It didn't even take Ashley a week to set things up. She didn't even want to risk David actually asking me out on the date. Instead she had us meet somewhere and told us we weren't allowed to return home until at least an hour went by. I felt like an hour was too long.

The place she told us to meet up was near a museum. I guess it was one of the places to go to if you were on a date. But we never went in. Instead we decided to just walk through the park near Seadonna tower. David had felt it would be safer to be close to home in case something were to happen. Also he thought that I would like to be closer to the twins if something were to happen to them. Which I did appreciated the thought.

The air around us was a little awkward, but I think it was because David was trying to behave himself. It was like he didn't want to ruin this one chance he had. I was sick of hearing about the whole destined soulmates talk and I think he knew it.

"So, this is fun," he said in an attempt to start a conversation.

"Did you ask Ashley to set this up?" I couldn't help but ask.

David shook his head, "Nope. She had bursted through my bedroom door with a smile on her face announcing that she landed me a date with you."

I didn't doubt his words. It was too easy to to picture Ashley doing something like that. It seemed the more a adjusted to the family, the more Ashley's true colors start showing.

"You asked me to give you space, Leah," David explained, "I was willing to give it to you for however long you needed it. The only time I ever came near you was to do my job and follow orders."

"Thanks for that," I told him.

"I have to be honest, it's not easy for me. I've lived my whole life being told certain things about meeting your soulmate. They never tell you about the actual process that you have to go through in order to be with your soulmate," he confessed.

Just hearing that made me feel a little bad for him. It was clear to see that David and I had very different views on this whole soulmate thing, but that was because we became a part of the family at different times. He grew up with the beliefs he was told. I still had my beliefs from the life I had before coming here. I was a skeptic while he was a believer. The whole thought of us being opposites made me wonder how it could possibly work out between us.

"I had to talk to Mike about all of this," David continued, "He had a similar situation with Amanda."

I looked at him in disbelief, "Really? The two that breed like rabbits had a similar situation as this?"

David let out a small chuckle, "Hard to believe, I know. But Amanda came from a poor family barely getting by on a farm. When Mike met her, he knew she was his soulmate but she refused to believe it. Amanda thought that a poor girl like her could be with someone like Mike."

"What made her change her mind?" I asked.

"There are different theories because they won't tell that part of the story," David answered, "My belief is that when Mike saved her from freezing to death, she realized how much he loved her."

"That sounds too much like a fairytale," I told him.

"Isn't that what all love stories are? A fairytale?" he asked before falling silent.

The silence made me think and I hated it. Because all of my thoughts kept going back to David and how he was trying to make things work between us. Everyone else even backed off mentioning how I should be with David and it was weird. For some time I had thought that my feelings were being influenced, but what if my feelings for him were actually real?

But I didn't get a chance to talk more about it with him. A sharp pain hit me in the back of the head and everything suddenly went black.