Beyond Evolution

It wasn't even that remarkable a night, when it happened. On a spur of the moment they'd gone out to dinner, Laurie's idea of course, but Kevin had been unusually subdued and almost moody the entire way through the meal. As a result it had been left Laurie to fill the awkward, heavy silences between courses and more than once she'd caught the pitying stares from the man and woman at the table next to them. She supposed, to the rest of the world, they either looked like a couple on the verge of a break up or two complete strangers on an extremely disastrous first date. To her credit she hadn't called him out on his behaviour either, assuming that he was tired from work and hadn't had the heart to tell her no when she'd suggested they venture outside the mansion for dinner. She'd half expected him to head to his own room as soon as they'd returned home but he lingered in hers instead, his hands in his pockets while he watched her flutter around getting ready for bed. She'd left him in that same spot when she'd gone into the bathroom to brush her teeth, trying to ignore the gnawing feeling that told her she needed to fill the silence with something, anything, no matter how trivial. ( Otherwise something bad was going to happen, her gut told her that much. )

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