I spent about 5 hours writing this one. I woke up at 11 and just had to write another chapter! I was going to skip Damian's first day of school, but then an idea popped up and then this chapter happened.


Disclaimer: I do not own Until Dawn! I only own my characters and anything that doesn't follow the plot of the game.

Edited (If I missed any errors, they should be fixed the next time I go through to edit everything)


Also thank you everyone for following/favoriting the story, and leaving your thoughts/ideas in the reviews/PMs! It means a lot to me! And a few of you have given me some great ideas for stories in the future and I will definitely use your ideas and I'll give you credit for giving me the idea.


Chapter 3: Cheerleaders and Cleaning

Damian's first day of school was very...eventful. Most of his classes he had with Mike, and two of his classes he had with Beth. Damian met a lot of other people, and some seemed a little too desperate to meet him.

There were a couple of cheerleaders in his math class. They didn't seem that interested in him until after they overheard his conversation with Mike about thinking about joining the football team. Once they heard that, they were all over him. After that class, Mike kept teasing Damian by saying he was a ladies man like himself.

Other than that, the day seemed to be going pretty well until lunch time came around.

Flash back

Damian and Mike grabbed their lunch before heading over to the table where everyone else was already at. Everyone greeted Damian and Mike once they reached the table. Damian went to sit next to Beth, who saved the seat beside her for him. "Hey guys. Hey Be-"

"Damian!" Damian looked over to see the cheerleaders from earlier walking over to him.

"Oh, fuck me." He mumbled to himself before turning towards the girls' with a smile. "Hey!" Damian didn't even remember the girls names. There were three of them and they were the definition of stereotypical cheerleaders. One girl has natural blonde hair and blue eyes. Damian assumed that she was the captain by the way she acted. Another one had brown hair and brown eyes, and the last girl had unnatural blonde hair and brown eyes.

"Damie, why don't you come sit with me and my friends?" The natural blonde asked with a very annoying, flirty voice. She had even put her hand on Damian's arm, while she looked at him with a look that Damian was apparently supposed to fall for.

"Actually, I-" Before he could even finish his sentence, the three girls were dragging the tall teenager over to their table that had even more annoying looking cheerleaders. Damian looked back at his friends to see if any of them were even going to help him. He looked over to see Mike, Chris, and Josh laughing at him and when he looked at them, they gave him a thumbs up. Matt just shook his head while smiling. Jess, Emily, Ashley, and Sam were glaring at the guys like they were mad that they were trying to encourage Damian to flirt with the cheerleaders. Hannah looked...worried and Beth- Well Beth was pissed. She was too pissed to even look at Damian. Mostly because after Damian left, Mike told everyone that Damian was a ladies man.

Damian ignored the annoying voices around him as he looked over at Beth. He didn't want her to be mad at him. Hell, he didn't even want to be with the cheerleaders. He took his phone out to text Beth, but as soon as it was out of his pocket, the leader of the cheerleaders, who's name is Courtney, took his phone.

"Damie, I totally forgot that you don't have my number! I'm glad you reminded me to give it to you. Now we can text all the time!" Damian almost physically cringed at her high pitched voice. Before he knew it, he had 10 new numbers on his phone. The girls all even took pictures of themselves on his phone to make it their contact photo. Once Damian got his phone back, he immediately sent a text to Beth.

'Beth, I'm really sorry! I didn't even know that would happen.' -Damian

He looked at her to see if she would look at it. He watched as she took her phone out of her pocket. She looked at it for one second, before angrily shoving the phone back into her pocket. Damian stared at her, shocked that she didn't even take the time to actually look at the message.

"Damie, are you even listening to me? Like oh my god!" Damian sighed and tried to hold his anger in as he looked at Courtney again.

"Sorry." He mumbled before listening to her go on and on about her outfits and her hair.

When lunch finally ended, Damian tried to find Beth to talk to her, but she was already gone.

Flashback end

For the rest of the school day, he tried to find Beth in between classes, since he had no afternoon classes with her. Mike had tried to distract him to get his mind off of Beth, but he couldn't stop thinking about her. Damian sent her about a million text messages. He doubt that she even looked at them, but that didn't mean he couldn't try. He wasn't even 100% sure why she was mad at him, and he was starting to think that she was being childish for ignoring him.

Now he was at home, frantically cleaning everywhere in the house. To any other person, the house would be spotless to them, but Damian felt that it wasn't clean enough. His anxiety was getting the best of him again, and he was desperately trying to distract his mind. His mother tried to tell him many times that the house was clean enough and that he needed to stop, but he just ignored her. Damian was so focused on cleaning that he didn't even hear the doorbell going off. His mother came down the stairs and glared at him before answering the door.

