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The start.

He looked into my eyes for a long time.

He cupped my face with his hand and brushed my hair back with gentle hands.

He looked at me with a very soft expression as the water tickled down his face.

"I can't" he said in a soft voice.

"Why?" I questioned my voice cracking.

"Because if I do, you will doubt me for the rest of your life. Thinking that maybe I really have been messing with your head all along when I haven't and when you finally come around the corner to falling for me your just going to think I made you- And- I- okay- I sound selfish but think about how you would react when your turned into a vampire and my compulsion wears off and you find everything out and- and- I-."

"Please" I begged. "I want to forget it. Please."

"I can't" he whispered again.

"Can't or won't?" I said my anger spiking up.

He looked at me for a long while and when he didn't say anything I huffed angrily and got up to get out of the shower and off of his lap he grabbed my arm and pulled me back.

I started shaking as another wave of hysteria cam upon me.

I grabbed his shirt in my hand and put my face on his shoulder and cried.

I whispered again and again "Please, please, please."

He rubbed my back soothingly.

I pulled back "Please"

He nodded. "Okay, only on one condition."

"What?"

"Give me your memory. I want to know what exactly happened."

Frowns creased my forehead "How do I do that?"

"You have to allow me in your head, I'll take care of the rest myself."

I nodded.

"This might hurt a little"

I nodded.

He put his hand lightly on my head, his palm resting on my head and his fingers tangled in my hair.

"Ready?"

I gulped. "Yes."

Suddenly I felt this unimaginable pain in my head as I felt something that shouldn't be there poking around in my head.

My first instinct was to block whatever it was.

Then I heard David groan and say "Let me in."

That's when I knew it was him.

I put all my defenses down and let him in.

In a matter of seconds he was done.

He let go of me and was breathing heavily.

If it was due to the power extracting the memory or the torturous memory itself, I would never know.

He pulled my face to him and sighed.

He looked me dead in the eye.

Before he could hypnotize me I said "How did you do it?"

"I'm a pureblood."

That's all he said.

As if that one word was enough to explain everything to me.

But I wasn't from his world. I didn't know its significance.

I'll find out soon enough.

He didn't hesitate a minute to erase my memory maybe because it was too horrid for anyone and he had realized that.

He looked in my eye and all my thoughts disappeared.

I don't know how long I sat there staring at his eyes but he broke the eye contact first which made me blush.

How did I end up here?

I mean a minute ago I was crying… but why was I?

I'm just a wimp I smiled slightly, juts because someone attacked me I'm crying like an insane person.

"So… thanks for saving me.. Again." I smiled weakly again.

He didn't smile back he just stroked my cheek with his soft hands.

"And about the whole injecting venom for the third time.. Umm.. So you'll know what I'm feeling all the time?" I blushed slightly.

He nodded. "Does the barrier thing work? I mean either you're feeling very emotionless or I can't feel what you are feeling."

He smiled devilishly.

Damn, he was so handsome with his wet hair falling on his face.

"Barrier still works. I feel.. That you're not strong enough to handle the emotions I feel"

I smiled at that but blushed soon after I realized that this sentence could be taken in two ways.

One- that I wasn't strong enough physically to handle his emotions, what with the whole- vampire emotions stronger than human's thing.

And two- that I wasn't ready for.. Something bigger to happen between us.

Suddenly I was too aware of our current position in the shower.

Something bigger to happen between us? Yeah right.

I cleared my throat feeling slightly embarrassed and felt David shift under me.

Awkward.

He slightly repositioned me on the floor and got up swiftly sensing my sudden discomfort.

He cleared his throat "I'll be waiting downstairs"

With that said he left me alone.

I stripped my drenched cloths off and took a real shower.

It still didn't help clear this hazy feeling I was having but I ignored it and enjoyed my warm shower.

After I was done I changed into something baggy.

I walked down sleepily and tired.

I noticed the time, it was 2 am. Today it's going to be just me and him, like he said yesterday.

"Can we stay here tonight? I'm very tired and sleepy" I said when David came into view.

He snapped his phone shut. "Sure, the guards are already outside"

I wonder who was talking to.

"Why do you need guards anyway? Aren't you supposed to be pretty strong considering you're a pureblood and the vampire prince? I mean from my stay I have pretty much concluded that your not one to mess with."

He pinched my cheek as if I was a baby and pulled it slightly. "You're so cute you know?"

