Loving the Dead

Chapter 9: Where's Sam ?

Nerissa's POV.

"UNO OUT!" Sam yelled. Her and Damien have been playing uno for almost an hour now. She won every single game and he refuses to stop until he wins.

"Nope , you cheated and just for that we're playing again." Damien said

"Fine with me, but let's just make it a little bit more interesting." She replied

" How interesting ?

"We play 10 games . Whoever loses the most games gives the winner 10 dollars. "

"Deal."

"Damien ! " I yelled. I know he is not about to play Sam for money. I should've known Sam was going to pull something like this. She was gambling ever since freshman year.

"Look Nerissa I got this. Now give me a kiss for good luck. "

"Fine. " I pecked his lips once and shook my head. " Do what you want . But no offense babe , you kinda suck." I made everyone in the room laugh including Damien.

" Ha, that was funny. But I'm not going to loose . In fact I'm going to win just for you." I blushed and turned to Anthony.

"Yeah and Sam you better win for me too or I'm not kissing you for a week." Anthony said.

"Oh please you know you couldn't do that even if you really wanted to." She said and blew him a kiss.

" God Damn. " He said under his breath but enough for us to hear.

" Come on let's leave them to their game." I said to Anthony. We got up from the dinning room table and walked to the living room and turned the T.V on.

" So tell me, how did you and Sam meet ?" I asked him.

" It wasn't too long ago.  I actually remember it like it was yesterday. I was in the music store and I saw her in there with this guy. She looked hurt and she had a few cuts and bruises so I assumed it was from him. She was looking through my favorite selection. I noticed her fingers trembling when she was flipping through different disks and then she accidentally dropped one. I picked it up for her. She smiled at me and Nerissa when I tell how much my heart dropped. It felt like it fell all the way to my socks. I smiled back at her and told her that if that guy she was with wasn't treating her right I could take her away from all of this. She told me that he wasn't her boyfriend so I knew I had to automatically get her number. As soon as I got it the guy she was with yelled her name and I saw fear in her eyes and she quickly ran off. The guy I saw her with I knew for a fact was the same guy that hurt her that night we went to the movies. And honestly I'm glad he's gone. Anyways , that night and many nights after I would call her and we would talk for hours . Sometimes we would even fall asleep on the phone together. Then we started making plans to meet up in person . Now she ended up being the love of my life. I made a promise to take her away from all she's been through and I'm keeping my promise."

" Wow, I don't even know what to say to that. I'm surprised you even remember. You don't even look like the type to fall in-love." I said causing him to laugh.

" Yeah me and Damien kind of made promises to each other to never get sprung over a girl."

" I see you broke your promise."

" Yeah and I can see he did too. How did you guys meet anyways ?"

"Well ever since that night when I got transformed I've been going to the park in the middle of the night. Crazy I know. But I just been fascinated with looking into the water and not being able to see my reflection. I don't why but that's besides the point. It turns out that Damien did the same thing. For a few weeks I've been seeing him at the park and I didn't necessarily say anything because I didn't think he would be interested in me. Until one night he actually came up to me and started talking to me. I was so nervous I kept shaking and waited for the conversation to be over. Then he asked me out on a date to the movies. That's when we had our first kiss before you know..."