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K.

I was right Daniel saw the similarities in the movie and we had a few laughs about it. After the movie was over he went to take a shower and came back to me. We talked about what we would do during the days I will be away and we agreed to stay in contact by email. He didn't even want to believe it when I told him I didn't have an account on any social network and just use email, he made me promise that tomorrow before I leave we will create a f*******: account so we can share photos between us, I learned that his family would not come to spend Christmas here and he also couldn't go to UK so he would stay with his uncles and cousins at Paulo's parents' house.

We ended up falling asleep clinging to each other on the couch.

I woke up to the sunlight coming in through the window. He was already awake looking at me.-

" God morning babe, you slept well?"

"I slept with you, of course I slept well! I think I'm getting addicted to you this next 3 days are going to be hell" -I said hiding my face on his neck.

"No they aren't you'll be back in your beloved Highlands and in Christmas of all times, you won't even remember about me" -he whispered holding me really close.-" What time do you have you flight?"

"1pm"

"Edinburgh?"

"No actually I'm flight to your hometown, I'm going to London and from there to Inverness and then I'll have a 2h30 drive to Skye, should arrive around 11h30pm give or take, there are no direct flights from Faro to Inverness during the winter time."

"Can I drive you guys to the airport?"

"Not a good idea Leo is coming with us this year, but then he doesn't come back he heads back to the States to start a Cruise in Miami before the new years".

"So he only came home for less then a week?"

"He was in France with his family for the last month, confusing ah??- I throw him while getting up.- "Getting ready I'll be right back".

I run to his room and in to the bathroom to have a shower brush my teeth and get dressed, when I came out of the bathroom room he was standing all wet with only a towel around is waist near the closet, he obviously used one of the other bathrooms while I was using his. "Sorry, I took over your space"

"My space? Girl that was the least you did." He came to me pulled me near" You took me over, what I'm I going to do without you for the next 3 days? I lived my entire live without you and now I can't think about going 3 days without you, we need to get you a f*******: so I can see you everyday. Do your grandparents have internet at home?"he asked while dressing a shirt and some pants

"No but there's a net cafe next to there house" he grabs my hand passed by the office to get the laptop and took me to the kitchen to have breakfast while giving me a fast course on f*******:, started by privacy settings, I sent friend requests to several people and it's really funny how everyone seems to have f*******:, even my teachers, damn K you're really out of it !!

Around 10am my phone rang and it was my mum, my brother just arrived and she told him I went to get some bread, so I better get back in the next 10 minutes with some fresh bread, I was on my way out any way.

We said our goodbyes and promised to use messenger everyday before dinner.

"Hi K, have you packed already" Leo asked kissing me

"Of course I did, granny said is ice cold up there, make sure you take warm clothes"

"I arrived from Brest 3 days ago cold do not scare me little sis" he said smirking

"Ok let's get breakfast and get everything ready, We still have to get a few think that granny asks us to take from the market." mum said looking at us

"K aren't you having breakfast" Leo asked

"You know your sister, she almost didn't sleep last night like she always does when we are going to Scotland and she already had that chocolate crap she calls cereal." mum gave me a blink, I truly have the best mum in the world. Sometimes I just wonder why did she fell in love with a a**** like my father, she would have deserved so much better..."How are your grandmother and your brother and sister, Leo?" Mum asked Leo, Leo as a brother a sister and also is grandmother and all is mums family living in France, his mum died a few year back.

"They are fine, but you know that both of them decided to drop out of college? Alan will give a try on the cruises with me this coming season and Sabrine is living with Noah now. Grandmother is great living la vida loca with her friends like always".he said laughing his grandmother his the funniest old women you will ever know.

"Is great they all found there way" mum noded

"Ok, guys there's you have the list and the money go to the market and by all of that for granny and there's also some wine that granddad asked for!"

"We are going!" I said pushing my brother out of the apartment.

When we started walking towards the market my brother asked me to sit on a bench in front of the beach because he wanted to talk to me, and I knew right away that I was in trouble.

