Long Live Life
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These next few outtakes are on Damien and Sarah. We hear their story from when Sarah imprinted on him and how Damien learned about the supernatural. This takes place during the story starting in chapter 18.
Outtake 5 – Damien Grant & Sarah Black Part 1
Damien's POV
I looked around seeing I was in a beautiful meadow where the sun shines and the flowers blooms in this perfect green area. It was raining rose petals until I found her from a distance with her back towards me.
Like one of those movies when you and your true love see each other, I was running towards her in slow motion. Finally I arrived to her.
"Sarah." I said taking her arm and turning her around to face me. She lifted her head up and I was now staring into her beautiful chocolate brown eyes.
"Damien." She said as her skin was glowing when the sunlight hit her. God she is so beautiful.
She took my hands in hers and closed her eyes as she lean towards me, her lips ready. I closed my eyes and followed her lead as we were inches away from the moment of truth. Centimeters. Millimeters,
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
"Whoa!" I cried when I woke up suddenly and I fell off my bed. I shook my head until I was able to focus seeing myself on the floor while my alarm was making that annoying sad of an excuse called sound.
"Dammit, so close." I said as I rubbed my head while getting up and hit my alarm to turn off and made my way over to the mirror of my room. I looked at myself wearing a plain white t-shirt with black basketball shorts where my chestnut brown hair is all messed up. I sighed as I began my morning routine to get ready for school.
There I go again with that dream; the dream where I was this close to kissing Sarah Rose Black… again. The girl I've been crushing on since the very first day of school. Can you blame a guy for being in love with the most beautiful girl in school? Well sure there's her family the Cullens who are her cousins, like Bella, Rosalie, Alice, Krystal and Lucina who guys go head over heels for but Sarah is the most beautiful of them all to me.
But I'm not the only one who's in love with her; all the guys at school want her just as bad as I do. Lucky for me, she keeps turning them down and it's not because of her twin brother Evan and the other guys there Emmett, Jasper, Edward, Lucas and Bryce. Another lucky thing for me is that I have Sarah in all of my classes except Biology and she sits next to me in all of them.
Unfortunately for me, Sarah never notices me, at all. She talks to me but only school related and then there's the 'Hi' back or 'Good', simple short answers whenever I try to talk to her. She never even looks at me when she speaks. What did you expect? She's way out of my league but a guy wants to try things out with her.
After finishing my shower, brushing my teeth and getting into some decent clothes to wear for today, I did my hair getting them in their natural waves and soon I was downstairs in the kitchen where my dad is all dressed up for work.
"Morning Damien." He smiled as I grabbed a bagel and smeared jam on it.
"Morning dad." I said taking a bite of my bagel.
"So, how close were you this time?" I nearly choked on my bagel when dad asked me that question and I looked up to see him smirking.
"I don't know what you're talking about." I asked turning a bit red.
"I'm talking about how you fell off your bed, again." Dad said chuckling as I took another bite of my bagel to avoid talking.
Dad knows me too well about my crush on Sarah. He works with the Cullen's adoptive father Carlisle (another lucky thing about me). I don't know how Carlisle and his wife could afford that many kids. There are actually more of them that don't go to school. One of them, Jalen is Lucina's older step brother and he works at his family's company Long Corporation and her older sister Tiffany is a kindergarten teacher. Then there's… Renesmee I believe it's pronounced. She's the youngest of Emmett, Edward and Alice. And then there Jacob, Evan and Sarah's older brother who works at an auto shop near the Red Lake Reserve. I guess Carlisle and his wife just love having kids. Anyway,
Dad knows I've been in love with Sarah for like ever and he always tell me to just ask her out. That's easier said than done. There's the fact that I'm… shy, okay. Do you think a girl like her would want to go out with a guy like me? Hey I'm trying alright?! Anyway, there's also the fact to how to do that without embarrassing myself. Well one thing I'm trying to do is to get her attention, like how I do my hair. Let's hope today's new hairstyle would do the trick.
"Anyway dad, you don't have to give me a ride today," I said after finishing my breakfast. "Luna got a car for her birthday and she promised that she'd drive me to school."
Luna Snow is my friend I made in school. She's actually my first ever friend since I was the loner throughout my life. Her mom Maureen works with Carlisle and my dad. My dad and I always have dinner at their place since neither of us can really cook joined by Luna's sister Korrina. Luna and I have a lot in common; we were both loners at school and we both lost a parent. The small difference is that Luna is dating a Cullen, Lucien. She's lucky but I'm happy for her.
