There was so much going on in the past hour. It was like sitting on a bench outside a building being set on fire while everyone was either panicking about the fire or shouting at each other about other things unrelated to the fire. On the other side, there was an explosion caused by some electronics and people were crying for help. And she did not know what to divert her attention to because of everything happening at the same time.
But that did not literally happen, of course.
Olivia sat on the couch with her eyes stuck on the coffee table in front of her as she let every word that was entering her right ear leave from her other ear.
An hour ago, the people who witnessed the incident asked her if she was fine out of concern and one of them even volunteered to take her to the hospital to have her wound treated in which she accepted since she lost a lot of energy from fighting her classmate who just literally lost her sanity. Olivia did not know who to tell them as her guardian since 1.) she hated her dad so much she never wanted to call him as his parent nor guardian; 2.) she and her dad did not want to reveal each other’s relationship to the public because of his reputation as the city mayor; 3.) the first reason and the second reason combined. In conclusion, calling her father was a big no-no.
Fortunately, Anton’s secretary happened to be around in the hospital since his girlfriend was working in the same hospital as a nurse. Without mentioning his boss, he decided to act as her guardian just to let them send her home after treating her wound. Even though Olivia would try to beg him to not tell anything about to her father, it would not work since Anton would automatically ask about it as soon as he drops her off their home.
At that moment, Olivia badly wanted to disappear from the room or just bang her head against the wall until her brain malfunctions and possibly lose her sense of hearing just to stop hearing the annoyingly loud voice of her father. He was like a dog that barks nonstop in the middle of the night just to disturb the people who are in slumber, except that he was not a dog but a grown man who could not want happiness and peace for Olivia.
“How many times do I have to tell you? If you keep getting into troubles like this and people find out that you’re my goddamn daughter then what’s going to happen to me, huh? How the hell am I gonna be a role model to everyone in this city? How am I gonna get re-elected in the next years, huh?!” Anton shouted in anger as he stood in front of her with his hands resting on his hips.
“It’s really just about that, huh?” Olivia scoffed.
“What was that?”
The blonde raised her head to look at him blankly in the eyes. “Everything is just about your reputation, right? You don’t actually care whether I get hurt or not. You’re only acting up because you are scared people might find out you’re a useless father.”
“What the hell did you just say?” The older man’s frown became deeper as he glared at his daughter. “The reason why you’re living in luxury right now is because of me, and you dare say I’m a useless father? You are an ungrateful brat!”
“That’s right. You’re being really disrespectful, Olivia. You should apologize to your father right now.”
Olivia could feel her blood boil even more when Emily suddenly entered the room and stood next to her father, wrapping her hands around his arm to calm him down. She turned to give her a glare though the older woman was not one bit intimidated by the teenager. In fact, it looked like she was even enjoying angering the younger girl.
“Why are you even butting in here? You’re nothing but my father’s mistress,” Olivia growled.
“Olivia!” The blonde returned her glare on her father. “She is your mother now! You have no right to say any of that to her!”
“That’s right. Oh wait, is that what your first mother taught you? To be spiteful and disrespectful to elders or people in general—”
The mention of her mother pushed a button in Olivia as she bolted up from her seat and charged toward her stepmother, bringing actual chaos in the room. She, with no hesitation, tightly held the older woman’s silky hair from behind and pulled it back which caused the latter to let out a scream in agony.
“Olivia, stop!” Anton shouted in shock and displeasure. He was fast to hold his daughter’s arms away from his wife.
“You fucking bitch! You have no right to say anything about my mother! You are just nothing without my father!” Olivia screamed while refusing to let go of the older woman’s hair, hoping that it would make her scalp bleed from the pulling that she was doing.
“I said enough!” Anton pulled the blonde’s arms with all his force, throwing her down the floor.
Olivia winced in pain when her arm where the wound was hit the floor as she threw an enraged glare at the two of them, especially at her father who was more concerned for Emily than his own daughter. The sight alone made her tear out of anger as she pushed herself up from the floor and ran out of the mansion, ignoring the shouts of her father. It was not like Anton would genuinely care if Olivia ended up getting run over by a truck from running on a busy road.
The blonde did not know where she was going. There was just one thing in her mind, and that was to get away as far as she could from that mansion where the man and woman who were the cause of her misery were.
She was crying while running that the tears and air smudged her makeup, making her look completely different from her usual pretty appearance that always makes both boys and girls fall in love with her. She was an absolute wreck running away from home with tears on her face.
