New Beginning

by Starrrtt

When Kevin came back to normal and finally decides to ask Gwen out, a bunch of not so good things will happend between both of them. But this will only make them feel more need of each other. This history is BIG.

4. Good Night

Chapter IV – "Good Night"

"Good morning, Gwen." Lily said looking at the daughter as she descended the stairs.

"Good morning, Mom!" Gwen bounced happily up the stairs and saw the mother preparing breakfast. She gave a bear hug on her mother and then gave a kiss on her cheek.

Her mother was surprised by the excitement of her daughter and was just wondering:

"Wow! That animation is all about?"

"Animation…? What animation?" Gwen asked as if she was curious about the question of the mother sitting in a chair of the round the table after giving "good morning" to the father. "I'm always so!" She said, starting to give small bites on her toast.

"I know..." Her mother said sitting on the table to pouring some tea on her cup.

Lily somehow was not wrong. Since the day that Gwen had seen Kevin, she has acted in a more lively way compared to other days.

'Friday ... Another day ...' Gwen thought the whole time. She looked like a child. Frank and Lily just watched her, happy.

Gwen took a last sip of her coffee with milk and ran to the stairs to the bathroom brushing her teeth and then went to her bedroom and took the purse up.

When she ran down the stairs toward the door, she told to her parents:

"Bye! Love you!"

With that she closed the door and left staring at the cold that was out there.

Lily looked at the door for a second and then looked at her husband with a doubtful smile.

He looked at her over his newspaper and understood the cause of the wife's smile but still asked:

"What?"

Lily pressed her face on her hand, and took a sip from her cup of tea, thoughtful:

"I'm worried..."

"About what, may I know?"
Lily took a while to answer:

"About Gwen... And that boy together…"

Frank rolled his eyes, a bit tired about it. Lily seemed to have something against that Kevin. Frank did not like him much, but still does not mean he will talk about Kevin all the time!

"Lily ... You know something?" Frank put the newspaper on the table and leaned his elbows on top of it "I think you have some implication against this guy."

"What are you talking about?"

"Since you've seen him when my mother appeared, you did not like even his 'face'. What is the problem?"

"Nothing…! Actually it may be a little true. But ... It's just ... I do not want to see our daughter hurt. This kid does not seem to be what the one who really cares about the feelings of anyone, except himself. Besides being a troublemaker, you know."

"Are you sure about that?"

Lily was silent for a moment. Does her husband could not understand what she meant?

"This is not what I mean, Frank!"

"Lily... Since you first saw him you already censured him... It may even be true that he is a troublemaker and all, but don't you realize that Gwen might be really happy with him? Remember that day when my mother left us, the two and Ben did not let go of them? They seemed to enjoy the company of each other. Before Gwen was all the time at home and sometimes went out alone to the mall without seeming to care much for that. But now every time we ask her where she is going out; she always replies that she "is going see Ben and Kevin."

"She just talks that she will see Ben..."

"Of course she does! It seems like you do not want to hear the name of that kid without having a tantrum!"

Lily was speechless for a moment. What Frank had said was true.

"Look ... I'll admit that at first I did not like him a lot and I still do not like him too. So much that last Saturday I did not like very much to see that he was with Gwen, I even saw you were trying to be polite, because of Gwen, and I also tried. But don't you think he remembers someone?"

"Who…?" Lily said looking curiously.

"My father…?" She did not know what to say. But in her mind, she began to compare her fathering-law with Kevin. Frank seemed to already know what she had in mind of his wife and said, wanting to help her:

"Both are stubborn, and my father always said that in his childhood he was the toughest one in the whole class. He loved a mess, along with an adventure like that. Why do you think my brother and I always spent more time with our mother at home? We never liked it... But then we both realized that... My father did this not only because he liked an adventure... He did it because he wanted to keep the earth safe, and more specifically... He wanted to keep us safe. Do not you think that Kevin can also be like him?" Lily stared at him for a moment. She thought of everything Frank said, and remembered Max the time that she was dating Frank. Max and Carl, Frank's brother, were the ones who liked her, Verdonna, his mother, seemed to be the only one who thought otherwise. All that Lily wanted was to be accepted by Frank's family and the first who accepted her was just Max, with his playful and lively way, but a little reserved. Every time she visited the Tennyson, Max always received her with a dish of food with exotic and strange tastes that she has never ever tasted before. But she always forced herself to eat it just to please Max. Verdonna just did not seem very glad of seeing Lily at home, but always tried to be polite. And in the end, Lily and Frank married and had one son. Max was the most excited one when he heard the news. He was always were like that: always enchanted people with his protective form and all, this made him to be a second father to Lily; near the other, Max seemed more reserved and a bit tough, but inside he had a "soft" heart, just like Frank's. Which means that…? Kevin could not be so? Even her mother-in-law was convinced that he was like Max. Lily thought for a moment and got a little sad to realize she was being a Verdonna, the last person she wanted to be.

"You're right Frank..." Lily looked at him sadly. She should have given at least a chance for Kevin.
Frank smiled at her. Lily was always so sweet. Sometimes she exaggerated this thing just for protection, but she looked like a bad mother. Frank also exaggerated; the only difference was that he kept it to himself before having more certainty.

Frank got up from the table and went to Lily, who was still thoughtful with the cup of tea in hand.

"I exaggerated too much in this thing..." She said sadly. Frank watched her for a moment. "Maybe we should give a chance to know that Kevin better, right?"
"I think we should" he said. He squatted down and leaned his left hand on the back of the chair where Lily was sitting. He turned his face to Lily with the other hand, and smiled "Not only you are wrong, so do not throw all the blame on you. Now I know where Gwen got so much responsibility." Lily smiled, but this did not reach her eyes. Frank pushed Lily's face toward her, surprising her with a kiss. When separated, Frank got up and grabbed the bag that was near the table "I have to work" he went to the door and took a last look at his wife who was watching all the time without saying anything. He opened the door and when he left, he said one last thing before closing the door and walking away "I love you."

Lily smiled.

"I love you too."

With that, the door closed, and Lily finished her breakfast alone, yet with a big smile on her face.

"Hi, Peter!" Gwen said waving to the boy with her right hand.

"Oh! Hi Gwen…" He replied. Taking the book off of the closet, and closed it after.

Gwen approached him and asked:

"How are the scratches? You're better?"

Peter looked at her a little red and replied:

"The wounds had gone for a while, he smiled."

"Good…"

"And you? How was the chemical test? Was good?" The two began walking down the hallway of the school according to the history room, one of the classes they had together. The two became good friends after what happened. Gwen started talking with him and he seemed to enjoy her company as she was the only person in school who spoke to him. Gwen was gradually realizing that even though he was a little weird, after she knew him better she saw he was... Nice.

"It was kinda hard, but I think I could make it" she answered the question for Peter.

They entered the room and sat down on their chairs.

Slowly the room began to fill with students and Gwen saw who was appearing. Mary, along with "rest", she called best friends. Gwen could barely hold a smile. When she saw that Gwen had returned to school, even though she was injured, thanks to herself, she thought she had won the war. But as the weeks passed, Gwen was getting happier. What made Mary nervous and curious at the same time, but never got in Gwen's way.

And it would be better. Since Gwen's powers were virtually back. She did what the doctor ordered for her, rested and well fed besides stopping taking the drugs, so even better. Wounds, she continued to pass the ointment that the doctor had also prescribed, and were already fading along with the pain and depression. But best of all was that it was easy to forget along with Kevin on her side again. She could not see him again after going to the hospital, and yet was a little anxious to see him again. She tried to hold the anxiety at least a little by studying for a lot of subjects that she was having this week, now she had one test: History. The subject was not so difficult, but the teacher made the subject difficult when it was about the tests. Luckily, Gwen studied, a lot.

