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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"This is nice," Noah says as we all sit around Ashton's living room, his parents out of town as usual.
"It is," everyone of us agrees. It's Saturday, exams finished yesterday, we're off school for the next three weeks, stress free. I will savor these three weeks, for once happy to be on winter break. I don't have to worry about being home everyday for three weeks with no escape anymore, as dads gone.
It really is nice.
"But the party is supposedly starting in an hour so we need to get ready," Divine reminds us all, pulling me up from the couch and leading me upstairs to the guest bedroom she took for herself in Ashton's house. Even though she'll end up in his bed.
Divine pulls out the matching dresses for us out of her bag-one's red and the others green, Christmas themed. The guys aren't doing much even though it's said to be Christmas themed, just some Santa hats. Me and Divine might also be the only ones to wear dresses to the party, but we really don't care. We want to get somewhat dressed up so that's just what we'll do.
We both take quick turns in the connected bathroom to get changed into the dresses-I take the red one and Divine takes the green one. The dress reaches a little past my knees while Divine, who's taller, reaches a little above her knees. The dresses aren't much, just ending with ruffles, but they're cute either way. We spend time on our hair-I straighten mine while she pulls her braids in a half up-half down bun-and makeup too, while we shut out the guys and don't talk about our boyfriends, even when we want to, to spend time together that is just about us.
Divine shakes her head when she sees me putting on converse while she puts on her black dress shoes. I stick with my white cardigan I wore today to cover up while the dress is short sleeved and it's cold out, Divine putting on her denim jacket that she definitely stole from Ashton.
I grin when she puts on her special white butterfly earrings-one's that her father got her when she was little-remembering when Ashton came to me the other day and showed me the butterfly necklace he'd gotten her just to check with me if she'd like it. She'll love it.
"Damn, we look good." I laugh with Divine in the mirror, genuinely enjoying how I look and feeling confident, something I've been feeling a lot lately.
"Yes, we do." I agree, smiling when she makes us take a few pictures to capture our moment. We decide to go downstairs finally, before the guys start nagging us for "taking too long."
"About time," they all say in unison when me and Divine walk back into the living room, ready to go. We shush them all before any more complaints are uttered.
I smile at Adrian, seeing how he doesn't complain at all anymore like Danny and Noah-Ashton doesn't either-walking over to me. His eyes trail up and down, taking me in, and I feel my body heat from flushing. The way he looks at me, makes me feel like the prettiest girl in the entire universe. "Gosh, you are so pretty."
