Two weeks later.

It's been two weeks since Ina life changed, everything changed, her daily routine, what she eats, when to sleep and when to wake up, everything.

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To encourage her, Damien started to work from home and follow the same routine as her, now she exercises more and goes to physical therapy to avoid muscle stiffness.

Until now she hadn't been experiencing any strong symptoms except the excessive need for visiting the bathroom and the medium feeling of pain in her body and along with a burning sensation in her feet.

Ina hadn't experienced any relapse until now which is most likely to happen with most MS patients, it's a scary thing to wait for your condition to get worse while you can do nothing about it.

For Ina, it was hard to do all of this without someone support, having Damien by her side was very helpful, in the beginning, she had fears and doubts that he won't be able to continue with her and he will leave her, but he proved the opposite, he stayed with her every day supporting her.

She was glad that she had met him.

Her parents still not aware of her sickness and she was having a hard time on figuring how to do it, so she decided to wait for the right time, though the doctor had advised that it's best to tell them now to have their support as well, because in her case having family support is a very important element in helping her to go through every day with this disease.

It's almost Christmas and Damien and Ina were busy decorating the Christmas tree, after finishing decorating the tree, they took pictures together with the tree behind them to keep it as a memory, they didn't know if she going to be in a good health the next Christmas or not, so they decided to live every moment and not think about the future.

"It looks perfect, good work." Ins patted Damien's head, earning a chuckle from him.

"You did well as well." Damien said and he too patted her head and she giggled wrapping her arms around his waist as she looked at the tree.

Suddenly Ina phone rang and she went to check it.

"It's mom." Ina said as she answered the phone and put it on speaker.

"Mom." Ina answered.

"You finally answered my calls, I was going to take the first plane to London tomorrow and visit you and check on you." Her mother said.

Damien looked at Ina and gave her I told you to reply.

"I was super busy with exams and studying." Ina replied, ignoring Damien's look.

"It's okay honey, just make sure to call every now and then, I get very worried when you don't pick up my calls and call your Dad too, okay." Her mother said.

"I will, and sorry for making you worry about me." Ina apologized.

"It's okay, take care sweety, I love you." Her mother said.

"I love you too, Mom." Ina said before she hung up the phone.

"Don't give me that look." Ina said as she put the phone on the table.

"You miss your parents, Ina." Damien said and watched as she sighed and went to sit on the couch.

Running her hands through her hair, she looked at him and said.

"I know, but I can't visit them now, I still need time." Ina said and tried to not cry.

Sitting beside her, Damien made her look at him.

"I know, but the fact is that it will never stop being hard until you decide that, they deserve to know Ina, I'm not going to push to tell them now, but it's better that you tell them." He pressed a kiss on her forehead and watched as she smiled.

"Thank you." Ina said as she pecked his lips.

"You're welcome." Damien said.

"Now, let's go and prepare something to eat." Damien said as he stood up and offered her his hand.

Nodding her head, Ina placed her hand in his and stood up walking towards the kitchen.

While they prepared the dinner, Damien turned on the radio, knowing how Ina loved to listen to the music channel.

Ina danced and sang with the music, making Damien stop his work to watch her, it became one of his favourite things that he liked about Ina, to watch her dance and hear sing, she has a very beautiful voice and he was becoming addicted to it.

"Ah, I'm so tired." Ina said as she laughed at herself, lately, she is so into dancing and singing.

"Here, drink some water." Damian handed her a cup of water.

Taking the cup from him, she drank the cup emptying it.

"Thank you." Ina said, handing him the cup back.

"Go and take a shower, I'm almost done here." Damien said.

"Okay." Ina said and walked out of the kitchen still dancing and singing.

Damien shocked his head hopelessly and continued cutting the vegetables.

After finishing up and cleaning the kitchen, Damien went to the bedroom to change his clothes.

Opening the wardrobe, he took out his clothes.

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Inside the bathroom.

Ina had finished talking her shower and was drying her body, warping the towel around her body, she was about to get out of the bathroom when suddenly she felt pain throughout her body that made her lose her balance and it caused her to slip but luckily she was able to hold on to the sink.

Ina breathed a sigh of relief, happy that she didn't hit her head against the shower cabinet glass.

Hearing the knock on the bathroom door, it startled her.

Opening the door, Damien saw Ina holding into the sink.

"Are you alright? I thought that I heard your voice, did something happen?" He asked.

Ina looked up at him with her eyes full of tears but she didn't cry, she buried her in his chest.

Damien warped his arms around her and helped her to get out of the bathroom.

He helped her to wear her clothes and dried her hair, Ina just sat there unmoving and let Damien do everything for her.

"We need to remove the glass from the shower cabinet, it's not safe anymore." Ina finally spoke after being quiet for more than fifteen minutes.

Damien understood what she meant.

"Okay, I will remove it, did you get hurt?" He asked.

Nodding her head no, Ina said." No, for this time, I don't know what will happen next time, let's go eat and stop thinking about this."

Ina got up and pulled him with her and both of them walked out of the room.

After the dinner, Damien let Ina help him in cleaning the dishes and the table, he didn't want to feel that she can't do anything because she is sick now and the doctor had advised him that he should treat her like a normal person.

Ina turned her face to look at Damien who was already sleeping, her eyes softened seeing how cute he was when he was sleeping.

She wondered how he did it, wake up every day and act as if nothing happened as if she was okay?

Or was that his way of explaining things?

"Couldn't sleep?" She heard Damien say.

"Hmm, did I wake you up?" She asked as she felt him wrap his arms around her, pulling her closer.

"No, do you want to prepare something warm for you to drink to help you sleep." He asked.

"No, Just hug me, that will be enough." She replied snuggling closer to him.

Finally, Damien mumbled in his mind, Ina was finally able to fall asleep after trying for more than an hour, it's something that she has been finding it difficult to do lately, falling asleep easily.

It's one of the most difficult things that happen to the body of the person who is sick with MS, Damien had brought research books about this disease and read it and be able to understand what she is going through more.

He was aware that the worst is yet to come when it comes to this disease, he was also the impact of this news on Ina, he noticed how Ina personality had changed in the past two weeks, she now speaks less and she isn't as cheerful as before, the doctor had told about that, MS patients tend to suffer from

depression at some point and some cases as Ina it starts early.

Two days ago, she told him that she wants to stop using the medications that the doctor describes to her and when he asked her why she didn't reply and said that doesn't want to talk about it anymore.

Damien may appear to be strong and holding up, but the truth is he was suffering seeing her like this, making her wake up early and go to physical therapy is the hardest part of the day, he has to coax her every day so that she goes.

But, he will never give up on her, even if he had to do everything for her.