A/N: Really long chapter guys sorry hehehe (^▽^٥) plus some mild strong language.

December 16, 2017~

I waved my parents goodbye as they got in the car and went to work that Saturday morning. My brother left earlier to his work and so it was just me home alone. My mother told me earlier I could go out by myself and go shopping.

Truth be told I hate shopping.

I had other plans.

I let one hour pass and that's when I made up my mind. I grabbed my car keys and my backpack and locked the house before getting in my car.

Oh the many risks I was about to take.

*****

"I'm here."

"Okay I'm coming out."

The sight of Damian coming out from his place caused my butterflies to wake up from their sleeping state. He got to the passenger side of my car and got inside.

"Where to Bear?"

"Bear?" He laughed.

"Yes that's your nickname. Get over it."

"Whatever you say Princess. Let's go eat I skipped breakfast and I'm starving."

"Where is it?" I asked.

"Just a few blocks and streets away."

I bit my lip and gripped hard on the steering wheel. I was still new at driving and there were only certain places I knew how to get to.

That and I was driving without a license.

"Um how about you drive to there?" I suggested.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

We switched places and he took the steering wheel in his hands.

"Definitely a big car." He laughed.

"You know how to drive these cars right?" I was having second thoughts.

"I used to drive a bus back in Mexico." He rose an eyebrow at me and smirked.

"Okay then Callado is all yours."

"Callado? You named your car."

"Hey less judging and more driving."

It was close by but to be honest I would have had trouble parking my car in between two little ones. My eyes wandered to the small Mexican restaurant he took me. I've never been to a restaurant before. We got out of the car and walked side by side to the door. He opened the door for me and all eyes were on me. I could feel my eyes widen itself as everyone inside turned heads to stare at me. Damian placed a hand on the small of my back and lead me to an empty table. Eyes followed me for some strange reason and that got me feeling uneasy.

"You okay Princess?" Damian asked me as we sat down. He sat across from me and handed me a menu.

"Y-yup all good." I gave him a quick smile and dropped it as soon as he looked down on his menu.

I felt like I was standing out from the crowd. 

I looked down on my menu and was starting to feel a little better when I felt everyone else get back to their foods.

"Anything you two would like to drink?" A waitress came by to our table.

"I would take a coke." Damian looked up from his menu.

"And you?" The waitress looked at me.

"Uh..." My eyes jumped back and forth to Damian to the lady and to my menu. "Just w-water." I stuttered.

Geez why the heck am I stuttering so much?!

"Water?" Damian rose an eyebrow.

"Yes just water." I confirmed it better to the waitress.

"I'll come in a sec with your drinks." She smiled at both of us and disappeared.

"You know there are other things to drink?" Damian slightly tilted his head to the side.

"I like water." My lips went straight and my eyes wandered to the small TV above us. Seconds later the waitress came back and handed us our drinks.

"Ready to order?" She asked.

I stared at Damian with wide eyes hoping that he could understand me.

"Um in a minute." He told the waitress.

"I'll be back then." She left.

"What's wrong Princess?" He finally asked me.

"I don't know what to order." I started to feel heat inside of me.

"You like soup?"

"No."

"Pork rinds?"

"No."

"How about--"

He named a lot of foods which all sounded so foreign to me. All to which I said no.

"Dang Princess didn't know you were so picky." He laughed.

"I'm sorry it's just this is my first time." I stared at the table salt without taking my eyes from it.

"Hmmm how about tacos?"

"Are they spicy?" I asked.

"Um yes."

I tilted my head to the side and gave him a you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me look.

He just laughed and pointed to something else on the menu for me.

"I think you will like this. It's called sope." 

The waitress came back and stood in front of our table.

"Ready?"

"I'll take a menudo."

"What about you?" The waitress faced me.

"I guess I'll take the sope."

"How many?" She asked.

"Three?"

"White cheese or the special Mexican cheese."

"Just white."

"With or without beans?"

"None."

"Anything spicy?"

"No."

"Any coriander?"

"No nothing."

"Basically no fillings but cheese?"

"Pretty much."

"Just cheese?" She scratched her head.

"Yup." I looked up at her and smiled making myself clear that I was okay with the just cheese by itself.

