"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 anyone to know either. Only her best friend and this certain boy want to know why. S...
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"We'll uh, let you guys... yeah," Ashton struggles finding what to say, pushing Adrian along with him as he leads them back to the kitchen.
I lift my arm, pointing to the doorway into the living room. Divine immediately nods, taking my hand and leading us to the couch. She walks slowly with me and I'm so thankful to be sitting again then, my body already exhausted.
I practically curl myself into a ball, pushing my back up against the armrest on the end of the couch and pulling my knees to my chest, resting my head on top of them. Divine reaches out, holding my hand with my arm wrapped around my legs, trying to call the trembling down.
Neither of us say anything for awhile, both too sad to have anything to say. Until I finally pull my phone out, typing as usual. Have you told your mom? I wouldn't be surprised if she has.
"No," she says quietly. "But... I can. Olivia, you can't..." I know what's coming from how she looks over my face, her eyes watering once again. "You can't go back there." I've been told, several times. "I can tell mom, and she'd take you in right away. I won't even need to tell her actually, she'd take you in no matter the situation. We have an extra room, the one you and Hadley would stay in during sleepovers." I smile for a second at the memory. "You can take it."
I let her ramble on for a bit about getting me away, taking me home with her, too scared to tell her I'm going back. I have to. I don't really have a choice.
You do. You're just too scared.
"Hadley..." Divine says her name and her eyes are watered. "He's why s-she committed suic-" She can't finish the sentence. "Isn't he? And why you stopped talking? And why everything changed?" I just nod.
He ruined our lives.
He ruined everything.
"I've always thought that something like this was... happening but I-I just couldn't believe such a thing." Neither could I. "Olivia I'm so sorry." I just squeeze her hand, her doing the same, letting me know she's here.
I want to open my mouth and tell her every single detail, well not every detail, but I can't get myself to say anything. My lip trembles as I open my mouth to say something, but nothing comes.
I can't get myself to talk. Even now, after all of them now know what has been happening to me-does Danny know?All of them now know and that's the whole point I stopped talking, because I was terrified of spilling the truth and could never trust anybody.
Now the truth is out and I trust everyone in this house.
Talk, spill it all to her.
I can't. Not yet.
Still, the idea of talking petrifies me.
"I should've known sooner and I should've-" I cut her off when I reach over and hug her, ignoring the way my body aches so fucking bad when doing so. She pulls me in her arms, so cautiously.
