~ Chapter 13: Surprise!! / Killing 5 birds with one stone (not literally). ~

(Ok so I ended up having some time so here's a new chapter! Btw, I really love your comments so keep 'em coming! No really, I really really do love them and all the votes and everything so thank you! Well... enjoy! ;) )

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        Damon and I went down then he put a ribbon on my eyes and led me somewhere. It wasn’t as hot as earlier in the day but we could still just wear a shirt and not be cold.

“Is it really necessary?” I asked, as he took my hand to lead me.

“No, but it’s funnier.”

I rolled my eyes, which he couldn’t see, but honestly, I was really glad he had prepared a surprise for me. He said I could look now so I took the ribbon off my eyes and released a “Wow”, completely amazed. We were on the beach. There was a blanket on the sand, with a lot of food on it. There were candles in little bottles all over the place and some flower petals or something.

“How did you…”

“I did it while you were in the shower. You take forever in the bathroom so I thought I’d surprise you.”

“I love it. It’s beautiful. Thank you.”

I know I was totally misinterpreting it but my heart skipped a beat and I had trouble stopping blushing. I sat on the blanket, took off my sandals and dug my toes on the sand.

“Shall we start eating?” Damon asked, faking a British accent.

I nodded and took a plate. The food was awesomely good and exotic, and I ate a lot. Damon confessed he had asked the hotel’s chef to cook this for him.

“I had guessed.” I said, smiling. “You’re amazing, but Damon, you can’t cook.”

“Of course I can cook!”

I shook my head, laughing.

“You can’t even make pastas right!”

“I’m still a better cook than you.” He pointed out.

“Maybe… But it’s nothing to be proud off. I’m terrible. And you’re awful.”

He pretended to look shocked and he started tickling me. I fell on my back while laughing like crazy and he stopped a little. I tried to catch my breath but couldn’t. Because Damon kissed me. He just… kissed me. He even had a hand on my hair. I don’t have a clue why I did that but I pushed him gently.

“Damon, this is wrong, you have a girlfriend.” I said, trying to stop blushing.

“Not anymore.”

“What? Why?”

At this moment, I think my heart had never beaten so fast.

“Katie and I broke up days ago. I thought you knew.”

“Why?” I repeated, not realizing what was happening.

“Katie said she thought I had feelings for you. More than friends feelings.”

“Oh. And what did you answer?” I asked, breathless.

“I said I was sorry but that it was true.”

It was like a moment in slow motion. I didn’t know if it was really happening or if I had just made it up like every other version of this moment. I bit my lips to verify and it turns out it hurt so I guess it was reality.

“I’m so in love with you.” Damon said. “I have been for a long time now, since we were fourteen, but I didn’t dare say anything. But I’m not afraid to say it anymore. I love you Leah.”

I literally threw myself at him and kissed him for a looong time that lasted forever. The most amazing moment of my existence by far. Jenny was wrong. Being in love was way more fun and way more awesome than “having fun” with some random stranger. It was the most amazing feeling I had experienced in my entire life.

After a long time passed kissing, Damon lighted up a fire and we roasted marshmallows on the fire. It was really really good. Believe me if you haven’t tried that already, just do because it’s excellent. But I didn’t really care about that. So I restarted kissing Damon and we lay on the blanket after pushing every thing that was on it. The rest is maybe not appropriate to read. I just have to say: Best night of my entire life.

I woke up in Damon’s arms and realized I was almost naked so I dressed up a little. I passed a hand on his abs, on his cheek and he smiled, his eyes still closed.

“Was last night a dream?” He asked, still not opening his eyes.

“I hope not.”

He finally opened his eyes and sat up straight before kissing me, with a hand in my hair. It had really happened!

“We should probably go back in the hotel room before anyone comes and sees us like that.”

I agreed. We gathered our things and went back in the hotel room. I just couldn’t get over that night. I took the list and Damon and I checked three things of it. Roast marshmallows on the fire,Sleep under the starsandMake love on the beach(we added this last one after).

We decided not to go back to sleep and chose something from the list. We went down to the restaurant first, got what we needed then went to the beach and sat on our beach towels.

“Let’s send a message in a bottle” I said, getting a piece of paper and a pen out of my bag.

Damon and I decided we would write it together so we got started. Neither of us had something specific in mind so we just wrote what was on our mind.

Hello, whoever finds that message.

Our names are Damon and Leah and we wrote this in Hawaii. Maybe the bottle will come right back to the same beach, or maybe it’ll end up in India or in the south of France (in that case, sorry if we can’t really speak French).

There’s no real purpose in that message so we’re sorry and apologize if you thought you were going to find a treasure map or something exciting when you discovered it.

We’re having a lot of fun in Hawaii and really, if you have a chance to go on holidays, go there at least once in your life. Mark it in your list of things to do before you die, it’s worth it, we promise.

