Something Different

Chapter X: What's Wrong With Her?

Dimitry's POV

I was beating the shit out of Damon, letting out all the fury I felt for him corrupting the only girl I've ever loved and making her think that she was his girlfriend, for kissing her, for kissing her friend, and most of all, for hurting Erica. 

I hear Bronwen and Stephan arguing as I'm fighting Damon.

"Bronwen, please, don't get between them!"

"Stephan, they need to stop fighting, they're scaring people."

"Please don't get between them." 

"Then help me get them under control or I'm going alone."

"Okay..."

The next thing I know, Bronwen is pulling me away from Damon while Stephan is pulling Damon away and Bronwen is telling us to shut up and they kick us out of the party.

"IF YOU EVER DARE TO RUIN MY BEST FRIEND'S PARTY OR LIFE LIKE THAT AGAIN, I WILL HAVE YOU BOTH IN CHAINS!" Bronwen yells at us as Damon runs away and she holds onto me and when Damon is long gone she hands me a piece of paper and says, "I'm sorry, Dimitry, play along, for now, go to this address tomorrow, I need to talk to you about Erica..."

I nod and ask, "When?"

"Noon," she says.

"Alright."

Erica's POV

I lay down in bed thinking about what I just saw. 

If I don't know Dimitry, why would he fight Damon because he hurt me? Why did it feel so wrong when Damon kissed me earlier? What was that thing I felt when Dimitry was holding me in his arms that was absent when Damon held me? When Damon held me before I felt something but now I feel nothing. Why is that? 

Cane and Armin came in and Armin sat next to me on my bed and started rubbing my back in an awkward comforting fashion and I had to suppress a laugh. He was never good at comforting people, I thought as Cane curled into a furry chocolate brown ball on top of my feet and I sat up and looked at Armin and he was looking down at me with those beautiful jewel tone light blue eyes that I had had a crush on before I met Damon. He was blushing.

"Umm...Erica..." 

"What is it, Armin?" I ask, worried, he's getting redder by the second.

"Well... I-if you want me to... maybe I could come over tomorrow a-and you, me, and Alexy could hang out."

"Sure, maybe that will cheer me up." I smile at him and he falls off the bed and there's blood on his shirt.

"Armin!" I jumped off my bed and I landed next to him kneeling beside him and putting his head on my lap and I saw that the blood wasn't coming from his chest... it was coming from his nose, no open wounds, only a simple nosebleed and a bump on his head. He had hit his head on the way down. "Armin! Are You okay?!"

"That's so like you, Erica. Even when you're in the darkest pits of sorrow, you are always strong. You're always worrying about others. Yours is a rare strength, you are unselfish, you are beautiful, you are perfect, Erica."

I start blushing brightly, "A-Armin? A-are you okay? you've never said anything like this to me."

"I'm fine, Erica, can you get me a wet rag so people don't think I murdered you?"

"Oh, sure." I run to the bathroom that's attached to my room and I get a wet rag and I come back and Cane is sitting next to Armin licking the hand covered in his blood, trying to clean it up. 

"Armin, I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't give my puppy a taste for blood." 

He blushes, "Sorry..."

"It's okay, Cane is always a sweet puppy. He loves people."

"I can see that." He says.

As I start wiping the blood away, he blushes more and I blush when I start dabbing the blood off of his white button up shirt that has his muscles under it which I know because of the pool party I had during the summer which Amber and Deborah just had to crash and make everyone want to leave I curse the day those two were born! All of my friends were there and so were the Herondale boys and those two mundane pansycakes had to spoil the fun! Needless to say that Amber and Deborah are hated by everybody. 

Amber is a bitch to every girl that goes anywhere near the guys and Deborah ruined Castiel's chance to become famous and caused the feud between him and Nathaniel. 

I finish cleaning the blood off of him and a lock of hair falls into my eyes and he tucks the lock behind my ear. He caressed my cheek gently and tenderly. He then leaned forward and whispered in my ear, "Erica Caitlyn Gautier, I have had a huge crush on you since I first saw you and I've been wanting to do this for a very long time..." He looked into my surprised eyes and his hand went to the back of my neck and the next thing I know is that his lips were on mine and my eyes widened and then I relaxed. He was Armin, he was my friend, my crush, and he was familiar and comforting. This was the boy that I had played video games with, who was a fan of my favorite books with me, who was outraged with me when we saw the Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief movie because it was nowhere close to the book. He held me when I finished The Mark of Athena. He was the boy whose skin had the comforting scent that was uniquely Armin, Sandalwood, New Orleans, and an ocean breeze. He was a comfort. So I found myself kissing him back then he pulled away, the both of us breathing hard and he gives me a grin and says, "I ship us, no matter what happens."

Dimitry's POV

I wake up the next morning and I go to the address at noon and I talk with Bronwen she tells me that Erica, the love of my existence, doesn't remember anything that happened between the two of us and I felt like I didn't want to live anymore. Bronwen said that Erica thinks that everything that happened between the two of us actually happened between her and Damon and that I need to make her remember that I was the one that she loves and not Damon. 

"But how do I do that? She doesn't remember." I ask Bronwen feeling like I lost the only person I've ever cared about since my family 1300 years ago. I love her with all my heart and now I feel that maybe I've lost her forever.

"Is there anything that might jog her memory? Something that you know will trigger her memory?" Bronwen asked me.

I thought about it for a minute and then I remembered Erica's drawing of me from her dreams and I hugged Bronwen and said, "You're a genius! Thank you! I know what to do now! I've got to go! I need to get her favorite flowers and her favorite books that she doesn't have."

"Good luck Dimitry!" 

I go to the bookstore and buy her the books she wanted, I got her favorite flowers, a new sketchbook, blue cream soda and a ring made of white gold, opals, sapphires, and diamonds. I put it all in a box and I write a note and put it in the box with it all and I wrap it in blue wrapping paper and I put a silver ribbon on it and a tag that said: To Erica with all my love and my heart and soul that I gave you three days ago when we met on your birthday at the nightclub. Love forever, Yours and yours alone, Dimitry Hunter.

I went to her house and I set the box down with care and I rung the doorbell and I picked the box back up and held it as the love of my life opened the door and looked at me with a surprised expression. 

"Dimitry? What are you doing here?" She asked and I let the sound of her beautiful voice wrap around me and I smiled at her.

"I wanted to bring you this present. May I come in?"

"Oh, of course." She moved aside and let me in.