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[I got my motivation back! I'm so excited :-) there is more to come I promise! now this one is dedicated to PurpleAngels for reminding me i still had fans patiently waiting for for me to get my act together and upload! feel free to tell me your thoughts :-D thank you guys for sticking with it and enjoy! May<3]

Chapter Seven

The boys were on their way to Sean's house for more researching. The run in with the janitor was scary but they had high tailed it out of there as fast as they could, making it to their last class in record time. Thankfully they saw nothing of the janitor on the way out of school.

Sean grinned, unable to hold in his joy, when Quinn's hand slowly attached to his. He felt, for the first time in his life, he felt something towards another human being. Sean was so use to just existing, that this new feeling was bazaar.

Quinn glanced towards Sean, catching him with a smile on his face, relaxed. He's never been a forward person, but with Sean it was different. He wanted to be the forward, not shy, person.

Quinn had made the decision to go to Sean's. Thankfully the other boy didn't ask any questions, just smiled and agreed. He did not want Sean at his home today. With his mother off early, things would have been strained, to say the least. It was bad enough Sean knew what happened before, he didn't want Sean to see how it was now. That would be just too much to add to a new friendship, and hopefully sometime in the near future and new relationship.

They came up to a beautiful two story home. It was yellow with white shutters and a bright red door. A clean and trimmed lawn, white pickett fence surrounding it. A few well place, and equally maintained bushes bordered the home, making it the picture of suburban perfection. When they walked in the inside was of course just as perfect and beautiful. Uncluttered, clean, and put together.

Quinn felt a pang of jealousy when his home came to mind. Why couldn't he have what Sean had? Not wanting to blame Sean for what he himself lacked, Quinn shoved his thoughts to the back of his mind and followed Sean.

Sean went to the kitchen first, to grab a snack for the two of them. When he saw both his parents at the kitchen table, he was again a little shocked. They were hardly ever home early, they were almost never home early together.

"Hey mom, hey dad." Sean said a little more chipper then usual, as the boys made their way to the table.

Quinn was a little suprised when they didnt respond. They only looked breifly to Sean and nodded, moving back to their work.

"Um, this is my friend, Quinn. He's going to help me look up some stuff."

"'Kay," his dad mumbled distractedly.

Sean shurgged and went to the fridge. He grabbed two water bottles and two apples.

The boys went upstairs and into Sean's bedroom, it seemed very much appropriate to a teenager's bedroom. A few dirty close in the corner, books and papers littering the desk and surrounding floor. The bed was made, but something told Quinn that wasnt done by choice. Maybe it was Sean's egourging to just plop down and get comfortable, not even the slightest bit upset about the sheets wrinkling and messing up.

Quinn climbed onto the bed and they began pulling out their computers and setting up.

"Ok, so the janitor, right?"

"Yeah, he was a creeper for sure."

"I didn't think he was that creepy!" Ghost said as he popped up next to Sean.

"Jeez!" Sean grabbed his chest as his heart leaped into his throat.

"Yeah, you'll get use to it though." Quinn said, laughing at Sean's reaction.

"What?" Ghost asked innocently as he looked between the two.

Sean coudlnt hold back his own laughter at the situation, and the fact Quinn's laugh was intirely infectious.

They started their researching after they calmed down. Though the weird janitor proved to be a tricky find. They didnt know much about the guy besides his profession.

"FOUND IT!" Quinn yelled, fist pumping the air.

"What?!"

"His NAME! Rick Dumle, Custodial Staff, from the schools website." Quinn's grin of self approval was conageous to the other boys.

"That's great! Now we might actually get somewhere!"

After another half hour of nothing turning up, they decided to check the town's library once more, now that they had a little more to go from.

As Quinn walked down the stairs he noticed all of the lights where off,"Where are your parents? They don't go to bed this early right?"He asked.

"They probably went out to eat."

"Without letting you know?" Not that his mother did, but thats because she never went ut to eat really.

"Eh, they usually do it that way, if I'm home I'll whip something up for myself."

'Oh well,' Sean thought, 'maybe Quinn will let me take him to dinner or something.'

They made it to the library and went directly to their previous spot, the large piles of newspaper less daunting now that they had something to go off of.

A while later the boys had mixed feelings as it seemed they found what they had been searching for. Rick Dumle was arrested for trustpassing on private property when, the owner claims, he refused to leave and also refused to leave their youg son alone. There wasn't much more details but the situation did not sound pleasant.

They found out also that a Richard Dumle gratuated from there high school about 9 years ago. It would have mean he might have been around when Ghost was still alive.

With all the information found on the creepy janitor, the boys were expecting an entirely different reaction out of Ghost. No, they didnt think he would be happy to know this man might have harmed him, but when they saw the look of dissappoinment in his eyes, they were a little confused.

"What is it Ghost? Aren't you a little relieved we might be closer to find you? To knowing who you are?" Quinn asked his best friend gently.

"Well, yeah, kinda, its just..."

"Is just what?" Sean pushed slightly at Ghost's pause.

It was interesting to Sean that Ghost kept getting these feelings. Feelings that seemed to spawn from nothing. Sean had a thought that the random feelings Ghost had about different places and people, could be from when he was still alive. He just can't remember why he felt that way.

"Its just that, i dont know, that it upsets me he would do something like that?"

"What do you mean by that? I didnt know you knew the janitor." Quinn said.

"Well I knew him before I met you, but just as I followed him around like many others. It just a feeling I have ok. I dont want to think he was the one."

Quinn saw the look of frustration on Ghost's face and knew what was coming, he started nodding before the younger boy spoke.

"I want to be alone for a while." And just like that he vanished.

"Did we upset him again?" Sean asked a little dissppointed but mostly with himself. Had he pushed his new friend too far?

"No, I think he upset himself. Sometimes his feelings and his thoughts point him in two different directions."

"I get that, happens to many people really."

"Yeah, I think its just hard for him because he is so young and the fact that he cant justify WHY he is feeling the way he is sometimes."

Sean agreed with Quinn's thoughts, but the way Quinn spoke of Ghost's misunderstanding his own feelngs, had him telling Quinn his theory. Maybe the feelings WERE from Ghost's past life.

"I think you might actually be onto something, Sean. I mean it makes sense, and in a way I kind of wondered the same."

Sean nodded, and gazed at the papers blankly, trying to figure out what to do next. Ghost was needing space, and they found out what they needed to know about Dumle, the creeptastic janitor. Maybe their next step had to be to talk to him, or more so follow him. Sean didnt want to be close enough to talk now that he might be the reason ghost is here and not out there somewhere, living life as an adult.

The worried, thoughful look on Sean's face, had Quinn falling for him just little more. He really did care about Ghost, and to Quinn Ghost needed all the care and support he could get.

Quinn reached out and ran his hand down Sean's arm to link their hands together. Sean squeezed Quinn's hand in return, looking to him and smiling.

"So about that kiss in the closet...." Sean said, with a wicked gleam in his eye.

"Mmmmm, what about it?" Quinn asked faking innocence, smirking a little.

"Want to do it agian?"

"Yes."

Sean couldnt help but laugh with joy as Quinn launched himself into his arms. Their lips met and the kiss was on. The feel of Quinn's soft lips on Sean's had them both moaning with pleasure. They could focus on the creep in a little while. Right now this was the perfect thing to focus on.

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