"Guess what?"

"What?" I asked.

"My uncle wants me to work with him in a cotton factory." Damian said.

"That's great man. Where?"

"Oklahoma."

I felt my skin go cold.

"Wait w-what? Are you moving?"

Even so we were just friends and just getting to know each other, the thought of him leaving made me feel empty for some reason.

Heck I was sad.

"Yeah I'm leaving tomorrow."

"Oh....o-okay. Then this is goodbye then?" I felt a lump in my throat.

".....gotcha Princess." He whispered.

"What the heck man!"

"Oh gosh I'm sorry Princess." He laughed over the phone. "I just had to test you."

"Test me on what?"

"That if you would have missed me."

Got that darn right I would miss him.

I couldn't help but to laugh at his stupid prank but over all relief that he wasn't leaving.

I haven't realized until then how important he was to me already.

*****

"You are the worst teacher ever." He laughed.

I was taken by surprise by what Damian said.

These last few days I've been teaching him how to speak English. His first lesson was learning the numbers to twenty but apparently he keeps forgetting the number eight and twenty and that makes me a bad teacher.

"Why you say that? It's not my fault you're a bad student."

"I just had to have the hot teacher distracting me."

"Ugh fine let's just watch a movie then." I suggested.

"Sounds good. Or do you wanna play video games with me?"

"Uh..."

I've never played video games before.

I remembered when Damian told me a few days ago that he bought a PlayStation. The first thing that I thought was 'uh oh please no just no'.

Juan never paid attention to me because he was always busy killing dragons and giving me facts about elves and shit. I didn't want Damian to be another him. Thank God though Damian was different. Whenever we were on the phone he would put the game on pause and focus on me or at times would show me how he would play but still listen to me.

"I don't know how to play." I tilted my head to the side.

"It's easy Princess I'll show you."

"Okay then." I smiled.

He handed me the controller and turned the TV on.

"Deer hunting or FIFA soccer?" He showed me two discs.

"Soccer."

He placed the soccer disc in and quickly taught me what buttons to use. I ended up being a quick learner and in no time I was already yelling at the screen being so into the game whenever I made a goal. I haven't felt this excited for a long time. Damian sat next to me and was laughing whenever the other team scored on me. My thumbs were already starting to hurt but I was so focus in the game that I forgot for a second that Damian was watching me with a smile.

"Not bad Princess I'm impress this being your first time and all." His voice made me miss a shot.

"I had a good teacher actually." I rolled my eyes.

Eventually I lost and gave him his turn.

As he played I couldn't help but to not keep my eyes off from him. He would grin whenever he would make a goal, forming those irresistible dimples of his. I mentally swoon just staring at him and felt my heart thump as I watched him enjoy his game.

Seeing him so happy made me happy.

It felt great to have this feeling again.

After a while of playing on his PlayStation, we ended up watching a movie.

We silently watched as the movie went on. We were watching the one he picked that day when we last spent the day together. The movie was okay but I seemed to interested in something else.

My eyes slowly trailed off from the movie to look at Damian instead.

He too wasn't watching the movie.

His brown eyes twinkled with humor and that cute dimple teasing his cheek caught me off guard again.

Ugh why did it have to be my weakness...

"I...I have a question." He looked at the TV then at me.

"Yes?"

In the movie there was a storm. Lightning illuminated the night sky into blue and thunder rolled. A woman was closing all the windows until the man paralyzed in bed told her to leave it open.

"I've been wondering..." Damian went. He seemed to be thinking how to put his next words together. He would look at the screen and then at me.

The man in the movie told the woman to stay. She stayed and cautiously took a seat on the bed.

"What would you do if I kiss you?"

I blinked twice.

This I wasn't expecting.

I slightly felt my jaw drop and my mind went blank. There was a buzzing in my ears as it processed his question.

What would I do?

"N-nothing w-why?" I felt my jaw quiver not in fear though.