"Alright then I'll be back again with your foods." She walked off.

"You are one weird girl." Damian laughed.

"I like being weird."

Speaking of weird, I was feeling weird inside. For some reason I was feeling way too shy and strange being in a restaurant for the first time and all. We sat there in silence, none of us saying a word nor looking at each other. He would stare at his menu and then at the floor while I would stare at the TV above us or the table salt next to me. Minutes later the waitress came by with our food. Damian's menudo was soup made with beef stomach in broth with a red chili pepper base and came with a side of bread. His soup definitely looked super spicy. Then the waitress handed mine which was just basically like a tortilla with cheese on top. It actually looked delicious.

The waitress once again left leaving Damian and I to eat our food in silence. Without knowing I quickly devoured my sope finishing before Damian who was really busy chugging down his drink.

"Spicy much?" I made fun of him.

"What of course not." He was sweating. "I'm strong to handle spicy things."

"Sure." I rolled my eyes as he chugged some more of his coke.

*****

At the end Damian paid for both of our meals. Even after I insisted I wanted to pay mine, he just wouldn't allow me to. So I just smiled and together we got in my car.

"Want to buy some movies?" He asked.

"Sure."

He drove us all the way to the nearest Walmart and we walked together inside. There were times that his hand will touch mine but quickly he would flinch it away.

"Pick a movie Princess any movie."

"Hmm...but there is so many. How about you pick one."

"No you."

"You."

"Princess you pick."

"I said you man."

We wasted five minutes arguing like that in front of the movies section. A random lady gave us a look and an old man just scratched his head.

"Fine you pick one and I pick another. Deal?" I face palmed.

"Deal." Damian smirked.

We both picked the first random movie in front of us and laughed.

He ended up picking Me Before You and I ended up with The Legend Of Tarzan. 

"Looks like we have our winners." Damian chuckled.

Instead of going to the cash register, we ended up in the toy section.

"Um what are we doing here?" I couldn't help but to feel like a little girl amazed by all the toys.

"I don't know I just wanted to see." He laughed nervously.

We awed at every single thing and went through aisle after aisle. In one of the aisles there was a mother, a father, and two little toddler twins who were jumping in joy and clapping there tiny little hands as their father just told them they were going to buy them the little red wagon. I couldn't help but to aw at how cute they were. They were blondes with sharp blue eyes and pink rosy cheeks excited for their new toy. Damian got next to my side and smiled. He looked at the toddlers and then at me.

"One day that will be you with kids of your own."

I smiled at him and walked down the aisle.

*****

I hate shopping.

I really do.

Except when I'm with him.

We were in a different store now called Ross looking through the racks of clothes in search of a hoodie.

"Princess you don't have to do it."

"Why not? I want to."

"Yes but you don't have to."

"For reals though I want to. Let me buy it for you."

"Ay Princesa." He shook his head and laughed nervously.

The poor guy had an old raggedy blue hoodie and no money left on him. The least I could do for him was buy him a new hoodie especially now that winter was really among us.

"Pick whatever hoodie you like and I'll pay for it. I'll leave you so you can search in peace. I'm going to buy something for my mom."

"But I hate shopping."

I frowned at him and he laughed at me as he quickly ran off in search of his hoodie.

At the end he found a red hoodie and I found my mom a blue blanket.

All felt worth it.

*****

"Come inside. The guys are probably sleeping." He opened the door to his place.

I took a step inside and sure enough they were sleeping in their rooms. Well one of them was in the couch in the living room but he had his blanket covering his face. By now I already knew where his room was so I invited myself in and placed my backpack on his desk. He got in and closed the door behind him.

"So which movie is it going to be?" He started to connect his DVD player to his TV.

"Let's watch the Tarzan one."

"Sounds good to me. Shoot! We forgot to get the snacks. I'll be back I'm going to buy some in the tiny shop down my street. Or if you want you can join me." He looked at me and smiled.

"I'll join." I smiled back.

We walked down the sidewalk and just at the end of it was the tiny shop he mentioned. Literally it was tiny.

"My friend how are you?" The owner of the shop greeted Damian as we entered. He an an accent from India.

"Doing great."

"Is that your girlfriend?"