"That's fine with me." Dad smiled and that's when there was a knock on the door.
"That would be her." I said and went over to answer the door to see her standing there.
"Hey!" I smiled.
"Hey!" Luna smiled. "Ready to go?"
"You bet!" I said with my bag ready. "Gonna go dad, see ya." I said and closed the door behind me. "Holy shit!" I said when I saw a light blue Acura TLX car in my driveway. "That's yours?!"
"Yep." Luna said as we got in and she started driving. "You like it?" Like it?! What's the word that shouts out 'Damn!'?
"Words aren't enough to describe how much I love it!" I said causing Luna to laugh. "So how was the party?" I asked about the party the Cullens threw for Luna. I wasn't able to go since my dad and I stayed over at my grandparent's place. That and the possibly I wasn't ready to speak to Sarah outside of class.
"It was good. The Cullens really went all out for me." Luna said as we arrived at the parking lot of school.
"Speaking of the Cullens, where are they?" I asked when we got out and I didn't see any of their cars there.
"Um, they had some… business to take care of but they'll be here later." Luna said and I turned to see her reading a text message. Hmm, I wonder what business the Cullens have that requires the whole family. I shrugged to myself and Luna and I walked inside. The minute we did, we see students whispering to each other.
"I wonder what's going on." I said as we walked by. I hear some of the girls were giggling, excitedly. I haven't seen them like this since the Cullens came to this school.
"I don't know. Maybe –" Luna was cut off when we stopped when we were face to face with Brittany McKay who has her arms folded. Oh boy. This girl is such a bitch just because her family works at Star 101.5 where she gets access to meet celebrities believing herself to be one. She has a serious grudge against Luna since she and Lucien are a thing. The last time those two encountered each other, Brittany got suspended for beating up Luna and locking her in a janitor's closet.
"Well, look who it is." Brittany said, with a sneer.
"What do you want now Brittany?" I asked in annoyance and she just ignored me. Okay, I see how it is.
"I just don't understand what Lucien sees in you." Brittany said to Luna.
"I don't get why you expect Lucien to fall for you." Luna said.
"Hello, can you not see how perfectly we match?" Brittany asked showing herself for me and Luna to see. And what the hell are we supposed to see exactly?
"If she means being a totally bitch then no we don't." I muttered to Luna.
"Well whatever," Brittany said when we didn't answer. "He had his one chance to be with me and blew it so I hope you two are happy together." Say what now?
"Uh thanks?" Luna said in confusion. Okay this doesn't sound right.
"And you're okay with this now because…?" I asked.
"Because this new guy is such a man candy than Lucien is!" Brittany said excitedly.
"New guy? Is that what everyone's talking about?" Luna asked. Of course, with new students coming here, they are always the talk of the school. Take Luna for example when she came here.
"Yeah, he's from Portland, an athlete and intelligent combined and he's so hot. And I'm gonna be the one for him once I get these girls out of the way." Brittany said. "There he is over there." She pointed to across the hall where some of the students were gathering around someone. Most of them were girls trying to get this person's attention while guys were talking to that person. I can't exactly see him because I'm only seeing the back of his head where his coffee brown hair might look like a comb over haircut. That's when he turned his head laughing at one of the guys.
"He looks really popular to get everyone's attention huh Luna. Luna?" I said when I didn't get a response and turned to Luna when I noticed something about her while Brittany was oblivious of what's going on.
Luna looked shocked, or frozen, or possibly scared. Or maybe all three of it together. Whatever it is, Luna is hyperventilating.
"Luna, are you okay?" I asked worriedly. Suddenly, Luna just took off in the other direction where everyone is talking to the new guy.
What in the world was that about? Is Luna okay? She looked like she was about to pass out any minute. I would go after her but she's probably heading to the bathroom which is why I pulled out my phone and texted Kiani Violet who is another student I just became friends with along with Piper Trakel and Leonard Risk.
Can you find Luna? She just took off suddenly. I think she might be in the bathroom. – Damien
It wasn't long when I got a text back from her.
Piper and I are on it. We can take it from here. – Kiani
Okay then. I put my phone away and made my way to Algebra class. I hope Luna's okay. I wonder why she was freaking out earlier. Could it have something to do with the new guy? Does Luna know him? Something tells me that she does.