I held onto his shirt sleeve as the same hand that was pinching my cheek was now stroking it.

"Silly girl, there here for you." He smiled. "Anyway. What do you want to eat? Chef Salvatore at his service. I mean your service. That's what chefs say right?" he said slightly with a bow, a smile and soon he had himself all confused.

I couldn't help but notice his British accent seeping in his words again. I wondered why he had it considering that he was the prince of the United States.

I nodded while smiling one of my big smiles. He looked so cute with that clue less expression. "Yeah, yeah that's exactly the thing they say."

"So what do you want?"

"What can you make?"

"Whatever you want."

"Hmmm.. how about.. Just some pasta for tonight.. I'm not really hungry."

"Pasta..Hmm.. Okay.. Let's get to work"

He walked into the kitchen and started looking for stuff getting everything together.

I would, here and there, notice the frown lines on his face when he looked at the different pans and pots lying in the rack. When he couldn't decide which ingredients he wanted to add.

That's when I said with a smile in my voice "You have no idea how to cook do you?"

He looked like a kid caught stealing candy from his grandfather favorite forbidden stock.

"Is it that obvious?" he smiled.

He had such a funny expression that I laughed out loud.

"Not really, I just know you well enough to figure it out." He smiled at that.

I marched towards the counter.

I got everything I needed quickly and swiftly.

"Defrost that frozen chicken in the freezer will you?"

He walked towards the freezer and opened it.

He stood there for a good five minutes till I rolled my eyes and went under his arm easily, considering he's so tall and took the box out.

"That." I showed it to him.

I walked to the microwave and defrosted it myself.

"How good are you with a knife?" I asked him while smiling. I was smiling a lot tonight.

"Depends" he said in my ear. He was so close to me that I took a sharp breath in and gripped the counter which had his hand lightly placed on it. I knew if I so much as took a tiny step back my back would touch his chest. "Do I need to kill with it?" his voice was so husky and sexy it made me shiver in delight.

I playfully turned around and walked to the other side of the kitchen to grab a knife carefully avoiding touching David.

"Nope, just chopping"

"Now that is something I have no experience with." He said smoothly.

Means he killed people with knives? I paid it no heed and came to a halt in front of him and placed the knife in his hand. "There. Start with mincing the capsicums."

"Mincing?"

"Like chop it up" I said laughing.

"What's so funny?" he said laughing with me.

"I mean to think you're sooo old that at least you'd know how to cook. Haven't you ever made yourself a meal. Like ever?"

"Nope, never needed to. I always had people to cook for me and no one that ever mattered needed me to cook for them." He smiled "Till now" he smiled wider.

"I can cook food myself you know?"

"What's the fun in that?"

"Here" I handed him the chopping board. "Start"

He grabbed the board but when I pulled my hand back he wouldn't let it go. I tugged harder. He smiled wider. "Get to work Mr. Salvatore before I fire you"

He let go and smirked as he turned to the counter next to mine.

He started chopping as I started boiling the pasta in water and added a pinch of salt so that it wouldn't stick to the bottom of the deep pan.

I walked to the cupboard that held the sauces.

I bent down and looked for that specific pasta sauce that had everything in one bottle.

I took the bottle out and placed it on the counter on top of that closet.

I couldn't help notice David staring at my back.

And I had a pretty good idea where his eyes were.

I turned and he looked away quickly but not before I heard an 'ouch' from him.

I laughed so hard that I felt like I would fall down.

"Did you- did you just cut your hand?" I laughed harder "You should learn to keep your eyes on your work."

I would've helped him out but he pulled his hand up and it was already healed.

It just had blood on it.

I turned grabbed the bottles in my hand but when I turned his expression was so serious that it made me stop laughing and frozen to the ground.

My smile slowly slide away with every step he took in my direction.

He looked so… scary. My grip tightened on the bottle till my fingers started to hurt.

He looked at me as a predator would look at his prey.

He took another step and I took a step back bumping into the counter. Hard.

He was right in front of me now.

"David.." I whispered.

He leaned forward as I leaned back.

My empty hand gripped the counter behind me.

I froze again as he extended his hand.

His lips a few inches from mine.

I started having butterflies in my stomach and I slightly pulled my hand holding the bottle, up to keep it on his chest, but he abruptly turned and walked away leaving me confused.

I looked at his hand and it had a tissue.

I looked behind me to see the tissue box.

I looked at him and he had a smile on his lips when he turned slightly to look at my baffled expression.

