If Damian had

known

that things would turn out this way, he might not have encouraged Anya to get her vaccination so readily.

Sure, he wanted to be supportive, but if she didn 't get it, then she wouldn 't have come on the school trip, and then she wouldn 't be -

'Where are we going again? ' Anya asked for what must have been the fifth time, interrupting his spiral of thoughts.

Damian tried to ignore the way her sparkly green eyes widened with curiosity, and how

close

she sat next to him on the cramped school bus. It caused his mind (and his heart) to go into overdrive.

Seriously. With the fees they paid for the school, he was sure that Eden College should have been able to afford something with bigger seats so that he didn't have to suffer that his leg crushed against hers, or feeling her heat through his uniform, or being intoxicated from her usual perfume -