Starting Over.

#2 A blast from the past

Malia’s POV. 

A silence filled the room. Theo looking from me to Damon, I looked at them in turn. But Damon seemed to be staring at me. Why does he look so shocked? at least he knew about me coming here at some point.. Me? I had no idea that he was gonna be here let alone being Theo’s roommate.. hell I didn’t even know that they were talking.. 

I can’t believe Theo didn’t tell me, we have talked almost everyday for the last 5 years, it couldn’t have been that hard to throw it in to conversation. 

“I tried to tell you earlier.” Theo said breaking the silence, he didn’t sound very confident when he said that. 

“You should have tried harder.” I said annoyed crossing my arms over my chest, I know that’s not totally fair, I actually believe that he tried to tell me, earlier. I remember him bringing up his roommate, but I was to excited to be here to listen to him.. but come on, he could have told me before, since I know it’s been a year and a half since he moved in here with his roommate which turns out to be Damon.

Damon seemed to come back to life. 

“So it’s nice to see you again Malia.” He said rubbing his neck. I just huffed a little and rolled my eyes. 

“I’m going for a drive, feels a little crammed in here.” I said putting my coat on and headed for the door. 

“Malia come on..” I heard Theo call after me as I went out the front door. 

I don’t know why I am reacting this way, he was just the last person I expected to see.. 

as I was about to start the car, the door on the passenger side opened, and Theo climbed in to the seat.

“I’m so sorry I didn’t tell you about all this.” He said.. “I didn’t know how to. I know you had feelings for him back then and that, that wasn’t really resolved...” I cut him off.

“You didn’t tell him that, right??” I said a little panicky. I can’t handle this at all if Damon know about the feelings I had or how heart broken I really was when he just left and never replied to all my messages. 

“No of course not! I wouldn’t tell him that.” Theo said, I let out the breath I was holding in.

I used my turn signal and got out of the parking space, just starting to drive. There was silence in the car for a little while..

“Sooo, you wanna tell me how the hell you ended up sharing an apartment with Damon of all people?” I asked.. Theo turned a little in his seat and took in a big breath. 

“Yeah! So.. you know that when I finished college my parents gave me a sum of money so I could by a place to live. I bought this apartment, but as you know I struggled to find a job, and I had to settle for the bartending job that I currently have, but since I kind of live of off my tips.. it was getting hard to pay rent and that stuff alone, so I figured I would find a roommate..” Theo starting telling..

“I know all of this, remember we talked almost everyday, the part I don’t get is the one where Damon comes in.” I said getting impatient. 

“Relax ok? I’m getting to that... so I put out an ad to find a roommate. And the first one that answered my ad was Damon. I turned him down at first. But all the others turned out to be nut cases. So I called Damon and asked if we could meet up, at first I was just desperate and he was the best of the bunch.. but I must admit, that he’s been a very good roommate always paying rent on time and no nonsense... and also it turns out he's a great friend too, I think you’ve met his friend Matt right?? I mean a long time ago.. well I actually work for him at the bar.. he’s great too. And you know when Liza broke up with me a year ago.. it was Damon and Matt that helped me get over it..” he said.. 

“Please Malia, you know I love you, but I won’t apologize for having Damon as my roommate.. I know I should have told you a long time ago.. you are still more than welcome to stay with us at the apartment until you figure out where to go.” He added..

I let out a big sigh.. 

“OK, I guess I would rather you live with Damon, than some nutcase.. I love you too.. and thanks for letting me stay with you.. let’s face it, it’s not like I have anywhere else to go..” I giggled at the last part. 

“No you don’t, do you.. so in conclusion you have to forgive me if you want somewhere to sleep..” he laughed.. 

“I could always go to a hotel.” I laughed also. “But no I can’t stay mad at you anyway, so might as well forgive you.” I added.. 

we drove around for a while picking up some Chinese food before deciding to head home.. 

“Damon, get your ass out here, we brought food.” Theo yelled as we entered the apartment.. I went straight to the kitchen to get us some glasses and something to drink. 

I reached up to cabinet with glasses.

“Well this brings back memories.” I heard from behind me, I turned around to see Damon standing there with a smirk on his face.

“Huh?” Was all I said. 

“I remember I caught you in a similar position, in your old kitchen a long time ago.” He said. I smiled as I remembered what he was referring too. 

“Yeah, that was a long time ago.” I said.

“Hey I’m sorry about the way I just stormed out of here before.” I added, Damon shrugged. 

“Don’t worry about it Sugar.” He said as he took the soda from the fridge and got back to the living room and Theo. 

So we’re back to Sugar now, are we?? This is gonna be interesting..