At a time when the teacher entered in the classroom, the room went silent, all the students turned to the front and sat in their chairs to receive the papers and spend an hour of mental agony.
The teacher gave "Good Morning" to the students and talked to prepare their pencils, pens and erasers to do the tests, then walked around the room giving out the roles of papers. Gwen took her test and counted the sheet of paper. Damn! Three sheets of paper; they were talking about the American Civil War and Abraham Lincoln. That was the worst part of history. She enjoyed studying about American history, but not to study it to make a test of three sheets of paper!

Gwen picked up the pencil to write to mark the tests in which he was sure, and then answered questions. When she finished the test she handed it to the professor and waited Peter to finish the test too, he surrendered and released the two teachers. They left the room and began discussing the responses of the test. For what seemed the two were fine.

A few minutes later the bell rang, the doors of the rooms were opened and the students went to leave. Gwen went to her locker and picked up the materials she would need to take home, while talking up to Peter. The two went to the exit of the school and they parted to take different paths. Gwen looked up at the corners suspecting that someone would come after her again. But this time there was nobody that calmed her; she walked faster and came home as soon as possible.

She opened the door and saw that his mother was lying asleep on the couch and seemed tired.
Gwen looked at the table where they usually used to have lunch and dinner, and saw that her mother had already prepared the food. Gwen grinned, climbed up to the room to leave the backpack, took her pajamas, took a fast shower, and went to her bedroom to pick up the blanket. She went downstairs and went until her mother was and covered her. At the moment the blanket touched Lily, she got up scared and wondered what had happened.

"Calm down mom." Gwen said sitting on the arm of the couch where her mother was sleeping "You fell asleep; just it…"

"Oh" she said putting her hand on the arm of the sofa, and then gave a yawn "How was school?"

"Well… The test was kinda rough, but I did it well. Where are you going, Mom?" Gwen asked her mother who rose from the couch.

"I have to wash the dishes..." She replied a little frightened by the tone of her daughter.

"Let me do it... You must rest now..."

The mother at first hesitated, but gave up, lying on the couch and turning on the TV.

Gwen went to the kitchen and washed the dishes; when he finished she got two dishes for her and her mother and pasted the food her mother had prepared. Then she went to the couch and sat beside her mother, who took one of the dishes and silverware from the hand of her daughter. The two began to watch the passing on TV and made fun of some of the hosts of the reality shows. They had a great time doing it ... After, Gwen put a movie on the DVD, sat beside her mother that wrapped her in a blanket, getting together. In the end they did not watch even half of the film, the two slept on the couch, tired, each for having to wake up early and do their own tasks. One of them cleaned the room and corridors, swept spent cloth, cleaned the bathrooms, made food and then fell asleep on the couch. While the other studied for school until one in the morning, because she lost track of time, because of the anxious, taking the opportunity to study a little more, she went to school made physical education, history test, chemistry and biology, and returned form school, washed the dishes and flipped to sleep on the couch of her mother. The two woke and slept again too tired by the long week and the cold weather of late autumn did not help. Time passed and the two were still asleep almost motionless and crouched on the couch. When night fell, a noise could be heard at the door and slowly opened it.

"Good night folks..." Frank arrived tired from work, he put the coat full of dried leaves in one of the hangers, distracted by the speech himself "Today I could leave work early... My client was..." He looked into the room and stopped talking at once. "Tsk, Tsk! These two are lazy huh?" He said jokingly. Frank placed the bag next to the hanger and went to see if the two were awake, as they did not show any evidence that they were awake; Frank had thought it would be better to do nothing. He looked at the dining table and saw that there was some food left over from lunch ... Just like that, he went there, picked up a plate to put the food and warmed it in the microwave while cleaned the dining table and kept the food that was left. He went to the coffee table in the room where Gwen and Lily were sleeping and took the dishes that the two had left there. Frank washed the dishes quickly and then went to the dinner table eating his food as he watched Lily and Gwen sleeping. He heaved a huge smile... Even with Ken's absence, Lily and Gwen filled that void in their own way… of course. "Ready! Everything is tidy ... Now just take these two to upstairs and my husband-father-sitter's task will be complete..." Frank got Gwen in his arms and carried her to the front door of her daughter's room. He hesitated a few seconds to open the bedroom door ... Gwen did not like very much him to enter in her room without permission ... Teenager's stuff, yet he opened the door ... After all he was her father and he would only put her in bed and leave. He would not tweak on anything. Frank thought it was best his kids to have a little privacy, Lily was a little curious, but could not complain, as there're worse curious mothers. Frank put his daughter in bed carefully not to wake her up, then covered it with one that was covered by the bedside of the girl. He watched her for a while and got a little scared by how much her daughter was heavier ... When she was ten it was so easy her to be charged that Ben managed to carry her at least a few seconds. Of course Gwen was still light, but the difference in weight from ten to sixteen is quite big. She is still thin and a little taller compared to other people, yet there were people who could overcome her size, as the grandmother and himself.
Frank turned off the light in the room and closed the door then declined to take his wife on his lap and take her up in the room. He took Lily carefully in his arms as he did with Gwen and when he reached the stairs Lily opened her eyes; she took a while to process what was happening... She looked at Frank, who had stopped when he saw that Lily was awake.

"Morning ... I mean... Good Night." Frank said.

Lily blushed, and then said:

"Good night..." Frank grinned ... Lily has always been a little shy in the beginning ... After a while she became a little more outgoing ... She was always like that. But when she was in these types of situation, even after marriage, Lily was very embarrassed. "Good... Er ... What time is it?"

"I think it's ten p.m. Why?"

"Ten p.m.? Oh my God, I did not even prepare your dinner ... And I still have to wash the dishes, keep the food and..." Lily began to move in the arms of Frank trying to get out of his lap and run to the kitchen to get things ready.

"Hey! Careful!" Frank said disturbing speech of his wife without letting her get out of his lap "First thing ... Stop moving, please, because we're going to fall the stairs down... Second thing: I have already washed the dishes, and I put away the food and I had dinned... Third thing: you need to rest, you're very stressed..."

Lily looked at him calmer.

"Okay ..." Now her husband and her daughter of her, which is the opposite of what she always does. Usually Lily uses to take care of the two. She looked at Frank "Thanks, Frank.

"No thank... It is my task as a father-husband-nanny... In full time..."

Lily laughed with the joke of the husband, who returned to walk into the room.

"You and your not funny jokes..." Lily replied.

"Not funny jokes?" Frank said making a sly pout like a baby does when he is about to cry. Lily laughed. Even as adults, when they were alone, the two acted like children.

"Yes bad joke! I remember the first time you went to talk to me; you tried to impress me talking something so funny that I fell out laughing ..."

"No! No need to remember this!"

"How was it?" Lily put her finger on her chin, thoughtfully.

"Lily ... Please."

"Ah, remember! 'You're so sweet that you could substitute the Hershey chocolate easily ...' Hahaha! I laughed so hard that day!"

Frank was embarrassed at the memory of his wife ... Gosh! Even she could not give him a break ... Anyway ... When he was a teenager he was a total dumb about how to act near the girls.

"Okay, okay ... That was a long time ago ok? No need to remember!"

"He, he..." Lily stopped laughing, tired ... "But ... Look at the positive way of everything..."

"Positive way…? Is there a positive way?"

"Hey! Look around! We are married ... and we have two wonderful children ..."

Frank thought about what Lily said and smiled.

