Silent Lies - Chapter 29: Chapter 29

"You and Adrian?" Admira asks with a grin as I grab a bottle of water and a bag of chips from the kitchen where she's sorting through paperwork I'm sure is for work.
"Me and Adrian?" I ask right back, trying and failing at hiding my smile.
"Are you two dating?" She straight up asks as I stand at the end of the hall, hoping he can't hear us from where he's in my room.
Me and Adrian are hanging out while we were finishing homework together but now we're reading. We went to the school library today to get some books together. Divine and Ashton are in her room too, doing homework, at least they were.
Of course Admira makes us both keep our doors open, as expected now that she can clearly tell there's stuff between me and Adrian then Divine and Ashton.
"Not yet." Her grin widens, setting her pen down.
"Not yet?"
"Not yet..." I confirm as I make my way back to my room, seeing Adrian already reading our book as I plop down on the bed. "I said not to start without me!"
"Sorry, baby. It was too good to wait." I snatch the book out of his hand, not trusting him anymore-but I can't ignore the butterflies. Baby. "Oh come on!"
"Well," I sigh, starting to read as I lay my head on his chest, able to keep the book up with his help.
A couple hours later and it's 8pm, all of us sitting around a table at an arcade with a pizza. Danny and Noah are with us too now. Today is Friday, and I'm having so fucking much fun.
Everyone goes back to playing games, leaving me and Adrian. I sit there with the biggest smile on my face, making Adrian have one too as he questions me. "What?"
"Nothing... I'm just really happy," I admit, making his smile widen.
"Good. Let's keep it that way." He kisses my cheek, taking my hand in his as we stand to find everyone else.
"You okay Noah?" I ask as Adrian walks over to Ashton and Divine, seeing Noah by himself with a sad and lonesome expression.
"Yeah." He puts back on a smile as I look around for Danny. "He went to the restroom."
I nod, gesturing for him to follow me as I try to find a game that no one's occupying at the moment for us to play.
"I don't want to get in your guys' ways, Ashton and-" I cut him off, swiping the card over a basketball game as the basketballs roll down the machine, a countdown starting.
"You're not getting in anybody's way, Noah," I assure him, grabbing a basketball, frowning as he'd think that. "You're our friend, it's impossible to do so."
An hour later and we're leaving the arcade as it's closing, walking back out into the cold. But it's snowing, not heavily, it's just flurries but it's fucking snow! It's a shock with it just being almost mid November and with where we live but not when it keeps getting colder and colder everyday.
"It's snowing!" Danny yells excitedly, running past us all as if the flurries are gonna cover him as I just laugh at him pulling Noah with him.
As Adrian laughs at them as the rest of us walk to his car, he pulls me close, whispering in my ear. "My mom's coming home Monday, that's when she wants to meet you, as soon as she can. But we can go on a date before then, by ourselves, tomorrow night?"
"Definitely." I smile, lifting up to kiss his cheek too as he flushes, and not just because of the cold air.
I feel something hit my back very lightly, turning to find Danny looking pale realizing he hit me with the tiny snowball he'd managed to make with the little bit of snow on the ground. "It was meant to hit Adrian!"
"You're so lucky it's not a blizzard right now!" I call back, making my own snowball as my hands freeze, aiming for his face and everyone cheers for me as it does-turns out I have better aim than Danny.
"We've just got two classes left," Adrian says against my lips, not caring to kiss me in front of everyone walking in the halls as I don't either. Even though any other time I'd seen couples shoving their tongues down each other's throats in the halls I'd gag, but here I am. "Then we go right back to my house, dinner with mom, and you can stay the night."
"You've got to go Adrian." I push him away, even though I don't want to, as the final bell rings. He's going to be late now.
"This is a horrible place to ask but I really want to..." I look at him confused, waiting for him to ask whatever it is as we're both late now. "Will you... Can I... Shit. How the hell do people do this." I laugh as he scratches the back of his neck even though I'm still very confused. "Can I... be your boyfriend?"
Oh shit.