Damian's face quickly blushed making mine go red as well when the owner faced me.

"My friend." Damian said.

The owner chuckled and attended to another person who was at the cash register.

"Alright Princess you look for the drinks and I'll look for the snacks."

"Okie dokie." I searched for the drinks. I picked for myself a red Powerade and for Damian a can coke. He found our snacks which where Doritos for me and Cheetos for him. He paid for our snacks and bought scratch tickets for us. Once we were back in his room he handed me a coin and explained to me how the scratch tickets worked. All you had to do was scratch the squares on the ticket with a coin and find three matching objects and match them with the winning number to see for the winning prize money.

"Who knows maybe this time I'll be lucky and become rich." He laughed.

"Why would you think today you going to be lucky?" I asked as I started to scratch my ticket.

"Because today I have you." He stuck his tongue out as he concentrated scratching off his ticket.

Turns out I wasn't so lucky and we both didn't win anything.

Oh well maybe one day I'll be a freaking billionaire.

Once we were done, I sat on the edge of his bed as he placed the DVD on the player and got the TV working. He turned off the lights of his room and laid on his bed.

The movie was starting.

"Lay down Princess."

"I'm good." I told him.

"It's an hour long." He chuckled.

"Okay fine if you insist." I got on his bed and laid next to him.

This have been the closest we've been yet. Our shoulders brushed together and we watched as the movie started. As the movie went on we didn't realize that our legs were tangle together. Mine were on top of his but instead of flinching away we remained like that as we watched the movie.

Things were okay until...it got to the kissing and love scenes in the movie.

"Okay then." Damian started to laugh nervously and placed a hand over my eyes.

"What the heck man?"

"You too young to see." He laughed.

"Why you get to see it?" I took his hand off but he quickly placed his other one.

"I'm twenty three I'm already old enough."

"So? I'm nineteen I'm not that young." I managed to take his hand off and just watched the kissing scene. It was just kissing.

Some very passionate deep kissing that is...

"Random question," Damian turn his face to look at me. Our noses were legit one centimeter away from each other. I found myself holding my breath as I waited for his random question. "How many guys you kissed in your life?"

"Um...three why?" I rose an eyebrow.

"Just a random question."

"Mhm. My turn. How many girlfriends you ever had?"

"One. Why you ask?"

"It was just random..." I quickly faced away and watched the movie.

"And you?" He asked.

"Two."

"Two? What about the third guy you kissed? Wasn't he your boyfriend?" He faced the movie.

Oh just my friend who ended up being my freaking "lover".

"Mistake." Was all I said.

"So you have no boyfriend right now?" Damian faced me once again.

"No."

He looked at me in the eyes and quickly looked away.

"What happened to that one girlfriend you had?" I had to ask.

"It was getting...complicated." He kept his eyes on the TV.

"How come?"

"Her parents didn't like me. Then one day she escaped her parents and wanted to be with me. I was young back then and I couldn't do it so we ended things."

"What do you mean she wanted to be with you?" Questions were really coming out from me.

"As in runaway with me. I had no money no nothing for to be living on the run like that with her."

"Did you love her?"

He slowly faced me and once again looked me in the eyes. I wasn't the girl who asked too much questions but with Damian I found things easy to be asking. I was just a curious girl wanting to know more about him just like he knew somewhat everything about me.

"Yes I did."

"Do you still?" I didn't know I forgot to blink this whole time.

"No."

*****

"Seriously?! Now you answer me?!"

By mistake I answered Juan's call later that day.

Well night.

"Sorry I've been busy." Was the first thing that came up in my head.

Truth was I was mad at him because he got mad at me just because I told him I wouldn't be able to talk to him in the middle of the night. He said that was his only free time to talk to me since he talks to Victoria in the day and that night was his only chance for me. I got pissed because I told him I need sleep and because I wanted to respect my family sleeping but that got him angry and he hung up on me and here he was yelling at me because I wasn't answering him.

"Have you been fucking cheating me with another guy?!"

"Wait what?"

"Hahaha I'm only kidding sexy I know you would never cheat on me. I'm still angry at you though. Why the hell you keep leaving me out?"

"....."

