When We're Together (Damon Albarn)

Chapter Fifteen

Monday 4th December 2006

"Negative" I breathed, I thought I'd have a huge wave of relief wash over me, but instead, the sudden realisation of how devastated Damon was going to be hit me like a tonne of bricks.

"I'm really sorry" I whispered, reaching across and taking hold of his hand, he sharply removed his hand from my grip. Shaking his head as he stood up and headed towards the door.

"Well you got what you wanted" He laughed bitterly, glancing back at me before turning on his heel and walking out of the room.

I let a feeble call after him die in the back of my throat as I sat on the floor in shock. I knew he'd be upset but I wasn't quite expecting that reaction from him.

I checked the remaining four tests, a small part of me feeling slightly deflated at the sight of the five single lines. As much as I hadn't wanted them to be positive, Damon had and that made a small part of me want the same.

I threw them in the bin before heading out in search of Damon, I was hoping that the ten minutes I'd left him for had given him a chance to cool off. Outbursts like that were really quite a rarity for him.

I followed the sound of a gentle piano melody until I found him hunched over the piano in the lounge.

"Damon" I said gently, taking a few steps so that I was closing the gap between us. He kept his back to me, the melody remaining steady as he appeared to ignore me.

"Damon" I repeated, a slightly harsher tone taking over my words as I placed my hand on his shoulder.

He continued to ignore me, I sighed loudly before sitting down next to him and removing his hands from the piano, forcing him to stop and look at me.

"What was that about Dames?" I asked him softly, he laughed again.

"Well you got your way, didn't you?" He told me, his eyebrows raised as he spoke.

"Damon" I let a shocked bout of laughter fall from my mouth "It was hardly something I had control over"

He shrugged his shoulders, his face stony as he swung his legs round and stood up from the stool, turning his back on me, yet again, to walk out of the room.

"Damon will you stop walking away from me" I sighed as I aimlessly followed him into the kitchen.

He sharply spun around, his cold glare sending shivers down my spine. I don't think I had ever seen him like this, or if I had, it was years ago.

"I'm sorry Eliza, but I really don't want to look at you right now" He started walking again and I stood, dumbfounded, in his wake. Surely those words didn't just leave this mouth?

"Eliza, please stop following me" He stressed, as I began walking behind him through the house.

"No Damon" I told him firmly, reaching forward and grabbing hold of his shoulder so that he stopped walking "We're going to talk like fucking adults"

"Okay, we'll talk like adults" He snarled, clicking his tongue as he paused "I think you're a fucking bitch for getting my hopes up like that, I bet you're on your period right fucking now, you just made it all up didn't you? Made it up to get at me"

"Damon" I hesitated, swallowing hard to try and remove the lump in my throat. Normally I'd be shouting back at him, but I was in such shock at his words that I didn't know what to say "You're being really unfair"

"Oh I'm being unfair?" He laughed loudly, his bitter tone starting to scare me slightly "I'll tell you what's unfair, making me watch you do a test when you knew it was going to be fucking negative, Why did you even tell me when you hadn't taken a test"