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Gabe is in the park, doing what he's always done when he was bored and couldn't go home because his mom expected him to be at school: watching people live their lives. And despite the fact that A) it's summer so he isn't expected to be in school and B) his mom left home months ago, he can't help but break his routine of coming out here and feeling

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Quinn is going for a walk, doing anything she can to get out of the house and lose the last five pounds of baby weight. Since returning home to mom after Beth's birth, she's found that her mother's new attempts at parenting border on suffocating and she wants nothing to do with it, especially when she's in that house.
Quinn's never believed in ghosts, not until recently at least but since Beth's birth she's been more...sensitive, she supposes. It's like what they say with near death experiences, but this was a life giving experience, so perhaps being that close to a new life and then handing it away to someone else did that to her? She doesn't know, but she doesn't like it, it leaves her nerves on edge.
She passes by the park, tugging some hair behind her ear and straightening up when she sees the football players pass by.

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The moment they walk past Quinn, Gabe notices her. While it might be perfectly normal for a teenaged boy to notice a teenaged girl, he's usually drawn to people who almost represent what he had stolen from him, so he breaks away from the two football players and their oh so engaging conversation about whether college or high school girls are better.

Once he's away from the twosome and their philosophic conversation, he truly takes a moment to look Quinn over and see what it is about her. If she couldn't stop moving her fingers like Natalie or if she had a wild gleam in her eye like his mother and comes up with...well. Nothing. Zip. Zero. Nada.

Even though he's certain he won't get a reaction from her, he can't resist smirking and running a finger up her arm. "What are you?"

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What bothers Quinn is that she doesn't see him until he touches her. She's always been a little bit defensive in the sense she knows how to hold herself and isn't completely street stupid, with a face like his, she's certain she'd have noticed him. His touch is colder than she expects. It rips the breath out of her and she whips around.
"Excuse me?" She asks, lifting an eyebrow and eyeing him hesitantly when she finally catches her breath. She wrings her hands, debating telling him who she is, not realizing completely what he is, but wonders how it could possibly hurt to tell him. "I'm Quinn... who are you?"

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The fact that she can see and hear him takes him aback. After all, she's the third (fourth, if you count a few brief months when Natalie was three and convinced that he was her imaginary friend until their dad finally got her to stop. Of course, Gabe hardly remembers it and thus doesn't really think it counts.) person who's realized he's there.

Gabe, being who he is, doesn't let it show that she's taken him by surprise and gives her a grin that's almost pure arrogance. "Depends on who you want me to be."

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"I hate to break it to you, but the smooth guy thing isn't as cute as you think it is." Quinn informs him curtly, with the roll of her eyes, although she has to admit (solely to herself) that he's not bad to look at by any standard of the word. Nevertheless, Quinn's been with his type before. That whole mistake with Puck, she can't imagine it being much different if she plays along with this guy.
She simply sets a hand on her hip and arches an eyebrow, looking at him and trying to decide why he seems so off kilter to her. "If you're not going to tell me who you are, don't, but don't expect me to talk to you." She says, chin high and still confident