Algebra was a bit boring. One was because it was just a review of last week's lesson and two is because Sarah and Lucien weren't in class today. Class ended and I made my way to history. Another one of my boring classes.
As I sat down, students were talking big time when they walked inside the classroom and I was able to catch what they said.
"Dude, did you see what just happened with Patrick and the Cullens?" Huh?
"Wait what happened?"
"Apparently Patrick must have made the Cullens very pissed."
"I saw it. They look none too happy with him."
"What did Patrick do?"
"I think it was because he was probably hitting on Lucien's girlfriend. You should've seen Lucien, he looked like he was ready to kill him."
"Are you sure? I saw those two earlier before Lucien and the Cullens showed up. I heard them saying something about how they did not appreciate him for bullying Luna."
"Patrick? A bully? No way. He's too cute to be one."
"Yeah, they were probably there because Lucien got all defensive and insecure seeing another guy with Luna."
As the students were talking, I reeled in on what I heard. Patrick? Luna? Wait a minute I remember now. Patrick is the guy who picks on Luna for no reason. It's because of him that Luna was a loner throughout her life before she came here. Shit, Patrick's that new guy! I can't believe that asshole would come here. And how stupid are these people to side with Patrick. What is wrong with them? Well on the bright side, the Cullens were there to stop Patrick before he could do anything to Luna. Wait a minute, THE CULLENS ARE HERE?! NOW?!
I looked up at the door just in time to see Sarah walking in. And god she looks as beautiful as ever with her long black hair with a hint of bronze highlights that is about short passed the shoulder length, nice skin tone and her smell of strawberries. Yeah, I sound that pathetic don't I. She soon made her way to her seat, which is next to me. Come on Damien, just talk to her.
"H-H-Hi S-Sarah." I said. Nice. I thought sarcastically.
"Hey." Sarah said sitting down, not even looking at me. Aaaannnnnnddd just like always.
"Um, uh, how are you doing?" I asked.
"I'm fine." Sarah said, still not looking at me just as the bell rang for class to start. And another failed attempt to get past the level to get Sarah to notice me. That's number five hundred and seventy one. Again, I'm that pathetic.
No one in class really cared to pay attention in history and I don't think the teacher does either as he just goes through slides of historic events. All I did was doodle in my notebook which involves drawings of me and Sarah. I even wrote her name with my surname on it a lot. See what I mean by pathetic?
After an hour has passed, the bell rang and at that moment, Sarah was out of the classroom before anyone else, like always. I sighed as I put my notebook away and left the classroom and walked down the hallway to my locker.
"Who am I kidding." I muttered to myself as I arrived at my locker and opened it to get what I need for Biology next. That's the only class I don't have with Sarah.
Who am I kidding. Sarah and I are just too different; she's the most beautiful girl in our class and I, Damien Otto Grant, am just nothing compared to her. She deserves to be with a guy who's more better looking than me. The thought of that kills me seeing Sarah with another man who isn't me. But it would be better that way since it's what fate sees.
"Hey Damien." I was interrupted from my thoughts and turned to see Luna coming up to me.
"Oh Luna, are you okay?" I asked closing my locker.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Sorry about this morning." Luna apologized.
"No it's alright. I heard what happened. That new guy was the one who bullied you, right?" I said.
"Yeah, Patrick." Luna said.
"That guy's got a lot of nerve to actually come all this way to pick on you again." I said in disbelief. "I also heard what happened after first period. Good thing the Cullens showed up."
"Yeah, you should've seen them. They look like they were about to kill Patrick like animals." Luna said.
"Well that's one way to put it." Luna and I turned to see it was Lucien who spoke walking up to us and with him was Sarah's twin brother Evan.
"Hey," Lucien said wrapping his arm around Luna planting a kiss on her cheek. Man I'm jealous of those two.
"Hey," Luna said.
"Everything okay now Luna?" Evan asked.
"It's all good now." Luna said.
"Uh…" I said feeling weirded out. This is my first time meeting the Cullens officially apart from Lucien.
"Oh right, Evan, I believe you know of Calvin's son Damien. Damien, this is my cousin Evan." Lucien said introducing me to Evan.
"Nice to meet you." Evan said to me holding out his hand. Well at least he's nice to me.
