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{18} C O N V U L S I O N

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{18} C O N V U L S I O N

Before Quinn could blink, the weeks began to blind and blur in front of her very eyes. Valentine's Day came and went—which was spent having a romantic dinner with Gavin and not having to worry about being a mermaid for one night. And Senior Follies was flickering with bright lights and people singing covers of songs that they adored, along with those who did ballet and dance team routines. Neither Quinn nor Gavin really cared for the follies, but none the less they went to it to show support for their classmates because by the time that the end of March came they wouldn't be seeing them for April or May. They would be in the ocean, far away from their classmates. For all they knew, their classmates would think that they decided to elope in Las Vegas or runaway together.

Luckily, Nita had already sat down with the couple and told them that when they left dry land that she would come up with something that wouldn't raise any suspicions—she was smart, she would come up with something. Of course, it was easy for Quinn's mom to be okay with that—she'd just make it look as though Quinn was still there and or whatever Nita would come up with...Gavin's sister almost had a heart attack when she discovered that her little brother was a merman. She fell down with in a large heap behind the couch, her high heels being the only thing they could see at the end of the back side of the couch, and Gavin had to sit her down and calmly explain everything—before telling her that he loved her and thought of her as the mother he never had the chance to have and the best sister that he was thankful that he had, even during the times she'd annoy him.

After much persistence when it came to Melanie letting go of her little brother, Quinn and Gavin finally got her to agree that she would do whatever Nita would come up with in the end. It made both of the teenagers feel bad, because the whole time she agreed she began to cry and say that Gavin was the only family that she had left since both of their parents were only children.

So when it was near the end of March, Quinn sighed as she sat in Dr. Hathaway's lab with Gavin next to her—the both of them swinging their legs against space between the legs of the dissecting table. Her eyes fixated on Nessie, who was humming as she was bent over the office desk where her mom's lab was on. She was currently going through the different types of files that were on her mom's computer.

"How's Melanie?" Quinn suddenly asked, wondering about Gavin's older sister. Gavin sighed and grabbed his girlfriend's hand, before pulling her against his side. He held her against him as he began to tell her how she was.

"She's still very upset. Whenever she is alone with me for long periods of time, she begins to reminisce and tell me about how it was when I was a baby and how much she loved me and cared for me while she was balancing the beginning of her modeling career. She had put all of her family love into me, and practically became my mother. She doesn't know how our mom would react to this, but she knows that it's hard to think of me leaving her. She doesn't feel like she's being abandoned by me, but she's being abandoned anyway," Gavin confessed as he held onto Quinn, his voice becoming tinted with sadness.

"Neither of us wanted this, and she knows that. Even though she sort of probably is making you feel horrible at being a merman she needs to know that she has to let go of you. If you weren't a merman now, well you'd be getting ready to head off to college. You'd be going away and probably to a college that is far away from this town and she'd be worried sick because that's how she's supposed to be....none the less, it's sad to see her and hear her be this sad still," Quinn responded and Gavin nodded his head—agreeing with her.

"You guys are way too over dramatic. Much more than most of my clients are," Nessie pipped in as she craned her head over to the side, her eyes flickering towards both of the teenagers before she folded her lips together in an unamused smirk. Quinn couldn't help but roll her eyes, knowing that at least she had more brain cells than those potheads.