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It seemed that Tarin was also of the opinion that the movie was not meant for them to watch it. Apparently, the universe was telling them that. Which was a possibility.

Or they were just having bad luck with actually being able to pay attention to the movie the whole way through.

”That certainly is one option,” Lee replied when Tarin asked if they should see if there was anything else on. Between what was on TV and what they could find streaming, there was bound to be at least something that would interest them.

”Or we could continue letting this movie be unwatched,” Lee continued with a smile.

It was easy for Lee to second guess herself on whether she’d done enough to teach Kevin, if she’d done the right thing in how she taught him. And even though he was only 13, so in a lot of ways she still had a lot of time to teach him, he was also about to head to the mansion which meant in other ways that he was also about to be on his own.

But hearing Tarn tell her that Kevin had good instincts was reassuring. It wasn’t something that her siblings or Matt could truly answer for her. And neither could any of Kevin’s teachers, not in the way that Lee needed that question to be answered.

Though Tarin did question Kevin’s instincts since he had asked Tarin for dating advice. But at least he was laughing about it. ”I don’t know,” Lee mused as she looked at Tarin before giving a small shrug. ”You’ve done pretty well so far even if you didn’t have a lot of experience. And you certainly know how to treat a woman properly.”

”Well, what I was able to hear, it sounded like you gave some decent advice,” Lee told Tarin. And it really had, at least from the one side of the conversation she had been able to hear. Though, Lee had never really dated conventionally.

Then Tarin asked why Kevin hadn’t asked her for advice, and Lee couldn’t help a slight laugh. ”Honestly? Who knows,” Lee said with a shrug. Then listed off a few reasons. ”I’m his mum so it’d be weird? Or that means I wouldn’t know what I’m talking about? I’m not a guy?

“There’s things that Kevin has no problems asking me for advice about,” Lee continued as she looked up at Tarin beside her. ”And then there’s other things that he avoids around me like the plague. That’s part of why, even when he’s being an ass, Robert’s had those ‘guy days’ with Kevin. Would you have asked your mom about girls at Kevin’s age?”

As Lee moved to the opposite side of the path, she noticed something odd; the figure ahead of her had turned to look over their shoulder, to look back at her. Not that it was odd on and off itself that someone was looking at her as she ran. But in the dark, Lee had only just gotten close enough to see that the figure was a man.

How had he known to look back, unless it was something he did normally whether someone was behind him out not? Lee knew that she didn't make that much noise as she ran, no more than the average person. So she didn't think that he would have heard her, not at that distance.

Whatever, Lee thought as she continued running, the distance between her and the man ahead closing. It was probably just a coincidence she was thinking too much into, she decided as she watched the man move closer to the other side of the path, leaving the most space between them without stepping into the grass.

But the closer that Lee got to the man, the slower the remaining space between them was disappearing. He was speeding up as she approached.

Speeding up without looking back at her again. Yet by the time she managed to come up beside him, the man was running at the same pace that she was. All without him looking back again, without him seeing where she was.

Unless he had eyes in the back of his head.

It was unexpected enough that as Lee came up beside the man, she looked over at him with cautious curiosity. To see him looking over at her and giving a nod.

The few runners that Lee normally came across at night tended to keep completely to themselves. That was normally much later at night, though.

And he was still keeping pace with her. Impressive, as it looked like he had already been out for a normal length ‘while’.

So Lee gave a nod back, curious about how long this person was going to be able to keep up with her.

Lee wasn’t able to make out what Kevin had said about this mysterious girl he apparently liked, but she couldn’t help the smile from appearing on her face when she heard Tarin say that she sounded great.

Turning back to the food in front of her, Lee started to gather and pick everything up as Tarin continued speaking. For a man who had probably never expected to have this conversation, he seemed to be doing a decent job, so Lee got up to take the leftover Chinese to the kitchen.

”That…ok,” Kevin said slowly, though it was more thoughtful and less hesitant this time. ”Do you think that will work, Tarin?”

Even though it would have made much more sense for Kevin to have asked Josh his baseball question, or even Ash or Adele, Lee thought that it was sweet and cute that Kevin wanted to ask Tarin.

Tarin on the other hand just simply looked confused. He did, however, take the phone from her and start talking to Kevin. Considering the fact that Kevin had declined to let her pass the question on to Tarin, Lee decided to use the time to pack away the take-out so that she wasn’t just sitting there trying not to listen in on their conversation.

”Hey Tarin, I have a question,” Kevin said, his voice now sounding hesitant and amost nervous. Then Kevin was silent for a good 30 seconds before blurting out the next words quickly. ”How do you tell a girl you like them? Zack can be a bit of an idiot and didn’t have any good ideas, and I asked Uncle Robert but what he said doesn’t make sense.”

Lee probably should have turned her siphoning off when she went to pick her son up from the airport. Probably should have because even with going for a run, there was a very good chance that Lee still wouldn’t be able to sleep that night. Even if she ran longer than her normal three laps around the entirety of Central Park, she might not be able to sleep.

And even though Lee had actually thought about turning her siphoning off a couple times while she was at the airport, she hadn’t. A sleepless night or two was far preferable for Lee than the anxious off balance feeling that she would have felt the entire time with that many people around but being unable to feel their energy.

The last few hours had been great. Lee had missed Kevin while he had been in Texas and Lee was very happy to finally have him back home. But at the same time, Lee was also practically vibrating with the energy she had. So once Kevin had gone to his room for the night, Lee had told Tarin she needed to go run.

Which found Lee running around the park much earlier in the night than was typical for her. But otherwise, everything about her running was the same. The petite woman was confidently running through the dark park by herself, music in her ears, her siphoning once again active. Not particularly paying attention to her surroundings by sight as with very few exceptions it was far easier for Lee to know if there were people nearby at night based on her siphoning.

And though it was still quite warm, the air in her skin exposed by her shorts and tank top felt nice as she ran at a relatively quick (for a human) pace.

At least Lee wasn’t paying much attention to her sight until she felt someone up ahead of her. Someone else who had to have been out for a run, based on how slowly she was actually closing the distance between them. Lee could tell that the person was straight ahead of her, on the same side of the path, so even before she was able to see that clearly, Lee veered over to the other side to keep as much space between them as possible when she passed.