I woke up and I was still in his arms.

"Are you okay Angel?" he said seeing me move a little.

"I'm fine baby. How are you?"

"I'm good. I love it when we're cuddling," he said smiling at me.

"Did something happen? Why were you so sad? Did someone offend you in any way?"

"No, it's fine. I actually don't want to talk about it. Don't worry about that," I said smiling back at him.

Damon's phone starts vibrating a couple of times.

"You're still getting messages from them, aren't you?"

"Don't worry about that love, everything's gonna be fine. I'll solve that problem. Don't think about it now. Let's just enjoy our time together," he said taking my hand into his.

"Do you wanna talk about why you were drunk on the day you met the Shadows?"

"What made you remember that?"

"Your text messages reminded me of that."

"Well, I was drunk because of my family problems," he said taking a breath.

I understood that it was very hard for him to talk about it.

"Damon, if it's hard for you to talk about it, you don't have to do that."

"No, I want to show you that you matter to me and that I trust you. My father was terminally ill and he couldn't get up from the bed, he had been in that situation for a year back then. He couldn't eat or stand for a long time, but he always tried to hide his hardships, acting like it was okay, that he wasn't so sad or angry that it has happened to him. My mother loved him, at least that's what I thought until a certain period of time, when I saw her with different men every week and my father knew about it. He knew, but he didn't say anything to her and he didn't even let me do anything about it. I was so sad, I couldn't bear the fact that she was that careless and egotistic. She didn't care about my feelings, about my father's feelings. She only cared about herself. One day my father's condition got drastically worse and from that day on his condition was getting worse and worse. "

"Oh Damon...I'm so sorry, I don't even know what to say..." I said putting my hand on his.

"And...then...one day he just didn't wake up and that was it...but what hurt me back then was that a month after my father's death my mother told me that she wanted to get married. That was the last strike. Before my father's death I already didn't believe the fact that my mother loved my father. He lied to me saying that he didn't mind it, that he was going to die anyway, but I didn't believe him. How could he not suffer from it when he loved her like crazy? When she announced that she was getting married I fought with her, left the house and got drunk. That was the reason why I started playing with girls...I was trying to take revenge against my mom by doing it.Now that I think of it it wasn't the most logical way of solving the problem, but I didn't know what else to do. I was playing with her friends' daughters, with her colleagues' daughters thinking it would at least affect her in a way, as I couldn't directly do the same to her what she did to my dad. But it was in vain, she didn't care."

He didn't look at me. I was constantly trying to look him in the eyes, but he constantly turned his gaze away from mine.

"And then it just became my way of living, my way of coping with that trauma, when I broke some girl's heart, the pain I felt became less...I know it sounds horrible and messed up, but...that was the truth...That's why...I...played with your feelings too...But what I learnt from all of this is that when life takes good people from your life, it gives you good people in return."

"Damon...I don't know what to say...I'm so sorry you had to go through that...I'm so sorry that I wasn't by your side. But I wouldn't say that I don't understand you. My problems are a little different, but they are still family ones. My father went to work abroad and he rarely even called me. I was sad, but I didn't say anything because I thought that he was busy and his ring was keeping me close to him. That is why I didn't want to lose it and it hurt me when I thought I lost it forever. My mother on the other side, was by my side for a while and then she left for work too. They didn't get a divorce or something, but I haven't seem them love each other like crazy either. And she doesn't call me that often either..."

"Sorry to hear that too angel," he said putting a kiss on my head.

"We'll be each other's family. Don't worry babe, I'll become your family and my feelings won't fade away with time," I sad hugging him very very tightly.

"We will baby, we will," he hugged me back.

That talk helped me a lot. I started thinking about other stuff, not about the guilt that I had, not about my awkward relationship with Matt.

The fact that we got so emotionally close to each other helped me regain energy, strength and motivation to try and move on, to understand that difficulties are always gonna be present in life, we just have to be strong enough to pass through them.

The next few days were that active, as everyone was busy wit their own lives and relationship problems.

