Fifteen days, he has been in the hospital for fifteen whole days and it couldn't get any worse. He hated the room, already memorized every corner of it, having nothing else to do. The doctor came and finally gave him the permission to go back home with him promising that he would take absolute care of himself, staying at his room and minimizing his outdoor visits. Dan couldn't be more happy about it, it felt like forever and he was glad he could finally get back home, sleep in his bed, write on his laptop and watch on his TV without the depressing surroundings. Serena was outside of the room taking care of what's left of his papers so they could sign off and head back home, and he was putting his clothes in a bag.

A knock on the door alerted him and instantly brought a smile to his face thinking it was Serena, only to be surprised by the Eva the nurse that he had grown to know in the past two weeks.

"I'm done here, you don't have to come and check on me again" he partly joked, not wanting to go through any of the tests they did to him every couple of hours.

"You mean to tell me you don't remember me at all?" she asked making him confused.

"Of course I do, how could I ever forget the face that put much needles through my skin" Dan was still joking totally oblivious of what she was talking about.

"Come on Dan, two years ago. At Tomas Klenchini ?" Eva was still trying to make him remember.

"I'm really sorry, I don't know what you're talking about"

"Well maybe this will refresh your memories" she said as she attacked his lips holding his head so that he couldn't escape. "Do you remember now?" she said exhaling hard.

"I bet he does" Serena. SHIT

"Serena, I didn't do a thing. I swear she kissed me. I don't know why but she did"

"You don't know why? Two years ago, we went on a date and you left me because your uncle was sick and you had to see him without ever calling me back. I've wanted to do this for so long now, and I finally did it" she said in a sultry voice before exiting the room to leave.

"Serena, I uhh, I don't know what to say" he said honestly. What could he possibly do to explain himself? Things were pretty clear.

"You don't have to say a thing, come on let's go" she replied smiling slightly.

"So is everything you need right there?" Serena drove Dan to his place, helped him get in his bed and put everything he might need next to him so he could rest at ease. Dan was in the middle of the bed surrounded by the TV remote, a bottle of water, the medicines prescribed and a snack for when he gets hungry.

"Yeah, thank you" Dan was dying. Serena only spoke to him a little since the little encounter. He kept trying to get her to talk on their drive home but all he got from her was a one word answer, if any.

"You're welcome. I'm going to head off now" she said holding her purse and putting it on her shoulder.

"Serena"

"Yeah?"

"Do you want to talk about it?" he didn't need to tell her about what. She knew, and he hoped she would say yes.

"Not really, I can't say I'm not mad but it's not your fault. I didn't want to leave you at the hospital but now that I know that you're safe home I have to go home and be alone for a while. So just let me be with myself for the time being and I'll call you later tonight okay?" she said assuring him.

"You promise?" Dan was acting like a little kid talking his parents into going to the park or something. Serena didn't answer she just nodded her head leaving the room. Dan waited for the front door to close until he screamed his lungs out hating his luck.

Hours passed with Serena just laying on the couch thinking about everything. She felt guilty for leaving Dan on his first day back home but she needed this time alone even though it was selfish from her part. It was the second time this happens this week, the first time was after her friend telling her about Dan being a bastard and now this nurse kisses him because she didn't get the chance to do it when they were actually on the date. She knew she may be overreacting, but this time she wasn't mad. She just needed the time to think, to clear her mind off and to decide if she's willing to live with that. She knew that situations like these are bound to happen over and over again and she wanted to make sure that she's ready before complicating things more.

She liked Dan, she really did but they needed to talk about that particular situation that kept bugging her. Serena looked at her watch only to see it was already 6:30 pm. She decided that she should probably call him now, to make sure he's handling things well by himself. She held her phone to her ear waiting for him to answer.

"Hey Dan" she said calmly letting him know that she wasn't mad at him.

"Hey. How are you now?" he replied eager to see that she finally called him.

"I'm good. What about you? any pain?"

"No. Do you still hate me?" Serena hated that he was this hurt. She knew that Dan's heart was amazing and that every little thing hurt him.

"Dan I never did, I told you I just needed some time to think." She replied assuring him.

"Well then can I come up?"

"What? Come up where? Dan where are you?" she said running to the window and cursing after seeing that the Audi that she knew all too well was parked at the bottom of her building. "You stay right there I'm coming to help you" she said shutting the phone off and running downstairs.

