396 Miles From Home- an original story

Chapter One

"All I wanna do

Is come runnin' home to you

Come runnin' home to you

And all my life I promise to

Keep running' home to you

Keep running home to you

~ Runnin' Home to You, Grant Gusten

Present Day- Finley's POV

Today was the day that we were finally leaving for the first leg of tour. We were all gathered in my management teams office, waiting for Ten Seconds to Midnight to arrive. We flew out later tonight to Scotland for the first show of the UK tour. The tour would go from now, the beginning of April, to the middle of September, ending in my bands hometown of Columbus, Ohio.

"Fin!" Emma gasped, bringing me back from my daydream. She was pointing at my wrist. I looked down, Kit and Izzy looking over at us. The numbers on my wrist were moving, and rapidly at that. They stopped at one mile, then moved to feet.

My soulmate was here.

I jumped up and rushed into the hallway, chasing down the numbers. I almost crashed into him, in the most cliché way possible. We both looked up from our wrists slowly, both of our trackers reading all zeros and beeping proudly.

He was my soulmate.

He was tall, probably six foot or taller, with light brown skin littered with tattoos. He was broad shouldered and muscular. His black hair was long and curly, pulled up into a bun. He had small, black gauges in his ears, and eyes that were two different colors, his left, a light brown and the right, a golden hazel.

"Soulmates," he whispered. He had an accent, but I couldn't put my finger on it.

"Soulmates," I whispered too, looking up and into his eyes.

"Hey! You're one of the guys from Ten Seconds to... Holy shit," Izzy gasped as she caught up to us, Kit and Emma close behind.

"Uh, yeah," the guy said, looking directly at me, "I'm Alec. Hi."

"Hi." I giggled. I shook myself out of my daze as what I assume to be his band walked up behind him.

"Uh, yeah so I'm Finley and these are my best friend and bandmates, Izzy, Emma, and Kit."

"I'm Liam, his twin brother! And this is Ethan and Nelly," a guy who looked almost exactly like Alec said, gesturing towards the other guy and the only girl in their band.

Liam was the same height and had the same broad shoulders, except he had more muscle than Alec. Liam's hair was the same color, except it was short and styled into a quiff, and both of his eyes were brown. Ethan was tall and slim with light skin. His dark blonde hair was short and wavy. His eyes were a bright, light blue, like the sky on a sunny day. Nelly was the only girl, and she was tall and curvy. She had pale skin and freckles everywhere. Her orange-red hair was long and curly, falling to the middle of her back. Her green eyes were wide as she looked from Alec and I to our wrists, putting two and two together and giving me a dirty look.

"Holy shit, you're soulmates!" Ethan yelled, finally breaking the silence hanging between us.

"Finally," Alec and I said in unison, as the others laughed.

Our manager, Kate, walked up to us, calling us into the conference room. She saw my wrist then, and the numbers that were slowly fading away.

"Congratulations you two. You'll have time to talk later, I promise. But for now, we really need to get this meeting started and ya'll have to be in there." We all nodded slowly and let her lead us back to the conference room. Alec and I walking side-by-side, sending glances to each other every so often.