CHAPTER 17

WRITER'S CORNER

"I love you Daemon Vladamirovich." Valerie whispered, a tear string walking graciously down her face.

"You- you can't possibly mean that." A forced chuckle fell from Daemon's lips, as he looked at the crying girl in front of him.

"I do. I mean it completely." She stared back with pleading eyes, as she swallowed the tears that fell effortlessly.

"Valerie." His own emotions betrayed him as he stared into her face. Making her cry has never been in his agenda, but this was the best way out, and he needed to be strong enough to pull it off. There was no other choice, as this was the only way out.

"Just love me. I know deep down, you do."

"I don't." He blurted out, shaking off his stubborn emotions, as he stared away from her face, his own way of distracting himself from the temptation of pulling her into his arms and confessing his unending and undying love for her.

"Tha- that's not t- true." She stuttered, shaking her head from side to side in denial.

"It's the truth Valerie, I don't love you." His voice was confident, sweeping away every iota of doubt away as Valerie stared down at her feet.

"Okay, fine." She whispered nodding, wiping away the tears from her eyes, as she looked up at him, grabbing hold of his icy hands in her warm hands, "Let me love you." She smiled with tears dropping down her eyelids.

"I will love you for the both of us." She nodded, with a wide smile as Daemon felt his dead heart breaking into a million more tinier pieces.

"I'm not usually this desperate but..."

"Don't embarrass yourself even more, Valerie Gonzalez." He removed her hand roughly from his, as he turned to walk away.

"Then why?" She screamed as loud as she could, causing Daemon to stop on his tracks again.

"Why does my heart beat this way for just you?" She sobbed loudly, but Daemon still kept his back to her. "Why does it feel like you're the only man in the world for me?"

"Why did you show up to make me this way?" She tried yelling but her voice must have been too tired from the excessive crying, as the words came out more or less a whisper, but Daemon still didn't spare her a glance. He knew for a fact that if he did, he was going to regret it even more than the other regrets he already had piled up.

Being strong was something he was known for but this soul continually proved to him how really weak he was, every single time, and desiring to be with her till her last fulfilled breath was everything he had wanted but...

"Why!?" Her heart cried out, as Valerie's hand clutched tightly against her chest. Her lips were filled with tears but he heard her; he always had but today was the saddest he had heard.

The sound of her tears tore through the barricade of his logic, feeding his desire even more, as he tightened his fist, thinking about a million and one reasons why he shouldn't turn around to tell her the truth. But for every reason he got to not go to her, he got ten more reasons why he should try to keep her by his side this time around.

Conflicted, her aching heart reached helplessly for him, but his feet decided to take actions in his stead, as they took his body away from the classroom, out into the lobby and finally out of the school as he speedrun out into the forest for some sanity.

"Daemon..." He heard her voice loudly in his head, as the word echoed repeatedly over and over again, causing him to run faster and deeper into the forest. His mind suddenly decided to host him a special slideshow as he had flashbacks of the first time he had met her four hundred years ago.

VALERIE'S POV

Well, that was my first rejection and by extension heartbreak. Funny right?

I had always stood against unrequited love, whether in movies, books or in reality. It was even more annoying when a girl loves a guy who cares less about her being alive or not, and I had always preached about self respect and pride. I never hesitated in talking about the values of having a high self esteem and knowing your self worth as a woman. Basically, the idea of unrequited love seemed absurd and unrealistic, but I guess, only those who wear the shoe knows how it really fits.

Here I was, hopelessly wishing for a guy to love me half as much as I do. A victim of my own story, it's funny right?

Yeah, that's all I could do; sighing heavily, but it wasn't out of relief or anything of such. On the contrary, my heart hurt in the most unimaginable of ways that I had forgotten about my family issues.

Dragging my feet out of school, the other students seemed unaffected by my own disaster, as they chatted and laughed happily with themselves, getting on the school buses and into their various cars. I had no friends in the first place to cry to and for the first time in a long while, I hated being alone in this big world. I would have given anything to just have someone ask me if I'm okay or just hear me cry, but then that's a weak thing to do.

He isn't the only guy and he was just my first crush. I am intelligent, smart, pretty, rich and from a good family background, I can get any boy I set my heart for.

Yes, that's it! That's exactly what I'd do!

I'll keep my pride and self esteem intact. I'd get another guy and I'll be over Daemon or whatever his name was, in no time. I'm Valerie Gonzalez after all and I can do anything and everything.

"Valerie!!" A voice called from besides me; It was masculine, as I felt my spine tingle, with the hairs of my neck standing erect like sharp office pins.

He couldn't reject me after all, and that's why he's here to beg on his knees to accept him back. I was, after all, Valerie Gonzalez, and no man in his right senses can possibly fathom rejecting me even when I confessed my feelings so shamelessly.

A smile unconsciously curved on my face, as my once aching heart jumped up for joy at the thoughts of a happy ever after. It had known so much pain in just a short while and we deserved happiness, or don't we?

"Dae..." The word got stuck in my lips, as I turned my head to meet with the eyes of a man that wasn't Daemon Vladamirovich, seated comfortably in the driver's seat. What was he doing here, today of all days?

The smile on my face faded immediately, as my once happy heart got angry at the man in front of us.

"Hi!" He waved with an annoying smile on his face. What in hell did he want?

"Oh! Ramsey!" I managed to force a smile as I continued my walk, away from his car, home.