"You know I care about you, right? I don't want to be an asshole, but since we have a shitty father it's my duty to look out for you. You are growing up and it is not now that I notice the way the boys start looking at you, I want you to realize that I trust you, I believe that you will make good choices. But I want you to have all the information you need to make them and with Daniel you don't have them, not to mention that he is much older than you are K." My brother said to me with genuine concern in his voice

"And I imagine you have some of that information for me?

"Maybe, but I do not know if you want to hear ... "He said in a sad tone.

"Go on" I said encourage him

"We don't know much, but I know he did struggle with drugs that's why he come here as part of his rehab" he said genuinely worried

"The information is incorrect but you missed the pills and the girls but you gotta a good idea from the reality, really Leo don't worry I know all of that and a lot more, trust me. The worst that will happen is that your little sisters will get her heart broken, how many hearts had you broken? All of them were someone elses sisters. No one ever died from a broken heart, like mum says better love and lost then never love at all, right??" I stood up from the bench. "Let's get the stuff we need".

"Love you, you know, right? I'll kill him if he ever hurt you, you’re 16 for crying out loud!-He said disturbed

" Really Leo?? How old were you when you dated Julia? I tell you, you where 25 and she was 16, remenber that? You guy are friends untill today, so what was wrong with that??"- I said smiling at him

" Ok, you got me there, let's go then." he laughed and start to walk.

"Love you big bro" I punched his shoulder

We finished shopping and returned home, Leo left and said for us to be ready at 11am that he had booked the taxi for that hour and left. At 11am he showed up with a smiling Daniel to take us to the airport.

Daniel

I was on skype with my agent when the door bell rang, I looked through the window I know I was in deep s***.I went to open the door and a very relaxed Leo was standing in front of me.

"Hi Leo, come on in."

"I wanna have a few words with you" He said in a calm way

" I can imagine" I said with a smile

" Actually, you can't. If I had come here this morning I think I would have drowned you in the pool, but nevertheless I had a conversation with one of the most reasonable people I know and decided that I will not kill you yet, if I know my sister in a while you will ask me to kill you." He said laughing " Anyway can you give us a drive to the airport?"

"Yes sure, but if you have your flight at 1pm you'll have to leave in now" I said pickup the keys and the jacket

" Nice to see you are so well informed" he give me a smirk.

"I am, I'm I not?" I smiled back while closing the door.

"You little s***, I remember you when you were a kid, back then I even liked you the kid with the guitar, by the way you used to be quite good with that thing what happened?"

"Well let's just say that in music terms I didn't turn out so bad, just didn't turned out like I wish it did!" I answered while getting in the Jeep.

"Fair enough, you had a band, do you still play?" Leo ask

"No band now, I'm writing some new songs and want to go solo this time, had enought of compromising for one live time" –I said stopping in front K's apartment.

We gave me this strange look started to laugh really laugh and said"You had enough of compromising for on live time, and want to go out with my sis??? Good luck with that bro, you are so f***!!!"- And he left me in the car and went for K and her mum.

K comes out wearing dark blue skinny jeans a red sweater dark blue jack and dark blue super stars she also brighs a wool cap in her hand, she is ready to face the Highlands,

She seems surprised to see me but does not let herself be inhibited and goes up to the back seat with her mother.

I left my baby girl at the airport and come back home, around 3pm Pedro called me to go to play some volleyball on the beach, a few of the regulares were there and also 2 new girls that spent the afternoon all over me. Silvia was my saver ones again. Paulo is out of work to night and ask me on a boys night out, Silvia gave me a funny look when I said yes. I Don't really fell like it but the truth is that I'm not in a good place with Paulo so I'm trying to fix it.

He picked me up at 19:30pm and we when to meet the rest of the guys in a restaurant in Albufeira down town area crowded with bars of all kinds, it was a really nice night up untill around 3am when the guys start to target rundown girls and leave with them, then I realized that this was one of the famous nights of hunters, nothing against it both boys and girls were up for it for me that was ok, I had done that myself, most of my "relations" were one night stand, but I was just not up for that anymore, so I went up the road and grab a taxi back home.

24th December 2007

I woke up at 9am, my mum and my sis called me to wish me a merry Christmas, then I went back to sleep, woke up again at 12 the f*****g phone again, it was Miguel auntie wants me there at 7pm, and Silvia wants to kill me but he didn’t figure out why yet, he will let me now when he does. What the hell??

