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A/N:I'm not english native speaker, so you might find some typos or grammar mistakes, I do apologize for that. I hope you enjoy it.

Evana snapped out from her thoughts, as her stomach grumbled a little telling her that she needed to feed herself. She left the bedroom barefoot, heading to the kitchen. As she walked past the living area, she paused to look at the side and saw Chris sleeping at his usual space between the couch and the television. Unconsciously she smiled faintly; she was already accepted by the fact that that part of the house "belonged" to him. She turned to the kitchen and prepared a midnight snack, trying to be as much as quiet as she could to not wake Chris up.

On her way back to her bedroom, she heard Chris saying something and she looked at him wondering if he said something to her but she soon realized that he was once again talking in his sleep. She walked up to him and stood next to the couch, waiting for him to say something else that she could make sense of.

"They're dead… I'm going to take care of you… Claire…", Chris mumbled in his sleep.

"He's dreaming about Claire again… Who are dead?" she thought.

Evana waited a little longer to hear if he would say something more but he didn't. So, she slowly turned to head back to her bedroom.

Chris woke up and stretched a little to get rid of the laziness off of him. He folded his bedding and set them nicely at the place where they were kept. He moved to the kitchen and started to make breakfast for him and Evana.

"Good morning!" Evana greeted him as she stepped in the kitchen

"Good morning!" Chris greeted her back, "Coffee?", he asked her and she gave him a nod. Chris poured her a cup of coffee before getting back to plating the breakfast

"So… did you sleep well?" Evana asked after taking a sip of the coffee.

"Yeah... What about you?" he responded carrying their breakfast to the small table, "I was worried that you locked yourself on the bedroom and didn't leave until I had fallen asleep."

"I'm sorry if I got you worried, but I needed that long rest." She replied following him to the table and taking her usual seat in front of him, "By the way, speaking about sleep…" Chris looked at her, "You were sleep talking again last night."

"Really?", he asked slightly surprised and she gave him nod of affirmation, "What did I say?"

"You called for Claire again and then you said something else that got me thinking", she told him remembering what she had heard the previous night.

"What else did I say?"

"You said 'they're dead, I'm going to take care of you'."

Chris made an effort to remember about what Evana was telling him, but all he could recollect was just a vague feeling of what he presumed to be a dream, "Well I don't really remember my dreams, it all gets wiped out when I wake up but now that you said it, I guess I did have a weird dream last night."

"I see… So do you have any clue who Claire is?", she asked him hoping to stimulate his brain to remember it.

"No", he answered with a shake of his head, "The only vague image I remember from the dream was of a dead couple."

"Hmm, maybe Claire's parents? You said you would take care of someone", she said making an attempt to piece together the mystery of his past

"Yeah, it could be…", he commented a little thoughtful about it, "Anyways, did you get the rest you were hoping to get?"

Evana exhaled out loudly, "Not really", she answered, "I didn't get the best night of sleep because I had all kinds of crazy dreams. Bad dreams."

"What kind of dreams?" Chris asked expressing interest in knowing what bothered her. Evana just shook her head trying to avoid the subject.

"You should tell me, maybe I could help you interpreting it."

Evana laughed a bit, "Are you a dream decipherer?" she joked.

"Who knows… I might surprise you.", he shrugged with smile and she returned his smile as well, "So I was thinking that we should do something together today, what do you think?"

"With the money you got yesterday?"

"Yeah. You didn't want yesterday and today you seem in a better mood…"

"You are really a persistent guy huh?!" she teased with a smile.

"Maybe I am, but it's because I don't see 'why not?'"

They both casually chatted over the breakfast with Chris trying to convince Evana to go out with him in as many different ways he could. Although Evana seemed a little hesitant about the whole idea but she didn't ruled it out completely like the last time, which Chris saw as a positive sign.

"I'm finished with my breakfast, are you done with yours so I can wash the dishes?" Chris asked recollecting himself.

"Yeah." Evana nodded.

Chris took the dirty dishes to the kitchen and at that very moment, Evana's cell phone started ringing. She looked at the screen, silenced the tone and ignored the call. Chris washed the dishes and he could see the insistence of the person calling Evana.

"I'm going to the gym." She said rushing to the door.

"Okay…" Chris replied looking over at his shoulder to see her exiting the house.

When he was finished with the dishes, he looked at the wall clock. It was 8 o'clock in the morning. He still had time before going out to look for a job, so he went to Evana's gym. He reached near the door, and heard Evana talking to someone in her local language, since he couldn't hear the other person so he assumed that she was talking on the phone. He couldn't understand what was the conversation but he could make out the distress in Evana's voice tone while she talked to the other person.

By the time, Chris reached to pull open the gym door when the conversation was over. Evana looked up at him angrily when he pulled open the door but he knew that her anger was not directed at him. He had simply caught her off guard after a stressful conversation. She quickly contained her expressions to hide the fact.

"I didn't listen to your conversation, but from your look, it wasn't a good one.", Chris made his comment.

"Don't worry about it."

"Is there anything I can help you?", he asked her moving further in the gym, "I hope your neighbors are not complaining about me again.", he tried to joke a little.

"No, it's nothing about you…" she sighed heavily not catching his joke, "It was just work…" she said heading to the stereo and turned it on, "Are you going practice with me?" she asked looking back at him.

"Yeah", he gave her a nod.

"Alright, so let's start the stretching", she replied still with a serious face.

It was evident she was very upset, but she wanted to act as if nothing was wrong. She wanted to play the strong. Chris had mixed feelings, he wanted to help her, but he didn't know how or if he should try making her open up. He decided he'd give her, her time; he wasn't sure if he could make the woman talk, but he would listen to her if she decided to talk to someone.

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Any thoughts, comments or questions? Let me know and stay tuned.

This chapter was a shorter one that complemented the previous early update. We are getting closer to some revelations.

I might admit that the story was a bit different when I started writing it and even had (and still have) spare chapters, but, I have done a lot of adjustments when I started publishing it and with the feedback that always makes me to want to improve for the next update, and for the story itself. It's a plot that has a lot of details and different elements and I'm still learning how to manage and put correctly them into the base I already had. I might admit that it's really better now and I hope I continue keeping you interested in the plot as it progresses. We are just in the beginning and taking baby steps so far. So I'd like to thank you all for the support you are giving me so far. :D

Once again, I need to thank my best for her help, JennaWilliams.