"Hi, my names Beth. I live next door. My mom wanted me to come over and bring you these cookies. She would have came over herself, but she got caught up in her work." Damian panicked slightly when he heard her. He didn't know if he wanted to avoid her or run to the door to talk to her. He chose to keep cleaning since he didn't want her to get even more angry if he tried to talk to her. That, and he knew his mother would probably yell at him for being rude.

"Oh thank you! So, you're the Beth I've been hearing so much about." Damian almost dropped the bottle of windex he was holding.

'Why would she say that?!' He thought. Beth probably was just as surprised as he was. Sure he told her about Beth, but he also told her about everyone else. Damian has always been close to his mother, even though they didn't get along most of the time.

"You seem pretty close to my son, maybe you can talk some sense into him. He's been cleaning nonstop since he's gotten home from school. I think something is bothering him, but he won't tell me." Damian didn't bother to listen to anything else since he went into a different room. Beth would most likely turn his mother's offer down and just go home anyways.

After a few minutes, he concluded that Beth left as he scrubbed the bookshelves to get any dust off. His heart almost jumped out of his chest when the door opened. Damian continued to scrub the wooden shelf harder. Whoever came in the room was silent for a while and just stood there watching him before finally speaking.

"You weren't kidding when you said you liked to clean." Beth's voice rang through the room. She sounded more nervous than angry. Damian kept quiet as he continued to clean. His hand was numb from cleaning so much and his arms felt like jello. The palm of his hand and his fingers were red and looked like they have been scrubbed until they turned raw. "Damian..." Beth moved closer to him and watch as he furiously cleaned. "Damian, you need to stop cleaning. You don't need to clean anymore, okay?" Damian shook his head as he tried to ignore her. Beth finally got fed up with him and grabbed his arm to stop him from cleaning. "Listen to me. You don't need to clean. If something is bothering you, then you need to talk to someone." She pulled the scrubbing brush out of his hand and saw how red it looked. "Tell me what's wrong." Damian avoided looking at her. He was confused and slightly angry by now. One minute Beth was so angry at him and ignoring him, and then the next she's worried and frantically trying to get him to talk.

"I don't understand you..." He finally said as he looked at her. He could see the confusion all over her face. "One minute you're talking to me like we're best friends, and then the next you're angry at me and ignoring me. And now you're talking to me. I just...I don't understand. I don't understand what I did wrong. Do you think I wanted to be dragged away by a bunch of annoying cheerleaders?" Beth let go of his hand and crossed her arms.

"Well you are a ladies man after all." Beth stated in an angry tone. Damian looked confused for a moment before anger washed over him again.

"Seriously? Mike told you that, didn't he?" She looked away from him as she ignored him. "Beth, I'm not a ladies man. I haven't dated that many girls in my life, because not a lot of people can deal with me and my problems. The only reason those girls were all over me was because I told Mike that I might join the football team. They just happened to hear it and they went crazy." Damian let out some air before looking down at the ground. "Look, whatever I did wrong, I'm sorry. I don't want you to be mad at me. I want us to be friends." Well more than friends, but he wasn't going to tell her that. They have only known each other for about three days. He didn't want to ruin their friendship and he wanted to get to know her more before he even dated her. "If this is about the cheerleaders, then I don't want something so stupid to ruin our friendship."

It was quiet for a moment before Beth finally said something. "You're right. I'm sorry. I just overreacted for nothing. If you want to hang out with other gir- people..then that's completely fine with me." Damian returned the smile she gave him. "Let's just forget this mess even happened today, okay?"

"Yeah. That would be great." Beth gently grabbed his hand again to look at it.

"That looks like it hurts. Maybe you should lay off on cleaning for a while." Damian shrugged. He was still feeling slightly anxious.

"I don't really feel it. It's not the first time it's happened. I'll be fine." Beth went to protest, but saw the look on his face so she changed the subject.

"How about I help you catch up with science? Since we're in the middle of this unit." Damian happily agreed. The two spent the rest of the day talking about science before they got distracted by joking around. They ended up laying on Damian's bed, just talking about their lives and wondering what their futures would be.


So how was it? I'm hoping you guys liked it. I wanted to throw in a little drama (there will be more of it). Also I know not all cheerleaders are like the ones I wrote about. I just wanted them to seem annoying and yeah.

If any of you have any ideas for up coming chapters, it would be awesome if you told me some! All the chapters for later on I already have some ideas for them, but I need a few ideas for the next few chapters.

Here's the numbers of votes for who Damian should end up with:

Mike- 16

Jess- 6

Sam- 3

Matt- 4

So far it's looking like it defiantly going to be Mike!