Shay was constantly trying to find a reason to talk to Elijah, as he finally started communicating with her a little. Meggy continued going on dates with Julian and luckily our friendship didn't suffer, we still spent time together. I was so happy that our friendship was stronger than boy problems. Matt was a little different towards me, which was natural. He wasn't acting bad towards me, but he still wasn't like he was before.

A few days later my mother called me. She started asking me questions about the university, about boys, and at the end dropped the bomb that she was coming in a few days, but she wasn't alone: with her boyfriend and his child.

As if everything was good before this piece of information. This wasn't easy for me to understand and accept, but I decided not to think about it until she came, I still couldn't change anything if I told her I wasn't for that idea. What I couldn't understand how she could say that first thing she called me and how she could do that in general when she wasn't calling me, when she told me she was going for work.

I decided not to think about that, because if I did I would certainly become insane by the time she reached our house. I texted Damon to see what he was doing and whether he would like us to have a date today. He instantly answered my text and said that he actually wanted to offer the same thing before I texted him.

"We have a special connection baby," was my thought, the thought that made me smile at that moment.

I got ready for our date, but I wouldn't say that I prepared a lot for this date. After the preparations for the party I needed some rest from spending too much time on makeup, hairstyles, choosing a dress, etc. At the same time, I wouldn't say that I didn't prepare at all because, come on, it was a date after all. I wouldn't want him to be like, "Are you sure you knew that we were going on a date not a beggar party?"

The most important part of my look was, obviously, the bracelet that he bought for me. I haven't taken it off from the day that he gave me this present, it meant so much to me.

Our date time finally came and I was already happily sitting in his car.

"What do you want us to do love?"

"I actually don't know. Do you have any interesting things in mind?"

"I hoped you would answer like that. I do," he said and started driving.

At some point I realized that we weren't even in the city anymore. I wondered where he was driving, but when I asked him that question million times, he always answered abstract ambiguous things like "you'll see", "it's a secret", "be patient" or "you don't need to know that."

When we reached the place I finally understood where we were; it was lake Sevan. What a brilliant idea! We would finally be able to forget about our worries.

He started taking out thousands of things from his car including a guitar, which he by the way gave to me, a computer, 2 blankets and food. OMG! I was so happy about this date, it will probably be the best one so far. But the thing I was most surprised about was his guitar.

"YOU PLAY THE GUITAR?? REALLY? AND YOU HAVEN'T TOLD ME ALL THIS TIME?"

"Hey, lower your voice angel, do you want to embarrass me or something? If you continue like this I won't play for you," he said pointing his finger at me and I shut up.

We took all of those things to the shore and put them down. One of the blankets was put on the sand so that we can sit on it, then we put the food and the computer and finally sat down ourselves with the guitar in Damon's hand.

"Come on, come on play for me baby," I said jumping with excitement.

"No, not right now. The moment will come, don't worry about that. Now we have to eat something and watch a movie."

He brought some sandwiches, pineapple juice for me (he still remembered) and croissants with Nutella in it. How sweeter can he get?

"Wow! The sandwiches you made are just delicious! You should be a cook," I said chewing the tastiest sandwich of my life.

"Look at my face...Does my expression answer the statement you just made or do you need my reply," he said with a Squidward face.

I started laughing and he followed me.

The movie that he chose for us to watch was Fast & Furious.

"Really? Fast & Furious? It's not like I don't like that movie, but wasn't it supposed to be something romantic as we're on a date?"

"Come on angel, I did so many romantic things, let the movie be at least of my taste."

"Okay okay," I said smiling at the cute face he made when asking me that.

When the sun started gradually setting he closed the computer and told me to come closer. I sat between his legs, my back facing him. He hugged me with the other blanket from behind and I felt so warm, not just because of the blanket by the way. Together we were watching the sunset and I wished I could stop that moment or the day forever, because after that day, everything started to go downwards. But I don't want to ruin this moment right now so let's not move ahead of ourselves.

He took out something from his pocket and gave it to me. It was a box. I froze for a moment not understanding what was happening to me. Not to be in an awkward situation more I opened the box and saw that it was a ring, but when I wanted to take it out of the box I saw that it was hanging from something and I looked back at him with confusion.