"It's true ... I forgot that." He looked happy but a little sleepy. Lily also yawned ... Even having slept the whole afternoon she was still tired with all the work of the week. Frank took the gap and kissed her ... Lily, in the beginning, was a little surprised by the kiss, but then she just enjoyed the moment with her husband and kissed him back. If Ben and Gwen were there they would say that it was disgusting or say that they shouldn't do that in public places ... Or something like that, Lily started laughing between the kiss, Frank separated his lips from hers.

"What?"

"Ha, ha ... I remember that every time we tried to kiss Ben or Gwen always caught us by surprise..."
"That's true."

Lily yawned again.

"Sleepy?"

"Ahem... I had a hard day."

Frank came into the room and somehow opened the door. He put Lily on bed and went into the bathroom of the suite to take a shower; Lily put her clothes to sleep too. As she lay in bed, Frank left the bathroom and lay down next to Lily. They stared at each other for a while with smiles on their faces. Frank approached her and kissed on her forehead, sleepy.

"Good night ..."

"Good night, Frank."

Gwen's eyes squeezed a bit before opening. Instead of showing light to open them, she could only se darkness. She realized she was in the bedroom.

'Hey... But I slept in the living room…' Gwen got up from bed and reached the switch room. The light came on, she took a while for her eyes get used to the bright light, then she got out of bed and went to the cell phone to see what time it was: eleven p.m.. Wow! She slept a lot! Still she was very sleepy. She put the cell phone back on the table and stood for a while looking out the window. Tomorrow she will finally go out with Kevin. Many times, she expected him to ask her out, but it has never happened... Especially when Kevin had become that mixed elements form which he called "a monster". Even telling him uncountable times how much she did not care, he had continued to imply that he cared ... Even when he gave her the necklace to her he did not hesitated for a second to do not call her out. Necklace ... 'Wait a minute ... Necklace! Damn it!' She remembered what she did with the necklace and felt herself a completely kid for doing that crap. "Damn! Where is it! "She started walking on the floor ... She did not even remember what she had done with the collar after she had that fit of rage. Maybe it still was in the corner where she... well where she thrown it, with all her might, after she had busted it into a thousand pieces. She searched the corners and saw that there was something shining near the closet of the corner. 'I found it!' She picked up a gold medallion with the chain that held it burst and watched for a while, disappointed at her. How she managed to stay that way? She never got to the point of being depressive discounting all her anger at a necklace, or anything else. 'How will I fix it now?' she went to the drawer of the table and looked that into her box of porcelain there was a simple current. 'I knew I had one.' She pulled the collar also made of gold. Gwen took the locket that Kevin had given her and put it on her new collar. She was a little proud to have repaired at least one error ... Or maybe not. It is missing one more thing: The picture that now was completely torn. 'Oh man. This time I exaggerate too much!' She had the idea to put a new photo ... Better than nothing, right? She searched in the drawers for a photo she had. 'Damn!' The picture she had of them on the pier, Kevin had stayed with it. She looked for one that had the two together, none… The cause was that Kevin always managed to convince her to stay with the photo that had her and him. In other words, she had only pictures of him. Of course, it was not bad, but Kevin gave her a photo with both so Gwen wanted to continue in this way. Since we had no way of finding one of them both, she sought another one only with Kevin. Gwen rolled her the photos she had saved. The most of the pictures she had of him were when she took him by surprise with the photographic camera. Gwen looked at a photo of the cakes she had to recall when she had brought a camera bag and when he began to secretly take pictures of Ben taking his juice in the back seat while Kevin drove the "ride".

'Smile, Ben,' Gwen thought, as she took a picture of him looking out the window drinking juice, she began to take more pictures, somehow managing to hide the camera from her cousin. When she finished taking pictures of the cousin, she directed the camera to Kevin. She placed it on her purse that was on her lap, making only the lens appear. She looked at the other side of the camera to see if Kevin's face skirt in the photo. She moved the camera for a few more seconds and then pressed the button. A quick blink of light appeared and he turned his face a few seconds to Gwen. 'Oops! Damn you, flash!'

"You better delete that picture…," he said gravely.

"Picture? What picture?" she lied.

"The camera that is under this purse which, a few seconds ago, was being used to take pictures of this idiot behind me..."

Ben looked at the driver's seat when he had heard the "idiot" word. Of course, Kevin could only be talking about him.

"Who is idiot here? Do I know?" Ben said stretching the head forward to see the face of his cousin and of his friend.

"You…!" Kevin replied this time looking forward.

Ben did not like much of what Kevin said, he kicked the back of the driver's seat and then went as fast as he could to the other side of the bank.

"Ouch!" Kevin did a face of pain. However, it was clear that he felt nothing "Ben, Seriously ... You should teach martial arts to girls in the 1st grade. I am very sure that they will fight enough when they see your face to protect themselves"

"What did you say?" Ben stuck his face again to face Kevin.

"The truth, dumb-ass…!" Kevin gave a sarcastic smile and looked to Ben for a few seconds. In this short period, a flash of light appeared and disappeared. Kevin and Ben looked at Gwen. She was having fun taking pictures while the two fought, the last came with flash, but she got one thing: a photo of Kevin smiling. She looked at the result on the camera screen... man... How can he be so handsome just giving a sarcastic smile? Gwen felt a chill down her spine because of the last thought that came into her head.

"Gwen, gimme that thing!" Kevin said.

"No!" She replied, like a child.

Kevin stretched his right arm to try to reach Gwen's camera. Even wearing the seat belt, Gwen squeezed in the corner of the door from where she was. Kevin reached out a bit, his eyes looking toward the road, but even then he tried to grab the camera from Gwen's hand. Ben just watched the "show".

"Gwen! I'm Serious!

"No!" Gwen stretched her tongue out playfully.

Kevin looked at her and was a little embarrassed. For a while, he got distracted at Gwen.

"Kevin..." Ben said, making Kevin gets out of the trance "I know you like Gwen and all. But can you TURN YOUR ATTENTION TO THE ROAD BEFORE PEOPLE HAVE AN ACCIDENT, for heaven's sake?" Ben looked desperate. Kevin's cheeks were red and he turned his attention to the road. Gwen was embarrassed and sat on the seat, still holding the camera, then demonstrated triumph. In the car, there was silence for a few seconds, during that time; Kevin was just remembering his "moments" with Gwen.

Again the flash of light appeared. Gwen smiled.

That day was also fun. Of course, after that Gwen revealed the pictures. Even with digital camera, she did not like to print the photos at home, since it was better to reveal, using her allowance, of course, but worth it. She chooses the best pictures and sends them what she could reveal. Then she went to show them for Ben and Kevin. At then, Kevin took a few for him. Gwen was always in doubt to give them for Kevin, but she always gave up. One day Gwen tried the same thing she had done in the car the last time, but the result was not the same: when the flash went off, Kevin broke the camera off into several pieces. This happened when he was in the form of "monster". Unfortunately, all memory of the camera and most of the shots were there...

Gwen carefully fit the picture in the locket and watched. The medallion looked the same. The only difference was the picture inside of it. She put the medallion on top of the bedside table and looked at the bed. She was still sleepy. She jumped on the mattress and pulled the blanket covering her, and then she looked at the light switch, and used her mana to click on and turn off the light.

Twelve hours earlier. Somewhere in Bellwood.

"Kevin!" Her mother jumped near the boy giving him a hug, he returned. After leaving from the embrace of the mother, she had looked at Kevin and said: - Ya arrived early today, although it's noon o' clock!

He smiled. 'I was kinda lost.' All week, he was thinking about the date he was going to have with Gwen. It was the first time he was nervous because of such a thing. This resulted in distraction, which caused him to lose time, or arrive earlier in whatever he was going to do.