"Uh nice to meet you as well." I said grabbing Evan's hand to shake but that's when I pulled back too fast. "Shit, you're hot!" I said when I felt his skin and it felt like a hot iron.
"Tell me something I don't know. It's not easy looking this good." Evan grinned, examining his muscles.
"Not that, your skin is like freaking burning over hundred degrees! Are you having a fever or something?" I asked.
"Don't worry about it. It's natural in my family." Evan said chuckling as Lucien and Luna joined him. Just what exactly are these Cullens? It's like they're not even human
"You're ready for me to escort you to your class?" Lucien asked Luna.
"Yes." Luna smiled.
"Just hang on a minute, I promised Sarah to meet me here so I can give her my Biology notes for her." Lucien said. WHAT?!
"Wait, Sarah's coming here?! Now?!" I asked as my eyes widened, panicking.
"Yeah, in fact, there she is now." Lucien said pointing behind me and I turned to see sure enough Sarah coming over to us.
That's when Sarah stopped where she was. She looked frozen but her expression looked like she was seeing something for the first time. What's more, she's staring me. Me?! I couldn't help but froze as well. This is actually the first time I got to see her face like face to face not like see her face when she's not seeing me. There's more to it; I felt like I forgotten how to breathe she was staring at me. The minute that happened, everything around me was cut off like it was only just me and Sarah and no one else.
I was snapped out of my trance when Sarah started walking over to me. Wait, Sarah's walking over to me?! Shit, what do I do?! What do I do?!
"Hi, you're Damien Grant, right?" Sarah said to me. My heart was doing summersaults; she said my name!
"I, um, uh, I, uh, I, uh, um…" I said sputtering. Oh great I look like bumbling idiot.
"Yes!" I heard Luna answered for me and I turned to see it was only her who gave me a 'well duh' look and it looks like Lucien and Evan went off to class.
"What she said." I said to Sarah.
"I'm Sarah Black, nice to meet you." Sarah smiled as she shook my hand. Oh god, she feels just as amazing as I imagine her to be although the hot temperature part like her brother still got me but she feels so soft.
"I-I-I know who you are." I said after I swallowed hard and Sarah smiled big on her beautiful face.
"You do?" She asked happily.
"Y-Yeah, I'm in all of your classes except Biology." I said and then I wanted to slap myself in the forehead as I heard Luna giggling. Nice, not more than five minutes having a conversation with Sarah and she probably now thinks of me as a stalker!
Thankfully I was saved when Luna spoke.
"Um Sarah, we gotta get to class. Oh, here's Lucien's notes. We'll see you at lunch." Luna said giving Sarah the notebook and grabbed my arm and dragged me to Biology.
"You need to work on your people skills." Luna said as she sat me down before she sat next to me. I was trying to reel in what just happened. My face probably had the expression that reads 'what the hell did I just do?' look .
"Sarah talked to me." I said.
"Yeah she did. Isn't that great?" Luna asked happily.
"Sarah Rose Black actually talked to me." I said.
"Yes she did." Luna said.
"I must be dreaming." I said.
"You're not dreaming Damien." Luna laughed.
"But this is too unreal. How did this suddenly happened?" I asked. One minute she had no interest making a conversation with me this morning and now she's into me?
"Well she's starting to notice you. Who knows, maybe she likes you." Luna said.
"That can't be." I said.
"Why not?" Luna asked.
"Why would Sarah like me?" I asked. I mean yes I got Sarah to finally notice me but now? Why now and not earlier? That's the big question.
"Let's just say that I believe that you and Sarah are meant to be." Luna said. "Sarah is finally noticing you. Give it a chance with her."
I didn't say anything as the bell rang starting the class. I didn't pay attention as my mind was all over about what actually happened with me and Sarah. After that ended, it was time for lunch and Lucien already met up with me and Luna.
"So Damien, do you want to sit with us at the Cullen's table or do you want me and Lucien to sit with you only?" Luna asked as we were walking towards the cafeteria. Before I could say anything,
"Um actually Luna," Lucien said.
"Hi Damien!" I turned to see Sarah already at the entrance to the cafeteria smiling when she us, but mostly to me.
"I-I-I-Hi Sarah." I stuttered. Okay, so I wasn't hallucinating last period.
"Damien, I was wondering if you wanna… maybe… have lunch… with me." Sarah said shyly. Wait, did she seriously ask me that question?
