Fabian could hear the pebbles under his feet as he walked. Outside was dark and the only source of light was the moon. He thought about his kiss with Mara earlier and couldn't but think, happy as they may be, something was wrong. For a split second he thought it was because he wasn't with Nina, but then he felt ridiculous about it since he hasn't seen Nina in over a year. It was wrong to think of her of her as his only love. He needed to move on. He walked for a few more minutes before hearing soft sobs coming from a girl on a bench. Clad in only her knee-high dress and remarkably high heels, she was also shivering, making her sobs ragged.

Fabian reached the bench and sat down next to her. Her dark red and copper blonde ombre waves hid her face from view. Fabian took off his tuxedo jacket and draped it on her shoulders. "No. Take it back. We don't even know each other." The girl said, even though she made no attempt move it. "Nah, you can wear it. You might get sick if you don't." She pulled in shaky breath. "Why do you care?" He laughed softly before muttering a word that sounded a lot like "feisty". "Because I'm human." He answered. "What's got you in such a funk?" Fabian said, asking a question of his own. "My ex." She answered bitterly. "Ah," Fabian started with a nod of his head. "Boy problems?" She turned to face him but then turned back to staring at the tree in front of them. "What makes you so quick to assume it's a boy?" Fabian disregarded her question and said, "So girl problems?" She laughed. It was a small and fragile and music to Fabians ears, but it was a melody he knew he had heard before.

"Nah, I was just messing with your head. I left last year because there were complications and while I was gone he got a new girlfriend. It's not that I didn't expect him. Hell, I told him to move on. But it hurt seeing him kiss another girl, cause last time we saw each other face to face he said he could never possibly love anyone else. And now we're gonna be in the same college sitting in the same rooms with the same friends, I don't know if I can handle that you know?" As she talked Fabian couldn't help but think of similar they're situations were; only he'd be on the opposite side of the fence as her. Her voice sounded so familiar that his brain had come up a slightly possible scenario. "You said you left. You came back for him." "Yeah, I watched him graduate. I was hoping to be his graduation present. But I was a too late."

The voice still sounded like it had been whispered in his ear a million times before. His curiosity got the best of him when he put his hand out and pushed the red curls behind her ear. She turned to look at him before her eyes went as wide as the moon that glowed brightly in the sky. "Fabian." His name tumbled softly from her deep and dark lips. A smile covered his features and before he could get a grip on his emotions his hand was in her dark red hair, her body was pressed to his and they were kissing. And she was kissing back. An eternity passed by before Fabian pulled away breathless. She stared at him but he was examining her to see if she had changed. Save for the dark red hair that curled down mid back and then turned copper blonde and cascaded down to less than an inch before her hips. Though it was strange, he like the way the colors blended and how they looked on her. Other than that she was still Nina. And according to her, his Nina.

But it hit him like a ton of bricks when he realized that he wasn't her Fabian.

"You kissed me! How could you kiss me?" She was towering over him while she stood up and he was still seated. He stood up and though she was taller with the suicidal looking heels he still could look down at her. "If you'd like I could show you." He whispered to her. He mentally slapped himself for suggesting that they could kiss again when his not-yet-girlfriend who he had swapped DNA with barely thirty minutes ago was a mere school building away. (The school building was actually rather large but he was had still kissed two different girls in one day. That was wrong.) But then he mentally high-fived himself for such a smooth line.

She narrowed her eyes at him. He laughed a little bit at her expression before putting his hands up in surrender. "I'm sorry for kissing you. It's just….. I've wanted to do that for awhile now, and you're hair looked really pretty and hold-able and you look even prettier and hold-able-er and, I-I'm sorry." He put his face in his hands because just like that he was back to being Stutter-Rutter who couldn't talk around pretty girls that he likes.

Nina gently moved his hands and let hers take the place on his cheek. His right hand found its way to the belt that looped around her waist. And his left pushed hair out of her face and behind his ear. She lifted herself onto her toes so that her lips were millimeters away from Fabians. They stayed that way until Fabian moved ever so slightly and his lips captured hers in several moments of pure bliss.

The kiss was soft and sweet, but filled with so much passion that it was like an over flowing cup.

He felt wrong. He felt like he was playing Mara just like Jerome had the year before. Mara deserved someone who wouldn't do this. Fabian thought that he wouldn't let himself do the wrong thing in this relationship but with his eyes closed and Nina's luscious lips moving in sync with his, and arms wrapped around her he never felt more right. Nothing, not even how 1+1=2, made more sense than kissing Nina, loving Nina, and just being with Nina.

How would he tell this to Mara? How would he tell her that, thirty minutes before he sat on a bench with a girl he thought he had never met before that he was thinking about how Mara felt in his arms or how he looked forward to staying with her, even if she was going to Yale and he was going to Oxford?

He didn't have the slightest clue.

Nina pulled away first with a puzzled look on her face. "What about Mara?" Fabian thought for a moment. "Let's go and find out." She scrunched her eyebrows in confusion but didn't say anything when Fabian grabbed her hand and guided her through the familiar territory. When they got to the doors of the school, Nina understood what he was doing.

They went through the maze of halls that Nina hardly remembered until they reached the gym where the party was being held. She smiled at the familiar faces though none smiled back. It felt like she was finally home. Fabian intertwined their fingers and walked into the dance.

It was like a shower of memories for Nina. She had gotten used to American voices and parties and to hear the British jibber-jabber that took her so long to decipher was like hearing home. Her home wasn't in America anymore.

Patricia was the first one to notice her. She was laughing and dancing with Eddie when she turned her head and noticed the familiar face. Her first reaction was to smile like she had just won something huge then she tapped Eddie and pointed in her direction. It took a few seconds for him to recognize her but once he did, his smile stretched so wide Nina could almost be sure his face would break in two. Eddie ran from his girlfriend wrap his former counterpart in a bone crushing hug. "Ugh! I missed you so much." Eddie said when he let her go after noticing her face was turning a bit pink. "No phone calls, no letters, nothing! If I wasn't for the whole 'My boyfriend was your natural born protector' thing I would assume you were dead." Patricia chastised. "Sorry, I was a bit busy" That wasn't a complete lie.

Eddie happened to look down at Nina and Fabian's intertwined hands and instantly made the connection. "Oh, Mara's gonna flip." He stated just as Mara had come out of the gym looking for Fabian. "Over what?" she asked as she looked between Fabian and Eddie, before glancing over at the girl standing next to Fabian. She didn't make the observation that it was Nina until she saw her face when Nina raked a hand through her curls. "Nina? Is that you?" She squinted her eyes and asked. After a moment of silence Nina nodded and let out a soft "Hey Mara."

Fabian cleared his throat, and pulled everyone out of the awkward trace. Mara stood dumbfounded by the thick tension. "Mara can I talk to you please?" Fabian forced out. Mara nodded and walked away, standing to the side and waited for Fabian to come to her side. Patricia lifted her cup to drink and was disappointed when she found that there was nothing in her cup. "I'm gonna get some punch." She informed them before going back into the gym. "Phew," Nina said, "I thought that I was going to have to ask her to leave."

Eddie looked confused as she sighed in relief. "I needed to talk you, alone." She explained. "About…"

Nina looked up at him and dropped her atomic bomb. "I'm dying, and I need you to help save me."

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