"Damon stop it...Damon please stop it," I said trying to pull Damon back from Lucas.

"Angel get away from me or else you'll regret it."

He pushed me away, but I still didn't want to go away. I knew that Damon couldn't ever be cool headed, he couldn't ever stop and think for a moment. I had to act. There was no time for waiting. Luckily, Matt ran from the other side of the hall and as always he was the one to get between these two.

"If you come close to Bailey one more time, I swear to God that I'll kill you. But before that I'll cut your hands," Damon said punching Lucas after every word.

"I know that at the end she's gonna be with me. She still loves me, you just don't want to believe it," answered Lucas punching him back.

Lucas has always had a talisman-like thing hanging from his pants. It was YinYang composed of those two parts separately and I saw that Yin fell to the floor, but they didn't notice it.

Matt came between them and started pushing those 2 into opposite directions. Then other's saw the fight and Julian ran towards Damon and started pulling him back from Lucas. Owen went to Lucas and started holding Lucas back with Matt.

"Let me go Julian, LET ME GO!" screamed Damon.

"Calm down bro, you won't solve the problem like this. Calm down. Don't ruin this day for yourself and your girlfriend. We'll just make him leave and the problem will be solved."

Damon was standing there and he finally calmed down a little bit.

"Thank you Julian, he wouldn't listen to me. At least he listened to you."

"No problem," he said leaving Damon's side.

He went to talk to Lucas and started convincing him to leave. I couldn't hear what they were talking about, but I saw that at some point Julian grabbed Lucas' collar and was saying something in an angry tone. Lucas looked at me for a second showing his disgusting smirk and then told Julian that he would leave. He mouthed me a "this is not over", winked at me and then left.

Damon saw that and wanted to start a fight again when I, knowing him pretty well already, caught his arm stopping him from moving.

"Don't even think about ruining this day AGAIN!" I said stopping him with my eyes too.

Lucas left and not knowing what to do without him Jenna left too.

Damon noticed the talisman and lifted it off the floor. It was weird that he put it into his pocket, maybe he wanted to give it himself for me not to do it instead of him because for that I had to meet Lucas once again. I hope he wouldn't use this as an opportunity to meet with him and have another fight.

Finally the atmosphere got back to normal and nothing else happened until the end of the party. All of us went home and started kind of analyzing and passing through ourselves the events of the day.

Even though some bad things happened, I was in a pretty good mood. I was extremely happy that Damon finally opened up to me and decided to trust me. It meant a lot to me and our connection, our bond became strong. I think that to be able to love a person completely you have to see all of their sides without exception. And if you love someone or if someone loves you knowing all the sides, then THAT can be called true love.

I had some assignments to take care of for tomorrow, but I decided to do them during my break and just be in a good mood right now, without thinking about anything else than Damon and our day.

When I went downstairs I saw Shay sitting on the couch sadly looking out of the window.

"Shay?" I called her, but she didn't hear me. She was so lost in her thoughts that no matter how many times I called her she wouldn't notice me at all. She only turned her head when I touched her shoulder.

"Oh Bailey," she said wiping the tears from her cheeks. She thought I wouldn't notice it, but unfortunately or maybe fortunately I did.

"Listen Shay, I don't want to lie to you...but I heard what happened between you two...I'm really sorry for that...I actually didn't mean to do that, but I was worried about you and when I was setting you up with him I thought that something would change today...I'm sorry," I said looking into her sad eyes.

Seeing Shay so sad was so weird. I have never seen her like that. She was always so cheerful, so careless and so confident. She hasn't ever been like this, especially because of a guy. Love is indeed the most powerful emotion. You do things you haven't done before or things you haven't ever thought you would do.

"It's fine, I was going to tell you later anyway," she said turning her head back to the window.

I felt so bad at that moment. I wanted her to scream at me, get mad at my actions and tell me that I should be embarrassed of myself, but she didn't and that was even worse.

"Shay, talk to me, don't keep it all in. I know we've haven't been that close before, but we can change that.

