Mindless Souls

Chapter 2

Quinn

I woke up that morning like always. Got in the shower washed my hair and myself of course, brushed my teeth put my makeup on, it was like a normal day for me. I went to my closet and opened it and picked out my clothes, ran down stairs and packed my bag. Grabbed breakfast to go and said bye to my dad, normal morning as always. When I got in my car there he was.

"Christian, what the hell are you doing in my car?" I questioned him. "I wanted to see you before school. I needed to ask you something." He said to me. "And it couldn't wait till we got to school." I asked. "No." he said to me.

I looked at him. "Ok so what is it that can't wait?" I asked him. "It's hard for me to say, but will......will you go out with me tonight?" he asked me. There is only one person in the world that can make me go in to a state of shock and it's him. I didn't know if I should laugh or kick him out of my car. I looked at him and just as he does to me I simply said "No."

"But... I don't understand. Why not?" he asked me. "I don't know a thing about you first of all and secondly I don't go out with guys that are rude to me so if you don't mind can you please get out of my car." I said to him with such charisma that I'm sure he will be thinking about it all day.

"I was born in Europe, Bulgaria actually. I moved here with my parents when I was three. Both my parents were killed in a car crash two years ago, a week after my 18th birthday to be exact. I've been to ten different schools in the past four years. I was in that car with my parents. The doctors say that I have short term memory lost because of it but I remember a lot of things that have happened to me since the accident so I don't think he's right. I'm not allergic to anything that I know of. My favorite color is gold, and I love the rain. Is there anything else you need to know?" he said to me.

"Um I don't think so" I said "Great ill pick you up at seven." "But I didn't........." he was gone before I could even finish my sentence.

As I pulled into the school parking lot I saw my friend Sara. "Oh my gosh!!!!! I can't believe this. Shelly just told me that she heard from David that he heard from Ian that you and Christian are like a thing. Why didn't you tell me you snagged the new guy? No correction the hot new guy." She said to me with that look she always gets when she finds out new gossip of the day. "Sara I'm not dating him." I told her. "Then why were you at his house yesterday and why was he in your car this morning?" she asked me. "I was at his house because Mr. Kay wanted me to catch him up on the book we're reading. Turns out he already read it so I went home. He was in my car this morning because he was asking me out......" "I knew it you two are dating." She said to me with so much excitement on her face.

"No were not if you would let me finish you would know that I was going to say that he was asking me out but I told him no because I don't know him and then he went on telling me his life story and somehow I have a date tonight that I need to get out of." I explained to her. "Ah I see your conundrum. Like my use of an SAT word. Well look what's the worst that could happen on this date, just go try to have a good time and report back. I mean, sure he seems a little weird but he can't be all that bad." Sara said to me if only those words had been true.

In one night he screwed my whole entire life up the best day and the most important day because it was the day that I would be called student council president the worst day because of the date I was dreading the moment the clock hit seven. I wanted to find a way out of it but I knew that there was no way out.

"Quinn we would like to present you with the title of student council president." Cali my other best friend told me. "Thank you so much. It's an honor and I promise to make changes to this school. Ones that are practical but also ones that benefit us and will help us as students here at Ravenwood." I said proudly.

During English Christian tried to talk to me. "Quinn? Quinn? I need to ask you something?" he said to me "What?" I respond back to him. "Will you go out with me tonight?" "I already told you no, but......" this could be the moment I need to get out of this. I'll just tell him that he said he had something else to do tonight. "But what?" he asked me. "But you told me earlier that you had something to do tonight anyway." I told him. "I did?" he said "Yep. Can I please get back to my work now?" I ask him. "Yeah, sure, no problem." He said to me in a sad almost depressed voice. I knew I couldn't go out with him but I knew I would feel guilty for lying to him. "Fine I'll go out with you tonight. Here's my address, you can pick me up at seven." I say to him hoping I won't make the biggest mistake of my life. But I know now that it was.

He came to my house at 6:50. I guess he was one to be early. My dad answered the door and invited him in. "So Christian I've heard so much about you." My dad said to him. "It's a pleasure to meet you sir." Christian said to my dad. It was kind of sad to listen to after they tried to make small talk; I knew that was when I was supposed to make this grand entrance. "Are you ready to go?" I asked Christian as I walked into the room. I paused for a moment and looked from my dad to Christian. It was as if they were having their own private conversation just not out loud.

"Hello. Christian are you ready." I asked again. "Oh yes I'm sorry, yeah I'm ready to go. It was nice meeting you sir." Christian said to my dad. As we walked out they exchanged glances to each other as if there was something they wanted to say to each other without me knowing.

We went to the pier off the beach. It was a nice night out. He won a few games got me this amazingly huge stuffed bear. I couldn't lie I was having a really good time and he seemed harmless. I guess it was just all in my head, but even as the night progressed I still couldn't shake this feeling that something bad was going to happen.

We got off the Zipper a ride that happens to be pretty awesome and as we began to walk to the rail to look at the water I turned to him.

"I'm glad you asked me out Christian. I'm having a really good time." I told him. "I'm glad you are. I wouldn't want you not to." He said to me. "I like you a lot Quinn. I don't think I could see a life without you." At this point things started getting really weird. "Um Christian I think it's time for me to go home now. I don't want my dad to worry about me." I told him. "Oh trust me he won't worry about you at all. I've already had a talk with him." He said to me he took my hand and pushed me over the rail. I began to fall. As I was falling all I could think was this is the end and all because I was trying to be nice to someone. I'm going to die all because this jerk wanted to go on a date with me just so he could kill me.

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"Quinn, Quinn......wake up. We need to go now. Quinn, please love wake up." That was the last time I heard Christians voice, the last time I saw Christian.