The blonde kept running through the busy streets without caring and looking clearly at whoever she was bumping to when she eventually bumped on a person hard enough that she almost fell back on the ground—if only the person did not catch her by the waist.
When Olivia looked up, it was the only person whom she had been thinking about going to for the whole time.
“Olivia?” Dakota spoke in surprise and concern when she realized that the crying girl was really her girlfriend.
“D-Dakota,” the blonde uttered that came out as a sob.
Dakota was about to ask what happened and why she was crying when she decided to shut up and pull her in a tight embrace. She let the shorter girl cry on her shoulder as she stroked the back of her head. Dakota wanted Olivia to know that she was there for her. Anytime.
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There were so many questions in her head that she badly wanted to let out. But for the sake of her girlfriend’s privacy and comfort, Dakota forced herself to keep her mouth shut and just be there for her. Waiting until the latter decides to open up by her own without feeling the pressure to tell her what was wrong and what happened that made her run through the streets carelessly with tears on her face.
After Olivia stopped crying, Dakota decided to take her to a small ice cream parlor so she could feel at least a bit better since everyone knows that ice cream is the best comfort food. The blonde had not said anything since then as she just followed her girlfriend without even wanting to look at her out of embarrassment.
Dakota sat across her at a table as she did her best to not stare too much at the latter who was silently eating her mint chocolate chip ice cream. Though as if she was afraid that Olivia might blow up or start crying again, Dakota still made sure to throw secret glances at her as assurance.
The both of them continued to eat their ice cream in silence. Some of the people in the ice cream parlor even thought that they were having a lovers’ quarrel because of the gloomy mood between them. Fortunately, they did not bother giving them too much of their attention when the ice cream in that shop deserved all of everyone’s attention.
Suddenly, the doors of the parlor opened and the partners did not bother turning to look at the people who entered the ice cream parlor. Olivia was focused on eating her ice cream while Dakota was focused on eating and glancing at the blonde. Their attention was diverted away when someone tapped the shoulder of Dakota, making them look up from their ice cream.
“Hey,” Lia said with a brief smile on her face as she glanced between them to try to read the room.
“What’s…going on?” Leo tried to sound cheerful at first though it dropped when he saw the post-weeping face of Olivia.
“Oh, hi,” Dakota responded.
The siblings turned to look at each other as they simultaneously came up with an idea. They then turned back to them with smiles on their face.
“Finish your ice creams. Let’s all hang out today!”
“Are you sure it’s safe?”The sun was still brightly shining from above which meant that it was not exactly a good idea to do anything illegal—unless one is brave enough to do it with the ability to not get caught or with the intention to get caught.Olivia had no idea what they were going to do when the Spade siblings pulled them out of the ice cream parlor as soon as they were done eating their ice cream to hang out. She literally did not expect stealing a car to be a part of their hanging out.“Everything we do is safe as long as we don’t murder a person.” Leo tittered as he casually leaned on the car with his arms crossed across his chest, not making it obvious that he was actually hiding her sister from picking the car door lock.“Don’t worry. If we get caught, we run.” Dakota placed her arm around Olivia’s shoulders as she gave her a smile of reassurance.“But what if—”“And it is time to go.”The blonde turned to Lia who stood back up properly and flashed a proud smile on her f
Days went by as things were back to normal ever since the day when the four of them had fun on the beach in Eggsea. Dakota, Leo, and Lia continued on with their lives stealing from different people and stores since that was how they could only live anyway. On the other hand, Olivia was back to school like nothing happened.As soon as the police caught Rachel, Anton did not hesitate to make her expel from school. Not wanting to create any noise at school, Olivia shut her mouth about what happened as her father also ordered everyone who knew about it to not let anyone know about it.The students in Tulip High were just left in confusion on why Rachel suddenly got expelled from school. Since the actual reason could not be dug out, they started to create their own theories which became rumors. Some said that Rachel turned out to be a secret drug dealer which was why she goes to class 30 minutes late sometimes, while others said that she could be a psychopath behind the cheerful personalit
