CH 17

"Miss, the young man can be discharged today" The doctor informed Rose.

"Ok, thank you so much Doctor" Rose said as called one of the guards standing outside.

"Young Miss?"

Damien looked at her wondering what she needed.

"Go to the mall and buy some clothes for Damien. Note his measurements too"

The bodyguard took a minute to study him and then he said, "All done, Miss"

"Ok" Rose answered.

One minute, two minute, three minutes...

"Well... what are you still waiting for?" Rose said as she looked at the guard who was still standing there.

"Uhm... Young Miss, your card?" The guard mentioned awkwardly.

"Oh right... I forgot" Rose reached into her purse and brought out her ATM card, but before she could give to the guard Damien already beat her to it.

"I'll pay" Damien said.

"No, you got hurt because of me. I should be the one paying for this" Rose as she continued to stretched her cards towards the guard.

The poor guard looked at the two cards in front of me as soon as he was about to stretch his arm to take his Young Miss own, he felt a terrifying glare coming from...

He looked at the man who sat up on the bed and thought, 'How could someone so ordinary produce this kind of aura?'

The guard immediately picked Damien's Atm card and excused himself.

Rose felt angry that he didn't allow her to pay, so she humphed and kept her card.

Damien felt that she was annoyed, so he pat her head... He wasn't sure of how to pacify a woman but this seems to work.

But this time, Rose slapped his hands away and didn't allow him to touch her. She thought, "Since he's not well to do... he should allow me to do these little things for him. Or was he just joking when he said I was his girlfriend? As his girlfriend, it's my responsibility to take care of his needs'

Damien saw that his only solution didn't seems to work, so he tried to reason with her.

"It's not that I don't take you as my girlfriend. It just doesn't seem right to keep letting you pay for little things like this. You already paid for my hospital bills too."

Damien observed her and saw that she was still vexed, was this the reason they said women are hard to please? He wasn't sure if what to do anymore.

"Ok, in the future... you can pick my clothes for me but you must pay with my card and I'll only wear the clothes you pick for me to wear" Damien said softly, looking at her reaction all through.

When Rose heard this, she was delighted but she tried to keep it hidden.

"Fine, in the future. You are not allowed to wear a cloth that does not come from me. I know you are brilliant, so I'll wait for the moment you shine" Rose said with a smile.

As Damien saw that smile, he made a promise to himself to not let her down and to do well so he can protect her smile forever.

"Okay" Damien said as he smiled back at her.

Rose blushed and thought to herself when she saw his smile, 'Sighs, Such an handsome smile, won't he mesmerize all those ladies with his smile'

*knocks*

As soon as a knock was heard, Damien withdrew his smile, the guard who was sent on an errand came in.

"Young Miss, I've got the clothes. Here is Master's card." The guard stretched forth the card in his hands to Damien, which he collected.

Rose collected the bags from the guards hand and said to Damien

"You are not allowed to smile like that when others are present. Okay?"

Damien looked at her cute jealous face and smiled lightly.

"Are you jealous?"

"I said no smiling" Rose said as her cheeks puffed up.

Damien's slightly turned corner of his lips, quietly dropped down.

The guard looked at what was going on and felt that his presence must have been ignored, so he quietly left the ward.

Damien stretched the card in his hands to Rose.

Rose looked at it and waited for him to explain.

Damien sighed, he seemed to have been doing lots and lots of explanations since he met her.

"For clothes..." Damien thought for a while before adding, "... and miscellaneous"

Rose looked at the card and then looked at Damien, she stretched her hands out and collected the card out of Damien's hand. Her heart warm, she said, "I'll use it well"

Damien nodded and said, "My salary goes in there. And don't worry, I have another card that still has some money in it"

That card contained the money his mother left for him before she died. She called him and gave it to him when his Father was not present.

"Dam... My Dam, take this" She said as she stretched out her arm to him.

"A bank card? Mom since you had this, why didn't you let Dad use it for your treatment?"

"Tish... it's not as if I'll get well anyway so what's the use of postponing something that will definitely happen?"

"Mom, don't say that" Damien answered her as the corners of his eyes started to redden.

"Then take, my arm hurts already"

Damien collected it.

"Good kid, you can use it when you get married"

With all these memories, Damien felt nostalgic, he missed her. He has not been able to spend a dime out of it since her death.

"Ok, then. I'll accept this." Rose said.

"Good" Damien said as he heaved a sigh of relief.

"I'll excuse you to change now, so that we can leave this place. How about we go grab a bite before we head to your house?"

"Alright" Damien answered her.

Rose hopped out, obviously in a very good mood.

After the door of the ward closed, Damien chuckled and started changing his clothes.

Right when he pulled his trousers down, the door sprang open, while Damien froze.

"I forgot to ask what type of meal you were craving..." What Rose saw made her blush as she hurriedly ran out of the ward, saying she was sorry.

Damien shaked his head and chuckled again, while he wore the new trousers.

Damien got out holding a small bag that contained some of his stuff, he looked at Rose who still hard a hint of red on her cheek and he felt amused.

"I'm done"

Rose who was still lost in her thoughts was startled when she heard his voice.

"Oh... ok. Let's go then" Rose said as she started moving towards the door.

"Steak" Damien suddenly said.

"Huh?" Rise looked at him with confusion in her eyes.

"You asked me the kind of meal that I wanted to eat"

"Oh right... then steak it is." Rose said as she smiled at him.

"But wait up, I thought you said that you didn't like meat." Rose said as she looked at him.

Damien seem to recall when he said that to her, but that was because she didn't like her veggies.

"I... I like them but not so much" Damien replied her clumsily.

"Oh"

Because so preoccupied with Damien, she wasn't paying attention to her surroundings.

*bam* A small little boy bumped into her.

Rose lost her footing and felt like she was gonna fall. She closed her eyes and waited for the pain to come.

'Nothing?'

Rose opened one of her eyelid and saw Damien who was holding on to her. Damien did not know where the speed came from, so he just thought it must have been a rush of adrenaline.

The both of them didn't notice when the little guy dropped something into Rose's bag.

"I'm so sorry, sister. I was paying attention to where I was going"

Rose regained her footing and looked at Damien with thankful eyes. She then bent down, so she could see the little boy on a eye to eye basics.

"It's okay. I'm the one who wasn't watching where I was going." Rose said as she robbed te boy's hair.

'She likes kids... but why don't I like this particular kid.' Damien thought as he looked at Rose's hand that was patting the boy's hair. Damien looked at the boy again and he couldn't help but feel like he was apologizing for something else.

"Thank you big sister" The little boy said as he bowed and left.

"Such a well mannered boy. Won't you agree?" Rose said as she turned to look at Damien.

"Eh"

As they neared the door, Damien noticed that some people was watching the door located in the crowd. Damien's left eye twitched

'Not a good sign' he thought.

As Rose passed through the door of the hospital, the alarm system was triggered and immediately, some guys within the crowd came forward to apprehend her.

"You'll have to follow us Miss" They said as they held her two hands to the back.

Damien took all this in and felt mad, 'Do they take him as a dead man? How dare they try behave to my girl in this manner?!'

Damien immediately grabbed one of their hands tightly. The guy in the receiving end felt that his bone was about to crack.

"Didn't nobody even teach you how to invite a guest?" Damien said as he looked at the two of them with cold eyes.

The two guy broke out in cold sweat as they looked into Damien's eyes.

"Aren't you gonna let go?"