We hope you, who found this message, are happy and surrounded by people who love you and care about you and we wish you all the best in life. We’re aware there’s nothing really exciting or original in this message but, like we said before, there’s no real purpose in it. It’s just to have fun, and I guess, leave a mark. Like all those people who write “I was here”. Well, this is our “I was here”.

If you want to reply to this, you wan write at the email address that we wrote below. Or maybe, if you have better things to say than we do, you can send a message in a bottle too.

So, whoever and wherever you are, we send you all our best and hope that you’re doing something you like because life is short and you can’t waste any time doing something you hate or being some place you don’t want to be. Live your life while you can and appreciate it.

Love. Damon & Leah.

We wrote the email address and the date below then rolled the paper and put it in the bottle.

“Ready?” Damon asked.

I nodded and he counted to three before throwing the bottle as far away as possible. With the current, we saw it move and decided to let it go its way without seeing where it would go. Oh, and for those of you who worry we might have hit someone by throwing the bottle, let me reassure you: we threw it in a deserted beach where it couldn’t possibly have gone in someone’s way. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been fun if a swimmer had found it and brought it back to the hotel. We wanted it to end up in somewhere far away. In Haiti or in England, maybe Italy, I don’t know. But not on the place where it came from. Maybe it would. But we wouldn’t know anyways. We were going to leave at some point and the bottle couldn’t go back to the beach right now.

We finished the day on the beach, just enjoying the sea and the sun. Oh, and also kissing. It was like being in a sort of bittersweet dream. It was wonderful, and in the mean time sad. Cause every time I watched the sun go down, I knew it would be one of the last ones Damon would get to see. I couldn’t believe he was going to die. You know, it’s like when school is over. It takes a lot of time to realize that you’re actually not going to go to class for the next two months. And it’s when holidays are over that you realize that you actually were in vacation. I know it sounds weird but it’s kind of the way I felt about Damon dying. I couldn’t imagine it and make sense of it. Not when he was kissing me, not when I was feeling his heartbeat right next to mine, or his lips on my skin. I just couldn’t accept that he was going to leave me in just a few months. I know that I probably sound like a broken record when I write that I can’t believe Damon is going to die but, seriously, I just can’t. Ok, I know, you get it.

The next day, Damon chose something else from the list : Jump from a cliff into deep water.

“Are you crazy?” I asked.

“No. I really want to do it.”

I opened big amazed eyes. But after all, he was going to die so what was the point in being careful, right?

“If you just want to watch on this one, it’s fine.” Damon tried to reassure me, taking my hand.

I didn’t really know if I was going to do it so I didn’t promise anything. After getting a name of a beach where we could do it, we took a cab that drove us there and we got settled on the beach. We took off our clothes but kept our shoes and looked at the cliff standing in front of us.

“Do you want to stay here ?” Damon asked.

I shook my head.

“I’m going to do it.”

“You don’t have to, seriously.”

“I want to. I will regret it if I don’t.”

Damon smiled, kissed me and made sure we would be safe by climbing first and making me wait down to see if it was ok. When I got his green light, I started climbing too to join him and soon enough, we got on top of the cliff. We looked at the beautiful sea down there and I had a moment when I had to step back.

“You’re ok?” Damon asked me, a little worried.

“Just a little scared. But it’s fine.”

“Let’s jump together.” Damon proposed.

I said ok and took his hand. He asked if I was ready and when I said yes, we started counting to three and then, just in a second, we jumped. I screamed a little, and I think Damon did too. We dived in the fresh water and let go of each other’s hand. We swam to go back to the surface of the water and laughed, overwhelmed by all the adrenaline and the scare that was coming out.

“Oh my god that was awesome!” I shouted, amazed.

Damon smiled and kissed me. Then we swam out of the water and got back on the beach.

“You guys are completely crazy.”

We turned and saw two people looking at us with scared eyes. We laughed. We talked a little with them and learned their names, where they were from and everything then got back to the hotel. We crossed Jump from a cliff into deep water off the list proudly and went to the pool for probably the first time. There was music and pretty soon, people gathered around the pool and started dancing. I took Damon’s hand and we joined them, trying to follow their moves and laughing when we realized we looked ridiculous cause everyone knew how to dance but us. We had a lot of fun, met a few people then had dinner with them and stayed late to talk. So, basically, it was the perfect holidays.

(Just a quick note : I know some of you will probably think it's a little fast for them to be kissing (and more), I mean, come on Emily, it's only chapter 13!! But you have to remember that they knew each other for a really long time before (they haven't just met) and well, life is short, especially for Damon and so yeah, it's going pretty fast but why wait, right? 
I hope you enjoyed this chapter I will post another one really soon (like I said before, if you haven't read my previous author's note and I really don't blame you, it's not the most interesting thing haha, but I have most of the story written already except for the ending and so I just have to work on the chapters a little more and since I have a tone of exams it's going to take a little bit of time but don't worry, I will upload whenever I get some time, just like now!)

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