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feeling of contentment and happiness to m e that it’s hard to describe .  I just feel right when he ’ s around. Looking across the table, I take him in with my eyes.  I love watching him during these moments when he ’ s happiest and most content.  He’s so unbelievably ha ndsome it makes my heart stutter .  As I’m mentally counting down the seconds before I have to look away, his eyes snap up and he holds me in his gaze .
    My heartbeat speeds up as my breath catches in my throat.  Damien’s gaze is both intense and erotic all at once.  I’m glad that I’m sitting down because my legs feel like jelly.  We stare across the table at each other for less than fifteen seconds, but it feels like an eternity.
    I am both saddened and relieved when Damien’s gaze shifts from me to his Aunt Sandra.  I’m s ad because the moment has passed, relieved because I don’t want everyone to realize that I’ve got feelings for Damien.   I can’t help but to feel giddy though because I am pretty damn ed sure that what ever just passed between us, he felt it too.
    With a great deal of effort on my part , I turn my attention back to the conversation at the table . Dante is talking to Delilah and Dominique about a nother Habitat for Humanity build that they’ve just signed up for, and I join in to that conversation. 
    I’m sad that I can’ t do the Habitat project with them, but I’m doing the last part of my work experience for my degree during the time they are doing it.  Damien understands that I’m bummed to miss out on the experience, and he speaks up.  “I know it’s a bummer that you can’t participate in this build Brooke, but how about we all sign up and do the next build together as a family?”
    Everyone agrees that it’s a great plan, and I can ’ t help but smile at his use of the word family.  We’ve become a unit , as if we were destined to be together.   My relationships with each of these people are full and real, but my feelings for Damien elevate my connection to him. 
    It ’ s so stra nge that in fourteen months , he has become such an integral part of my life.   I see him several days a week, but on the days that I do n’ t see him, his absence is extremel y noticeable. The days without him are never as good as the days with him.
    My reverie is brought to an end as everyone stands up and starts cleaning the table off.  Jumping to my feet , I grab some dishes and make my way in to the kitchen.   Once at the sink I start rinsing and then loading the dishes in to the dishwasher. 
    As usual Damien stands next to me and dries the bigger things that I wash that w on’t fit in the dishwasher.  We talk about Vegas and all the things that we could possibly do while we’re there, and since we ’ve all got a system down , everything is complete fifteen minutes later. After we’re all finished cleaning we head in to Dante’s theater room.  This week Aunt Sandra has brought the movie, “The Adjustment Bureau.”  We all take seats and get comfortable while Dante cues the movie up and then starts it.
    I’ve seen the movie before so I allow my mind to wander.  Inevitably my thoughts go to Damien.  What was with that look we exchanged earlier ?   I don’t think I was projecting the heat in his eyes.  He was totally fine while we were doing the dishes, but for the first time I really noticed that he always stays near to me.
    It would be a mazing i f Damien was attracted to me, and would act on it.  I know his track record is awful , but I know there is more to it than just the fact that he likes variety .  He ’ s never had a girlfriend, not even in high school.  Dominique and Delilah tell me that Damien, Spencer and Dante have never even considered anything serious.  I think Damien shies away from commitment for a reason, but I don’t know what it is.
    Apparently , before Damien and Spencer started hanging out with the girls and I once the girls turned twenty-one, they used to