Olivia’s POV
Walking back to my apartment from the subway with a skip in my step, I inhaled the pleasant morning breeze and occasionally twirled around happily. Something about that morning felt freeing and I hadn’t felt that happy in a while. Humming to myself, I walked down my street as I began imagining myself getting under a warm shower and ordering some takeaway food. My weekend had turned out nothing like I thought it would be, but I was glad that I still had a day for myself. After a crazy week, it was much needed.
As I headed down the final steps leading to my front door, I looked down into my clutch and noticed that my phone had run out of battery. In fact, I believe it ran out of battery sometime last night since the last time I saw it was to look up directions to Joshua’s apartment and it was already down to 5 percent then. Since I was almost home, it didn’t bother me, so instead,
Joshua’s POVA little over a week had passed since Olivia last woke up in my apartment. Nothing much had happened and we hadn’t seen each other, but we stayed in touch through calls and messages. As much as I wanted to spend every minute of my life with her, I knew I had to respect her space and give her enough time to make a decision. The last thing I wanted was to scare her away by being too forward and forcing her to like me.The sound of someone knocking on my apartment door snapped me out of my daze and I got up from my couch, wore my t-shirt, and opened the door to find Jenny at my door.“Jenny? What’s up?” I asked as I leaned on my door frame.She sighed and looked up at me with her tired eyes. “It’s about Mrs. Baxter.”“What?! What happened? Is she okay? Where is she?” I blasted at her a
Olivia’s POVCrashing on my bed, I let out a long sigh and groan. I was exhausted and my brain was starting to glitch after returning from university. My final year didn’t have any exams, but my lecturer liked to have quizzes every now and then to keep us on our toes. That explained why I looked like a zombie since I spent the last couple of days studying like a madman.Just as my eyelids started fluttering slowly as I drifted off to sleep, my phone rang loudly in my otherwise quiet room. Picking it up from the bed, I saw Joshua’s name flash on the screen.“Noooooo……I want to sleeppppp!” I shouted out to myself followed by a groan.When my phone just kept ringing non-stop, I knew that there was no escaping him. Reluctantly, I slid my finger over the screen and placed the phone to my ear. However, before I could even say anything, J
Joshua’s POVIt had undeniably been a hectic morning. From running some errands in the morning to decorating the backyard garden with Olivia, and most of all, trying to find an excuse to flirt with my girl.It had been a couple of days since we met with Mrs. Baxter and figured out her vision for the wedding. Since then, the last couple of days had brought us closer as we planned and prepared for Mrs. Baxter’s wedding. I was glad that we had clarified our past misunderstandings and decided to move forward. Personally, my relationship with Olivia had never been better. She was an amazing girl and deserved nothing but the best, which was what I strived to be.Since most of her wedding planning required her to be at my apartment building, Olivia began spending a lot of time in my apartment. Today was not an exception and when I walked into my apartment with bags of decorations, I found O
Olivia’s POV I stood there, absolutely stunned by the question that Joshua had just asked me. He had asked me to be his date for the wedding, totally out of the blue. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to suddenly throw you off like that. It just popped into my mind, and I just blurted it out,” he quickly continued as he rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. Sighing deeply, I looked away. “Yeah, that sure came as a surprise.” Honestly, I wanted to say yes. I mean, thinking back to my teenage girl years, I had been waiting for this moment my entire life until Joshua started bullying me. All my favorable old feelings for him felt like it was bursting to come up again, but it was locked in with a big massive gate. The gate I built to avoid anything and everything to do with Joshua Taylor, because somehow, whenever I thought about him, what he did, and any
Olivia’s POVJoshua had just approached me with a serious look on his face and revealed that he had something to tell me. I felt like my heart was in my hands. I didn’t know what to expect as my ever-overthinking mind started coming up with all these negative reasons that he had to talk to me about. I started breathing heavily as I prepared myself for what was going to come next.He let out a sigh and stepped forward. “You see, Via—”Joshua had just started saying something, only to be cut short by my phone vibrating in my purse before it started to ring. I didn’t know whether to be relieved or frustrated that the moment of tension between us had been disrupted. I fumbled around in my purse to find my phone, grabbed it, and saw Nadia’s name flash on the screen. Slightly curious, I slid my finger over the screen to answer t
Olivia’s POVThe train chugged forward, filled to the brim with the working class of New Yorkers as we headed in to work on Monday morning. Drumming my fingers on the file on my lap, I groaned nervously as I looked forward to my presentation.I can do this…I can do this…I can do thisAfter the wedding, I declared to Joshua that I would take up his offer to go on a date, but it had to wait until the campaign launch was over. He was over the moon and was unwilling to let me leave his car, but I did anyway. Trust me, it was completely insane that I had agreed to go on a date with The Joshua Taylor after everything I had gone through. I knew that I agreed to push the past behind me and look forward to the future with the new Joshua, who was nothing like the one I used to know, nevertheless, work still came first.So, instead
Olivia’s POVThe wind blew in my air as I looked up at the older, handsome man towering over me as he cupped my cheek in his large palm. Out of nowhere, I demanded that he kiss me and after a look of surprise flashed across his face, Sam’s face softened as his thin lips curved into a smile.Tilting my head up toward his face, he slowly lowered his lips onto mine and I gulped in anticipation. However, just when his lips grazed on mine, the door of the rooftop opened and a couple of people appeared with cigarettes in their hands.The sound of glass shattering filled my soul as I felt the moment disappear. All of a sudden, I was aware of what I had asked him to do and what was about to happen. Clearing my throat, I squirmed uncomfortably and Sam’s hands dropped from my face before he stepped away.“Um…maybe we should get
Olivia’s POVA lump formed in my throat as my eyes met his while my arm was still wrapped around Joshua. It was not the way I wanted him to find out about Joshua even though what I was doing was nothing but being friendly. However, judging by his words, he could sense that there was something more than friendship going on between me and Joshua.“So, it looks like I have some competition for you, huh?” Sam’s words echoed in my head.Suddenly I felt guilty for leading both of them on, especially Sam even though I was doing no wrong. All I wanted to do was be sure about my feelings before I committed to one of them. Honestly, if Joshua had never walked back into my life and that too as a changed man, I would have already been dating Sam for about a month. But, that did not happen. Instead, my worst nightmare walked back into my life and changed ever