𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒎𝒆, 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒛𝒚

🎶𝑪𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈: 𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝑴𝒆 𝒃𝒚 𝑻𝒂𝒚𝒍𝒐𝒓 𝑺𝒘𝒊𝒇𝒕🎶

tw: violence

Olivia POV:

I think a small party means something different to rich people, since this isn't small at all. A 2 tier cake that looks that belongs at a wedding, a bunch of fancy food, a house that could fit twice the amount of people from my hometown, and people everywhere.

But it seems alright.

"Would you like a drink?" someone asks me as I walk into a room.

"No thank you,"

I learned my lesson from last time.

As I walk through the hallway, I see photos of Tae and his sister on the wall. Some are from their birthday,some from Christmas, and the one at the end from their graduation. There's a really cute one of Tae and an older woman hugging . He looks about 8 and he still has that bright smile he always showcases.

A part of me feels empty as I look through the photos on the wall. Since, I don't have these memories, and I've always wished for it day-by-day. Hearing other kids talk about what they did for their birthdays and for holidays, and wondering what I had to do to also be able to have that. Wondering if I was doing something wrong or whether I needed to be better to receive those things.

"That photo is when I lost two of my teeth," I suddenly hear someone next to me say. I turn and see Tae standing there, smiling.

How long has he been watching me stare at his photos as my brain went somewhere else? I must look like a weirdo now.

"Cute," I say while laughing.

"I know I said this would be a small party but...my sister invited more people that what I intended," he says, while pointing around the room.

"Want to head to my room?" he asks.

What?!!

"huh"

"No, no. Not like that," he says with a shocked look in his face

"You said you liked books the other day, I just wanted to show you my bookshelf," he says.

I laugh and nod.

"Sure,"

"It's right up here,"

He walks up the stairs and I follow, while looking at the photos that are next to the staircase. They start off with them as a baby to them now.

How cute.

"This is it," he says.

His room is everyone's dream room size. Fits a couch and everything. But instead he has a drum set, and a couple guitars in that corner. His bed is huge. Like fits 4 people huge, and he has a shit ton of books on his bookshelf. If I were to steal anything in this house, it would be that.

"I went through a complete book faze 2 years ago and my parents bought me off of these once I asked them for books...Now I have all of these just sitting in my room," he says, while pulling out one of the books and skimming through it.

What I would do to have all these damn books.

While skimming through the books I see "The Love Hypnosis".

I pick it up and laugh, thinking about when Conrad teased me about it.

"This one is really good,"

He looks up from his guitar set and raises his shoulder.

"I wouldn't know. I haven't read it," he says, while strumming through his guitar.

"WE ARE MOVING TO THE BEACH! YALL ARE TOO MESSY!" I hear Elina holler from downstairs.

Suddenly a bunch of guys starts to cheer and one even starts chanting "beach, beach, beach,"

Suddenly, his phone starts to ring and he goes to check it, but then flips it once he sees the name.

"Want to go?" he says with a sweet smile.

"Sure," I say as he walks out of the room. I look at the bookshelf again and take in its beauty, give it one last pat, and leave the room.

The things I would do for that room.

"So, what do you like doing, besides reading," he says as we walk towards the ocean full of people.

"Well, not much. I just do this and that. And school,"

We sit on the bench and look out towards the people dancing in the ocean. Then Tae suddenly starts to laugh and then looks at me.

"I don't think it would be the most amazing idea for you to go out dancing in the ocean again,"

I laugh and look away in embarrassment.

"Yeah, I'm sure that won't happen again,"

"So, you're heading to college huh?"

"Yeah I'm heading to-...shit." I say quickie when I realize what the date is today. I've been waiting all week long to get an answer and today finally came, and I completely forgot.

I go on my phone and scroll through the email. At first I see nothing, but then I see a email with my university's name on it.

Before I open it, i close my eyes.

Please let me have this. Please. Please. Please.

I open it and it reads

Congratulations, you have received a full ride...

Before I even finish reading it, I gasp and get up.

I did it. I made it.

Finally one step forward instead of going two steps back.

This is all I've ever worked for. All of that studying, tears, hard work, essays, and interviews. I thought I would have to work very hard in a part time job to be able to get the tuition, but I have been blessed with such an honor that I could cry.

"You good,"

The sudden voice made me jump, since I went into my own little world in my own little head.

"I- I got it..." I say, still in shock from the whole situation.

"Got what?"

"The full ride scholarship. To college. I got it,"

"Woah!" I hear some guy behind me say. I turn around and he lifts my arm up in the air.