"Ah! I thought the transit would be very heavy today so I decided to come soon."

His mother was a little suspicious and said:

"I see... Come in!" She pulled her son's hand and led him inside, closing the door behind them. He went to the room and threw himself on the couch, tired... To go to her house, he took about an hour ... It is amazing how a crappy little town in the middle of nowhere could be so big! Kevin's mother lived across the city compared to Gwen's and Ben's houses. He still stared at the ceiling thoughtfully.

"Good... I'll finish making lunch..." The mother said going to the kitchen.

A few moments later, Kevin was able to smell spaghetti ... He was so hungry he could run away and stick his face in the pan, but he was very tired and was even more distracted with thoughts that he neither realized his mother arrived with two plates full of spaghetti and a lot of sauce. She placed the two plates of food on the table that stood in the center of the room and returned to the kitchen.

Kevin looked at his plate, still distracted and waited for his mother to arrive with two glasses: one with Coke and other lemon juice. On the other hand, she held two small cups with chocolate ice cream and strawberry sauce. She was a little awkward to bring the juices and desserts and not realized that Kevin came to help her. He took the two glasses and put on the coffee table along with the mother.

She turned on the TV and put the movie channel ... Titanic was the film that was passing. Unfortunately, Kevin's mother liked it. When the film passed, it was impossible to change her mind. Kevin did not like it, but did not hate it... He even would like the movie if it had not the scene where... Leonardo Di Caprio dies. Not because if he died the girl would get alone, but because the part where the person dies and her reaction at the beginning reminded him when a man came for his mother one night, he was tall and wore strange clothes, sometime later he discovered that they were traditional clothes of the Plumbers. He only remembers that that day was the worst of his life ever. Kevin appeared in the corner of the door to see what his mother was doing with the plumber.

He had only heard a few whispers, after that, his mother was rather chocked... Kevin could not see her face nor the Plumber's, as she was back and it disturbed the view of the man's face. His mother crouched on the floor, her hands touched her face and she started crying... Kevin then could see the Plumber's face better... He knew him... He was an old friend of his father... Kevin did not know the name but he was very nice the few times he appeared. He had a slightly wrinkled face and his hair filled with gray streaks. The man crouched down as if trying to calm the mother down. Her sobs became louder... And her hands wet with her tears.

She started screaming the name of her husband, Devin. It was then that Kevin realized what happened... His eyes filled with tears too... he wept silently in the room to sleep and did not see what happened next. When he woke up the next day, his mother was talking on the phone sitting on the couch and several blown papers were by her side, her eyes were dried. Kevin approached to his mother, but she was too distracted she did not notice the presence of the child:

"Yes... I have seen where it is ... But I do not want to put him there I ... Okay mom ... But I think it is better... Mom I know where is the best place to put his body; he is my husband! Not yours..." She stopped talking a few seconds and heard the voice of the mother talk nervously across the line "I'm sorry it's just that I'm..." A tear rolled over her cheeks as she heard the mother talk again "Thank you, mom. So... what is wrong with Kevin?" She blurted out the name of the child "He is still so small... I do not know how I'm gonna tell it to him! He is only four-years-old..." She came back crying "No, sniff... He did not even know his dad well... I don't know mom ... I don't know what else to do! I'm trying to be strong and all..." Her mother's voice interrupted "Right. Okay… noon o'clock? Okay." She hung up the phone and put her head on hands, elbows on knees, weeping.

Kevin was in front of her mother, she realized the son stared at her and she stared at him too. She was crying a lot... While Kevin gave her a look that indicated that, he already knew everything. Even little, Kevin was much smarter than the other kids were. 'Like father, like son.' She thought, smiling and crying at the same time. Kevin knew it all... Even that his father was not a normal "plumber". His mother stretched her arms to him:

"Come here, my dear!" Kevin ran up to her and hugged him.

Both were silent for a moment and then, the child said sobbing and tears:

"I'll miss him, Mama.

"Me too, Kevy"

"Kevy…? Are you okay?"

"Hm…? What?"

"Are you okay?"

"Ah! Yes! I am..." He answered finally coming out of the trance.

"What? You're kind of weird today."

"What? Me? No!" He took the plate of spaghetti and stuck the fork into the food.

"Kevin, don't you dare to lie to me." She looked at him, worried. Kevin tried to ignore her, but failed and finally opened the game.

"I... I miss him..."

The mother's eyes widened briefly. For a long time he did not speak of this subject. She put her hand on the bent backs of the child and began stroking it.

"It's not just you. Ya know it, Kevin. I still love your father very much."

Kevin's eyes were staring at the empty floor. He had no tears past on his eyes. He could not cry.

"Could you..." Kevin started talking "Could you put a movie that is... I don't know... happier then Titanic?"

The mother agreed, taking the control and changing to another movie channel, this time, Madagascar II.

The two together have watched the movie... They found the film very funny, but it was kinda hard to pay attention when it is in the same movie theater full of brats who cannot stop quiet on the bench. With that, the conversation about the father was over.

The two watched the movie.

"I love the giraffe and hippo together! They are so cute!" The mother said that, because of the part of the movie where the plane was falling and the giraffe declared his love for the hippo, unfortunately, all of them heard, but the hippo because she was sleeping.

This made Kevin Blushing slightly, he recalled Gwen ... Does the situation between them was similar to that of the giraffe and the hippo, a funny and awkward situation…?

"What now?" His mother asked Realizing that the child is distracted with something else. "You're increasingly distracted..."

"It's just that..." He began to say ... Excuses would not work anymore… "I... Tomorrow...I will ... have a date... with a girl and..."

"Now I got it!" She interrupted.

"What?"

"Since you arrived, you had a "I fell in love" face! I know very well this face! It is the same as your... father… did when he saw me." She felt unsafe in mentioning Devin, but this did not affect the status of the son. He actually turned redder. "What's her name?"

"Gwen."

"Gwendolyn...?" She seemed shocked.

"Yeah… Gwendolyn Tennyson... what's the problem…?

"Is she the granddaughter of Max Tennyson?"

"Uuuuh... Yeah."

"Do not believe it!"

"Wait? What?"

"She has an older brother named Ken, right?, and a brunet cousin, with green eyes?"

"How do you know?"

His mother laughed for a moment, Kevin did thought it was funny. He had already told about Ben and Gwen to her, but only as "friends." It was the first time he talked with his mother in details about the two.

"Honey... I think you'll find it a little funny: when you was about three years old... Max came here at home and brought them two grandsons: Gwendolyn and Benjamin to spend the day with us." Kevin did not even know what to say. His mouth was open in surprise. He knew Ben and Gwen since they were kids. He never believed in such nonsense as Gwen, but... 'Is it true that there is a destination or any crap like that for them three? On the other hand, was it just coincidence? Man, if Gwen were here she would say with certainty that it was the destiny...' "Wait just a little" His mother ran to the bedroom, and then returned with a large album of old photos. "Look..." She sat next to her son and opened the album "Are you seeing? They came here a few times because every time Max tried to bring the two something happened, you know? At times, he tried to bring Ken, but mostly the boy had a camp or then there was an emergency of the Plumbers for Max. He even tried to bring his children and their wives, but they always had an emergency too. Anyway..." She turned some pages and went where she wanted. Kevin craned his neck to see the photos better:

One photo showed a man reaching the third age; he had brown hair with gray streaks: he was Max Tennyson. He was holding in his lap two children, one, on his left arm, was a child who had short hair and was redhead; she was holding her grandfather's neck with her little arms and it seemed that she looked at who was taking the picture, kinda shy: Gwen.