"He'd love to." Lucien answered. Wait what?! I thought giving Lucien a panicked look. "We'll see you later." And with that, Lucien dragged Luna into the cafeteria leaving me and Sarah alone. Oh shit is this really happening?
"Um okay." I said causing Sarah to smile.
"Great, let's go." She said and she and I walked inside the cafeteria, together. The minute we got in, every head turned to our direction. Ah shit. I thought as everyone started whispering. I gulped when I saw most of the guys here giving me the 'you're dead' look. I try my best to stay cool as Sarah and I grabbed our food and then found an empty table to sit at.
"Your dad works with Carlisle, right?" Sarah asked me as I took a bite of my food.
"Um correct." I said after swallowing.
"What about your mom? What does she do?" Sarah asked and I looked down at my tray sadly.
"My mom was a dental hygienist." I paused. "She died in a car accident when I was five." I said. I miss my mother Evelyn. She was just like any mother to their child; kind, loving and beautiful. When I was a kid, mom says I was her number one patient. Dad was head over heels for her. Things took a huge turn when she died. It was a struggle but we managed through it all but still,
"I'm sorry," I looked up to see Sarah with a sad expression. "I lost my grandmother in a car accident as well. I never got to meet her. That's where I got my name from."
"I'm sorry to hear that. You have a beautiful name for a beautiful girl." I said causing Sarah's cheeks to flush. Seriously Damien, why can't you control yourself?! I thought while resisting myself from slapping my forehead. Luna's right; I really gotta work on my people skills.
"Um," I said trying to change the topic. "So uh, why did you ask me out to lunch?" I asked nervously.
"I just want to spend time with you." Sarah replied with a smile making my heart beat faster.
"Why?" I said sounding like I was pleading.
"Because I… I want to be your friend." Sarah replied shyly.
I looked at Sarah and looked behind me and then back to her. "You're talking to me, right?" I asked to be sure and she nodded her head.
I must be dreaming. No one pinch me. Sarah wants to be my friend? For real? I've been dreaming about this since the first day where we first become friends and then later be boyfriend and girlfriend. Well that is if she wants to be my girlfriend.
"I-I would like that." I said causing Sarah to smile. Since then we've spent the rest of lunch just talking. Mostly it was me that was talking since Sarah just asks me questions about myself. I try to ask Sarah about herself but she states that there's nothing interesting about her. I'd find that hard to believe from a beautiful girl.
Lunch ended and Sarah and I walked together to our next class together and the same with our last class. By the end of the day, school ended and it was time for to say goodbye.
"Um, I guess I'll see you tomorrow." I said to Sarah when we were out at the parking lot.
"Damien, can I um… have your number?" Sarah asked shyly causing my heart to do another summersault.
"Yes! I mean," I cleared my throat. "Sure." I said and gave her my phone for Sarah to put her number in as she gave me hers for me to do the same.
"Well… bye Damien." Sarah said and next thing that happened was that Sarah went over and wrapped her arms around me. She's hugging me. Sarah's hugging me! I'm being hugged by Sarah! Come on Damien, you can do it.
"Um bye, Sarah." I said slowly wrapping my arms around her causing my heart to beat like crazy. Sarah and I let go and she went over to the Cullens who are waiting for her. The Cullen girls were smiling big and I saw her brother Evan and Edward, Emmett and Lucas glaring at me causing me to gulp and I turned away heading to Luna who is waiting for me at her car.
"So what happened with you and Sarah?" Luna asked as she started driving to her house.
"It was nice." I said shyly where I might have blushed at the moment I had with Sarah.
"What did you two talked about?" Luna asked excitedly.
"She kept asking me questions about myself, wants to get to know me." I said.
"That's great!" Luna said. It sure is. I thought.
"She's amazing, more than I've ever dreamed of about her." I said.
"And she looks like she's so into you." Luna said.
"I guess." I said. Still, would a girl like Sarah really want to be with a guy like me?
"Damien, just give it some time to get use to it." Luna said as she pulled over on her driveway. "The girl you've been falling for wants to get to know you."
"I know but it all seems too real for me." I said.
"You'll warm up to it later on. Just don't lose this one chance you'll have with Sarah." Luna said.
"I'll try." I said.
"Come on, let's try to get some homework for Biology done early." Luna said. I nodded and we got out of Luna's car and inside her house as my mind warped into what has happened.
I actually got to spend the day talking to Sarah Rose Black.
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