"I don't know what to tell you Bailey," she said turning back to me one more time.

"Start from the reason you're crying."

"Isn't it obvious? I still love him and after him I've never loved anyone else. He doesn't believe me, he doesn't trust me and he doesn't want to forgive me. I can't believe this is happening to me Bailey. It was always the guys who cried for me, who fought for me, who begged me to forgive them and now look at me. I'm so lame. What's wrong with me?"

"Shay...you're not lame and it's okay to be hurt because someone you love isn't by your side and can't be by your side at the moment. Don't blame yourself for that. I won't tell you that you have to feel good right now, you don't have to worry about anything. We hear those words so much, but it's easier said than done. Besides, I think that the opposite solution would be better for you. It's okay to feel sad sometimes, it's okay to cry, it's okay to feel vulnerable...Be sad today, tomorrow and if you need even the day after tomorrow, but promise yourself to work on yourself and get back to your feet."

"Thank you Bailey...thanks for not telling me to forget him, not to cry and try to be happy or something...I was fine before seeing him the other day, but the first day I saw him again everything in me started burning again. I remembered our moments, how he hasn't ever done anything to hurt or offend me and then there was me who hurt him to the extent that he still wasn't able to forgive me despite the fact that we haven't seen each other for years."

"Give him some time Shay...He hasn't seen you for years, but the fact that he can't forgive you proves that he loved you really deeply. Give him some time to analyze his own feelings. Maybe the day he saw you feelings were reawaken too. No one knows that except him. Try to be a little patient."

"Thank you. Bailey I'm really thankful, but can you please leave me alone now? I'll think about what you said too."

"Okay then. Everything will fall into place Shay, don't worry. Just be patient. Good night."

"I'll try. Night."

The next morning passed very quickly, as I didn't hear my alarm ring. Then I had my break during which I did the homework I had for the next classes. I didn't meet any of my friends today, but they told me that they would come to my house later. Matt even told me that he had to tell us something, I was already intrigued.

When I left for the university today I saw that Shay was still sleeping, she probably stayed up till late at night. I was actually really happy that she was sleeping because she would at least be able to avoid Elijah thoughts when she was asleep.

I saw Elijah today and he was alone, he wasn't with the guys. Maybe I'm overthinking, but I think that he, just like Shay, wanted to be alone. He seemed sad to me too. Even though he was always the serious one, who didn't show that many emotions on his face, but still.

Today the university day was a very normal one, I would probably also say that it was kinda boring too.

Finally the moment came when Matt was going to come to my house. I came home with Meggy. Shay was also home, she was still in a depressed mood. She hasn't eaten anything so I forced her to eat something by bringing her sandwiches. She refused them at first, but after some time she started eating them silently when I mentioned that my aunt wouldn't let me live if she knew that I wasn't taking proper care of her child.

"It's Matt," I screamed before running towards the door.

"Hello everybody," he calmly said coming in.

"Hey," Meggy and Shay said in unison.

"What were you going to tell us Matty?" I immediately asked.

"Bailey, I just got here, can you at least act like you care about how I am, how I got here, etc?"

"Oh come on! I'm your best friend, why do I have to act or pretend in front of you?"

"Oh whatever," he said sitting on the couch," what I wanted to share with you guys is that Brittany and I broke up."

"What? Why? When? Why?"

You probably concluded that those were my questions. I looked immediately to Meggy, but she wasn't happy about that, she was just a little surprised.

"Yeah, I knew this was gonna happen if it hasn't happened already the day you told us she couldn't come because of a family thing or something," said Shay taking a big bite of the sandwich.

"Why is no one as surprised as I am?" I said shocked looking at everybody.

"Because I knew that at some point this would happen," answered Shay with food in her mouth.

"How?"

"Do you maybe want to hear the answers from me Bay?"

"Oh okay, sorry."

"Well, we felt like whatever we felt for each other in the beginning wasn't there anymore. I don't know why, but we became colder towards each other."

