A Life Debt Repaid

Sam lay in bed, tossing and turning but unable to fall asleep.

He somehow dozed off earlier as he merely stayed there, but now that he was in bed, he was wide awake.

He waited for Quinn, but she was not coming even after a long while.

As such, he quietly got out of bed and peeked through the door slit to find her still watching TV with a serious look.

He tiptoed back to bed, inwardly relieved.

He was not impatient—he was just worried Quinn would not return to his room.

Still, he tiptoed back and forth for a while to peek at Quinn, until he finally saw her turn off the TV.

Startled, he scrambled back to his bed to pretend to sleep.

Quinn returned to her room to wash up before heading into Sam’s room.

her movement quiet seeing that he was asleep, pulling up the blanket to lay

to wake him but

as

breath, feeling her

second, he really felt that it was worth staying alive-the

busy, with Sam at work and Quinn helping Lindsay prepare

time to spend together, and Quinn certainly was not

would return tiptoeing late into

the next morning, which left Quinn feeling at

felt like he was deliberately hiding from her, especially since her period was

for him to come home, hinting that

work,” he muttered at the time. “I need to get

not press the issue since he was

made the same excuse for

she got out of bed since she was not the type who could idle. And with Marvin’s birthday banquet ready, she did not have to