Only you, just you

Warm Fuzzies

So I loved you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.... Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

The dreaded day had come. No more looking for the man of her dreams. He just didn't exist.
She and Poppy were going home. Empty handed.

Well, not exactly. She still had to carry that ugly vintage wedding dress back home and hand it over to a woman that will undoubtedly snub her and make her feel worthless for not marrying her son.

The dress was mocking her as it hung on a peg. She could almost hear it say, ' You'll never be a bride. You'll go through life alone and lonely. You had your chance and blew it. Duke was the only man that would have you , now you have no one.'

When they had left the party, Poppy was bewildered by what Rey had said. This wasn't like her friend at all. To give up on her dreams so quickly.

"Did you mean what you said back there? That you don't believe in destiny anymore?" She hoped Rey was just upset. She said things she didn't mean when she was angry.

Rey looked at her loyal friend and sister sadly. This hurt her more than anything to say but it was the truth. " I can't. I can't believe it now."

Fate and the stars had lied. The man she was destined to be with for eternity was a fake. Maybe after all, she was better off alone .

Then her sex dream filtered through the haze in her befuddled brain. The one were she and Ben were kissing, and a whole lot more.
She blushed at the memory of that dream she had just last night. Why was he confusing her? Hadn't he done enough to make her hate him forever?

Well....

Poppy had to call home. She felt guilty about Giovanni and needed to tell Quinn where she and his sister really were.

"Why did you go all the way to Italy?" Her husband wasn't exactly mad just curious as to why his crazy sister would drag his wife clear across the world.

She told him it was a wild goose chase. Searching for someone who doesn't exist.

"Oh, he exists. I knew him in Junior high. He was a real dweeb. A total nerd. He picked his nose and ate it.
Duke and I used to throw him in the girls bathroom." He had to laugh at that .

She tried to keep her patience with her bully of a husband. " But what about the game? She got his name off the Ouija board."

"I just wanted to finish the game. She was going on and on about her soulmate, who she was going to marry. I was teasing and she fell for it."

"And the fortune teller Quinn. She's hung on to that for all it's worth. She believes in that stuff."

"The Gypsy at the fair? I slipped her five bucks."

"Quinn , you got to tell her."

"No way, she'd kill me."

"Well , you deserve it. She called off her wedding to Duke."

"Why would she do that if she didn't find Poe?"

"Because she in love."

"Why would she call off her wedding if she was in love?"

Poppy smiled into the phone. "Because it's not Duke or Poe she's in love with."

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He had 'F'd up his love life big time.
Ben stood in line to board his flight not able to stop thinking about the dream. Her soft lips crying out his name, her fingers gripping his shoulders as she came. The look in her eyes as she stared lovingly into his.