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Chapter 18: My Kind Of Crazy

We walk to his car, but are stopped by my parents. "Can we steal Harley for a minute?" My mom asks. Ethan nods his head and gets in the passengers side. I try to hide my smile, but it manages to creep back on my face.

"You know what we're going to say, don't you?" my dad questions in a deep voice. I hang my head down and my mom hits him. "Harley, what your father meant to say was..." it goes quiet while my mom glares at my father. "We're so happy for you." he says as he puts his hands in his pockets. "Your mother found out it was him after you left open a message about two months ago. " My mom nods her head in agreement. "So when I saw him at the Rocky Horror show, I decided to tell him what I knew and we planned this." She points to the rink.

"So that's why you guys were talking and when I came you left like it was nothing?" I ask and they nod their heads. I step closer to them and wrap my arms over them. My mom gasps, but my father just hugs me back. We pull away and my father says, "Be safe, Quinn." I nod my head and get in the car. "Next stop, dinner." Ethan says and we begin the long drive to dinner.

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All the way to the diner, where we now were, we talked. About good things, bad things, happy things, and sad things, we talked about it all. Up until he asked the question I thought he would never ask.

"After the show we went to on Halloween, you told me you had to take meds. Why?" I fiddle with my cup of tea and pretend I didn't hear him. "Harley?" I sigh and look at him. "I've been taking them since I was 12." I say quietly. "Why?" he asks. I roll my eyes and say, "Because, I was kissed."

Ethan looks confused by my comment. "What was his name?" he questions. "His name was Robert Wheeler. He was my dad's boss." I look down at my hands an notice they were shaking. "Soon, kissing turned into touching. I remember I used to be mean to my brother and my parents. I'd hit Nick of he threatened to tell my parents anything and I used to yell and curse at my parents. One day, he came and offered to watch me while my parents had their date night. Nick went to his friends house and wouldn't be back until the next day. He wanted to have his way with me and I wouldn't let him so, he hit me a couple of times and forced me to put my mouth on him. When I did, I bit him."

Ethan looks at me and I realize that my hands weren't shaking anymore. Ethan put his hand on them. "What happened after that?"

"After that, my parents came home to see him with a bleeding penis and me with a black eye. We haven't heard or seen him ever since." Ethan grabs a chair next to me and wraps his arm over me. I shrug my shoulders. "Eh, I'm better now. I just try not to think to violently and be nice to everyone." I chuckle and rest my head on his shoulder. "Wait, why do you take pills?" I sit up and look Ethan in the eyes. "Same reason, except it wasn't me. It was Magenta and it was my father." My mouth drops and a question comes to my mind.

"Is that why your mom is with another woman?" I ask, quietly.

"No, mom knew what she was when she was in high school. She just wanted to have kids the way Catholics and didn't want to disappoint my grandfather who's a friend of the Father at our old church." I nod my head and we begin talking about all our fighting experiences. With me, I started the story where Jackie found me with those girls in the restroom at school. With Ethan, the day he fought his father. "He was on top of her and I just lost it." This time I hold his hand when it shakes.

The rest of the night we joke about how crazy we are and what level of craziness we're on. I'm on 5 and Ethan's on 7. He punched the outside of his brick house when his mom wouldn't let him have spider man at his birthday party. "You're my kind of crazy, Ethan Frazier." I laugh.

All the way home, we couldn't stop laughing. We stayed in the driveway and continued talking. "Well, I guess I have to go." I say when the front porch light flickers. We get out of the car and walk to the door. "I had a lot of fun tonight." I say. "I did, too." He says before slowly leaning in for a kiss. I close my eyes and pull him into me by gripping the collar of his jacket. The lights flicker again and I pull away.

"I'll see you tomorrow?" He asks and I nod my head. I go inside and slide down the door. Nick walks past me and asks, "How was the date?" I smile and think for a second.

"Perfect. Just perfect."

A/N: So sorry for the late update. I had NO ideas. But unfortunately, Chat Room is almost over with. I know, I know sad moment (jk). We have 1 more chapter, maybe two. Hopefully I get an idea before Jan. 23. Wish me luck!!!