I grab some coffee and go to my laptop to see if K left me any text, nothing. But that's normal she only arrived late last night and there's no internet in the house.

I have a look on my e-mail and there's one that my sis told me this morning se resend from William, seems like maybe there’s same interest in me as a solo artist in the USA. This would be brilliant if I could keep a career in the other side of the Atlantic and a life on this side would be the best of both worlds. I would have to get at least 8 songs ready by the end of March to be in studio in the beginning of April. I think I can do this. On this first one I'll have to go on there but, I can build myself a house with a studio here and work from home. I'll just need to go out when I'm on tour. I can pull this off. S*** how I'm I going to explain how can I pay for a house with a top record studio!!!

I answered Williams email through my sister and run through some more email I have a few from the guys from the band, "reporters", the label but nothing from K. I take my laptop with me to the living room and leave it on so I can hear it when she comes online, but she doesn't.

Before going to Paulo's house I decided to call her to wish her a merry Christmas but her phone is off so I call Leo his phone is also of. Now I'm worried

I went to have the Christmas dinner at my untys house and everyone was there I had already forgotten how noisy a portuguese family can be, it was nice to see everyone one again many of my cousin are married now and I hadn't seen them since i arrived as they aren't living in the area anymore.

But I couldn't enjoyed myself to the fullest as I was worried about K.

I come back home at 1am and open my email to find nothing.

I had a shower and tried to sleep but there was no way I has going to sleep like that, so I took a piece of paper and my old Maria and we spent the night together.

25thDecember 2007

Daniel

I ended up falling asleep with my beloved Maria on my arms and woke up with the sound of an email, I run to it but it was just a old friend of my asking me if I was in the Uk, and telling that he had something for me to see on his f*******:.

So I enter my f*******: to find him.

There it was my old band playng in one bar in London, they look the same, I kept in contact the first 2 eyear but after that i just lost track of them, I was to ashamed, to speak with them I think.

Then I started to scroll down on f*******: and I run out of blood!!

On Paulo's f*******: there were a few photos from the dinner and the night on the bars with the tag hunters night on at least 2 of the photos you could see a girl sitting really close to me, and on other photo I was dancing and one girl was leaning on my back.

There was a like from K on the 3 photos and a coment fom Leon "What a shitty thing to do Paulo, no need for that".

This was yesterday, this is why Silvia is F*** with me. I was screwed I need Silvias help.

I went straight to Miguel's house and in to his room, in my way I passed by Paulo and I called him asshole. I storm on his room waking him up " Miguel wake up man I need your help, your brother screwed me up"

"What?"confusion on his face

"Your brother posted some photos on f*******: to make it look like I was with a girl" I said in agony

" Yes I saw, nice catch by the way!" he said smiling.

"Are you crazy? He screwed me up man that's why Silvia was pissed with me! I said out loud.

He jumped in the bed: " What the hell does my girlfriend has to do with who do you f**k ?" he screamed at me.

"Not her you i***t, are you really the only one that didn't notice me and K?" I explained in despair.

He open is eyes looked at me, and punch my face:

"Are you crazy? You are with K and go to a hunters night I'm going to kill you."

"I didn’t know it was a hunters night, I was screwed"- I said while ditched the blows

"That makes sense@"- he said while calmed down. "Now I understand why Silvia was all over Ana in that day at your house and in the other day on the beach with those 2 girls. K does the some thing with me, when Silvia is not around she is like a eagle keeping all birds away"- he laughed

"So are you going to help me?" -I asked all my hope on him

"Sorry man, you don't need my help, you need Silvia's and she is in Porto. She will be back on the 28th"-he sad sadly

"I'll call her then, I have to do something I haven’t slept last night and I didn't even know about the f*****g photos.

"Do you know what is really stupid? K never had any social network she hated that stuff, she always says that people pretend to live a different life in f*******:. Is like if reality never measure up, her words. How the hell did she decided to create a profile now?" - he asked confused.

"I convinced her, I did it for her!" I said sitting on his bed

"Only s**t!!"- Amazement on is face

I tried to call Silvia but it didn’t even ring, Miguel told me that she blocked my number for sure, so he called from his phone and she answered he spoke with her and told her my version even told her that I was the one that convinced K to create a f*******: so we could share photos between us.

