Everglow | Liam O'Donovan - TDG

Chapter 8 - Goodbyes

A weeks after her mother's visit, Liam gets arrested. Again. Then taken to court, again. Ophelia hadn't been there to see Liam's more rebellious time at the DG, but it seemed that it had been rekindled a little. A woman had accused Liam of attempting to steal her handbag, which didn't sound anything like Liam – he may be a little rebellious but he's not a thief and he wouldn't steal from someone.

Liam had ended up with a perimeter tag and a high-strung set of nerves, which he mostly took out on all of the other members of the house. Especially with how stressed Ophelia had been after her mother's visit, her mother had been requesting for visitation again which meant that Ophelia was notified each and every time.

"Next thing you know she will be trying to take me back into custody because she thinks that is what will make it up to me." Ophelia groaned while she was laying backwards on Elektra's bed, she was always the best to complain to whenever parents started making a big fuss.

Elektra snorted where she was sat at her desk, "you should just tell her to leave you well alone."

"You don't think I haven't tried!" Ophelia laughed while she slowly started to slip off the side of the bed, "she's dead-set on it but I can just keep turning down her visit requests until she gets it through her thick skull."

The two girls chatted for a few more minutes before they heard someone storming up the stairs and the slamming of a door that came from the direction of the basement. Elektra raised an eyebrow at her, "best go check on your boyfriend." Ophelia groaned and threw one of the pillows on the bed at her face and ducked when Elektra threw it at her while she walked out the door.

Ophelia wandered down the corridor before heading down the stairs and she moved into the basement, she saw that Liam and Frank were already sat down there. Liam was shoving a screwdriver between his tag and his leg, clearly attempting to get it off of his leg. "Well, that's going to set the alarm off."

Liam groaned and sent her a sharp look, "I genuinely don't care."

Frank left the basement and refused to let Liam get in trouble again, however, he came back down a few minutes later with Tracy and a hell of a bomb shell that Liam had a brother

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The next day, Tracy had confirmed that the dates from the letter and the day that Liam was found matched up. Liam had stormed off, still believing that it was a complete wind up – Ophelia had trailed after him and calmed him down. Ophelia dragged his hands away from where they were tugging on the tag and made sure to wrap one of his hands in both of hers. They set in a peaceful quiet for a long stretch of time before Tee and Carmen came in, they giggled when they saw their connected hands, but they made sure not to let go of the other.

Carmen and Tee invited the two of them to head down to the cinema with them and watch a new film that came out, they agreed.

The walk down to the cinema between the group was full of laughter, between them they managed to buy a few bags of popcorn to share between them all, but Gus needed one of his own.

Ophelia and Liam put aside both of their stresses for the couple of hours to generally act like the happy couple they were. They squabbled over their shared bag of popcorn which resulted with half of it ending up all over their laps, they bickered with happiness in their voices until the others around them shushed them – they tried but when they glanced at each other they muffled their giggles.

When the film kicked out, Ophelia went to check her watch to see the time and felt her heart drop, "shit, Liam it's quarter to seven. It takes twenty-five minutes to get back to the DG."

Liam cursed himself before he took off running, Ophelia took a deep breath before she sprinted after him herself – her skirt brushed against her legs with each running step that she took. The others fell behind, but Ophelia managed to keep up with how quick Liam was running on adrenaline, she spent a lot of mornings out running which was the sole reason she could keep going. They were making good progress and turned it into a race.