Mr. Clarke - COMPLETE

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"And you have cancer." I retort back.

Damien looks at me with furrowed brows. "What does that have to do with anything?"

I scoff and go back to smelling my sheets.

"I just thought we were saying things that we already know about each other."

Before I can dive deep into my memories I've had with my brown eyed girl, Damien grabs me by the collar of my shirt and lifts me up from my bed. I'm about to curse him out but his fist punching my face cuts me off.

"Do you have any idea the shit Nina went through yesterday?!" Damien bends down to my curled up body and spits out the words. "She met her fucking father and he completely shut her out. Abandoned her and left her crying. I found her near the brink of a panic attack in the fucking elevator!"

His words are jumbled up in my mind but they're clear enough for me to understand.

"What the fuck are you talking about?" I rub my jaw as I glare at my cousin.

Damien stands up towering over me with a scowl on his face.

"Nina was bawling her eyes out when I found her. She told me that she met her father and that he basically shunned her. I tried to comfort her but she wouldn't let me. The only time I saw her face form into something remotely happy was when she got a text from her phone." He states and my drunkenness starts to fade away.

I try to stand but the alcohol in my system is still present and Damien has to help lift me up onto my bed.

"She didn't say anything to me." I whisper to myself but he heard me.

"She probably was before your stupid ass broke her heart even more." He hisses and his hands clench into fists. "You're fucking selfish and right I can't even look at you."

I open my mouth to say something but nothing seems to be coming out. I'm shocked for words. This wasn't suppose to happen. This was suppose to be easy and simple but everything got complicated once I started to fall for her.

"Did you even realize that Nina was in love with you? Did you not see it in the way she would stare at you or admire every pitiful thing that came out of your mouth?" Damien pushes me back down on the bed hard when I try to stand up.

"I need to see her!" I glare at him when he pushes me again.

"You're drunk and it's late and quite frankly, if I was her I wouldn't want to see you." He gets in my face with his next words, "I don't care for chicks. Never had and probably never will. But Nina? She was something else and you just lost her to your own selfish needs."

To make his words more clear, he punches me again.

"Fuck!"

"Fuck you Vincent. You were suppose to be the smarter one out of the both of us. But this decision you just made was the dumbest thing you could've ever done." Damien leaves me alone in my bedroom with my thoughts piercing into my skull causes my head to throb a thousand miles an hour.

I crawl onto my bed and lay on the side that Nina would sleep on and stuff my nose into the pillow case. I close my eyes and imagine she's here with me.