"Guys she just got a fucking full ride scholarship, meaning free fucking money. CELEBRATE,"

I laugh as everyone starts cheering.

"I am going to get some celebratory drinks," Tae says and he heads out with a grin.

"Olivia, Olivia, Olivia," people start to chant. From a distance I see Conrad staring at me with a smile.

I give him a smile back and start to walk towards him.

"Let's get into the water!!!" Someone hollers, and then suddenly I am picked up and he starts charging towards the water.

"Let go," I say while laughing, hoping he will let go. But as I see the water start to rise up his leg, I realize that this drunk ass man is not going to let me go. And this drunk ass man will not stop going into the water.

I start shouting at him to stop, to let go, that I cannot swim, but nothing works. And instead of being able to try to get off his grasp, all I hear is another voice, screaming, shouting, crying.

I look around as the water starts to rise my legs, but no one seems to notice my screams.

I scream one last time as I am thrown into the water. As I go up I hear people cheering and laughing, and then I go down and hear the water again.

Then I hear the little girl screaming again. Begging for help.

Then my head keeps sending flashbacks to little me the last time I went to the beach with my mother. As I went with my floatie towards a deep end and fell off. Screaming for my mother to help me. Scrying thinking that I would die. Not seeing my mother anywhere everytime I found myself above the water.

I screamed and yelled, but nothing.

"Olivia," I hear someone say from far away, but it's foggy.

When I was younger, someone saved me. And when I finally got out, my mother was nowhere to be found. But when I eventually found her, I was too afraid to tell her that I drowned. I didn't want to hear her screams about why I went too deep in.

"Olivia!" I hear someone say it again.

I suddenly shoot up and start to cough. All this salty water shooting out of my mouth and my insides feeling like they had been through hell and back.

"Oh thank goodness," Someone says with a huge sigh. I wipe the water from my eyes and see a completely drenched Conrad holding me.

"Shit Olivia, you don't even know," he says, as his voice quivered. He takes one last look at me before he wraps his arms around me and places my head against his chest. I can hear his heart racing his deep breaths even through all the talking happening around us. As he hugs me, I can feel him trembling.

He lets go and wipes away my tears that I didn't even realize were there.

"Are you alright,"

I nod my head as he takes someone's towels and places them around me.

"I'll be back" he says with a smile, and gets up. He starts walking straight towards a group of people, as if he has a mission to complete something.

He pushes the guys away and suddenly punches one of the guys standing there drenched.

The guy that had picked up.

"Are you fucking insane?!" the guy hollers towards Conrad. As he starts to get up Conrad pushes him onto the ground again and grabs him by the collar.

"You fucking messed with my girl, so may-fucking-be."

"You're losing it dude, let him go," some guy hollers towards Conrad, but he ignores them.

"Shit, i ain't know she couldn't sw-"

"She fucking told you to let go dozens of times,"

As he hollers, some guy pulls Conrad off and holds him back.

"It's not my problem she can't swim!"

"I will make it your fucking problem,"

"Let it go dude," some random guy says from behind.

"Fine. Fine." Conrad says as he removes the guy off of his arms. He starts to walk away as the bruised up guy gets up, and suddenly Conrad charges towards the guy and punches him across the face. As the guy falls onto the ground, his nose becomes bloody and gets all over the ground.

"Don't you dare touch her again," he says, while grabbing the guy from the collar.

The guy snickers and looks away.

"Do you understand!" Conrad hollers as he shakes the guy.

Once he goes to give him another bunch, I run towards him and hold onto his arm.

"It's not worth it," I say, hoping he lets go and calms down.

"Yeah man, let go," someone says from behind.

Conrad places the guy roughly on the ground and gets up.

"Olivia what's wrong," I hear Tae say from behind me as he places his arm around my shoulders.

Conrad looks at Tae and then sighs.

"Just..don't get into the water," he says as he walks away.

"Are you alright," I hear Tae say, but all I can think about is Conrad.

Conrad Fisher went into the deep ocean and risked his life just to get me out. He fights a guy until he is bloody as hell. Hugs me as if I am the most important person on the planet, and then just walks away.

Just like that?

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𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒊𝒕!!  𝑰 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒅𝒅 𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝑴𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚'𝒔 𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒚 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒔𝒂𝒑!

𝑰'𝒎 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒔𝒌 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒊𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 :) 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒓𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒂𝒆???

𝑨𝒏𝒚𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔, 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒗𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕!!! 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 <3