"Oh.. You're going to pay for that" I whispered evilly.

He started to laugh like full out.

"It's not that funny." I mumbled walking towards the counter I was working on.

"Did you see your expression? Of course you didn't." he said in between his fits of laughter. "You looked like you thought I would've killed you"

"It's not like you haven't given me enough reason to think that." I stated putting the blame on him rather than what really happened.

I wasn't scared of him. No. Not at all. Since the shower there had been a lot of tension between us. And back then I thought he was going to kiss me. I wouldn't have stopped. I would've kissed him back. And that. Right there. Scared the living daylights out of me.

His laughter died and he sighed.

"I told you it won't happen again. I'm sorry."

Something in the way he said it made me feel like I needed to see him. He sounded so low on contrary to how he had been a minute ago.

I looked back at him and he kept his eyes down as if ashamed of himself. He kept his eyes on the board despite that he was done with the chopping.

I walked to him and put my hand on his back and leaned a little on his back.

"That's perfectly minced you know"

He didn't say anything.

I knew I had hurt him by saying that. I shouldn't have. It was a closed chapter.

So I wrapped my arms around him and hugged him.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that"

He turned slightly and leaned against the counter and pulled me into a full hug.

"No, you shouldn't hide what you feel, ever. Not from me."

"No it's not that. It's just that-"

"It's okay sweetheart, I deserve every bit of it."

"David.." I looked up in his eyes. He didn't deserve this. Not one bit. "I was scared."

"I know baby, I'm sorry." He kissed my forehead.

"But I wasn't scared that you'd kill me, I told you before, my life is yours to take and I trust you with it." He looked down at me confused. I looked down and hid my face in his chest embarrassed. I can't believe I'm going to say that. I unconsciously hugged him tighter "I was scared because I thought you would.. You know.." I struggled to find the right words.

I looked up to him to see if he got it but he still looked down at me with a confused face. "Know what?"

"Kiss me" I looked back down embarrassed not knowing how to put it out there without being so blunt about it.

He pulled my chin up from his soft hands.

He looked at me with such a soft expression that I felt myself melting.

His hand pushed a strand away from my face and tucked it behind my ear.

"I would never do that if you wouldn't want me to."

But I wanted you to.

I sighed.

"Glad to know that" I said and leaned on him a little more.

I don't know how long we stood there intertwined but our moment was interrupted as soon as I heard the noise from the pot, signaling that the pasta was done.

I picked that heavy thing up and David took it from me "Give it to me, looks too heavy for you"

I smiled at that "It is."

I held the drainer right above the sink and said "Drain the water so that we have just the pasta."

He took the strainer from me as well and did it himself saying that 'what if you got your hand burned'

I rolled my eyes.

Soon it was done and I mixed up all the ingredients the spices, olives etc.

"Done" I said.

"Let's go eat now." David said.

It was around 3 am now.

We set a table for two on the big dinning table and ate in silence.

After one bite I said "Yum, it's so good!"

David took a bite and said "Hmm we should do this often."

We ate a little while chit chatting.

Around 3:30 am I was done and yawned.

"Let's go before you fall asleep on this chair."

I yawned again "Let's go"

I got up and bumped into the counter of the kitchen when I went to put the plates.

I heard a chuckle. "You're so sleepy."

In another second I felt his arms around me and the next second I felt a really strong wind blowing in my face and the next I was in my bedroom on my bed.

He pulled the covers up on me which instantly made me feel very warm and comfortable.

I rolled around in it making myself even more comfortable "Thanks" I mumbled sleepily.

"Umm, I'll go.. Find a guest room."

"I don't know what condition it's in.. just hop in here" I patted my bed "It's big enough for both of us"

He smiled and went around the bed to the other side.

He took his shoes off and placed them neatly which just emphasized on how well bred and a proper gentleman he actually was and took his tie off as well as unbuttoned a few of his buttons from his white shirt.

I felt bad that he didn't have an extra pair of clean cloths to wear when he got soaked wet in the shower.

He probably would've run really fast to get them dried before I came down.

He surprisingly hadn't spilled anything on his cloths during our cooking session so they were sparkling.

If the start of today was so good, how would the rest of the day be?

I pulled the covers up and he got in bed.

With that I soon fell asleep on the same bed as David oblivious to his arms around me. I had been too sleepy to notice his protective grip on me as I slipped into a peaceful slumber.

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