"You really don't know why?" asked Shay and I didn't understand why she was acting so suspicious back then.

"Uhm...yeah, why?"

"No reason. Go on," she said not believing him and continuing to eat her sandwich.

"Well, that's pretty much it. But we kinda didn't end on good terms. She was pissed at me."

"See that's why I was asking if you really don't know the reason."

"Stop it Shay, he would've said it if he knew it."

Meggy was silent throughout all of this time and she wasn't even looking that much at us. She was only looking at her phone and texting someone with a smile on her face. She probably completely lost her hope that she would ever be with Matt.

"Just sayin'," mentioned Shay in a matter of fact tone.

"No, she said some nonsense, but I don't want to share it with you guys. It was a complete nonsense."

"It's sad that you two broke up Matty. It felt to me that you finally found someone permanent, that she wasn't one of your short-term crushes."

"Well, apparently, she wasn't."

"To brighten the atmosphere up let's watch a comedy guys. Are you in?" I said trying to cheer them up.

"I'm sorry Bailey, but I have a date with Julian. He's already on his way," was the first thing Meggy said in a long time.

"Is your relationship serious? Are you sure you want to continue with him? I just don't want him to use y-"

"Bailey I slept with him...He still texts me, he still wants to see me...even after we slept together..."

"YOU WHAT?" I shouted and Shay spit her sandwich back on the plate. Matt was so shocked that he didn't even say anything. I'm sure he just couldn't.

"I didn't want to tell you, but you made me say it. I really like him guys and if I get hurt, it's fine, I don't care about that now. I only care about the fact that I'm happy now."

I wasn't sure if she was doing right to trust Julian, but she could say the same thing about Damon so that would be wrong to confront her about that.

"Well, all of us are in no place to judge you or give piece of advice. Just look at our relationships. So messed up and chaotic," said Shay in a low voice and she was actually right.

"You're right," agreed Matt.

"So, excuse me but I have to go now. Julian's already here. Have fun all of you."

She was happy, I guess that's what mattered the most.

"Guess it's the three of us now. Are we watching a comedy?" asked Matt quickly switching his glance from me to Shay and back.

"I'll pass, I have to pass. I want to call Elijah. I need to talk to him."

"Elijah? I saw you guys at the party kinda together and kinda not together. Is there something going on between you?" asked Matt without realizing that it was the wrongest question to ask Shay at the moment.

"There was and I hope there will be, can't tell you more than that," she said getting up from the coach and living.

"Shay...are you sure about that? Don't you wanna wait?" I asked her wanting her to reconsider that decision.

"Yes I'm sure, I can't wait anymore," she mumbled and left the room.

Matt and I decided not to watch the comedy today because it wouldn't be cool to watch it together. I brought us ice cream to pass the time until Shay would be back. Mine was obviously Snickers and his was Twix.

We sat close to each other like we always did and started talking about different stuff while eating the ice cream. As I was home my hair was up in a messy bun, but at some point I got a headache and just had to let my hair down. One of the strands of my hair decided to try and ruin my ice cream by falling it, but Matt caught it and put it behind my ear.

His hand stayed on my head for a while. He was looking me in the eyes and he was dead serious. He wasn't laughing or something. There was a moment I even thought we were playing the game where you don't have to blink until your opponent loses.

I started feeling awkward and Damon was the one who broke the awkwardness by knocking on the door. Shay was the one to open the door and I concluded that she didn't get to talk to Elijah, he probably didn't pick up.

Damon came and sat next to me gesturing for Matt to sit a little farther. There was still a little bit of pressure between them, but I think that it'll pass with time. Their relationship didn't start off that smoothly.

Damon was constantly getting messages from someone. At first he was just ignoring the texts by guiding my attention towards something else, though it didn't work, but then he turned his phone and before he did it I read the name of the sender, "Shadow."

They were still texting him. He started ignoring them, but maybe it was dangerous? I was so afraid for him. I wish I could solve his problems without him knowing and just by myself.

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Published on 25.09.20