"It's a promise ring angel, I just thought that I really wanted to give it to you. I put it on a necklace chain because you kept losing your father's ring and you wouldn't be able to lose this one for sure. With this ring I want us to promise to be each other's families like we agreed a few days ago, to be by each other's side no matter what...etc."

I was so touched because of his present, his words and he actually got me speechless. I thought that whatever I told him right now wouldn't be enough of an answer for him, wouldn't top what he did to me.

"I love you Damon...I really do and no words can explain what I'm feeling towards you...words are too lame, they can't explain what I'm feeling towards you...I'll just repeat that I love you and know that those 3 words have 3 millions of thoughts, emotions and words in them."

He didn't reply back, which actually made me very sad, but instead he showed me the inner part of the ring where I saw 4 words carved, "I love you more."

I knew that I didn't have to be greedy, but I wanted to hear him say those words so much...I thought that I would be patient and wait for him to say them when he was ready...Hope my patience is enough. He put the necklace on me and I couldn't stop touching it, feeling it, playing with it. My excitement and happiness had no borders. He kissed me on both cheeks and hugged me from behind one more time. I turned back and kissed him on the lips. We sat like that for a very long time, we didn't need to say anything anymore. Moreover, when I could feel his heartbeat with my back.

When the sun set he took out the guitar and decided to sing something for me. He played Enough by Alex Roe. There no lights at all and I could only see his silhouette and hear his INCREDIBLE voice. I never knew or imagined that he would be able to sing this beautifully. I always thought he wasn't talented in that sphere. Honestly, I didn't even know much about his talents, as he keeps them deep inside like this one.

I fell in love with his voice especially when he sang the chorus, particularly when he sang, "This heart don't have a home without you in it, no." Have you ever felt that your heart and mind and ears got goosebumps at the same time? Well that's what happened to me at that moment.

After that song he played a couple more songs for me, which weren't that romantic as such and I sang with him. OMG our voices suited each other like we did, it was sooo amazing. He actually said that it wasn't because of the alcohol the other day and he really liked my voice. He remembered it, while I have forgotten. Told ya, I'm one of the "Dory people."

Then we lay down on the sand looking at the starry sky, which was such a perfect way of ending our date. He held my hand and with that one little gesture he made my heart flatter even more. Yeah, I was too in love with him and I realized it at that very moment.

After lying like that for half an hour, talking about us, about everything and anything we decided to leave, but promise to come back one day.

I slept so peacefully that night that I almost forgot to set an alarm for the next morning.

The next morning I found out that Shay was coming to the university with me both because she already got transferred and also because she had to meet Elijah. They started communicating more these past few days, which I was incredibly happy about.

I texted Damon to see how it was, but he didn't reply. I thought he might be busy and I would try again later. At the university I met Matt and Meggy who were surprisingly together. I joined them and Matt accompanied us to our classroom. Matt and I felt better with Meggy by our sides, because our friendship was more or less awkward at the moment.

After the class I called Damon, but he didn't pick up and that's when I started getting worried. I asked Shay to ask Elijah if he has seen Damon today. Unfortunately, none of them haven't. I even waited for our Music & lit class together, but he didn't show up. And then approximately 2 hours later I got a letter.

I didn't know who it was from or why I got it from the first glance, that's why I opened it and started reading:

"Hello dear Bailey,

By now you are probably worried about your boyfriend. Don't worry, he's fine...YET!

If you want to see him come to the building the address of which will be written on the next page.

WARNING!

If you don't come alone your boyfriend will get killed and the problem will be solved.

ANOTHER WARNING!

When you enter the building, go to the second floor, slowly open the third door and listen to our conversation. DON'T enter the room, just listen to the conversation and you'll know what you need to know. See you in an hour!

-S-

"Oh Damon...what is it now? Did you get involved in another trouble? Oh God. What am I gonna do?" I said putting my head in my hands.

I felt like I just entered a chaos...

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Hey hey hey babies❤️hope you've been doing well❤️❤️

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Published on 27.09.20