Serena stumbled home with Dan by her side. He was pale and was sweating, which didn't surprise her knowing that the doctor specifically told them that he should not get exposed to any place that's not sterilized knowing that his immune system is still down. She laid him down running her fingers along his forehead. Dan was shifting to be in a sitting position only to be pushed down by Serena.

"What do you think you're doing? And what the hell did you think you were doing when you left the house? Dan you promised the doctor you won't do it" she said really worried about him. There was no color in his face and his lips were rather blue.

"I don't care. Serena we need to talk"

"Fine let's talk. Let's talk about how stupid you are for putting yourself at risk like that. Let's talk about you staying in the car for god knows how much time under my building! Let's talk about you not coming up for whatever reason it is." Serena was furious, he endangered himself for nothing and he doesn't seem to find any problem with that.

"I couldn't do it. I couldn't stay in my place when you were here mad at me. When you were gone, I lost it and the only way I could relax was by driving. I don't care about my health, if I stayed in that home, I would've gone crazy so I needed to get out, and the next thing I know is that I'm there. I figured that since you promised to call me I'll come up when you do so I spent the time waiting for your call in the car. Now sorry for acting stupid but things were out of my control"

"I told you I was going to call you. You should've respected my wishes and let me calm down. You can't do this Dan, you can't put yourself at risk when the only thing I needed was to be alone." She looked at him still furious but she knew she couldn't shout knowing that he's probably hurt enough. He didn't say a word for a minute before answering.

"I like you. I like you a lot and I care about you. I'm not just spending some time with you nor am I having fun, from the day I saw you I thought about the long terms. When it comes to this relationship, I'm all in. I look at you, and I see the future, I see us together now and forever. Now I'm not trying to scare you off by saying things like these, but I needed to know what your view on this is. I'm willing to work and do whatever it takes to make us happen, but if you're not, then I don't know, I have the right to know." Dan had put all his heart out. It bugged him that Serena wasn't letting him in, that she never tells him her problems, and she always runs away when a problem happen. He kept remembering the time when she was sad and whenever he asked her what was wrong she would lie and tell him she's just tired with him knowing well that it was more than that. And now, after the first real problem that encountered them, she backed away and closed herself in without leaving room for them to talk about it.

"Last week" started Serena stopping slightly but the squeeze of Dan's hand assured her to keep going

"Last week, I was telling my friend about you, and the minute I mentioned your name she tensed and began telling me what you did to her. And today, the same thing happened with that nurse. It's messed up Dan, it's messed up because now every time I want to introduce you to someone they may know you before, and they probably hate you. It's hard because walking down the streets, I look at all the girls thinking that maybe they hate you too because you did the same thing with them. I know that I told you that it was okay, and it really is, but I can't shake that feeling. I don't know how to make it go away."

"I honestly don't know what to say, I knew it was wrong but I did it anyway and there's nothing I can do to change it. All I can do is promise you that I'll never do it again, and if you want I can apologize to your friend, but I can't do anything else"

"I know that, I'll get used to it. Something you did in the past is not going to make me change my mind about you, about us. I just need some time and I need you to give me the time. I need you to stay home when the doctor asks you to, and I need you to take care of yourself for me. I want you to get better so we could do all things together, can you promise me that?" she said caressing his face and hair smiling slightly.

"Only if you promise me that we will talk everything out, that every time one of us has a problem we talk about it instead of leaving it to ourselves. Talking will make everything better, and I need you to always tell me what's going on with that beautiful mind of yours so I know what's wrong" Dan had his hands over hers and he brought her closer to his chest so she was in a laying position too, playing with her hair and kissing her once he heard her approval.

Dan spent this night at Serena, where they both slept in her bedroom happy to see that their relationship may have moved to the next level. They both expected so much of this, and they were working really hard on making it happen. If you asked Dan a year ago if he's interested in any girl, he would have laughed in your face telling you that he has no intention on ever going out with a girl let alone start a relationship with her. But it all changed, it all changed the minute Serena came into his life and suddenly made everything better by changing every aspect he had about love. He would have never imagined that he could meet a girl that would get him and make him feel the way he was feeling now. He didn't know if it was bliss or happiness or both, but he liked it.

CHAPTER 11 please tell me what you think and if you have any ideas on what could happen next, I could easily end this here but if you guys would like to read more i'd be happy to write more.

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