Soulmates

Sleepover pt.3

(Jordan's POV)

I peep my head in the empty bathroom one last time before giving up. If Chelsea isn't downstairs, we have a problem. 

I walk down the steps slowly trying to take in every detail of my senses. Touch and smell and taste are out of the question. Sight. I haven't seen one human being down here. Not even her dad. 

I didn't want to worry him with a missing-persons report but I think it's about that time. I walk up to his office door and just as I'm about to knock I hear Chelsea laughing in her parent's room. Hearing for the win! I'm about to pat myself on the back until I open the door and see Chelsea on her knees and Aurora's dad exposed in front of her. She has his member in her hands and drops it when she sees me standing in the doorway. "Oh my God!" I say as I quickly leave. 

I hear Chelsea call my name behind me but I keep walking. I hear her follow me and to save Aurora from hearing about anything I go in the bathroom. Chelsea follows in behind me and locks the door. 

"Chelsea what the fuck. This is low, even for you girl." I say with a chuckle of disgust. She grabs her forehead, "I know, I know... But we can't tell her," she says with pleading eyes. I just stare at her and think. I definitely don't want to be the one to tell her that her dad is a nasty pedo and that her parents' marriage is over. 

"Fine, fine. We won't tell her. But I can't stay in this house with this secret and not tell her. We have to leave," I say and honestly, I'm a little sad about it. Me and Aurora were doing really well. I look at Chelsea and she is just staring at herself in the mirror. She looks disgusted, haunted, all of the above. Like she's staring at a ghost. 

"C'mon, let's tell her we're leaving." I touch her hand and she looks up at me with big eyes nodding her head. 

We exit the bathroom together and see Aurora immediately. "There you guys are, for a second I thought both of you ran away" she says with an awkward chuckle. We look at each other briefly and I see that Chelsea is in no condition to be lying to anyone. 

"Yea we talked it over and... we're gonna go home. It's been an emotional night." Chelsea looks at the floor and I sigh in annoyance. This is her fault. 

"Oh.. ok well, can we reschedule?" she says disappointedly with a frown. "Yea... yea sure" I answer shortly. 

"Well before you guys go, my mom just got home and wanted to see you both" Aurora motions for us to follow her to the kitchen and I turn to Chelsea with a small frown.

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I close the trunk and get in the driver seat to start the car. We drive in silence for a bit before I ask her if she wants to talk about what happened. I hear her laugh hysterically and turn to her in worry. 

"Do I want to talk about how I'm a horrible person? No, I think I'm good," she says and faces the window next to her. 

"You're not a terrible person Chels, you were clearly distraught and he exploited that. He's the terrible person, not you." I turn right into her development. "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND JORDAN! I ASKED HIM IF HE WANTED TO DO THAT! He didn't find me sad and lonely, I immediately went looking for him!" She screams back. 

My mouth falls open in disbelief. She is definitely not okay.

"I'm not this sad little bird you think I am. Guys don't take advantage of me, I take advantage of them! You were righter than you've ever been to call me a slut. It's what I am." She rests her arm on the window and stairs out. I could hear her getting choked up, she only stopped because she was going to cry.

We pull up to her apartment and when she reaches for the door handle I lock the door.

"You're not a slut." She looks at me and I all I see is pain. Tears well in my eyes as I repeat it, "You're not a slut. You're not a horrible person. I'm not gonna sit here and let you call yourself that," my voice trails off at the end as tears fall down my face. 

And just like that, she starts sobbing, saying hateful things about herself with each breath. I pull her into a hug and just repeat the word no over and over.

I watch as raindrops appear on the windshield, wondering just what happened to her when Aurora and I were away. 

One thing was made very clear tonight... 

We all need each other.

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This chapter was so sad. Poor Chelsea! 

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