The Return (De Laurel Trilogy #1)

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It has been a whole week since that incident. Oliver and I were not at speaking terms for five days until I confronted him.

"Oliver!" I knocked at the door. "Can I please talk to you?"

"No!" He shouted. "Go away!"

"Please, I'm not leaving until you let me to." I knocked once again.

"Fine," With that, he opened the door, letting me in his room. "What did you want to talk about?" He asked.

"I wanted to say sorry." I looked at him sincerely. "I don't know what came to me, thinking about that."

"No," He cut me off to saying more. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't be acting cold and heartless. I know that he didn't deserve to die. After all, he's still human. Yes, he did a quite lot of bad things but, in the end he's still human." He stated sincerely.

"And I'm sorry for saying that you were still in love with him." He chuckled lightly. "Clearly you're not. Seeing that we met your boyfriend a week ago."

"I'm sorry for lashing out." I chuckled too. "Truce?" I asked, sticking my hand out.

"Truce." He held my hand and shook it. After the handshake, we hugged each other tightly.

"Aww, look. The twins are okay again!" We heard Olen from the doorway, making both of our heads snap to where he was and break our hug. We also found mom and dad there.

"Olen!" We both shouted. "We we're having a moment, here!" We shouted in unison again, making all of them chuckle.

After that things went back to normal. Oliver even encouraged all of us to pay a visit at Carson's wake, which helped me let go of guilt.

Alexander and I has been doing well, also. He would take me on dates, or just simply hang out by the forest at the park, watching the sun set.

Although we would get caught up with school and volleyball stuff here and there, I would say our time for each other is still enough. I was happy with him.

He would seldom ask why I was down for the past days but I would just shrug it off saying that I was tired. He quickly forgot about it while we were having small talk.

Denver also reappeared at home a few days ago, considering he was gone for a few weeks. But, we were used to it by now. He would constantly be at home for a few weeks, then disappear, then be at home again. No one blames him. I mean, I would disappear too, if I had the chance.

"Hello," A voice called me, snapping me out of my thoughts. "Earth to Olivia?"

"Hm?" I looked up and there I found Nic, Gigi, Lewis, and even Sav with a concerned look.

"Good morning!" Nic remarked sarcastically. "Are you done daydreaming now?" He asked.

"Yes, as a matter of fact." I remarked back. "You were saying?"

"Well," He started. "Seeing that you clearly didn't understand, the Annual Roman University Party is coming up." He explained.

Every year, the university would hold a party, as a leisure for students. Every year, it also has a theme that every student should follow.

"The theme this year is, Ballroom Dance." He stated.

"Are you serious?" I asked him in disbelief.