Part 2

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Previously...


Jackson nodded, he just wanted to know why and how he knew."


"Jackson...oh god...um... I'm not from here-"


"I thought we cleared that up when we first met-"


"Jackson," he said annoyed at the boy for interrupting him right after he said he wouldn't talk.


"Okay okay continue."


"Like I was saying, I am not from here. I not from any place around here. I can from Laobvced."


"Where is that?"


"Not here on Earth."


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"...," He looked at Jackson and then started talking again, "It's between Heaven and Earth. I work for cupid that why the place is spelt the way it is. I was brought here because you kind of wished for me. I had the paper because I had to keep remembering why I was here because I kept getting distracted. Instead of me teaching you what love is, you started to teach me how to love. I had to keep the paper to check off, but I did everything that shows you love."

"What do you mean?" Jackson said moving an inch closer to him.

Mark pulled out a book from his back pocket and turned it around so that Jackson could see it.

The Manual:

Book 3:

To Be Loved

He took the book and opened the pages,

" To love or to make someone find love, do the go by the following chapters in this order:

1. Softly, with mood, warmly, tightly hug her. Use it once a day, every day

2. When your soft eyes meet hers, smile so she can smile

3. Say 'Hey what's up beauty', talk to her

4. Get up first in the morning, turning on jazz. Gentle kiss, I'll look at you

5. When you're too tired, take two bottles of soju and honestly knock on her door

6. Sometimes, leave together without a plan, let her breathe under a different sky, a different wind; sometimes, kiss her without a plan

7. When it's time to sleep, with a low voice, quietly, make her tear as you say 'Thank you so much', once a day, every day

8. Get up first in the morning and clean up mess from last night, wake you up when you're walking her home, slow footsteps with a low voice, confess to her

'I'm rational in front of other girls, but strangely, in front of you, my emotions come out first you're too good for me to use; just looking at you drives me crazy. I want to use you forever'.

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