The other children seemed to be more "energetic", at the time to take the picture it seemed he was trying to reach his grandfather's hair to pull it with force, the child had brown hair the same color as the brown locks of hair that remained from Max: Ben, for sure! Kevin looked into Gwen's shy eyes; they were not green: they were blue.

He doubted for a few seconds if that girl was really Gwen... But the child of the photo remembered Gwen a lot, she could only be her! 'Weird'

His mother nor gave him more time to look at the photo and turned the page.

"That was very funny! Ben took one of the pieces of cake I had made and spent it on the shirt of his cousin, she began to cry at once" Kevin saw the photo: Ben was sitting on the floor with Gwen's hand, it seemed, Ben took the last seconds to throw the piece of chocolate cake in the shirt. 'Wow, the two hated each other since always.' His mother turned the page again, this time there were two pictures on the same page. In the first picture was Kevin's mom, Devin and Kevin at his father's lap. They were giving a big smile, and were no longer in the room, but in the kitchen and behind them could see a table full of food. Into another photo, Ben and Kevin were playing on the kitchen floor, or better, fighting on the kitchen floor, Ben was pulling Kevin's hair as Kevin put his foot in Ben's belly to get rid of the pull of his hair. Several toys scattered on the floor, such as trolleys, plastic cars, teddy bears – destroyed, of course - and even some dolls girl, who certainly were Gwen's toys. "*Sigh*" His mother sighed. "We had a hard time separating you two. Devin had to hold you and Max had to hold Ben." She turned the page again; this picture was Gwen and Kevin's turn to appear. She was holding a small push-kitten in her right hand and looked at Kevin with her blue eyes as Kevin also looked at her, but just did not seem to have liked her. "I remember that too. Gwen was so curious that took you favorite car of plastic, one green with black stripes, just like your car. She took the car and you did not like it, and took off from her hand, then she started crying, it seemed like you got a little sorry for her, then you gave her your plastic car. She took it and lent to you her push-kitten she was holding. It was so cute!" Kevin was a little red for shame ... He thought about taking a photo of the two and show Gwen the previous day.

The time passed and they were just seeing the pictures of that day and memories of others.

After that, the two had dinner and Kevin looked at her watch and thought it was better to go away. He stood up, thanked his mother with a kiss on the cheek and went to the door after getting the car keys at home.

"Kevin!" She called her son before leaving. He stopped in front of the door and turned his face to know what it was.

"What?" He asked.

"You said you are going to have a date tomorrow, didn't you?"

"Yeah..." He answered blushing. She approached him and began to speak:

"I have three tips for you" She stretched three fingers "First: Give her attention, because it indicates how much you like her, which means: do not be an shameless. Second: Be yourself ...

"I can't..."

"Why?"

"If I follow rule number two I'm going to disobey the number one." He smiled sarcastically.

"Stop it, Kevin!" She took a few slaps on the son's shoulder. Not amused, but still laughing.

"Right... And what is the latest?"

"The last is extremely important!" She did face of suspense; Kevin was curious "Be really careful of what you do with her!" Kevin knew what it was about and rolled his eyes...

"Okay. I'm going" he said.

Kevin's mother left the house and got into the car... One hand was at the wheel and he looked thoughtful forward. Then he heard someone beating on the glass of the car... His mother, Kevin opened the window.

"What?"

"Take it..." She gave him a photo album that picks up the Kevin and Gwen little ones. Kevin took the photo "Ya said you wanted to get one, but I guess you forgot..."

"Ah! Right ... Thank you." She gave her a kiss on her son's head and said:

"Enjoy... And bring her to dinner here any day..."

"Okay..." He started the car after her mother was away.

After driving for about an hour he arrived at his "garage" that he calls home and went straight to the small "house" built with the garage as a small apartment, but very comfortable. He closed the garage before; then threw himself on the bed of the room over. Kevin glanced at his watch: Almost ten pm... He rarely slept so... Early. Most of the time, he was totally distracted by his "ride" and stayed awake until midnight or even more late. This time he would not stay up late by this time he was very tired, without knowing why. He closed his eyes and thought of Gwen to sleep.

"Hm... Excuse me..." Kevin said, behind the glass, to the girl on the box office.

"Yes?" She said, popping a ball of gum in her mouth.

"I want two tickets for the New Moon movie... You still have the session to four p.m. o'clock?" He asked staring at the girl suspiciously. "Can she chew it in job?"

"Bro... You're a lucky guy! There are only two places left... But the next time don't do that, Kay?" She looked on the computer, printed and handed two tickets to Kevin. He did not get them, just stared at her. "Your ticket... Mister..."

"I don't even know how you are still here", he hesitated to talk worse things, but got the tickets, handed the money and left the queue snorting 'When I leave here I'll talk to the manager of this cinema – Bro - What a joke' He sat on the bench and began to wait for Gwen. A few minutes later, he heard a voice:

"Kevin?" He turned around and came face to face with Gwen. 'Wow!' He was not surprised because she has come by surprise... But by how she was looking... very pretty. She was wearing white jeans, a light green regatta, a tinny belt, which rounds up her ankles, and her regatta and a pair of gray sneakers. She let her hair down and spent a light shade that made her green eyes get brighter than they were and the strange thing was that she was too simple but was very beautiful. Not that, at other times, she wasn't pretty... Kevin stood up, a little nervous.

"Hi, Gwen!" He lowered his head to see her better, he could smell a very good fragrance of perfume, it was not too exaggerated nor too weak. The two faced each other and Gwen's cheeks became redder than they already were. "You... You look great." He broke the silence, saying something that he did not expect to be able to say so calmly.

"Thank you" she smiled "As you do..." and it was true, he was wearing a white short-sleeved shirt with a black leather jacket over, he also wore simple but very beautiful jeans pants, the shoes were black. She could feel a nice smell of male cologne that he put.

"So?" she asked, trying not to get distracted more "Let's buy tickets?"

"Uuuuh... I've already bought 'em up." he got the tickets from his pocket and showed them to Gwen "New Moon... That was what you wanted, right?"
"How... How did you get them?"

"Sorry?"

"I didn't think we would be able to find in time"

"Uh…! With me here nothing is impossible, babe" he gave a proud smile to Gwen.

She smiled and pulled the boy to the line saying:

"Come on! We'd better go buy the popcorn and go to the line to get a good place."

"Yes, ma'am!" The two went to the cafeteria of the cinema and bought a giant bag of popcorn, a large soda, since the two did not care to drink the same cup, plus some candy. Then they went to the line, waiting for the official opens up the path. Kevin and Gwen looked through the line and found the New Moon one... It was immense, the largest compared to other movies... full of girls that didn't stop whispering in the ear of the other, some holding books of the New Moon, others wore T-shirts as "Team Jacob" or "Team Edward" and even "Team Bella." They entered on the queue.

"Team Bella, huh? There are people of all kinds here huh?"

Gwen sighed

"Kevin... Team Bella does not mean that they chose Bella, but they choose the two... 'Cuz both love Bella, which means they can either choose Jacob or Edward."

"Ah! Got it."

The line opened and fans started to run down the officers and anyone who was on the road. Kevin looked at them for a moment, laughing at those girls.

"Haha! Look there Gwen! Bunch of desperate-… Gwen…?" He looked around and did not find her, only later he realized that in fact his girlfriend had left running with the rest of desperate fans, with popcorn in hand and everything else... She looked back and yelled:

"Kevin, hurry up! I want to get a good place!"

He stood there, staring at her... Bunch... of… desperate...? He ran with the soda and candy in hands and came to the door where a crowd of - desperate - girls were pressing themselves to get into the room.

"Gwen... I think we're not getting a good place... with this bunch of psychos in front of us... I think have to wait to 'em all get in..."

