PUBLISHING PAPERBACK (after writing the final draft, I wrote this 2 years ago.)
"I see through those silent lies of yours, Liv."
𝐎𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫, the girl who's known to be mute in school. No one knows why though, and she doesn't want anyo...
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"So, how're things with Olivia going?" Ashton asks as he and Danny play Left For Dead, me checking my phone.
"It hasn't even been really two days since Adrian grew the balls to talk to her," Danny tells Ashton and I throw one of Ashton's pillows at him. "I'm just saying!" He defends himself.
"Yeah sure...but she seemed off today."
"It's been two days and you've already learned her vibes or whatever?" Ashton looks back at me, I shrug.
"Good going, you startled the witch!" Danny yells at Ashton and I laugh as they both die in the game, they both toss the controllers and turn their attention to me. "What makes you think she was off?"
"She slept through all of physics, which whatever I sleep in half of my classes. But, I followed her to her locker because I wanted to talk to her more, but she nearly passed out. I held onto her so she didn't like fall, but she flinched, like she's terrified of touch."
"Or she just doesn't like touch," Danny says.
"Or she doesn't trust you considering it's been two days, you've had like two conversations, what have they even been about if she doesn't talk?" Says Ashton, and I realize they're both right.
But why was she about to pass out?
"First day I only got her name finally, after she told me to go away and clearly didn't want to talk." I realize how annoying I probably am to her now. "Today she didn't really want to talk at all again, and when she didn't want to talk-write I mean-I continued to talk anyways. But she listened the whole time, I even told her I'm going to see dad tomorrow."
"Damn, already trust her enough to talk about him?" Ashton asks, surprised.
"It's just dad, not anything about mom and everything that happened." I shrug.
It goes quiet, mentioning everything that happened makes tension usually, until Danny talks. "I don't get why you didn't just talk to her the moment you noticed her." I roll my eyes. "You noticed her like what, the end of the school year last year?"
"Probably before that," Ashton adds.
"Shut up," I drag the words out. "I was nervous, damn."
"You really do like her?" I groan, wiping my hands over my face.
"What makes you think that, Danny?"
"She's got you nervous, what girl has ever made you nervous?"