I can't be considered cheating when he's not even my boyfriend to start with. And the one leaving who out is him. He's the one who have been forgetting about me and only to call me just for me to hear him play his stupid game.

"Stop ignoring me like that Dani. If I have to I'll start treating you like my girlfriend."

I don't want to be "like" his girlfriend.

I felt anger run through my veins. This was too much and I had to put an end to this fake game.

"I need to tell y--"

"Hold that thought babe I need to kill this dragon. Oh did you know Serena wears a thong? I saw her bend down a few times and could see her thong. Makes me want to strip it down and fuck her in the ass. I bet your brother couldn't do it better than me. I will seriously kill your brother if he ever hurt her."

Kill my brother?! He is stupid but not capable of hurting! Unlike bitch ass hoe!

"For crying out loud can you freaking stop talking?!" I yelled.

I started to cough like crazy feeling my lungs wheezing. All this cold winter has brought was the flu and now I was sick. Anger seeped in my veins and all I could see was red.

"Ew. Gosh Dani drink some tea or something."

"...I will..."

"Anyways did you know my lizard man character has two wives? I named one of them Victoria and the other one after you. You have four babies and Victoria has two. Hahaha I just love fucking my girls. Especially you."

"......."

He clearly just goes on...

It was like all I say passes through his sorry ass mind and he just keeps blabbing on like nothing.

"Hey whenever you want to...you know...with me just tell me and you can make an appointment to me and we can clear our schedule and shit so we can do it."

What the---

"Love you Dani."

I was left blank.

The Juan I knew was only what my brain wanted me to see at first but now that my eyes were open and my heart was in better control, I could see the real him.

And it disgusted me how I let myself get so low for this scumbag.

"I said love you Dani."

"I know what you said." I spoke after a long silence.

"Aren't you going to say it back? Ugh I just got killed by a fucking bear."

"...I spent my day in my guy friend's bedroom."

"Wait WHAT?!"

In the background I heard his game controller fall.

Well that got his attention.

"So you were cheating on me?!"

"First off you're not my guy and second of all I said he was my friend. I can be whoever I want to be with."

"So you've been ignoring me these last few days because you were with him?"

"I was mad at you."

"So you go to him. Okay I see how it is so you being a hoe as well?"

"What?!"

"Just friends you say but I believe there was more that you're not letting on."

"Nothing happened. We just watched movies in his room."

"Sureeee. "Nothing" happened when really I bet the bed got satisfied."

"What the hell are you trying to say?" I rose my voice feeling my anger start to lash out.

"A room, a guy, and you...alone only leads to one thing."

"Get your mind our of the gutters for goodness sake! Not everything has to be about fuck and stuff. It for sure as heck doesn't mean all the guys are the same."

"All guys are the same. We only think of one think and that is to fuck."

I felt myself want to hurl with all of this nonsense coming from his mouth. I was just about to end the call when he said, "I can't keep doing this."

"Doing what?" I said.

"This Danielle. We can't be friends either no more."

"Why not friends?"

"Because it's too much for me. I love you but I can't."

A solid five minutes of silence remained on the phone line.

Until he started to laugh.

"Hahahahahhaha I'm going to kill you yes I am."

"..."

"I'm so going to kill you hahahaha and you going to love it yes you are."

"..."

"Lock the doors Dani...I'll be coming for you."

"Juan?" My voice cracked.

"Juan is no more hahahahahaha."

"What the heck is going on?" My heart stopped beating for a few seconds.

"I'll come for you Dani. Watch your back because I'm going to get you hahahaha I'll kill you when you are least expected."

Before he could go anymore, I hung up on him.

What the heck just happened???

A text message vibrated my phone. I opened it and it was from Juan.

It was the devil's symbol.

Anger.

I had more than anger.

I was beyond furious.

He went absolutely NUTS!

I called him back and he was laughing away.

"I'll come to your work. I'll find you at your house. I'm going to get you hahahahahaha."

"ENOUGH!"

I ended the call and without a hesitation I deleted his number, his pictures, his texts, everything that was about him.

And just like that I deleted him from my life.

It was dang darn time I did it.

Even better, it felt just right.

To the point my ugly mistake of me being second to Juan was finally over and my ugly mistake was corrected.

Goodbye Juan. 

:)