Merry Christmas!

Quinn couldn't sleep at all. She kept staring at the white ceiling above her while laying her head on Sam's chest. She kept asking on her head, how could this happen? Was that fate or something? Did this mean that Lucy knew that Sam had a daughter with her?

Her head felt dizzy. She was sleepy too but she couldn't bring herself to sleep. Not when she just discovered one of the biggest mysteries in her life.

That's why I feel like I saw you before… And your lips and your body felt very familiar. You're the only guy I've ever kissed and I've ever sleep with… Gosh, why didn't I realized this earlier…

"Baby?" Sam's slumber voice brought her back.

"Hey…"

"Why you're not sleeping?"

"How do you know?"

"You kept tracing your finger on my chest. I felt it and it kinda wakes me up…"

"Sorry, I wake you up. I just can't sleep. Don't worry though, I'll sleep before you know it."

"Okay… Night, beautiful," he kissed her head lightly and drifted off to sleep.

"Night…"

She snuggled closer to him, trying to bring herself to sleep. How am I gonna do this right now? She kept thinking in her head and before she knew it, she drifted off to sleep.

After Sam went to the office, she made her way to the Changs' household. Although she didn't know if it was the right thing to see her daughter right now after the revelation the night before, she knew she must see Melrose.

The little four-year-old blonde girl has been her life ever since she was born. Sure Quinn was exhausted with taking care of her little baby while finishing college at the same time, but she love her daughter more than anything.

She knocked the front door and greeted by her adoptive mother's smile.

"Quinnie baby!" Lily Chang said as she pulled Quinn into a hug. "Come in! We're about to have breakfast. Have you eat yet?"

"Hey, mom," Quinn said as she returned the hug. "I already had breakfast earlier, but I don't mind for another round."

"Surely, you won't wanna miss this. I'm making your favorite waffle. Your daughter surely took after you a lot cause she loves it so much, just like you," Lily continued as she led Quinn inside.

"She is… Speaking of Mel, is she awake yet?"

"She's in the dining room already with everyone. She misses you so much, my dear. We all miss you. Where have you been lately? Mike said something about boyfriend?"

Quinn fought the urge to roll her eyes. Damn, Mike. Really? "No, not boyfriend. It's… rather complicated. But I'll explain everything."

"Okay," the elder woman nodded. They reached the dining room and greeted by the sight of everyone busy eating their waffle. "Melrose darling, guess who's here?" she announced.

The little blonde girl shifted her attention and saw her mom standing in front of her. "Mommy!" she ran to approach her mom.

"Hey, sweetie!" Quinn caught her daughter and hugged her tightly. "I miss you so so much!"

"I miss you too, Mommy!" she said as she kissed her mom's cheek. "Are you going to eat with us?"

"Of course I am. How can I miss the awesomeness of Granny Lily's waffle?" she said as she ruffled the blonde girl hair.

"Come sit with me, Mommy." Melrose pulled Quinn's hand and led her to the empty seat next to her.

Once she was seated, she took the chance to greet the rest of the family. "Morning, everyone."

"Morning, Little Quinnie," James Chang said. "It's really nice to see you here again."

"Yeah, Quinn. You were gone for too long," Clarice chimed in.

"I know. I'm sorry. I just… something came up and I needed to finish that first. I'm going to explain everything. But not when the little devil is here," she said as she eyed on Melrose.

"We understand though. Just that little girl needs some understanding," James said as he gestured his eyes towards the little blonde girl next to Quinn who currently busy eating her waffle.

"I know," she mumbled quietly before turning to her daughter, "Want some juice, honey?"

Melrose nodded and handed her glass to Quinn. "Yes please, Mommy."

Quinn poured some apple juice to the glass and handed it back to Melrose. "There you go, sweetie."

"Thank you, Mommy."

"You're welcome," she smiled.

Everyone continued eating. After they finished, the men were off to the living room with Melrose while the women stayed in the dining room to clean up.

"So, Quinn. Are you staying for dinner too? Or just lunch?" Lily asked.

"Just lunch. I may stay here until later but I need to go before dinner," she answered.

"Where do you live anyway? Are you staying with that Sam guy we met at the hospital?" Claire asked.

"Yeah, you never tell us. We only knew what Mike told us and he always said that we need to ask you by ourselves," Tina added.

Quinn sighed. "Well… yeah, I'm living with him right now. But it's not like he's my boyfriend or something."

"Then what is he? Where do you meet him anyway? And why are you living with him?" Lily, being the mother she always has, asked.

"He's my… fake boyfriend," she paused as she saw the confused expression of Lily, Claire, and Tina. "Okay. That's just confusing. Let me put it this way… I'm pretending to be his girlfriend."

"You need a better explanation, Quinnie."

"Yeah, what do you mean you're pretending to be his girlfriend? I mean, that's not going to work unless his girlfriend is your twin sister and we all know you don't have any twin sister," Claire added.

