Mind games | Damon torrance x oc

chapter six ❄️

13 years ago
(Tw: self harm)

MAYA

"Mom, are you sure I should actually go? I mean look at me" I say looking at myself in the mirror. Today we had a party at madam torrance's house for our ballet class. I never liked ballet nor do I actually look good in a leotard and a tutu. I was never a skinny kid, I knew that but this leotard was making it ten times worse showing off my stomach.

I only got into ballet because of my best friend winter. Winter and I have been friends for almost 2 years now. She was my only friend, but with someone like her you don't need another friend. She was my whole world. We would always have play dates at my house where we would pretend we have children and we're in the park talking about life like grown ups do.

"Honey I truly wish you knew how adorable you look in your little tutu right now, it suits you so much. Please stop worrying." My mom tried to sound upbeat and make me feel better. I did appreciate the effort but I never believed her when she said stuff like that. I mean i konw she is lying because I'm her daughter, she knows I can look in the mirror and find out the truth.

We go to the car, my dad I waiting in the driver's seat. He looks at me with disgust at how tight my outfit is and with something else that I wasn't able to understand. It's almost like the look he gives my mom when she dresses up for their date night.

We get to madam torrance's house fast because we're almost next door neighbors. If you stood on my desk chair and started out the window you could see a part of their house. Sometimes I also see madam torrance's son, damon. But he's not very friendly towards me or anyone really. I tried to be talk to him many times but it never worked so I gave up.

I look for winter the moment I get out the car, spotting her I run over to her and madam ashby.

"Thank so much for coming with me Maya. I know you don't like coming here but I'm so happy you came to be with me" one of my favorite things was seeing winter happy, so I tried to do what I can to always make her happy.

We go inside the house hand in hand. The rest of the class is with is us. Madam torrance is wearing a beautiful gown that matched her black hair and eyes.

Out of the corner of my eye I see a black haired boy, immediately recognizing him as damon. He looked like he didn't want to be here at all. I couldn't blame him I didn't want to be here either.

Catching me looking at him he walks away walking to the backyard. In the moment madam torrance told us to go wherever we want. I don't know why but I followed damon.

"Maya wait" winter shouted behind me. Ignoring her I follow damon to the fountain maze. One of the only reasons why I come here was so I can see the fountain in the middle of the maze. It was one of the most beautiful ones I've ever seen. I've always wanted one so I can sit by it when I wanted to be alone.

The whole class was also outside and going into the maze. I was scared I was going to get lost but I was excited to solve this maze on my own too.

After getting a couple of dead ends I finally reach the fountain. I've never seen it in real life only in pictures of their house online. It was so much more beautiful in real life. A gaint bowl at the bottom where all the water goes, it's so big you can sit and hide in it.

Seeing a black figure I step back scared, but I take another look and it's

"Damon? What are you doing here?" I call out to him but he doesn't respond. I go to him seeing him under the water hiding.

"Okay, I'll go then I was just checking on you" but he reaches out for my hand. I take it and climb into the fountain with him.

"What happened? You're bleeding" I say looking down at his hand seeing the blood. He doesn't respond, reaching for his hand he let's me take it. I run it under the water around us. I rub my thumb gently over it, "you know something I've learned? It turns out your body can focus on only one pain at a time" he looks at me intrigued.

Leaning down I bite his pinky finger hard. He looks up at me with soft eyes. "How are feeling now?" "It worked, how did you know this?" He asks.

"My dad taught me that" I say looking down at my lap not really telling him the truth of how I found that out.

"You're not telling the truth are you? I can tell by your face". I panic a little on the inside not knowing what to say.
"It's alright you can say, is it the scars on your arm?" He grabs my arm with soft hands. I'm preparing myself for the disgust everyone has shown me when they have seen what I've done just like my own parents did. Instead he runs his thumb so gently over the scars looking at them curious.

"It's a long story but yeah that's how I found out" " and your dad is the reason you did this and found out?" "basically"

We pause looking at each other without moving a muscle. He goes out from under the fountain grabbing my hand. We walk until we see a large tree house, so large it could be a house for me.

"Are we going up there?" " yes, I want you to see up there. You could see the whole city"

It looks so high up and scary but I climb up anyways hoping my clothes don't rip.
He helps me up and we look infront of us actually seeing the whole town like he said.

"Wow it's so beautiful up here, damon"
Looking over at him I realize he's still holding my hand. Looking at him I feel a weird urge to just lean in and kiss him which I've never felt with anyone before. I've never even held hands with a boy let alone kissed him but with damon, something about him made me comfortable enough to want to do it.

As if he's reading my thoughts he leans in kissing me softly for just a couple of seconds. I didn't want him to pull away but he did. Still so close to my face that I can feel his breath he says to me in a soft whisper "I might kiss you again when we're older you know" "I would love that " I say back, smiling at each other.

Our moment is interrupted by a shout of my name, I look down seeing winter climbing up to us. "Winter wait it's too dangerous I'll help you" I hold out my hand for her take but at the same moment her dad pulls at her tutu. "Winter let's go right now" he says angrily looking at me for some reason. I try to pull her up. damon takes my hand helping me but we still couldn't manage to pull her up. He dad tugs on her tutu with so much force her hand slips from mine and Damon's. I watched her in shock as she falls down hitting her head and crying out how she couldn't see anything.