shocked girl. All he wants is one thing.." she looks down at me and crosses her arms. 

I turn to Jordan sitting beside me and ask, "You want to add anything?" 

"Asshole." Aurora mumbles. 

"No I just mean.. like everyone was telling me how they felt... How did my actions make you feel?" I rephrase praying that she understands what I'm trying to say.  

"Considering you literally ran away from me every chance you got.. I felt kind of shitty" Jordan says holding her head down. I feel like I dick. Even though they are all reacting differently, I clearly hurt them all. I feel especially bad for Jordan. 

"I'm sorry, really to all of you... I'm very sorry. Truthfully, I really did think all of you were my soulmate when I first met you but now I have no clue which one it is. 

I lied. Again. Of course I knew it was Jordan, but I don't want her to feel even worse. 

"So your soul reader told you what exactly because I'm still not understanding how you could be confused," Chelsea asks.

I tell them exactly what Melanie told me and watch their faces change. We sit in silence for a little before Chelsea scoots over in her booth with Aurora.

Aurora's face is hard to read, which isn't abnormal but somehow I have a feeling she just realized I chose her out of the three. She stares out the window with a pensive look and gently moves her thumb along the side of her cup.

I decide that now is when I should apologize. "I want to apologize to all of you. I shouldn't have been so impulsive. I feel horrible. Most of all, I feel terrible for how I treated you Jordan."

Her eyes widen at me and she stares into my eyes. Her eyes are plain brown but somehow they look so interesting. I'm in a sort of trance until she speaks, pulling me out of it. "Thanks," she says with a small smile. 

I nod my head at her and turn my head around to look at the other two. Chelsea sighs and gets up. "I need to call Nick," panic in her voice. 

"I'm sorry" I call out to her as she power walks out of the cafe.

Aurora slides over to exit the booth. "I.. I think I'm gonna leave too" she stands and looks over at Jordan with a concerned expression. "You need a ride?" She asks her. 

"I can take you" I interjected, trying to make good. Jordan protests but I insist that it's the least I can do. "That's true. I'm all good Rory, I'll let him chauffer me" she says with funny arrogance. I look at Aurora looking for her reaction to the odd nickname. She just nods her head and turns to leave. 

I turn back to look at Jordan and she raises her eyebrows. "Shall we.." I awkwardly get up letting her out of the booth. "Yeah, let's go." When she walks by me I let out a sigh of relief. 

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We get to the car and I move my book bag out of the front seat. "Sorry," she shakes her head gesturing that it's fine and sits down. "So... where am I going?" I ask her with a chuckle. 

"Oh... let me get the GPS." She says, but I cut her off. "Just text me the address."

I ask for her number and she texts it to me. I pull out of the parking lot, and glance over at her. She smiles at me and raises one eyebrow in confusion, "What?"

"Nothing," I say and look back to the road.

She's actually really pretty.

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SORRY! You've heard it before. I was caught up with school, but now it's summerrrrrrr!! 

I want to announce that this book will be a short story because I want to write something else soon after (probably ending within 10 to 15 more chapters).

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Hope you enjoyed this chapter, next one in Jordan's POV