🌹R O S E🌹

🌹CHAPTER TWENTY🌹

Damon Garder stands there in all his glory and with a smile, a smile that is directed to me. To be honest, with all that has been going on, I've forgotten all about him, a faint memory of him asking me out comes into mind. I walk over to him.

"You are a hard person to find, did you know that?" He asks me as I come over to him. He looks like he has been waiting for quite some time, but he doesn't look bored, far from it actually. He's happy, I think. Happy to see me? I don't know but I think so.

I smirk. "Well, I can't exact say that since I've never lost myself" I say to him. Letting out a chuckle, he comes closer to me. "Always so smart, Ms. Ace. But, correct. Now, I'm here to take you out on our date, the date we never got to have" He tells me.

I'm not really shocked at it, as soon as I saw him, I was kind of expecting him to comment about it, but I did not expect him to ask me out, now. "Umm, I'm not exact in the right clothes and I just spent few hours with the most arrogant man in the world, so I'm pretty tired. Raincheck?" I ask, hoping he says yes.

I really like this guy, I mean, he's funny, charming and he waits and doesn't complain about it, then again he's interested in me and not some other girl, like Mr. Knight is. Ugh, why does my mind always finds its way back to Alexander Knight. It's annoying and I hate it.

"I wasn't planning an evening out, I was more thinking of dinner at my place and then a movie. You don't have to wear any formal clothes or have some make-up on. It's just a dinner-date with me and then a movie. So, what do you say?" He asks me.

Can this guy get any sweeter? I mean, most men don't do this much for a woman to go out with her. It makes me feel special and good about myself, like he likes me, like actually likes me. I give him a smile. "Fine, but I would like to be home before midnight. I do have work in the morning and I suppose you do, too" I say.

"Of course, as the lady insists" He says and reaches his hand out for me to take, and I do. I guess this evening will be a good one. It's not every day that a man you had forgotten about asks you out. We walk out of the building and into a black car. He goes into the driver's seat while I take the front passenger seat.

"I'm sorry for not contacting you sooner, I just didn't have your number" He tells me. "That's ok, I've actually been dealing with a lot right now, but that's over" I say, I hope it's over at least. "I'll tell you all about it at dinner, if you can keep me talking" I tell him mysteriously.

He will not get everything about myself on the first date, something has to be saved for the second and third date, if they even happen, which I don't know will, but I do hope they will. Damon is the type of man who I can see myself having a future with.

Somehow that thought brings a emotion that is similar to sadness or grief, but I've never felt it before or know that it is. "I guess, I'll just have to keep you talking. I don't see a problem with that, I do find you interesting and I'd like to know more about you" He tells me.

"I also want to figure out if I'm going to be dating a serial killer or a crazy stalker and not a sweet, kind, beautiful woman, which I don't doubt you are, but looks do hide a lot of things" He says laughing. I laugh with him. "I guess we both have to figure out if either one of us is a serial killer" I say.

I don't want to be dating someone who is a bad person, though I believe that Damon is a good man. He's everything that a woman could want and I'm not letting this one go, not when I have him for me. My plan was always to have a boyfriend and a husband after I had my own business going, but I guess it doesn't hurt to start sooner.

I have no idea where he lives, and I don't recognize any of the houses or companies that we're driving past. Meaning, we're somewhere I have never been. "Where are we going?" I ask him. He smirks and chuckles. "Don't worry, I'm not taking you anywhere to murder you. We're going to my apartment" Damon says.

"And, where is that?" I ask. We stop at a red light, and he looks at me and smiles. "Just a little further" He says and then turns back to watching the road. "So, you're not going to tell me?" I ask. A great start of him not being a serial killer, he's taking me somewhere that I don't know where. "Nope" He says, popping the p.

I guess no one's going to find my dead body for quite a while, but I know my mom won't stop looking if I go missing. I remember once, I wandered off in a mall and she literally called the entire police station to come down there and look for me everywhere.

I was a child back then, but I do remember that my mom was so relieved when I was finally found and she promised to never let go of me again. The next few years, she kept so close watch on me, that I wasn't allowed to go anywhere without her.