"Move on!" She pushed some of the girls who squeezed in the doorway and pulled Kevin's hand.

"I think I said it wrong... I should have said: 'with this bunch of innocent people in front of us... Nobody would survive from you..."

"Stop acting like a kid, Kevin!"

"Children? Me? I'm not running and killing people desperately to get the best place to watch a movie that only has porn of guys without shirts that actually want to suck all your blood or that turns into wolves that may end up falling in love with any girl even an one year old child or less!" Gwen looked at him after they had been sitting.

"How do you know?"

"How do I know what?"

"How do you know about it the wolves?"

"The imprintin-?"

"How do you know how it is called?"

"I... anh... I saw the synopsis and..."

"Kevin... he only says it up on Eclipse. Plus this movie here is the New Moon movie one!"

He was silent for a moment... Got caught up by himself.

"Haha… Kevin... have you read the books?"

He was silent for several minutes, as was stubborn replied:
"I? No! Are you crazy?"

She smiled with the "you do not fool me anymore" look.

"Okay... I like it... and I've read it... Happy?"

"Hahaha!" she started laughing on her chair "Totally! I do not believe it! Okay, okay ... Let's see what you do know about the book" she settled back in her chair, looking at Kevin:

"What is Edward and Bella's daughter's full name?

As if having no option to escape from Gwen's questionnaires, he began to answer:

"Renesmee Carlie Cullen..."

"Wow! Hm... How did Jake nickname her?"

"Nessie"

"Did Bella like it?"

"In the beginning, no"

"What did she do when she'd discovered Renesmee's nickname in the beginning?"

"She jumped over Jacob to kill him..."

"But...?"

"But Seth came in front of Bella and he got hurt."

"Oh My…! Okay, okay. Let's go to another book, Eclipse. Hm ... What happens to Bella after being kissed by Jake?"

"She tried to punch him, but broke his arm and he felt nothing."

"Edward blackmails Alice with...?"

"A yellow Porsche..."

"What is your favorite part of the book?"

Kevin was quiet for a while: "If I tell you..."

"Oh… c'mon…!"

He said, sighing:

"When the vampires and werewolves fight with the Victoria's newborns"

"Oh! I think it is not a surprise... You love action!" For some reason she did not like her boyfriend's answer.

Kevin gave a crooked smile and just to break the silence he said:

"And yours, what is it?"

"Which book?"

"Eclipse"

"Well... When Edward asks her to marry him."

"Oh! I think it is not a surprise... You love romance!" he smiled at her as if he were taking her in her own catch. She also smiled and patted his shoulder.

"Stop it! You fool!"

"What? I'm just repeating what you said!"

"Sh! The movie is going to start!" she said, this time she pushed him up to be quiet; and taking the soda from Kevin's hand she had took a sip, then reached into his bag of popcorn. Kevin jumped at the chance and got some popcorn too.

After spending the trailers, the movie began and the room went silent, even Kevin did not make a peep. He was very fond of books; unfortunately, he had to admit... the first film of the saga he had not liked much, so he did not feel so much excitement to see the second one, even changing the director. If the movie were not good, he would not mind much, since Gwen was on his side... even if it means her being a paranoid. As the movie went on, the popcorn was ending up in parts of nervousness; Gwen began eating popcorn like a machine, despite knowing what would happen. Kevin really liked how the movie went on, at least until now.

The only scene he did not like was when the werewolves took the shirt off. The first time that Jacob took off his shirt, all the girls sigh on the cinema, some even cried. Kevin looked at Gwen, she was not looking for anything, unless the film, even in the dark he could see that Gwen was a little red because of the scene, her green eyes were half wide, and Kevin suspected that if he was not on her side she would have "screamed". Without knowing why, he found it funny and turned his attention to the movie. At the fighting time, the few boys who were in the cinema - most boyfriends who were dragged there - did not give attention to anything else.

Gwen was more excited at every moment the movie went on. When it finally reached the scene, she most liked, when Bella runs to prevent Edward's suicide and then the two hug and kiss each other. At that moment, she felt so embarrassed that she could not even look at the sides to see what Kevin was doing. He also felt very embarrassed and said nothing. Finally, the film was over and the two left the movie theater without talking much, when they reached the corridor Kevin asked:

"Ya liked the movie?"

"Hm…? Oh... yes, I did... a lot. And you?"

"Er... Me too..." He was a little embarrassed to admit. They started walking without saying anything.

"Hungry?" Gwen asked. She knew he would say no, because he ate lots of popcorn and plenty of sweets, but it was just to break the silence, moreover, he did not want to eat anything she would eat, she was still hungry.

"Totally..."

Gwen was surprised at first. Then, she decided to go to the food court and eat something. The two looked for a table and sat at it.

"What do ya want?" Kevin said.

"Hm... I think I want some chips and a soda."

"Got it" he got up and went to a snack from the mall to buy what Gwen asked.

He came to the table where Gwen was sitting a few minutes later holding a tray with a big box of chips, a box with a hamburger, and two medium sodas. He put the tray on the table and handed it to Gwen one of the sodas and fries box.

"You want ketchup?"

"Hm... Sure. Thanks." She took one of the sachets of ketchup that he had given to her and put on her fries. She ate some and took a sip of soda. When she looked at Kevin, she saw that he was watching her in a strange way and then she asked:

"What?"

"Nothing... I just have a question..."

"What?"

"Your eyes... They have always been green?"

She was surprised:

"Why are you asking me this?"

"It's that..." He put his hand in his pocket and pulled out some kind of paper.

"What is it?" Kevin handed her the paper and she saw that it was a picture, there were two babies about two years old sitting on the floor of a room. She recognized one of the babies "That's me..." She said referring to the read-headed child who was holding a purple push-kitten. "But..." She looked to the other child who was at her side... a little boy of a very light skin, brown eyes and black hair as well: Kevin, absolutely. She did not know what else to say then looked at him in doubt.

Kevin noticed that she was surprised then said with a smile:

"My mom showed me this picture... Your grandfather came to my home once when we were still very little, you and Ben as well."

"Huh?"

"Your grandfather and my... father... were Plumbers. They were partners and one day Max brought you two for him to meet them."

"We...I mean you and me...?"

"Uh-hum... We knew each other that since we were kiddos... I was also very surprised when my mother told me."

She smiled.

"See?" Kevin pointed Gwen's photo/child version "Your eyes are blue..."

"Oh! This... it's weird, isn't it? When I was little they were blue... Then they turned light green... I do not know why. They were from my mom's color... And then I discovered that they were also from my grandmother's."

"My mother said you were very curious... You loved taking things from others..."

"Really…?"

"She also told me that you hated your cousin since childhood."

She handed the photo back to him.

"You can get the picture."

"Are you sure?"

I have a lot at home and my mother gave this to me.

She hesitated to save the picture, but kept it in her purse.

"Thank you..." She smiled and then took one more chips to put in her mouth "Oh! I remembered something too!" She shook the purse again and searched for something that was inside. In this, she pulled something round and flat out, which Kevin could not know what was, because it was wrapped in a blue gift paper decorated with small cars of various colors with a red ribbon around it. "Happy Birthday... A little late..." She delivered the wrapped object to Kevin. He got the gift, somewhat surprised and considered.

"What is it?"

"Hm... Guess you'll just find out if you open it up, right?"

He removed the wrapping paper carefully and saw what was: alien technology, a hologram disc that Ben's grandfather often used when he needed to send an important message for them.

"What the...?"

"I think we better see it somewhere else. Have you finished the burger?"

"No, but we can eat somewhere else..." He put the burger inside the box and somehow took it along with the soda in one hand... In the other one, he took the disk. "Let's go..."

