Everywhere Unraveled (Foundlings Book 2) by Fiona Keane

Author:Fiona Keane [Keane, Fiona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Limitless Publishing LLC
Published: 2018-01-08T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

JAMESON

My eyes were glued to the door, the echoing sound of Soph slamming it radiating through the room. Elizabeth was saying my name, her futile attempt at regaining my attention. I didn’t know how I felt: angry, confused, concerned, lost. I was hot, boiling from the sunny day in my sweats, and now also consumed with fear about Soph’s emotions.

“She really needs space,” Elizabeth’s tone was remorseful. “She was quiet, but fine when we went with Jules this morning and then something flipped. We ran into some of your friends at the coffee shop and she hasn’t been the same since.”

“Who?” I questioned, my eyes reluctantly lifting from the door to watch Elizabeth shuffle in her seat.

“Michelle and that boy she’s with,” Elizabeth thought, a finger rubbing along her temple, “…and some other boy.” Some other boy? “She’ll be fine, Jamie.”

Elizabeth’s soft, natural use of my nickname left me alarmed. She had never done that. That was too maternal, too affectionate for her. Soph didn’t even call me Jamie. My lungs lifted, filling the room with a heavy sigh.

“I don’t know what to do,” I mumbled, not expecting a response from Elizabeth.

The suite door swiftly opened, Thomas entering with his presence unusually reserved. My hands fell against my hips, grasping my body in a pathetic attempt to ground me. I was starting to pace in circles, clinging to my waist as thoughts of Soph isolating herself in the room swirled throughout my mind. I understood, even appreciated, her desire to close in on herself, but she needed someone right now. She needed me. Or maybe I needed her.

I left Thomas and Elizabeth in the living area of the suite and quietly marched toward the closed bedroom door. Placing my hand on the knob, I rested my forehead against the panel, unable to actually turn and enter. I pressed my ear against the door, listening to the muffled sobs and soft, heaving breaths resonating from the opposite side. I was trying to think of what Elizabeth said, and what the switch was that drove Soph to feel so confined within herself. She wasn’t the same since they went for coffee. What happened? She ran into Michelle, Luke, and someone else. It didn’t matter. Her friends. It did matter. And then it hit me harder than a bolt of lightning from the storm.

I am asking Soph to keep even more secrets, to become a recluse like me, hiding her identity from the friends she didn’t even want to make in the first place.

“Soph.”

My voice was a whispered groan, shaking with the guilt that rattled through my heart. Listening against the panel, I heard and felt her weight shift at the bottom of the door. It rattled against the hinges, informing me she had been, and was no longer, sitting against it. She was moving away from me and I was terrified to intrude, afraid of what to expect.

“Soph,” I whispered, beginning to turn the knob. “Can…may I come in?”

“Whatever,” her muffled sigh replied, filling my heart with hope.

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