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Quin's POV

I was tired when I got home. The crazy voice was gone, and I was somewhat normal. When I open the door, Dawn is waiting for me with a bowl of popcorn on her hands. Marie is sleeping on her movable crib.

"Handsome guy, start talking." It's all she says, and tingles start sparking again.

"Arhh, that guy." I close the door, and place my bag on the table, taking out my coat and placing it on top of it.

"He is one peculiar guy." I state, as I take a seat on the couch.

"Yes and talk, what about the guy? You have never spoken about any guy so bluntly except your dad. What is so different about him?" She questions, her eyes twinking with sparks of curiousity.

So I start with his eyes, "His eyes glow."

"Oh honey, people's eyes don't just glow, and that's not how you start a story. You don't just get to confuse me the first five seconds of the story and expect me to be okay with that. You explain from A to Z so I can paint my imagination with color." She explains, and I nod, a tiny giggle spills out my tiny lips and I immediately cover my mouth with my hand, getting my serious face back.

"I'd prefer for you to start on how you met him and how that made you feel, and then you go on about how handsome he is, and if I'm lucky, you get to tell me of his attributes and how you started feeling all lovey dovey or weird, or how your tummy was turning upside down with butterflies and so forth. You know, normal things that would happen randomly." She picks up a handful of popcorn and eats it all at once, "That is what I'd be expecting."

I immediately nod ferociously because I can definitely relate to what she means but then, she just throws me off guard when she adds, "Actually, I'd like to know what has been going on with you since this morning? You have been on and off, and you have been acting all weird and strange." She munchies more of the popcorn.

"Would you believe me if I really told you what's going?" I ask, tilting my head, knowing fully well, she won't believe me at all.

"Try me." She replies in confidence.

"Before I met him, I felt him." I sit up, and start explaining.

"I felt tingles and sparks and a cosmic connection before I even laid my eyes on him. He was something that has been missing in my life, it felt like that, it still does. He felt like my other half, the half that has always been there, but missing, like the last piece of my life puzzle." I get in more detail, hoping she understands what I mean.

"When I first saw him,"I continue, "It was like, he was mine, designed just for me. My perfect. He made me feel calm, and safe and weirdly enough, I just wanted to be around him all the time, I still do." I smile, bitting my lower lip, thinking of my three second encounter with Mr. Handsome.

"Okay yeah, I was not expecting that." she comments, pressing her lips together.

"And it gets crazier," I chuckle, and I start massaging my temples, "The coffee made from pine water with mint smelt exactly like him when I got close to him." My mind drifts back to that school hall when he got close to him and I got to take in his scent. It was heavenly and the most intoxicating thing my nosils have ever come across.

"Yeah, I'm not following." She states, shaking her head, taking the last handful of popcorn from the bowl.

"Something is happening to me," I stand up and start pacing around, whilst trying to keep eye contact with her, "And I don't know how to explain it. But he," I point out the door, hoping he is somewhere coming back to me. "He is someone that I need in my life." I try to explain. "Do you understand what I'm saying?"

"I don't understand you, nor do I understand your need of him in your life when you just met him. The whole order of how you thinking is confusing me, and you keep losing me, but okay." She proceeds, utterly disappointed at my thought system.

"I'm not gonna question that because maybe I've never seen that type of weirdnes, but I still have hope you will come back to your senses. Next question, does he have any kids that you saw with him, or you never got the chance to talk to him to get that deep?" She diverts yet again to the next question without really giving any thought to what I'm saying nor explaining. "Wait, what is the guy's name anyways?" She adds.

"He has one kid, I hope. The little guy that fainted." Her eyes pop out. "And no, I didn't speak to him, so I don't know his name, but I told him mine," I look away, embrassessed that I just went on about a guy whose name I didn't even know, and worse, a guy who didn't even try to show any interest in me.

"Excuse me what now?" She stands up and all I can do is nod. finally taking a seat, defeated, I sigh.

"So you telling me that the first guy I know you to crush over happens to be a man with a kid who potentially has a wife and is leading a perfectly normal life without you? A guy you didn't even get his name and a guy you basically embrassessed yourself in front off by telling him your name because that is the most random eish I have ever heard, am I still going on the right direction?"

"His eyes glow..." I repeat skeptically, looking and playing with my hands, trying to stop her from going on and on about how stupid I sound.

"No they don't, and I recommend you stop saying that because it's eerie." she shakes her head and walks to me and take my hand into hers, pulls me to stand up and I finally look at her.

"I think you should let this one go." she suggests. "There is so much going on in here, and there are too many strings attached to this." she declares.

"But,-"

"For your good. We won't be breaking up families okay?" she presses instead.

"Mine." The voice from the morning growls and I immediately let go of Dawn, the tiny hairs on my arms and neck stand, and I hiccup for a second, shock and confusion cloud my face.

"Are you okay?" Dawn asks, coming closer to me, make an effort to take my hand again but I take a step back and she stops.

"Okay, I'm not coming any closer," she whispers, her voice showing concern in it.

"Did you hear that?" I murmur back.

"Hear what?"

"A voice," I look around "saying mine?" I continue the sentence still searching the room with my eyes.

"Honey, quit freaking me out. We live in this house. You can't say things like that." she emits and she slowly starts turning around to catch a glimpse of what I am searching for.

"I am not kidding you." I speak between my teeth.

"Well this is going to take forever." the voice goes on again and I jump in a scare, making Dawn jump with me. We disturb Marie in her deep slumber, and she starts crying. She picks Marie up, and for the first time in ever, I feel like I can hear her heartbeat.

I look at her strangely and I take a step toward her only for her to take one step back.

"What are you doing?" she asks, her voice going in shaky mode.

"I can hear your heartbeat." I mumble, taking another step towards her, and she takes another step back.

"Okay, that's it. We are going to stay in the hotel for the night, and you best believe that you will pay for everything for creeping the eish out of me, and for telling me the most weirdest things today." she explains.

I start rubbing my temples, also feeling annoyed and scared at the same time. I sigh, taking a seat, letting her go to pack for the night while I try to catch my breathe.

"It's been a long day." I convince myself and just maybe a change of enviroment would hit the spot.

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