For Your Love. {Damiano David}

Chapter Thirteen - Sweet Memories.

November 8th 2020.

The sound of the water running woke me up abruptly from the recurring dream that kept freaking me out nearly every morning. I take a steady breath and wipe a small bit of sweat from my forehead only to realize I had fallen asleep on Damiano who was still knocked out. He always looked cute when he was sleeping, it was annoying. 

I slowly push myself off of his body and tiptoe out the room to join Victoria in the shower. Before everyone goes what the fuck? She's seeing your best pal... Vic and I have a very odd tradition that whenever one of us stays at the others house, we share a shower and catch up on all the gossip we've failed to mention and seeing as I've been gone almost a year and a half... we definitely had a lot to catch up on. On my walk to the bathroom I completely strip down and by the time I push open the door, I had just removed my underwear. I place them in a pile on the sink and shut the bathroom door behind me.

"It's only me" I give her a little warning before I walk over and slide into the shower with her. 

12:30

"Bye Vic" I say goodbye, kissing both her cheeks as she leans against her front door. Damiano kisses her head and pulls her into a side hug before we make our way to the stairs.

"I'm going to phone my mum and see what's going on" I tell him, bringing out my phone and pressing her contact. On the third ring she picks up.

"Hey sweetheart"

"Hey mum, how's Nonna doing?" I ask her, thanking Damiano quietly as he holds a door open for me. 

"Well she's being a trooper. I think she's going to have to stay in for another night but I need you to listen to me, your dads coming to stay with Nonna and I in the hospital because I can't do this by myself so I was going to ask if you and Damiano could watch Alessia for the night, just until your dad or me come home" 

"Yeah of course mum, we're heading back to the house now so we won't be long" I tell her.

"Okay baby, thank you. Give love to Damiano and your sister" 

"Okay mum, bye"

I hang up the phone and shove it into my pocket. 

"We're watching Alessia for the night, my dad's staying with mum and Nonna in the hospital" I explain just as we get outside. The cool air was so refreshing after a night cooped up in the oddly warm apartment. Damiano nods in response and lights a cigarette before lacing his fingers with mine as we walk down the streets of Rome.

13:12

My dad had just left for the hospital as Damiano and Alessia were cuddled up on the couch, watching Frozen for the third time since we arrived here. I was in the kitchen plating up some wraps and veggies seeing as I had a lot of shit to do and didn't have time to make anything 'fancy'.

I was gonna clean up Nonna's room because over the last few days I realized all her piles of clothes were building up and old coffee cups were all over her room, I just want her to be as comfortable as possible. I grab the two plates after I had finished plating up and walk across to the other room the two of them were in, handing them over a plate each. 

"Where's your lunch?" Damiano asks, taking his plate in his lap. 

"I'm not hungry, I'm gonna start cleaning Nonna's room and get everything sorted for her coming home" I tell him, watching his eyebrows furrow up at me.

"You haven't eaten since breakfast yesterday" He points out.

"Jesus Damiano I'm not hungry" I snap, turning my back from them both and storming out of the room. I was twenty years old, I didn't need fucking babying. Especially not from him.

17:45

Damiano had taken Alessia out for ice cream after her dinner which gave me peace and quiet to finish up Nonna's room.
I had found my old fairy lights in one of my cupboards so I thought it would be a nice idea to hang them up around her room. I stand up on one of her spare boxes by her bed and position the lights exactly where I wanted them to hang. Perfect.. I reach down to grab the tape I had left on her bedside table and when I do I lose my footing on the box, falling backwards quickly and landing my ass against the hard wooden floor.

Fucking hell. That was embarrasing. I stand up slowly, rubbing my ass to ease the ache the fall had caused. Knowing my luck that was probably karma for being asshole to Damiano earlier, I sigh about to pick the lights back up when I notice all the photos that fallen from the now opened box. What the hell?... I bend over and pick up the closest three to see they were all from our big family trip to Greece two and a half years ago. I didn't realize Nonna had kept all of them. 

I chuckle as I come across the photo of Damiano and I when we all went out to dinner to the bar by the beach. I was sitting on his leg as his arms were wrapped around me, he was laughing away to himself, trying to hide his face in my hair.

"You can't act all cute together and then get shy when a camera comes out" My mum grins, getting up from her seat in the restaurant. I cover my face embarrassedly as Damiano laughs, kissing my cheek while adjusting me on his leg.

"Come on Eve, look at the camera" She instructs. My dad had made a really lame joke so that had set me off beforehand. I had found it a little too funny and now I was trying to keep a straight face but I could feel Dami's shoulders shaking as he laughed to himself quietly. We both face my mum and she snaps a few photos of us but as soon as she puts the camera away, the whole family breaks down into fits of laughter. What were they putting in these cocktails?

"I'm g-gonna pee" I wipe the tears from my eyes as I quickly get up from Dami's lap, rushing to the toilets at the very back of the restaurant.