So many feelings were running through me, mixed emotions that I could not explain but I knew they felt good.

Our eyes trailed down to each others lips and then it happened.

It happened so fast but I felt it. My lips felt the contact of his for 2.3 seconds. He looked away but then he brought his eyes back to look at me, our faces just centimeters away from each other. I don't know what it was about him but at that instance I knew that 2.3 seconds weren't enough for me.

So I closed the gap.

And I kissed him back.

~✿~

Damian: Goodnight Princess.

Me: Goodnight to you too Bear.

Damian: okay I'm just going to say this but

I like you.

A lot Princess.

Goodnight.

*****

December 21, 2017~

Nobody knew about my little escapes I did whenever I was home alone or during my lunch break.

I felt like a rebel and deep down I felt somewhat bad for doing this in secret. Yet I couldn't help but to feel excitement run through the course of my veins whenever I would get in my car and escape.

To me it felt just right.

Damian laid on his bed and I simply laid next to him as music played on his speakers. Heck this was my jam and I was smiling ear to ear of the happiness I was feeling. As much as we were alike there were things that we were somewhat different. Simple things like taste in music for one. I was more into Spanish rap while he listened to Mexican music. But just for me he played it on and ended up singing. And gosh did I love hearing him sing. It made the savage butterflies in me turn into bestial little things to the point they were murderous within themselves.

And it was bloody beautiful in my insides.

What is he doing to me?

I ended up snuggling close next to him and closed my eyes as he sang. His voice soothed me to the point I forgot that my lunch break only consisted of an hour. Damian would kiss me on the forehead and at times would give me a small peck on the lips.

And then that got me wondering,

What are we?

"Princess? What are we?"

He read out my thoughts.

I had my head on his chest and I slowly lifted it up to see his brown eyes.

"I...don't know. What are we really?" I asked him.

Ever since our first kiss we've been seeing more but never did we ask this question. I wasn't sure what we were.

Is this what friends do?

"Dani?" This was the first time he called me Dani.

My heart stopped for a brief second as I waited for what he was going to say next.

"Do you want to be my girlfriend?"

And then I died losing one of my precious nine lives.

Not literally but still.

Fidhbsmxidhevsndidue!!!!

"Princess do you want to be my girlfriend?" He repeated it with a smile as I was blushing like crazy as I came back to reality.

"Yes." It came out in a happy sigh.

I've missed this feeling of being special. To be someone's first choice, to be picked from the many others out there.

The best feeling in the world is when you look at that special person and they look at you like you're the only one in the world to them.

I look into Damian's eyes and I found what I was looking for.

I've been looking for him all this time.

He kissed me making all my butterflies die because it was too much to handle in a good way of course. I kissed him back running my fingers through his black hair. And then he said three words that were the most sincerest that I ever heard from any human guy from my past.

"I like you. Who am I kidding I love you Princess. I love you."

I love you more than what I did a second ago.

I may have said that word so many times to all the wrong guys. Guys who I thought I did but it ended up being all just a lie, just for momentarily at least. Back then I didn't know what love meant and just a few days ago I didn't know what real love was. I was blinded by the reality because they made me close my eyes. They made me not want to see because my heart was black ever since I experienced my first broken heart. I just didn't want to admit that I haven't really been fully healed all this time. My black heart full of hate and little hope was bleeding and to stop it I just had to shut it down. I went comfortably numb to it and just played along with the rest. Maybe I did feel love at one point but that was all a second.

Highschool love is immature and plain childish. We want to think that that's forever or that he or she is the one but reality works differently.

Ever since I graduated, life made me realize how stupid we were. How blinded I was.

Nothing is forever and forever isn't for sure always.

I smiled at Damian.

The way his brown eyes twinkled and the sincerity of his dimpled smile, was the most honest thing I've seen by so far. He sees me as his first and only and that made me sure of what I going to say back.

"I love you too."

And I'm 100% sure about it.