Soulmates in any universe or time 《 Wattys 2018 》

The girls want to go to the mall

We got to the Lance's house around noon and Laurel was outside on the swing set when my sister ran and tackled her, "Lisa be careful!" My dad told her that a lot since mom left, no matter what she was doing, "Leo go knock on the door tell uncle Quentin we're here and I'll be in in a second, you can go inside and play with Sara while I push your sister and Laurel on the swings for a bit." I liked visiting here, they had a nice big yard and Sara, I liked Sara.

I knocked on the door and I was happy when I seen Sara answer the door, "Tell your dad we're here and my dad will be in in a bit." My voice cracked and Sara laughed, geez thanks universe, embarrass me so much, it was bad enough I was the oldest of us kids, shorter than both Laurel and Sara but the voice cracks were horrible, "Daddy, uncle Lewis is here!" her voice was like a bird when she wasn't screaming, but it was deadly when she did.

Sara led me to her room where she had a bunch of video games, she hopped up onto her bed and patted the spot beside her, "Come on, I have super Mario." she handed me a controller as I sat down, being in her room made me nervous but she was so relaxed, I enjoyed being this close to her, sitting on the foot of her bed just inches away from her, "I like being Princess Peach, she has blonde hair like me." she said breaking me out of thought "I'll be Luigi, Lisa thinks he's cool." she laughed at me, probably thinking I was a stupid little kid although I was way older than her.

I heard dad's voice downstairs, "Leo, Sara!" we both yelled back at the same time "Coming!" as Sara paused our game, we got down the stairs to hear Quentin talking "Sorry sweety, daddy has papers to grade before morning, I can't take you tonight." My dad patted him on the back, "Don't worry, I was gonna take them, Sara, Leo, wanna go to the mall?" Sara got really excited and started sort of jumping up and down.

My dad looked at me questionably "What about you son?" he started, "The girls want to go to the mall." he looked down at me with a smile on his face, "Can I stay here with uncle Quentin?" I asked him, "If it's okay with him." Quentin looked up and nodded, "If you wanna help me out a bit you can stay." I just shook my head and smiled.

Usually when I helped him out he would give me a few dollars, either grading a pile of papers or pointing out spelling errors on term papers sounded better than being around so many people, "We'll be back before four, have fun Leo." then they all left as I got into the chair across from Quintin at the test covered kitchen table.

I looked up to see it was three ten, Quentin passed me another set of tests, "Is it fun to teach?" I asked as I checked first section for spelling errors, "I love it, just hate not having a lot of time for the girls during school, the summers are great, spending all of my time with them is the part I love about that." I smirked, "How can you spell receive wrong?" Quentin just laughed at my question, "No worse than a senior class president spelling his own name wrong." a little while later we finally finished the unruly pile of mostly failed tests.

We were both watching the clock, three fifty nine, "Maybe we should go look for them?" Quentin said as he looked out the window again, "Then why are we still here, let's go, I'm worried." he agreed and grabbed his keys, out the door, into the car, seat belts on, and down the street, "Keep an eye out, maybe they ran out of gas." I kept looking for my dad's car.

One side of the road to the other, up and down three streets, I kept looking, "Maybe they're home by now." he suggested, "I sure hope so, because I'm worried about my baby sister." honestly I was worried about Sara just as much, but I couldn't tell her dad that when we were basically related, my dad told me stories about how in college Quentin was his roommate and they became closer than most brothers ever were.

Ever since I could remember my dad was known as their uncle Lewis, we had been visiting Starling city once a week for years, since Lisa was a baby, Laurel fell in love with her the first time we brought her with us, before mom left, Laurel always asked her to let her hold Lisa, maybe that's why they were so close now.

We made it back and seen there was a cop car outside, and two men in uniform sitting on the porch waiting for us, my heart dropped immediately, Quentin had a look on his face that I had never seen before, "Stay by the car for a minute Leonard." he said as the officers walked down the steps just to have him ask them back up to the porch, I watched as closely as I could trying to read their lips or something but I couldn't, all I could make out was Quentin tearing up really badly.

Quentin was coming down the steps with a sad look on his face, I knew it had to be bad for someone as strong as Quentin to start crying, "Leonard we need to talk, then we have to go to the hospital." I knew it was probably worse than I thought, but I didn't imagine how much worse it could of been or in this case, how much worse it really was.