Not even if I was just going to the store with my dad, she never let me out of her sight. It took everything in her to send me to collage, where I wouldn't see her as much. But I had to call her two times every single day. I never found it annoying.

Even still today, she worries about me, when she doesn't need to be. I guess it is just mother's love, but I know that she loves me and I do love her. I've been so deep in though that I didn't notice that we have stopped in front of a apartment building.

"We're here" He tells me and we get out of the car. The building look like any other apartment building, gray and a bit boring, but then again, mist buildings are boring. Except for the library and that florist shop, that I found rather interesting.

We go into the building and walk up the stairs to the top floor. The building only has five floors. He opens a door at the top with his key and pushes the door open for me to see. "Home sweet home" Damon says as I walk inside. A mat is by the door for shoes and I take off my shoes and neatly set them by the door.

I look around his apartment and it's small, but big enough for a single person. This place is a lot cleaner than some of the apartments that I've been to. "I like it" I say as I look around everywhere. Every object is neatly placed and everything looks perfect.

"I knew you would. Now, come to the kitchen. I have surprise for you" He says as he leads me to the kitchen. I gasp when I look at what he wants to show me. On the table, which isn't that big, as it is only for two people. But there are two dishes and knives and forks and glasses.

There is also steak on the table in the middle and something to go with it. "Dinner is served" He says, and helps me sit down. There is steam coming off from the steak. "How is it hot? You've been with me for the past half and hour" I ask him.

"A magician never reveals his secrets" He tells me with a smirk as he, pulls one of the chairs out for me. I sit down. "Thank you" I say. He goes on the other side and sits down. "I've been challenged to get you talking, so tell me something about yourself" Damon says, when he starts cutting into the steak.

"Well, there's not much to say about me. I'm a boring person" I say. I'm speaking the truth, I don't do much, beside work and that's pretty much my whole life. I mean, what can I tell him? I'm not sure, I'm not good with dates or men or dating for that matter.

He sets a piece of the steak on my plate and then cuts another for him. "I highly doubt you're a boring person. You puzzle me" He says and sets a piece on his plate. I start cutting the steak as I eat. "I puzzle you?" I say. "This is very good" I say, referring to the steak.

"I never took you for the cooking type" I continue. "Thank you, my parents taught me everything I need to know about cooking and baking. And, of course you puzzle me. The first one to actually have me questioning everything" He admits a bit embarrassed, I smile. This is going to be a fun night, that's for sure.

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"Thank you for tonight, I had so much fun. You actually managed to take my mind of things that have been bothering me" I tell him as we sit in the car in front of my apartment. And when I say he took my mind of things that have been bothering me, I was referring to Mr. Knight and everything around him, but he doesn't need to know that.

"It's always a pleasure to help a woman in need" He says and I laugh at him. I learned that in this evening, I found out things that not many people know about him, or at least that's what he said. He shared a lot of childhood memories and I did too in return.

"Well, I have to go but I will definitely want this to happen again" I tell him as I open the car door. "Of course we will do it again" He says. "I'll text you" He says. We say our goodbyes and I leave the car and go to my apartment. I notice that he doesn't leave right away, but after a few minutes he drives of.

I check my phone and I have a text message from him. We gave each other our phone numbers, just so we can stay in touch and find each other. He told me he had been through a lot before he found me in the lobby. He was also confused at me getting fired and all that crazy thing that happened with that.

'Goodnight, dream of me' It reads from him. I laugh to myself, he can be a little cocky sometimes, but that's part of his personality. He's a lot of fun to be around, his humor and personality is something that I need in my life. Besides, I think we make a good match.

After we had dinner, we watched a movie on Netflix and stayed on his couch. We didn't even watch a romantic one like everyone does on a date, no we watched a comedy one. The two of us shared a lot of laughter while watching the movie, and I actually like hanging around him.

I go to bed with him and the evening on my mind and I can't help but smile when I close my eyes. The first date that I like, I never really had dates before, and when I did, they were horrible. But, this one was amazing. I fall asleep with only the date on my mind and Damon Garder.