Broken Rings

Chapter 7

Autumn POV:

As night falls, I tried to go to sleep, I really did, but what happened earlier in the kitchen is what is keeping me awake.

It seems as though my feelings for Damian are so mixed up that I don't know what to feel right now, either it's happy, worried, confused or something else.

As I try to read a book to help me fall asleep, my phone rings, I go to answer it, but before I can hit the green button, I see it's Damian. To this, I hesitate, he was so distant when he left, I thought he was mad at me for pushing away his affection.

I push my feelings down and answer his call, over on the other line, I can hear crashing and a loud bang, almost like someone hitting the floor, hard. To this, the little sleep in me has disappeared immediately.

"Damian?" I ask gently.

Responding to my worried call "I am a helpless soul" He slurped "I am now-"

"Damian, what are you talking about?" I said as I was getting up from my bed, "Are you okay?"

"I may or may not take a few drinks, probably what? Four, five" He laughed over the phone "Holy shit, this is pathetic" He mumbled.

"Where are you?" I asked.

"I closed today, so I'm hosting a party in the restaurant.... by myself"

"Stay put, I'm coming to get you" I said, grabbing my keys.

"Yayy, wonder woman coming to the rescue" He expressed loudly over the phone.

I hang up and head out the door to my car, I don't care that I'm in my pajamas. I make my way over to the restaurant he works at, I just hope once I get there, he can still be able to function properly enough to sober up.

Once I reach the restaurant, I get out of my car and I notice through the windows that all the lights are off, Damian still must be inside.

I go to push open the door and luckily it's unlocked, not the safest thing to do when you are closing up a restaurant, I just hope Damian hasn't done anything bad to get himself hurt or fired.

Like why would you get drunk at the restaurant you work at and worse, be in charge of closing the place up?

As soon as I take a few steps inside, I immediately spot Damian, he's sitting on the ground, with a bottle in his hand, his eyes are closed, indicating that he's about to pass out and sleep. I walk over to him and crouch to his level so that I can get a better look at him and the state he's in.

As I'm looking at him, he slowly opens his eyes, and when he notice that's it's me, his eye widen, I stand up, wanting to give him space so that he can stand up as well, but he instead wraps his arms around my legs, leaving the bottle and cling to me like a child

"You're hereee" He mumbles, burying his face against my knees.

I lean forward to rub his back in a comforting way, "Yes Damian, I'm here"

He loosens one of his arms and reaches for the bottle he once had, he takes another drink from it, I try to reach for the bottle as well, not wanting him to get even more drunk than he already is, but he snatches it away.

"Damian, give me the bottle, you had enough for one night" I firmly state.

He then stands up, still having the bottle in his hand, he looks down at me with dazed eyes, he takes another swing right in front of me, wipes his mouth with the back of his hand.

"You know, I was just living my regular life, going to work and shit, but then boom, you popped out of nowhere, now every single goddamn day, I get excited to see you" He paused as he takes a step forward "You actually make my life more vibrant"