Gwen got up, put the purse on her shoulder and took the soda and potato chips. She knew he would be curious enough to stop what he was doing, just to know what the disc was. Both were open to the parking lot where the car was. They looked around to see if anyone was watching; when they had seen it was safe, the two sat in front of the car on the outside and left the food on top of it. Kevin picked up the disk and tried to press the bottom to see whatever was recorded in there.

When he found it, he pressed the button and over the disk, he began to see a distorted image that slowly became clearer... In it, appeared a beautiful woman with black and fulfilled hair, she was sitting on the couch, doing some scribbles on sheets of paper, distracted, Kevin looked better and realized she was pregnant. The woman looked at anyone who was shooting at her and said with a smile:

"Devin! Turn off the camera... Please."

"Gee! Can you hear that, Kevin? Your mother seems nervous... What an ugly thing mama!" A voice of someone who has not appeared on the "film" said, as if kidding. After that swirled and engraving the image, the woman was still there, only this time a man also appeared: he was tall, with black hair pulled back, his eyes were dark brown, the same color of Kevin. It was his father... and his mother. The man began to speak after he crouched and looked at his wife's belly, stroking it:

"He kicks a lot, huh?"

"Look who's the dad!" she gave a sweet smile to her husband.

Devin gave a kiss on his wife's stomach and then looked at her.

"Hopefully he will be as handsome as his dad too..." he gave a satisfied and playful smile, the same smile of Kevin.

"Devin! Hear that, Kevy?" the mother looked at her belly as if talking to the baby "Do not follow the advice of this father of yours!"

Devin did his lip with the mouth.

"Donot listen to your mother, Kevin ...!" He looked at his wife's belly too. The last thing that happened in the image was that the mother was giving her husband a shove and he fell to the ground as a joke while she laughed. It could only be Kevin's mother, always smiling. The image got distorted; this time the same woman appeared, but her hair was short and she was lying on a stretcher with a newborn baby on her lap...

The camera recording the image approached to the woman and it could see the little baby she was holding... Devin appeared again beside his wife and son and looked at him, saying:

"Hi, Kevin!" he stroked the baby with the index finger.

"Say "hi" Kevy!" The mother said looking at the baby "Say 'hi' to daddy!" She smiled while her husband was still caressing the child. The image was distorting again. This time mom and dad were on the ground and she held a baby from a young age, he was just wearing a diaper and a pacifier in his mouth. The mother placed him standing and holding his waist, trying to get the baby to walk, and his father began to call Kevin to make him walk. The baby began to shake his legs and walked slowly to his father, when he came up to him, the baby played in his father's lap and he hugged his son. After, more pictures began to appear, - always the same people in them: the father, mother and child, every image the baby was getting more features of child and less baby ones -, one of which Kevin was sitting on the shoulders of the father and they were playing spacecraft and other things making the noise of lasers with the mouth:

"Beware! The Martians are attacking! Vusshhhhhh…! Kevin, beware!"

Then came another shot, Kevin's mother held him in her lap, she and her father sang "Happy Birthday" to Kevin, in front, a chocolate cake decorated with colorful candies, upon a blue candle with the number three. Kevin from the hologram blew the candle, when his father cut the first piece and gave to his son saying:

"For each of us will you give the first piece, Kevy? It may be right for me?"

"How dare you! It's for mommy, right Kevin?"

"Of course, not! I'm his father! Come on Kevin, give to your daddy!" the baby looked at Devin and stretched the cake he was holding to his father to give the cake "There you go! He likes more the d-" he could not at least finish what he was talking about when his son threw the cake though his face and spread it all by hand to his hair.

"Hahahaha" the mother began to laugh. "You were saying…?"

Another image appeared. This time three babies playing: Gwen, Kevin and Ben. Each with their own toys... and the last image was that of Devin and his wife giving a kiss and a few seconds later Kevin appearing putting his hands in the eye of his father.

"Ah! Kevin!"

"Hahaha"

The image vanished and no more came into place. Gwen looked at Kevin after the disk turned off; she was expecting something. He was quiet for a few seconds and then his hands started to tremble, and at this time, Gwen doubted that she really should have given him the disc.

"Kevin...?"

She looked at him, her eyes were showing something that looked like angry...

She touched his shoulder ... 'Damn! What have I done?' Kevin looked at her, startling. He tried to calm down.

"Where... did you get it?"

She was silent for several seconds before answering, with a bit of fear:

"I-I went to visit my grandfather, Max, a little before coming here... and I asked him about your... Father Then he showed me this" she pointed to the hologram, and ventured to look for Kevin, and that was when she saw that he was not angry... but desperate... The cause, she did not know. "He explained that... Your father had recorded it up and always carried with him before going on a mission... My grandfather also said that it seemed he wanted to leave it to you, but were never very sure. I asked him if I could stay with the disc, and he gave it to me.

Kevin remained silent... Gwen felt a fool for having shown it him... She already knew how he felt about his father, never spoke much about him and seemed not to want to mention him too. He turned his face to her... and Gwen already wanted to apologize:

"Look, Kevin... I... what's wrong!" He lowered his head and began to grunt... She bowed her head to see him better. His eyes were red and tears started forming in the corners of his eyes. "Kevin..." she whispered his name and approached the boy putting her arm around his back. Gradually the tears began to drip into his eyes.

After some time of silence he said:

"I... I miss him..."

Gwen smiled slightly... It was good when he put it all out. She wrapped her other arm around the boy, hugging him. He also hugged her, crying a little and said something that made Gwen began to cry together:

"Thanks, Gwen..." she hugged him stronger and stroked his head as if trying to calm him down.

After a while, they broke off the hug, and Kevin wiped his tears with the sleeve of his jacket. He put the disc on the side of the car and began to eat the hamburger; Gwen did the same. Unfortunately, the food was a little cold... But she bore eat anything since she was still hungry.

"You know..." Kevin started talking with his mouth full "My mother told me that my father was always kind of funny... And he always had a great sense of humor... Now I know what she was talking about..." He laughed.

"I think you took it from him" not only was she happy to see that Kevin was more excited... but also to see that he now had more freedom to speak about his father.
"Yeah..."

"Which means you will be like him." She put her hand on Kevin's shoulder and looked into his eyes with a smile.

"I think so."

Gwen hesitated for a moment to put her head on Kevin's shoulder, and then put her hand on the other shoulder of Kevin. He blushed slightly, but was quiet and the two had finished eating lunch. When they finished, they threw out the trash and went to the car because it was almost dark. Kevin put the disc inside the glove box, started the car and looked at Gwen:

"What?' He asked to see that she was shrinking her arms and placing them around the body.

"Huh? Nothing..."

"Didn't bring a jacket?"

"Kind of..."

"Here..." He took off his jacket and put it around her.

"Hm... but what about you…? Are not you cold?" She blushed, not because he put the jacket on her shoulders, but because the shirt he wore was tighter to his body, so that she could see the silhouette of his muscular arms and chest.

"Actually, no..." he said with a smile when he figured out where Gwen had stared. He put the key in the car and started it. Gwen was silent for several minutes, she didn't want to go away... For her the time they spent together was too fast. She made the face of daunting and Kevin realized it:

"What now?" he asked.

"No. Nothing. It's just that... It happened all so fast..."

"Who said it's over?"

"Sorry?"

He was quiet.

"Kevin?"

"Want to destroy my surprise, don't ya? Waiting, you'll see!"

She said no more. Suddenly, she felt tired... and slowly she was falling deeper into sleep until she slept.
Kevin stopped the car in front of a tree.

