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IT'S RAINING OUTSIDE.
I've really grown to love the rain. It fills me with peace. Especially, on mornings like this one. I love the way the dreary storm clouds cast shadows throughout the apartment begging me to find covers and comfortable pajamas. I love the way it wraps around me when I'm lying in bed, my arms wrapped around my fiancée, watching the news while she reads, tucked in beside me.
It's my happy place.
Every place with Quinn is happy.
I could hibernate in this little bubble for days and never want to come out.
Quinn’s cell phone chirps from the night stand but she doesn’t move to grab it. She’s so engrossed in whatever she’s reading that I doubt she even heard it. I give her a nudge and she gives me a grunt in return. “Babe your phone has gone off like 3 times,” I laughed. She shrugged, not caring at all.
“I wish you read my books so intently,” I teased.
Chirp.
“Quinn. Seriously. It’s annoying. At least put it on silent,” I grumbled as I ticked up the volume on the news. She gave me scowl and reached for the phone clearly annoyed that I’d not only interrupted her reading but also moved her from her comfy nook.
“Huh,’ she mumbled as she thumbed through the messages.
“What is it?”
“It’s Lily. She’s sending me pictures. She’s with Miles,” she said. She turns the phone so I can see the screen. Sure enough, Dark and Twisty is smiling at the camera and my brother is kissing her cheek.
“I guess they are on again. I can’t keep up with those two. They have more issues than we ever did,” I said. Miles and Lily had been back and forth since they’d met, but lately it seemed to bother Quinn a lot. I hated the worried frown that tugged at her pretty mouth. I’d have to distract her.
She shrugged. “I don’t know, sometimes I wonder if they just hurt each other for sport,” she said sadly. I’m about to pull her to me but her phone chirps again. I watched as her eyes went wide and she started to choke.
“Are you okay?” I asked moving towards her
“Oh my God.”
“What now?” I asked, the sheer shock on her face as she looks up from her phone has me reaching to see for myself.
“It’s from Lily. They just got married.”
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