The digital clock on the bedside table read 3:30 a.m. when the blonde sat up to look at the time while catching her breath.After her meeting with the now gang boss, Olivia had started having dreams again. But they had all only been nightmares. Nightmares about everything that happened ten years ago—the regrets and guilt that were only coming to eat her up just when a decade had already passed.Olivia turned to the other side of the bed as she saw Theodore sleeping peacefully while facing the ceiling which was something she could never do. Not wanting to disturb him, she carefully slipped out of the blanket and left the bedroom.The blonde let out a long sigh in relief after successfully closing the door behind her without waking up the man in the room. She walked to the kitchen as she headed straight to the refrigerator to pour herself a glass of cold water. A glass of cold water was what she needed after yet another nightmare that had become a one-week streak.Olivia placed the glas
She had just calmed herself down, and she was just feeling hysterical again. The last thing she wanted to see was the woman who had just triggered that specific memory of hers.The middle-aged woman gave her an innocent smile when their eyes met but the blonde swiftly turned away as she started to break into cold sweat. She quickly put her things back in her bag as she made her way out of the bathroom.Her pace was fast as she tried her best to not look obviously anxious while heading to her office. Olivia did not want to raise her head as she would just glance at their feet and walk past by the people, wanting to avoid any social interaction as much as she could, given the current state that she was in. The blonde walked faster until she ended up bumping on a person.“Hey, hey, hey. What happened? Are you okay?” The blonde looked up and felt a sense of relief when it was Theodore who held her gently on the arms. “Talk to me, Liv. Hm?”When Olivia did not utter a word as a response, h
High-pitched moans filled the room along with sounds of utter wetness. The room had soundproof walls and did not have any windows—basically, the room was all for the two women only. No disturbance, no distraction. Just sexual pleasure.Whenever Dakota enters that room, everything that had been weighing in her head would temporarily disappear as she would only focus on the pleasure that she would be getting from either a man or a woman. It was like getting off reality for a while.But it was different this time. There was something else in the room aside from sex.“Fuck. That’s right, baby. Right there,” the woman beneath the criminal uttered, panting.As Dakota continued to thrust her digits inside the woman, the face of another woman suddenly appeared in her mind as she felt mixed emotions at that moment. She could not completely concentrate on her job as her mind started to fly elsewhere, leaving that unholy room.After a decade of not seeing the blonde then seeing her again recentl
It was a tough decision to make for the night as the blonde stood in her walk-in closet with a messy mind. The occasion that she would be going to was not any occasion. It was not like she was going to go to the mall. She was going to a family dinner with Theodore’s.Ever since things permanently changed from a decade ago, Olivia lost the energy to even be excited to go to events. One of the changes that made the most impact to herself was also losing energy on shopping, though no one actually knew that. She would still go shopping with Theodore sometimes as she would always pretend that she was enjoying just as much as he was. Fortunately, she was able to trick her boyfriend because of her great acting skills.The blonde eventually decided to wear an off-shoulder burgundy cocktail dress after a long time of decision-making. She went out of her walk-in closet and headed straight to her dressing table so she could start applying her makeup and fixing her hair that had just been tied up
It was like a little girl just ran away from home in the middle of winter with no place to go. There were no prepared things that she brought as she went as far as she could away from her family who had always done nothing but mentally torment her. She had no money to buy food or to check in at a cheap one-star motel. She had literally nothing but herself.The blonde was already far away from the restaurant where everyone was and she did not know where she currently was as she just wanted to get away from them as far as possible. She regretted wearing an off-shoulder cocktail dress without bringing a jacket or anything to cover herself from the cold night breeze. She thought about how she looked absolutely pathetic at that moment by how she was dressed in designer clothes and wearing expensive makeup yet she was currently walking on the streets with nowhere to go.It was not like she could go back to her condo unit when she literally lived together with Theodore, who was one of the pe
Five minutes had flown and the blonde was still blushing. It was a good thing that the green-haired woman was not able to face her otherwise she would have seen the effect that she was giving her because of their current situation. Not only was she worried about her red cheeks but she was also worried that the latter might actually hear how loud her heart was currently beating.The thing was that, Dakota did know. She could feel how the woman on her back had her heart beating fast, though she decided to not mention it for the dignity of the latter.“Are you sure I’m not heavy?” Olivia asked.“Jesus, Liv. That’s like the tenth time you’ve asked me that,” Dakota responded as she let out a sigh before continuing in a serious tone, “You are light as hell, alright? I swear to God, I’ll drop you right here on the ground if you ask me that one more time.”“So, I am actually heavy? I mean, you just said you’ll drop me if I don’t ask again which means that responding to me while carrying me on