She told him she was going to unblock my number, but she wouldn't be able to reached out to K. as she turned off her phone, Leo's phone was also out and she was not going to use internet, because she already had all she needed from that.

That was it, nothing I could do untill tomorrow at 11am when I'll pick her up from the airport.

K

I'm on the flight back and for the first time on my life I didn’t enjoy my favourite time of the year, Everything was there the decorations, the snow the aurora borealis and this year even Leo but that f*******: s**t screwed my Christmas. Leo told me to remember my on words life is not what you see on f*******:, but it sure did looked like it!! But I'll be the grown up here the truth is that we meet 2 weeks ago and he meet some one his on age that can be with him in the way he needs and deserves so I'll accept that and that's it, but it hurts like hell! But I have a plan I'll be home at 1pm I'll call Luis the owner of a Bar were I work some times and I'll see if he as something for me it's the new year's holidays everything is fully booked I'll be able to keep myself busy, and have to call to Vitoria to see if they need help this afternoon and tonight at the Marina. I'll get through this and I'll doing it dacing!!

Leo made me promise that I wouldn't avoid Daniel, if he come to me I have to speak to him no matter how much it hurts, he said that that's the only way to heal, that way there's no buts left behind! Sometimes my big brother seems to be very wise.

We just landed on time head out to pick up a taxi when I felt someone holding me from behind and whispering. "I'm so sorry babe I was told that was a night out with the guys, I swear to you nothing happen on that night."

I turned around, this guy is a great actor or he's telling me the truth. There's hurt in his eyes, he looks tired there's dark circles around is eyes is skin looks pale. I put my arms around his neck pull his face near and tiptoe kissed is face and say:

" I know that now, sorry!" He pull me up hold me even closer and I feel his body relaxing.

" Ok Daniel that's enough put my daughter down and take me home, I'm tired and I get grumpy when I'm tired."- My mum said smiling at us.

"By the way Daniel, how did you get Leo?" She asked with curiosity

" I didn't on the day I brough you guys to the airport he told me that he spoke with the wisest person he knows and he decided he shouldn't kill me yet, I think those were his words. K. when will you start working?"

"I'm on the morning shift all week from tomoŕrom 9am to 5pm." I said giving him my luggage

"Meg can I have K up to 12 tonight, please? He used his best puppy eyes.

" You ask me? Daniel let me tell you something my boy, Kayla does what she wants since she was 2, I only need to know where she is and with who she is, she ownes her on life".mum shrugged

"K?"

"Sure what you have on mind?" I ask

" We are going out, but we'll drop your mum home and you'll stay with me is that ok?". he looked at me and smiled

"Ok"

We leave mum and head to his home, when we arrived he hugged me and said " Babe do you mind to sleep with me for a couple of hour I haven’t been able to sleep since the 24th when I couldn't get hold of you" I could feel how tired he was

"Sure let me take a shower, I'm awake since 3 am and I'll be back with you" I said headings to the stairs, he followed me to the room, I went in the bathroom and 20 minutes later come out with a tower wrapped around my body, went to is closet and took one of is pearl jam shirts, and went to lay next to him with my back at him, he holds me by my waist and pulls me closer and starts to kiss my neck while whispering " I was so afraid I had lost you, I could lose everything I don't give a f**k, but please, not you. Please promise that doesn't matter what you'll always will give me a change to explain myself babe, please babe promise me. I had see so many times how they can make thinks look so different from what they really are." I could fell the agony on him the despair.

I turn to look at his eyes:

" I'll, but don't you ever lie to me. It's ok if you don't won't to tell me everything, but don't you ever lie to me. That I would never forgive you, doesn't matter how much you think the truth will hurt me, you can be sure that your lie as small as it seems to you will hurt me much more."

He nodded his head had kissed my forehead, I layed my head on his chest and we feel asleep.

We woke up at 4:30pm with the phone alarm, I had my back to him and he was holding me by my waist it fell so good it felt like I had slept for 8 hours I looked at him he looked much rested then before, the dark circles were gone and the beautiful bright blue eyes were back to me.