"Yes!" I say so excitedly, not even worrying if it's too early for us to be dating or not anymore. We've been texting, calling, hanging out every chance we've gotten lately, only growing our connection to points I didn't even think it could go to. "Of course yes!" I kiss him again as he smiles his full blown dimple smile.
"I was going to wait until after school to ask you, get flowers and everything, but I couldn't wait I'm sorry," he confesses as he smiles down at me.
"I don't even care, this is enough." I hug him, not ever wanting to let him go. "More than enough."
"I'm still getting you flowers though." I have to bite my bottom lip to contain my huge fucking smile, tightening my arms around him.
"We really do need to go," I say as I kiss him just one last time, promising myself it is now the last, even though I don't want it to be.
"I know," but he doesn't want to go as he holds me by my waist. "We can skip?"
"I've missed too much to skip." But it's tempting. "And so have you."
"Fine. Fine." He's the one who kisses me now, pulling away as he slowly walks away, not wanting to. "See you in physics, baby." He's trying to get me to skip as he slowly walks, my stomach fluttering with baby still.
It is so weird how in the span of about two months now, my life has changed completely. I'm away from dad, living with my best friend, and have a boyfriend now? What the fuck.
"You're late, Ms. Carter." I nod as my teacher points out the obvious. "Detention next time."
I go to my seat in the back, ignoring the looks I get since attention always goes to those who are late. I about gag when Lexi's boyfriend winks at me, no longer smiling from the previous kissing and asking out with Adrian. Lexi and whatever his name is confuse me so much.
In the middle of class, the phone rings and our teacher answers it. I answer the questions on our assignment, freezing when I see her looking at me as she talks. "Yep, got it." She hangs the phone up. "Olivia, Principal Morgan wants you at the office, bring your things."
What the hell did I do? I worry but stop when I wonder if it's about how much school I've missed, after being marked late today. But still worry when I know they'd call dad if it's this bad they're calling me to the office.
I grab my things, ignoring all the attention I get yet again as I walk out of the classroom. I take my time walking to the office, debating on just running to Adrian's economics class as worry is the only thing coursing through my mind apart from Adrian. Because what the fuck do they need me for? I haven't done anything, not that I know of.
When I walk into the office, someone goes ahead and motions me back to Morgan's separate office after asking my name and I write it down-I still haven't worked up to talking anyone else, people I hardly know, just yet, not after telling Lexi fuck you too pretty much last week-I wish I did just run to Adrian, or better yet, run out of school.
Dad is sitting in the chair across from Mrs. Morgan's desk, a sadistic smirk playing on his lips.
"Olivia, why don't you sit down?" Mrs. Morgan says and I do, walking from where I had frozen in the doorway, contemplating actually running to Adrian now for real.
"I've been worried sick about you." My leg bounces up and down, hearing dad sound like a caring father. It's just an act.
"Olivia, you ran away?" I shake my head at Morgan. He told me to never come back, so I'm really not. "That's not what your father says."
I so badly want to yell at her, ask her how the hell she doesn't see the signs, but I can't get the words to leave my mouth. I fucking need to talk, but I can't. I can't get the words out as my head goes back to where I don't want it to.
Everything was going so well.
"Sweetheart, you do realize running away is illegal?" I go unresponsive as she points out the obvious. "You could get in serious trouble." Like juvie time? I want to ask. Because if it gets me away from him, so be it.
"But I know you get in your moods sometimes, honey. I won't let that happen. We're going to go home and talk this over." Moods? I don't just get in the mood to run away. You've dragged me to running away with how shitty you are. I so badly want to get the words out of my mouth but my lip wobbles, unable to get the words.
"Me and your father talked, I'm going to give you the rest of the day off so you two can sort things out, okay?" I stay unresponsive, fear taking over me worse than ever. I'm going to die today. "I see you talking to your friends all the time, Olivia. Don't be like this."
Fine. "You can't let me go back. He hurts me-"
"She makes up wild stories when in these moods," dad cuts me off, Morgan actually fucking believing him when she smiles at him.
"I know how teenagers are." She playfully rolls her eyes and I resist breaking down right now.
