Chapter 64: Chapter 63 - celebrating life

Olivia POV I wake up and my head is aching. It's probably from all the stress from yesterday and the last few days.

Everything is happening so fast and Raphael’s world has a lot happening every day.

I look to my side to find that I was sleeping alone. Where the fuck is Raphael?

I get up and I decide it is time for a shower and to get dressed I walk to the bathroom and When I look around I see Raphael’s bloody clothes and I feel a chill down my spine and I am hit by everything that happened yesterday.

I am going to miss Michael. He was one of the best people I've ever met.

I start to think it is time to talk to Anna, after losing Michael I can't afford to lose any more friends.

After I finish in the bathroom I walk back into the bedroom and Raphael is nowhere to be seen.

I walk into the dressing room grabbing a pair of jean and a Papa Roach t-shirt and some underwear and I walk back into the bathroom turning the shower on.

I have a quick shower and I get dressed when I finish.

I walk towards the kitchen and I can hear voices and laughter coming from there and when I walk in I find Joseph, Raphael, Petra and Maria drinking.

”Olivia” - I hear a very drunk Petra calling me.

“Love” - A very drunk Raphael says while wobbling towards me.

“What’s happening?” - I ask now with Raphael hugging me “We are celebrating life” - Maria says “I see” - I say looking at them and walking with Raphael towards the table.

Several bottles were on the table, from beer to whiskey and vodka. I can see that they have been busy.

“Do you remember the time Mike decided he wasn’t going to be gay anymore?” - Joseph asks and everyone starts laughing. Everyone but me. I knew him but I didn’t know him that well. I guess he knew more about me than me about him and I feel guilty about it. I never really asked him about his life. But he was always there when I needed him and not just because he was my bodyguard. He listened to my stories, my problems, my complaints and I never once asked about him.

I feel tears burning my eyes while I listen to them telling stories about all the people that died. They were indeed celebrating their life. They weren’t crying for their death. They were remembering the good times.

I stand up walking to the coffee machine and I look for the coffee beans but I can’t find them. I start looking into the cupboards and Maria walks to me pointing to the cupboard I could find coffee.

I started to prepare everything and when the coffee was made I grabbed a coffee mug from the side and poured it for me.

I decided I wasn’t ready to celebrate anyone’s life. I was more about to cry about their deaths.

“Hey where are you going?” - Raphael grabs my wrist and pulls me to him “Just gonna sit in the entertainment room”

“Stay here, I need you” - he says placing kisses on my neck.

“You need to sober up that’s what you need” - I say taking my wrist away from him and walking out of the kitchen.

As I am walking down the corridor I hear Petra running after me.

“Liv, wait”

“Hey, Liv, wait up” - she says and I stop walking “What?” - I ask her turning my red face from crying towards her “Are you okay?” - she asks “Why does everyone keep asking me that?” - I tell her Petra lifts her hands in surrender I start walking again towards the entertainment room and I lock the door.

I lay down on the sofa placing my mug on the floor. I start sobbing thinking about everything that has happened to me the last year.

I almost got raped, I was kidnapped, almost got raped again, I lost Anna’s friendship, I almost lost John, Raphael almost got killed and now Michael is dead. I can’t stop crying and my head is aching.

I allow myself to fall asleep.

Two days have passed and Raphael took me back to his penthouse.

I haven’t been able to talk to him properly, he has been busy with work and I have been busy crying my eyes out.

Today is the funeral and I can’t bring myself to get dressed.

“Hey, we need to leave in 20”

“Okay” - I reply to Raphael I stand up and walk towards the dressing room. I grab a little black dress and I put it on with my black tights.

I put on my black shoes and I walk out to find Raphael with a black Armani suit.

“You look beautiful “ - he says planting a kiss on the top of my head.

I look in the mirror and I shake my head.

I put on light makeup and brush my hair.

“Ready” - I say to him and when I stand up I feel his strong arms wrap around my waist. He spins me around and I smile at him.

“I missed this” - he says “I missed this too”

“We need to go” - he says after kissing me on the lips.

We both walk out of the bedroom and towards the lift.

When we get to the car he opens the back door for me and I slide inside. He slides next to me and we are driven to the place where the funeral was being held.

I’ve never been to a funeral before and this one was being tough on me.

My phone starts to ring and I answer.

“Mum, I can’t talk right now”

“Hello to you too” - she says “Hi mum”

“Look you need to call your brother”

“Which one?” - I say “Gregory, he needs to talk to you and he knows you won’t answer the phone”

“I will call him later mum, I am busy right now”

“What could be more important than your family?”

“Mum please”

“Olivia call your brother”

“I say I will, just not right now”

“Oli...” - I interrupt her making her stop talking “Mum I’m going to a funeral right now”

“Oh baby, are you okay?”

“I am fine, I will talk to you later on”

“Okay baby, stay safe”

“Yes mum, bye”

“I love you”

“I love you too”

I put the phone on silence and I look at Raphael that is looking at me in deep thoughts.

“What?” - I ask him “First time I’ve seen you talking to your family, don’t you get on with them?”

“I do, they are just...”

“I get it” - he says and I smile at him. I get closer to him and he wraps his arm around my shoulder bringing me closer to him.

We arrive and someone opens the door from the outside to me. We both get out of the car and walk towards the church.

I can see a lot of people gathered around. Everyone in black and I start to feel uncomfortable.

“I can’t do this” - I tell Raphael “I’ll be next to you” - he says I am going to read the eulogy and I can’t help but feel nervous about facing everyone that knew Michael and lived him.

Everything goes according to plan, I read everything and a lot of people cry. When we finish Raphael takes me back to the penthouse and I disappear into the bathroom.

“Olivia are you okay?”

“Yeah, I just need a minute”

I grab my phone and calm my brother, only ringed once and he picked up “Liv”

“Greg I’m sorry for being a bitch to you”

“Hey, it’s fine. “

“No, it’s not, I’m sorry”

We talked for about half-hour and then he drops the bomb “Anna is pregnant”

“Oh my god, congratulations bro”

“Thank you, but I am calling because she needs you, she’s in bed rest and she needs someone to talk to her. She’s getting depressed and I don’t know what else to do”

“I’ll be going to your place tomorrow and talk to her”

“Will you?”

“Yes”

“Thank you sis”

We talk a little more and then we hang up. I walk out of the bathroom to find a very upset Raphael. He is pacing around.

“Hey what happened?” - I ask getting closer to him and wrapping my hands around his waist “Why did you do it?”

“I’m sorry?” - I ask “Why did you went to see Scott?”

Shit, he found out. Shit shit shit.

Hi everyone, I hope you enjoyed this chapter.

More tomorrow Stay safe Love Peyton