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3 - The Beginning

After a long day at work, all Eva wanted to do was go home and fall
asleep but she knew that she had to go to the new apartment. Why? She had to paint. Though she was lucky, Eva had the next two weeks off to get settled into her new apartment. She got in her car and left work to head over to her new place, not knowing that something was amiss.

Once she arrived at her apartment she walked over to her bedroom and looked into one of the boxes. She pulled out an old faded pair of overalls and an old red tank top. After quickly changing she then pulled her long black hair into a sloppy bun. Once that was accomplished the fun began!

She walked over to the table by the front door and grabbed a bag off
of it. She opened the bag to reveal a paint roller, a paint tray and two
cans of mint green paint. Taking all of the supplies over to the wall
closest to her balcony, she set her things down on a small table there.

Before she could start painting she noticed some dark hairs on her white carpet. Eva bent down to pick them up and wondered where they were from. She knew that they were not from her dog because the hairs were too dark - her dog (a golden retriever) Benji had not been at the apartment yet anyway. "Strange." She whispered to herself.

Meanwhile down in the tunnels, Vincent was still trying to figure out
what he was going to do. He was loosing the last place that he
and Catharine cherished. All of a sudden he started to feel this
pain. He clutched his chest and stumbled out of his chambers and
started to head over to his father's study.

His father looked up to see Vincent stumble in. He got up and rushed over to Vincent's side and helped Vincent into a chair. He took the time to look at Vincent, his hair was slightly damp. "My god Vincent what happened to you?"

Vincent responded, "Father something is wrong."

His father shook his head and said, I can see that my son what is ailing you?"

Vincent looked up into father's eyes and said, "It feels like Catherine's heart beating again but how can that be?"

His father replied, "Vincent there is something that I should have told you long ago." He paused, trying to find the words. "Catherine is what we call an organ donor. That means that when she died she donated all of her organs to people who needed them. The woman who you are angry at was one of those recipients. She received Catherine's heart after a near fatal accident almost 3 years ago."

Vincent looked up at his father with a look of total shock on his
face. He opened his mouth a few times as if he wanted to say
something but nothing came out. He got up and turned to go but his
father stopped him,

"Where are you going?"

He just replied, "I have to go see her."

Vincent went and walked in the shadows until he reached his
destination – the one place that he most wanted to be. He looked out of the shadows into a window near him. What he saw was strange to him.

This girl was painting and singing - rather loudly - to her music. Vincent just stood there in the shadows and waited to see what she would do next.

Little did Vincent know that he was not alone on her balcony, he was startled when he heard a dog bark. He turned to see a golden retriever standing there on all fours barking at him.

Meanwhile Eva was in her living room carrying on and having a good
time when her cell phone rang. It was her friends Jessica and Keri from work. She put her brush down and walked over to the balcony doors and opened them to let out the paint fumes. What startled her was when her dog Benji came running inside. Of course when he came in he just had to knock over the paint can.

She dropped her cell phone and yelled, "NO BENJI BAD DOG! VERY BAD DOG!" All the while Vincent was laughing. She then picked the phone back up and put it on speakerphone while starting to paint again.

While she was painting her friend Jessica was spouting out that
Eva's old boyfriend Eric was back in town. She joked with her by
saying, "So are you going to go back out with him? We put our heads
together and got him interested in you again."

Eva just laughed at that and replied, "Really I thought that if I were to put your two heads together all I would get is a hollow sound."

After hearing that statement Vincent laughed louder then he should have and noticed that once he stooped laughing that is was quiet in the apartment.

While Vincent was laughing Eva got scared, dropped her phone and went to investigate - with a baseball bat. She first went out to the balcony to see what she could see which was nothing. She was about to brush it off when she saw something moving out of the corner of her eye. She turned around and came face to face with her worst nightmare. Both Vincent and Eva screamed. Eva backed away to the end of the balcony. Just as she was about to fall Vincent grabbed her around the waste and pulled her back to
safety.

End of Chapter 3