Tangled hearts | Fool for his bitterness 2

XV

We arrive at the giant mansion and Jeremiah's eyes are sparkling by the sight of it "wow" he expresses fascinated, I giggle at how that was literally my first impression as well.
"Can you wait here for me?" Jere nods understandingly, "Yeah no worries, take your time!" As he smiles his eyes squeeze a bit and I thank him for tolerating my requisition and heat towards the big blue colored door.
I ring the bells and one or two minutes later the same quirky lady as the last time opens the door. "I'm sorry Miss Lynch that I bother you again, but I would really appreciate it if I could exchange a few words with your son Damien." Fascinated by myself that I even have such a vocabulary I stand still in front of the impressing woman.
She groans with tense and replies madly "Aren't you the girl that even dumped my son in the first place?" I raise both my eyebrows "is that what he told you?" I ask, annoyed Miss Lynch crosses her arms "No, he barely talks to me, I just knew it." She can make me so mad right now I just wish I could yell at her but instead I decided to ignore the woman and just walk past her upstairs, in front of one of the room doors sits Damien's little brother, he plays with his toy cars and smiles warmly at me "hey buddy" I begin as I knee down so that I'm on the same eye level as him "Do you have any clue where your brother is?" He nods and points towards Damien's room "he told me not to disturb him" the little guy says before I get up again, warmly I smile at him and thank the boy for his help.

Before actually going inside the room I take a deep breath, I am so nervous for no reason at all.
I then finally overcome myself and open the door to the boys room.
I go inside and face Damien who was just about to yell at the door to keep it shut, as he sees it's me the boy jumps up and wipes away tears. Damien walks towards me and tries hardly to hide the fact that he probably just cried minutes ago, but his eyes and cheeks expose him, they both are swollen red and his eyes are still all glassy, "What are you doing here?" He ask sounding baffled "I-I" I stutter, I k ow exactly what I want yo say but I can't pronoun the words right, my heart beat increases as my mind goes slightly insane, I can't think of anything, why the hell am I so nervous?!
Why- "Is it because of Jeremiah Fisher?" He suddenly interrupts my thoughts, my body then relaxes almost like he would have taken off all this pressure from me but now he looks so tense, or is it just my mind playing games with me?
"I'm so sorry, Damien.." I begin to apologize but tears are already streaming down his beautiful face "N-no. That's not fair. Y-you said I meant something to you. You assured me that you liked me." His voice trembles as his body seems to shake slightly, probably caused by the anxiety or madness, "Fuck. How could you be so cruel?! How could you toy with me like that after all that you have experience on your own?! I felt save with you, I-I trusted you.." suddenly he breaks down, his body hitting the floor as he begins to bury his head between his legs and covers it with his arms.
I can hear him sob violently and it breaks my heart knowing damn well that I caused this, it's my fault that this loving boy is now broken. "Please, I'm sorry.. I swear I didn't mean to. I truly care for you .. b-but.." he cuts off my sentence "But just as a friend? Well thank you. I'd rather not be friends with such a backstabbing person as you are." Not knowing what else to do I reach out for his head and begin to caress it, but he pushes away my hand, causing me to lose balance and falling to the floor.
Damien raises his head and stares at me with cold, darkened eyes. "You should leave now." His tone sounds unfamiliar mad so I assume that it really would be better if I leave now.

Heating down the stairs I think I almost made it out side, the door is already wide open with the handle in my hand but of course as always his mother catches up to me, "I assume now you actually broke my son?" She sounds so arrogant that this time I can't help but yell at her, "You are a fucking terrible mother, did you know that?" She touches her chest with the left hand as if my confrontation just made have break her heart, but I don't care, it's the truth.
"Do you even have any idea how special your son is?" I groan as I point at her with my pointer finger, leaving her too stunned to reply "All you do is complain but do you ever hear Damien complain?! He literally is the sweetest boy that exists, all he wants is for everyone to like him and his actions."
I breath in deeply and my arm sinks to the ground again "put down some of your authority and just finally show love to your children, kids deserve to be hugged and kissed good night. Just fucking change your attitude." It just kind of bursts out of me, I don't even know from what dark space of my brain this comes but I'm glade it's finally out.
When I look at the stairs I notice in the corner of my eye that Damien stands on the top of it, holding his brothers hand, but when I turn around Jeremiah already waits for me in the door frame.
As bad as I want to give Damien one final hug I decide to give in and walk out with Jere.