'We arrived... Gwen?" He looked at her and saw that she had fallen asleep; at the beginning, he doubted if he wanted to wake her put or not. He stood watching her for a few seconds and left the car. Then he opened the door of the passenger seat, took off her seatbelt and tried to carry her up, but when he touched her, she woke up.

"Uh... What... Where, where are we?" She settled back on the bench, putting his jacket over her shoulders and looked around.

"Calm down, Gwen... Come with me."

"Where…?"

"Come and see"

"Not to another hospital... Isn't it?"

"No." he laughed.

"Ok..." she left the car and closed the door behind. As slowly as she walked, she realized she was in the same place that she was with Kevin and Ben to meet her grandmother, Verdonna. Kevin and Gwen went to the lake and there they sat near the shore, but not near enough to get wet. It was then that she understood why he wanted to take her in that place; at night, the lake was beautiful. She remembered when her grandfather brought together Ben and Ken to fish and sometimes even camping there.

"Very nice..." She said, sighing as she stared at the moon and the stars. As the lake was a place away from the city, it means they could see better the stars.

"I knew you'd like it." Kevin said with a smile.

"Thank you for bringing me here." She put her hand on Kevin's, and she could see the difference size between her hand and his hand and his hand was colder comparing to hers, but when he hugged her she could feel that his chest was warm. She moved closer to the point of getting him to touch her shoulder at his.

He held her hand as strong, as if it were a response to what she said.

Gwen turned his face to look at him. He did the same and for a few minutes they stared without saying a word, the two already knew what would happen next.

Kevin began to approach his face and placed his cold hands around Gwen's face, a hand placed on one cheek and one on the other side. His face moved closer and he began looking into Gwen's face... then to her lips. Gwen did not have to move her face; just waited he gets closer, and finally their lips touched, Kevin could feel how her skin was warm, they were one time only feeling the touch of a lip on the other, after that their mouths were opened. Gwen put her arms around Kevin's neck and squeezed her body against his, Kevin pulled Gwen's face against him after he dropped his hands to her waist and went to her back pulling her closer, making he feel the beating of her heart that was accelerating. The hands stroked Gwen's neck and his hair while their faces were moving. Gwen felt a sensation of butterflies in the stomach, as if she had not eaten anything all day, but it felt good... very good. The jacket that was on her shoulders fell, making the girl feel more chills, neck and arms stood on, end as well as Kevin and slowly their lips were separated. They touched their foreheads and faced each other, as if talking through the eyes. There in Gwen leaned her head on his shoulders near to his neck. Kevin did the same and they were hugging, Gwen did not need more the jacket, Kevin was hugging her so hard that it was enough to warm her up; only his hands were cold. He began kissing her neck and her cheeks. Kevin picked up the jacket that had fallen on the floor and placed on the shoulders of Gwen again to warm her up. They did not know how long they stayed that way, but did not care, they were just happy to be together.

"I think we'd better go now" Kevin whispered in her ear as he kissed her neck "Looks like it's gonna rain... and we gotta get to your home before 10 p.m...It must be some nine p.m... "

"Hm..." She replied sorry for ever having to leave. "Don't you want to stay there?"

"What?" He broke off the hug and looked at Gwen, staying at her house?

"I mean" her cheeks got red "If you want... Stay at home..."

"Gwen... I think your parents won't let me stay at your home..." 'Actually ... I am sure they won't' he thought.

"And who said they need to know?"

"Huh?"

"Please..."

He said nothing and stood up pulling her to get up too and take her to the car, Gwen was silent for a while. Embarrassed for having asked him to stay with her in her room, she knew he would not do anything wrong, so she wanted him to stay with her.

Right... Now she felt herself inside the Twilight book. They entered in the car and the two were quiet the entire trip. Kevin was thinking about what Gwen said... He wanted to stay with her, but ... And if her parents found out, he was in the room with her?

When they arrived at Gwen's home, she got out picking up her bag and looked at Kevin for a few minutes, he also left and went to her.

"Good Night..." He said. Kevin kissed her and she kissed him back.

"Good Morning" she answered, trying to hide her sadness, knowing that he would not stay with her at home. Still, she was very happy to have finally gone out on a date with Kevin.

He entered in the car, turned it and gave the match to go, ending the last hopes of Gwen for him to stay in your home. When Kevin's car was far from reach, she entered at home and there she found her father sitting on the couch watching TV.

"Hi, dad!"

"Hi darling..."

"Where's Mom?"

"Went to bed... she was so sleepy..."

"Hm... I will take a bath!"

"Aren't you going to eat anything?"

"I'm not hungry."

She went upstairs and went into the bedroom to get clothes, then went to the bathroom and filled the bathtub with water, then entered. She stayed there for a few minutes, then dried up and emptied the bathtub. When she left the bathroom, she saw that her father had gone sleeping too. Then he said "Good Night" for her daughter and then entered in the bedroom where Lily was, closing the door behind. Gwen turned out the lights in her house and went to her room, just leaving her lamp illumining just one part of her bedroom. She let her hair, which was held, down and took a wiggle with her hands before sitting down on the bed; she looked around in the parts where the room was being lit. Then she picked up the book that was on top of your nightstand: Breaking dawn, and started reading the part where Bella becomes a vampire. She was distracted a lot from reading but was shocked to hear a noise coming from the window, as if someone was banging on the glass. At first she was frightened, but then thought, as he approached the window 'No! It can't be…!' she opened the window and there he was: sitting on the roof, waiting for her to open the bedroom window.

"Kevin! What the...?"

"It was you who asked..."

"But you...? You had gone... And…!"

"I parked my car down the street... In case of someone sees him…"

Gwen looked at him again, he was with a black baggy pants, a white shirt like what he was before, but was a little wider and white sneakers.

"But... your clothes..."

"Sometimes I'm used to sleep at my ride... So I keep some clothes in the trunk."

"Oh! Got it!"

"And then? Will you invite me to come in or not? Anyway… It's getting cold here!"

"Oh" she went out to help Kevin to get in, he played a small suitcase on the floor that seemed to have the clothes he wore.

"I'll-…" he looked better at her and Gwen blushed. 'Shit.' That's because she was wearing a set of pajamas with a pink mini shorts, giving Kevin the possibility to see practically all of Gwen's legs. Gwen looked nervously at him and he got the message by looking at her face... or better... trying to look at her face. Gwen closed the window and sat on the bed while Kevin looked at her.

"What?"

Don't you… huh… have an extra mattress or something?"

"Ah... Actually, I thought about... Well" Kevin understood and sat down beside her, kinda lost. She pulled a blanket and lay in bed, while Kevin did not know what to do... Gwen moved away to lean against the wall and leave a good space for him to lie down. Kevin lay on the space she had left him and put his arm under her head

She put the blanket that was on her about Kevin as well and supported her head on his chest, she could hear his heart beat. Once she moved her head to look at him and looked into his lips, Kevin realized where she was looking to and with a smile touched his mouth on hers, kissing her. Gwen put her left hand on his chest and Kevin put his hand on his head, making small turns in her scalp with his fingers. They closed their eyes and just enjoyed the time between each other, Gwen's hand went up to Kevin's chest to his neck and then to his head while his hands went down to her waist and stood there. When they broke the kiss, Gwen returned to put her head on his chest and kiss it, while Kevin stroked his head.

"Any problems if your parents get me here?" Kevin asked worried.

"No... when they want to, they knock on the door first; if I answer 'em, they come in. If I do not answer... they know I'm sleeping so they don't come in."

"Wow"

Gwen smiled and slowly her eyelids became heavy until she fell asleep, and before she said:

"Good night, Kevy..." he blushed slightly and also said:

"Good night, Gwendy."