"Troppe regole, e non sono mai stato abbastanza buono a tutti loro per compiacere il padre. Amava Stefan, non io." The affection is returned, Max; the walls Damon's built to keep people out have been lowered by the ale, until they might as well have never existed. Stefan may have been the good brother, but Damon was always the demonstrative one.

He laughs at her switch, moving in to press a kis to the corner of her mouth and then taking the bottle back again. "Show-off."

( translation | 'too many rules, and i was never good enough at all of them to please father. he loved stefan, not me.' )