"That's where you all got wrong," Quinn said.

"What do you mean?"

Quinn grabbed Lucy's wallet from her bag and took the ID card, then she showed it to Lily, Claire, and Tina.

Lily took it and studied it carefully. "Oh my God. Lucy Marie Fabray?"

"WHAT?" Claire was surprised and she dashed to her mom to confirm what she just heard. "God… how is that possible?"

"Born in Dallas, April 30th, 1990… Quinn, that's the same as yours, right?" Tina added.

"Crazy, right? Apparently she knew about me and Melrose. I don't know how the hell she knows that and what she wants," Quinn said.

"But how can you pretend to be her? And why do you have her ID card?" Lily asked.

"Well… the day I came back here was the day I met her. And she killed herself at the train station."

Claire gasped. "What? Quinn… that's—"

"Horrible? I know. I was on the phone with Mike when I saw this woman, standing nearby and she was crying. I was curious so I approached her. When she turned around, I felt like I saw a mirror. I was about to ask her something when she jumped off the platform just like that and the train hit her."

"So, let me get this straight, Quinnie. This Lucy girl is indeed your twin sister, there's no denying, and she killed herself. And you're pretending to be her, that means her boyfriend didn't know that she's dead?" Lily trying to confirm it and when she saw Quinn nodded her head, she continued, "Why are you doing this?"

"I need to find out about Russell and Judy Fabray. At first I thought they just didn't want me, and then I thought maybe they're dead or something. But there's a family picture in Lucy's wallet and I knew she took it recently. I mean, why they have to ditch me and only took care of Lucy? I need to find out."

"If you need to find out about them, why do have to live with Sam?"

"Cause he can bring me to the Fabray's house when the time is right."

Lily shook her head. "I don't know, Quinnie. I think it's a stupid idea."

"See? I'm not the only one who thought it was stupid." Mike said as he announced his presence in the room, obviously hearing everything. "She hasn't even told you the worse part of it."

"And what is that Michael Robert Chang?" Lily raised her eyebrows.

"Quinn's been sleeping with him—"

"WHAT?!"

"—and she has a hunch that Sam Evans is Melrose's dad."

"WHAT?!"

"Well, it's not a hunch anymore…" Quinn mumbled.

"What do you mean? Quinn Noelle Fabray, you need to explain everything," Lily demanded. Even though Quinn was just her adoptive daughter, she loved her as she was her own and this kind of things concerned her.

Quinn took a deep breath. "So, you all know that Sam donated his blood for Melrose and paid for the hospital bills, right?" She stopped. When she was everyone nodded, she continued, "Well, he told me he loves me…"

"Okay, how can he said that? You just met him for like a week, right?" Claire asked.

"Well, he's been dating Lucy before you came, right? He has the right to say 'I love you'," Tina tried to reason.

"They've been dating for two years or engaged, to be exact. But it was an arrange marriage. Their relationship never been normal and according to Sam, they only have this normal relationship after he was back from his business trip, which was the day he met me," Quinn explained. "He told me that that day, he felt like he saw his first love again. He said he was drunk when he met her but he remembered her eyes and hair, he said hers look like mine."

"That doesn't mean he was talking about you, Quinnie," Lily pointed out.

"I know. But… the very first time I sam his pictures, I felt like I saw him somewhere. And when I told Mike, he pointed out that maybe we didn't remember meeting each other before because both of us were drunk."

Lily furrowed her eyebrows. "I still don't get your point, Quinnie."

Quinn took a deep breath. "The first and only time I got drunk was the night that gave me Melrose. That was when I got suspicious. Last night, I asked him where he met his first love and he told me that he met her summer five years ago in a bar near Florida State University…"

It went silent in the dining room. Lily, Claire, and Tina were trying to process all the things that they just hear while Mike was trying to absorb the new information he just got. It was shocking for all of them.

"Quinnie…," Lily broke the silence after a while and went to Quinn. She wrapped an arm around Quinn's shoulder, giving her a light squeeze.

"It's all became clear. That's why I feel like I saw him somewhere before. I'm looking at his daughter all this time. Mel has his eyes and lips."

"But Quinn, you need to do a paternity test first before you could take that conclusion," Tina said.

Quinn shook her head. "There's no point of denying. It's too obvious that she's indeed his daughter."

"Does that mean he donated his blood to his daughter and paid for her daughter's hospital bills?" Claire trying to confirm everything again.

Quinn just nodded her head. She was sure Mike was about to say something when she heard her phone rang. She saw the caller ID. Sam.

"Is that him?" Claire asked again. When she saw Quinn nodded, she said, "Put him on speaker!"

"Clarice! That's intruding someone's privacy!" Lily hissed.

"No, Mom. Actually that was a good idea," Mike said. "Put him on speaker, Quinn."

"Okay, but you all need to be quiet," Quinn said before she finally answered the phone and put the speaker on. "Hey…"

"Hey, baby." They could hear Sam's voice very clearly. "Where are you?"

