The countdown

Part 3 - knowing

It was the day after meeting the guys and my parents had called me down to the lounge. At the time when they asked me I was staring up at my clock like I always did. But this time it was slightly different. It didn't feel right, like I had a feeling why I was looking at it, like someone else was looking at exactly the same thing as me and exactly the same moment. But that thought was disrupted when I was called down to the lounge.

I had made my way slowly down the stairs because I thought that it was something bad. You know when you get that feeling in your gut when you just know your going to find out something your not going to like, well this was it.

When I had got downstairs my brother was waiting at the lounge door. This didn't look to good. He doesn't even smile he literally pushes me through the door and into a seat and then sits on the 3 person sofa opposite me with my mum and dad. Great, this looks just great, don't you think?

"Ok, don't interrupt, don't speak, cough or anything just listen to the story, ok?" My mum says and I just nod my head to scared to do anything.

"As you know the timer on your wall..."

"Wait this is about my timer, ahh, am I finally going to find out what it's about? YES." I shout, this is too exciting"

"What did I say about interrupting?" My mum shakes her head but carries on anyway. " as I was saying, as you know the timer one your wall says just under a year and so this is when we tell you what it's about. Me and my dad as you know have one and we have never shown you them but you have seen your brothers and he has a date on his. Well we never let you see ours because they are the same numbers - same date - and we couldn't show you that because it would be to obvious as to what they are for. They are a countdown till you find your soul mate. The date symbolises when you first meet them. So in less then a year you will meet your soul mate and never leave his side for the rest of your life. Your brother has met his and he was lucky because she had a countdown as well but not everyone does. This is why we never wanted you to go to people's houses. We thought you would tell everyone about it if you saw they didn't have one. You can't tell anyone, if mention it as no one knows apart from people who have one and peoples soul mates. If it gets out, it will not be good because they will want to know everything about it and it doesn't really start well, this story doesn't have a good beginning. Anyway, you won't meet your soulmate until the countdown says '0', so you have a year to waist. I can't stress this enough, you will not meet him before the countdown, so don't go thinking people are your soul mates when they are not. Oh and another thing, it's time to brake up with Beck. None of us like him, he is not the one for you, you don't love him."

With that last sentence, I was angry. Who are they to tell me who I love and don't love and who are they to tell me that a man I don't even know is going to be my soul mate in less then a year. Nope.

"You can't tell me who I can and can't love. I probably won't love this guy who is supposedly my 'soul mate', not going to happen. I love Beck and there is nothing you can do about it." Before they could even argue my phone started ringing. Without looking at them I got up and went to my room and answered the phone.

"Hey?"

"Hey, it's Harvey, me and the guys are going to hang out and we needed someone else to come, well we wanted someone else to come so want to come hang out?"

"Em, yeah sure. What exactly are we doing?"

"We are meeting at our warehouse, I'll pick you up in a minute I'm nearly at your house." I hear him slightly chuckle as I I gasp that he is nearly here.

"Ok see you in a bit." He then hung up I was about to get changed when I heard a horn honk outside my house, guess I'm not changing then.

I run down stairs and reach for the door handle and am about to leave when I hear my mum and dad shouting for me to stop or else. Or else what I thought and legged it out the door. Jumping into Harv's car I shout at him to go now and with that he does.

"What's up with you, why such a hurry?" He asks Slightly shocked and fully confused with a hint of amusement in his eyes.

"My mum and dad told me not to leave 'or else' so I had to leg it didn't I, or else you wouldn't have seen my amazing face and you would have missed it." I say with a smirk on my face. He just laughs and drives towards his 'warehouse'.

"So is it just the 'crew' then?"

"Hah, why are you calling them the crew, no one says that anymore." He laughs in my face and quickly looks at me before focusing back on the road.

"Don't laugh at me, it's not nice." I put on a fake sad face and look out the window and make whimpering sounds.

I feel the car swerve to the right and then feel a hand on my cheek. Why have we stopped? What's happening? As I then again register the hand on my cheek it pulls my face to face Harv. Keeping on the sad face, i look into his eyes. His eyes hold so much emotion, he looks so sad and guilty.

"Don't think I will fall for that. I will admit though, your good at acting." He then chuckles slightly and I can't help but laugh as well. We carry on looking into each other's eyes fro a while, him stroking my cheek with his thumb, something Beck never did. Why am I comparing him with Beck. Eh anyway, soon he turns back to the road and carries on driving to this mysterious warehouse. That gesture was nice, friendly and definitely didn't make the air awkward. If anything it broke the ice. We sat in comfortable silence the rest of the way until we made it to the warehouse.

I immediately stiffened, this looks like something out of a horror movie. Harv saw me stiffen and reached for my hand. Squeezing it he whispers "It's alright I'm here, it looks scary but honestly it's not, it's just me and the guys in there.

With that I turn to him, squeeze his hand,m smile and step out of the car. Here goes, facing my fear.

'Scared of something out of a horror movie.'

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Shorter chapter, I've been a bit busy, sorry guys.

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