I'll Love You Until the Day I Die

Chapter Three

The rest of the day went by rather quickly, not that I was going to complain about that. Soon it was lunch and I made my way over to the table that was far away from everyone else. Not long after Aurora joined me.

"Hey doll, how are you hold up?" She asked me as she buttered her bread. I simply groaned and laid my head down on the cold hard table top.

"I just want to go home, sleep, and not wake up for a very long time," I told her honestly. Which earned me a punch in the shoulder.

"Don't even think about it," Aurora growled.

"Huh?" I said sitting up looking at her in confusion. Her eyes weren't fixed on me though, they were fixed on Damian who was standing over our table with his tray in hands watching us and smirking.

"I believe this is a free country, yes?" He said as he sat down and began eating his food.

My heart was in my throat and my chest was pounding painfully. Sweat broke out along my neck again causing my breathing to quicken.

"Damian.. What are you doing here?" I managed to ask threw my closed up throat.

"I told you, coming back to school," he said innocently.

"Not school here, this table here," Aurora said her eyes still formed into narrow slits at him.

"I am sitting here because I can," he said glaring back at her. They never really got along when we were together, but now it's so much worse.

"I need to get some air," I croaked out standing up and rushing to the bathroom, thankful no one else was in there.

I hated this. I hated how weak he made me feel. I hate him seeing the effect he has on me. I hate all of it. I wanted to crawl into a dark hole and never come out. I loved him. I loved him with everything in my body and he left me. Now here is he, as glorious as ever, torturing me with every breath he was taking.

I splashed some water over my face and neck trying to calm myself down. I wanted him to see that I was strong. That I didn't need him. And that I am happy without him. Even if it's all a lie.

...

The end of the day finally came and I couldn't have been more happy to go home and get away from everything. All of those plans came crashing down when I walked outside and Damian was sitting right in front of my bus in his truck blocking my way to get on the bus.

"Let me take you home," he insisted opening the passenger door and looking at me.

Every part of my body was telling me not to go with him. So what did I do? I got in the truck.

He smirked and climbed in the driver seat and we took off down the road away from my house.

"Damian, you know where my house is. I haven't moved," I explained thinking maybe he forgot.

He ignored me and kept driving until finally we pulled off on a dirt road. After he drove about a mile down the road, he pulled off to the side next to this bridge and shut the car off. I looked around trying to figure out if I had been here before.

It was beautiful. The tree's connected like a canopy over road leaving it dark and secluded. I could hear the stream bubbling underneath us and the trees swayed with the warm breeze.

"I found this after we broke up, I come here almost every day. It reminded me of us," he explained, his voice barely above a whisper.

"So why did you bring me here?" I asked looked down kicking a rock with my foot.

"I wanted to show you something," he said holding his hand out waiting for me to grab it. I took a deep breath before I grabbed his outstretched hand. It was so warm and familiar, it brought tears to my eyes. 

He lead me through the woods and across the river. I tripped and stumbled but yet managed not to fall, but that didn't stop him from laughing everytime I spit out a curse word due to a branch stabbing me. After what felt like forever of trudging through the woods we came to a slight clearing. It looked odd and out of place, like somebody purposely made this clearing in the middle of the woods. There was one lone tree in the middle of it.

He began walking to towards the tree and I followed him curiously. He stopped and looked at me as we approached the tree and I swear I saw tears welling in his eyes.

"Damian, what's going on? What is this?" I asked wanting to figure out what this was all about. He grabbed my hand and pulled me to the other side of the tree. In the tree was a carved heart, above a large hole in the tree, with the letters: R + D = L.

This caused my breath to hitch in my throat and tears began streaming down my face uncontrollably.

"The L stands for?" I asked tentatively.

"LillyAnna... Our daughter," he whispered his voice cracking as he said daughter.

He reached in the hole and pulled out two things. One was a little pink onesie that said 'mommy and daddy's little girl' on it, which we got to bring her home from the hospital in. The other thing was a little white stuffed bear with a big red heart on it's stomach. It was the bear I gave to Damian when I told him I was pregnant.

My heart swelled and tears began falling faster and my sniffles became sobs as I held them to my chest and began to bawl like a baby. Damians arms were around me in an instant, holding me and rocking me. I don't know how long we stayed like that but eventually the tears ceased and I was able to talk.

"Why did you show me this Damian?" I asked in a whisper putting the things back in the hole.

"I wanted you to know that I loved you, and I loved our daughter. Even if I didn't always show it." He whispered pushing a hair behind my ear. That did it.

I threw my arms around his neck and kissed him like I'd never kissed him before. I realized just how much I had missed him. Finally the kisses stopped and it began getting dark. How long had we been out there?

Damian dropped me off at home and with a final kiss goodbye, he left. I went inside my heart swelling with love and sorrow. When I went upstairs I opened the door to Aurora sitting on my bed glaring at me.

"Start explaining."