Eighteen

I went and stood infront of the white ball. I looked at it wondering how I was supposed to hit it.

I aligned the stick infront of the ball and hit it .I watched the other balls scatter around the table on collision .



" Point for me " Damnon smiled proudly.



"No! What? how come? You haven't even played." I told him. He couldn't just win like that.



" Yes but you hit the black ball into the hole making me winner." He smiled.



"You didn't say anything ? " I complained . This game was strange.



" Well now you know. Set the table . " He ordered. " And I will give you to start this one too." He promised. I agreed.



"Aghrr"- I groaned in frustration because I lost the fifth game by hitting the black ball into the hole "That thing is like a magnet ." I cried ..



"Stop whining . It's part of the process to learning the game ." He said. Jerk! He was enjoying my continuous fails



"I give up" I told him .



"Already, no, no, you are getting better." He consoled .



"Damnon you haven't even played and I have failed five times, in a row. That's a bad record." I said and he laughed.



" Steps to success. Embrace you failure." He smiled sarcastically



" You are enjoying this, ain't you? Just take me home already ." I complain .



" Alright. let's do something else this time , your choice." He offered .



I wasn't in a hurry to head home. so I guess I could get a game we could play and I beat him " let's play chess" I said and folded my arms knowing well I would beat him.



"Nope, choose anything else" He refused immediately



"What? you fear I will beat you " I teased with a grin .



"Says the girl who failed pool five times in a row " He mocked



" Har har Stop rubbing " I said pouting my lips again . I looked at the place and the number of people had started to increase .



"Alright. come with me" he finally accepted and he took me away from the people.



we climbed a small flight of stairs to a small corridor that lend us to his office. I saw the glow window that showed the club down there. I walked towards it and scanned the place. I saw the table I was seated on the last time I was here . It must have been him looking at me that night. Otherwise I wouldn't have had that chill.

And it started to crawl back again.

"Damnon, have we met ?" I asked and turned to look at him.

" I know right " He answered calmly which confused me ... " I remember the time I saw you at the conference room and I felt like I had seen you somewhere too" he said. This means we might have met in one of his adventures.

"So where do you think we've met before ?" I asked paying close attention to what he might say.

" I remember seeing you here at the club night ago." he confessed. It wasn't the one I was looking for.

"Am sure you didn't see me cause I was standing right there by the window which

are tinted black. I must have got you thinking after I asked you where we have met?" He smiled.

"Of course, but I felt you."I murmured to myself ..

"What that ?" he asked .

"It's nothing ."I dismissed his question. He pulled out a chess tube from which he pulled the paper chess board and started to set it on the office table.

"If you say so." he didn't persist . Thank God. I just needed to bring up a conversation connecting to his adventures.

"Sabastian told me you were a traveler. " I said starting to try to get the information I needed .

"I see you've already started asking about me. " he smirked .." C'mon seat" he called me to go where he had set the board ready for the game."You know, I didn't want a game of chess because I knew I would beat you " He assured me.

" Don't get too cocky yet ." I warned him .

"I know you won't beat me." He told me as he made his first move .

"Cocky" I said and made my move aswell. The first move he made gave me an idea of my attack so as to how win . I always treated chess like a war between kingdoms back in the day. You enter the field with a strategy to will many at once .

And that's why on my fifth move.

" Check mate"I said proudly .

" Wait" He stopped me . He looked at the board well . " That's impossible am trapped ! "He was in denial. I loved the look on his face.



"I remember you saying something about me not being able to beat you" I started to taunt him .



"You were just lucky. I didn't have my A-game on." He still had his pride .



" I can beat you in this game five times in a row ." I told him. He moved his face close to mine and narrowed his eyes.



"I dare you." I smirked on hearing that. Some people just don't listen



A few minutes later ,

"Checkmate. "I said. "Fourth time in a row." I bragged ..



"I think it's getting late. I should take you home before the traffic gets heavy" he said. I laughed at that knowing he feared I would beat him the next time we played.



"I sense someone fearing to get beaten five times in a....." I was saying but he interrupted me



"four times. Now c'mon Sabastian must be worried." He rose up ready to leave.



" The only person worried here is you ! " I rose up too and carried my bag with me.



" Now whose cocky." He said



"You can't blame me . Your cockiness is just rubbing of on me" I smiled he just turned to leave. I followed behind giggle at his behavior.

We reached the Williams residence after some time and I was laughing. Damnon seemed good and funny too. This made me wonder why I was all shaken on our first encounter.

" thanks for dropping me home again." I said as I undid my seat belt.

" this is much better than the last time I dropped you." He laughed.

" I will see you tomorrow then." I said and opened the door.

" yeah it's obvious. So we are friends now right?" He asked suddenly.

" yah of course we are." I told him.

" great then." I didn't understand the point of asking me that yet we were practically having fun.

" tell Tania I said hi." He added. Giving me a wink.

" how about you come tell me yourself." Tania's voice cut in our conversation. We were so lost talking to each other we barely even noticed her coming.

" oh hey Tania." I greeted her with a bright smile and a wave.

" you know she is married to my dad right." Tania said to Damnon ignoring my presence completely. I dropped my hand in my small embarrassment.

" Tania, what are trying to imply" Damnon asked.

" don't act damn towards me. You only get close to someone if you need something. And seeing you with her means you only want one thing." Tania was really misunderstanding everything.

" Tania.." I started

" shut that trumpet of yours. You were not satisfied with my dad so you went throwing yourself all over Damnon." Tania cut in and yelled at me asif I was the one on the wrong.

" I am not listening to you." I said firmly and got out of Damnon's car.

" You know Tania, sometimes you have to listen to know that you are not the only one affected with the current situation." I told her and I walked past her and entered inside the house.

All Tania thinks of is herself. Just because her dad gave the company to be ran by someone else she wants everyone to know her pain.

I too have my own issues. I was married off to an old man who went into coma that same night and my own father hasn't called me since the wedding. It's like he just forgot about me the moment I said ' I do' to my half dead husband. I felt a tear drop down my face when I thought of how my father left me to marry the man and has completely forgotten about me.