I'm the kid here, of course she won't believe me.
"My hand?" I hold it up, forcing words out as I'm a few short breaths away from a panic attack. "He broke it."
"She fell down the steps one day, making a mistake catching herself." See, I knew he'd make up believable lies.
I'm so done for.
"Olivia, you can't make up lies like this. It's not right." Well good fucking thing I'm not, dumbass. "I'll leave you two to go."
Dad stands, gesturing for me to follow him and I do. I pull out my phone, quickly deciding for Admira's number to text when it pops up first, frantically typing out a text until he snatches my phone and I can't finish it.
"I'll be keeping this." He shakes his head as he reads my text to Admira, deleting my words of how dads got me, and how I need help. "You really thought you could get away?"
"You t-told me to never come back." A tear falls down my cheek as he wraps an arm around my shoulders the second we walk outside, fear and anxiety making twists in my stomach.
"You're really fucking stupid, Olivia." He grips my arm as he smashes my phone to the ground, breaking it completely, getting rid of my chances of Adrian or Admira or anyone for that matter. "You really thought that I'd let you get away that easily, Olive?"
It's the nickname from my childhood, the one Hadley had started when I was really little. It's what gets the nerves and fear rushing up my throat, making me vomit on the grass as he laughs at me.
He grabs my arm when I'm done, forcing me to walk to the car with him as I pray there's someone outside to witness this-but of course, there's not. How could I get such luck?
While he drives us back to that house, everything finishes crashing down on me. Everything was going fucking perfect, but now he's back. I was really stupid for thinking it would last.
Adrian just asked me out, I won't even get a full day of being in my first relationship. It'll be a miracle if he doesn't kill me. And we were going to have dinner with his mom, things were getting serious. There goes all that.
The second I'm out of the car, I'm looking around praying some neighbors are outside-but again I come up short, finding no one. He grabs my arm again, dragging me through the front door.
And the second the door closes, everything goes back to the old ways.
Just worse this time.
Way worse.
Worse than it's ever gotten.
He wore his steel toe boots just for this, I realize, as I scream when he kicks me in my ribs that were just about completely healed and I know they're broken from just one kick, after he knocked me to the ground.
"P-Please stop dad..." I beg, coughing up blood with tears streaming down my face, heaving for air.
"You expect me to? Especially when you tried telling Megan or whatever your Principal's name is what happens at home." He grins down at me as I can't even move.
"What else s-should I do? Not try to get help? T-To not take my chances e-even when you're the piece of shit you are. Talk a-about me being a waste of space." He didn't like the truth, as his fists meets my nose and blood pours out of it.
"I'm just getting started with you, girl." Woohoo. "Fucking whore like your mother."
"I'm h-happy she cheated on you. If all this time y-you've had this horrible h-hidden side of you waiting to u-unleash." I'm going to keep going with what I've been dying to tell him all these years, not caring because I know I'll be dead soon. I'm not going to die without letting him know my truth.
"You're going to turn out just like her." Another kick to my ribs as I cough, barely dragging in air anymore.
"I'd rather be a c-cheater than an abuser." Oh, he really didn't like that one. "I'd much rather j-just be with as many people as possible than hurt someone like you h-hurt me. You've destroyed me. Y-You destroyed Hadley. Hell, maybe mom didn't even cheat on you, that might be your c-coverup story as you did something instead."
"You destroyed my life. Me and your mother were happy then came you and your attention seeking sister." He doesn't even make sense. "You deserve every bit of this."
"If y-you hate me so much, w-why not just let me stay gone? I-I've been gone and haven't done a single t-thing to you." I wipe the blood pouring from my broken nose, trying to hold onto whatever's left of my life.
"You really think I'd let you go and be happy? You don't deserve that. I was hoping you'd do what your sister did by this point." A sob comes through me then. I said I wouldn't let his words get to me, but that's... too far. Too much.
This is too fucking much.
I can't hold onto the hopes of Adrian and Admira and Divine, all of them, anymore, not with his words as they have me crying more than the pain he's inflicting on my body.
If this is what my own father thinks of me, what's the point in anything then?