"Somewhere…"

"Are you by any chance at Lima Mall? Cause you might bump in to me if you are."

"No, I'm not. Wait… you're supposed to be at the office. Why are you at the mall?"

They could hear Sam chuckling at the other line. "My mom wants me to accompany her to shop something that I don't even know. That's why I'm here."

"Oh…"

"Anyway… are you forgetting something?"

"Why am I forgetting something?" Quinn furrowed her eyebrows, obviously confused.

"Seriously, babe?" Sam chuckled again. "You see, my birthday was on February and yet you still haven't got me a birthday present."

"Oh yeah, right. Why are you suddenly mentioning this?"

"Well, my mom was at the make-up store and I went to this awesome kick-ass DVD store. Guess what I found."

Quinn suddenly became so interested of what Sam want to tell her. "What is that?"

"A limited edition Avatar DVD set! Can you believe that? I've been looking for it since forever and now it's here, in front of my eyes!"

Quinn chuckled at his excitement. "You're such a kid, you know that?"

"I don't care! Babe, I want this so much and since you haven't get me that birthday present, can you buy this for me?"

"Well…"

"Baby, come on! It's August and you still haven't found the perfect gift for me. This, will be perfect."

Quinn chuckled again. "Okay, okay. I'll get it for you."

"Awesome! See, I'm going to put this as on order first—"

"Wait a second, Samuel. You're going to what?"

"Put this on order first. This is limited edition and they only have one left here. I need to secure this one first, okay? So, I'll put it in under your name and you can pick it up and pay for it, hopefully today, wrap it and give it to me tonight. How's that sound?"

"You know that you're practically planning your own surprise birthday gift, aren't you?"

"Yeah, I'm aware of that," he chuckled. "So, kìyeváme?"

Quinn raised her eyebrow. "Em… what is it?"

"I'll see you soon?"

"What language is that?"

"It's na'vi, the Avatar language!"

"You're such a dork! But yeah, I'll see you soon," she smiled.

"Sweet! Nga yáwne lu oér, beautiful."

"Okay… I need a dictionary."

He chuckled. "I love you, beautiful. See you later. Bye!"

"Bye…"

Quinn hang up the phone and everyone was still not saying anything to make sure that phone already went off. After a while, Tina was the one who opened her mouth first.

"Okay, do I even need to say?"

"Seriously, Quinn. You were just confirming what I said yesterday," Mike said.

"And what is it?" Quinn confused.

"You don't just like him, sis. You love him."

"Yes. Wait… no. I mean, yes, I like him. But no, I don't love him."

"Quinn, you're blushing the entire time you were on the phone with him. Not to mention that when he said 'I love you, beautiful' your face went even more red if that's possible," Claire teased.

"No no no no. No. Okay. I don't love him. God, I just know him for like a week. That's not possible."

"Sis, he fell in love with you the first time he saw you. Have you ever heard of love at first sight?" Mike continued.

"Ugh. You sounded so much like him." Quinn sighed before she continued, "That night five years ago, he told me that he love me when we just met for like a few hours and he told me that it was a love at first sight."

"See? It's possible that you love him too. Not to mention that he's Melrose dad—"

"Dad? Did I hear about Daddy?"

Hey, guys! This is my late Christmas present for you guys. Sorry I couldn't update it sooner. I'm on vacation right now and the wi-fi is kinda sucks here, and I just managed to upload this now. Anyway, now that Melrose heard something about 'Daddy' things will get more complicated and you'll see what happen after this in the next chapter :)

Skyscraper15: Hey there! Thanks for reviewing. Oh my, I'm flattered. Thank you so much for the compliment. Hope you'll love this chapter too :)

Chloe: Hey there! Thanks for the review. You've got some Quinn/Melrose scene here and there will be more in the next chapter. Stick around! Hope you'll like this one too :)

Alex: Hey there! Thanks for dropping by. I noticed that you were reviewing for chapter 2. Hope that you're reading until this chapter so you'll see this. Well, this story is AU. It means, McKinley never happened. Any of it. And Quinn has always be Quinn since she was born. Lucy is her twin sister. And here, Quinn is pretending to be Lucy in order to find out about her family. Hope you'll continue reading this though. You'll get your answers as you read ;)

RJRRAA: Hello! Thanks for the review. Hope you'll enjoy this one too :)

SamEvans17: Hello there! Thanks for the review. I'm glad you like the twist I put in this story and thank you for loving this story. Hope you'll enjoy this chapter too :)

Em: Hello there! Thanks for the review. Sam is always sweet even when he was drunk. I'm planning on that but I'm not sure when it will happen. But it will come. Stick around! Hope you'll enjoy this one :)

So, I'm going to leave it here. Thank you for those who read this story. Keep the review coming. Tell me, whether you like it or hate it. I'll try to update soon. Hope you guys have a nice holiday. See you again soon! :)