You Can Paint Me

Chapter 45

Author's P.O.V.

"Hold on a minute." Mia started pacing around Olivia's messy room, seemingly beeing deep in thought, after what her best friend had told her. "You mean to tell me, that we left our studies unfinished," she pointed at herself and Ava, who was sitting on the bed next to Olivia with folded arms. "in the middle of the exam month period, for you to tell us, that not only you were in a realtionship-"

"We weren't in a relationsh-"

"YOU WERE IN A RELATIONSHIP." Mia corrected Olivia by raising her voice. But seeing how awfully depressed her beloved best friend currently looked like, she dropped her tone a little. She knew Olivia wasn't at the right state of mind at the moment. All she needed was their support. "Anyhow, you started dating Chris, but then you broke up? All in the matter of three days?" Mia stopped her pacing and faced Olivia, but the girl couldn't reply.

"Mia, don't be melodramatic. It wasn't a relationship if it was only for three days. They just confessed their undying love for one another, but then the boy vanished into thin air. He doesn't reply to her texts or her calls, avoids her at all cost and they haven't seen each other since the match. And the match was three weeks ago." Ava tried to joke a little to lighten up the mood, but when her and Mia turned to look at Olivia again, who she was about to cry, their eyes widened.

They both realised that it was no time to joke and that Olivia's condition was more serious than they thought. "The baby!" Mia gasped and run to hug Olivia. She sat beside her in the bed, so now Olivia was being squeezed up like a sandwich, with her best friends on either side of her. "She cannot take anymore roasting, Ava. She's really sensitive, I haven't seen her like this ever." Mia patted the teary girl's head gently.

"No, I'm okay really... I-It's just that, I would like to have an answer... Did I do something wrong and he avoids me now?" Olivia sniffled and looked down at her hands with a hurtful expression. All she wanted was an answer, a reason of why Chan was being like that towards her, especially after getting so close to each other. She was hurting so much and she didn't even know why. 

"Maybe he is too busy with the examinations? It's his last year, he must be stressed. He has a lot on his plate and much more pressure than we do, you know?" Ava placed a hand on the girl's shoulder, hoping to comfort her with her words. But this, wasn't a thought that had slipped Olivia's mind. "Yeah, I thought of this, but he could have at least texted me once?" she choked on her words, bitting her bottom lip to prevent herself from crying.

"Olivia is right, he could have at least texted her even once." Mia frowned in displease. "I mean, for sure the boy confessed in front of everyone after the match and all...talking about strawberries and roses, that I still cannot understand what the last ones were about-"

"The roses are over there, dying." Ava interrupted Mia's mumbling to point at the dehydrated sparkly roses inside a vase on Olivia's study desk. It was a depressing sight to see really, as the roses, weirdly enough,reflected Olivia's emotions. They were, too, looking fragile and sorrowful, as if they would break any moment. "Yeah...like this relationship." Mia observed the lifeless roses for a minute and then looked back at her two friends again. At the sound of Mia's humourless comment, Olivia sniffled again, seemingly hurt by the bitter truth. The girls started to panic again and tried to prevent her from bursting into tears. "Nononono I was joking, please don't cry Liv." Mia pulled her in a tight hug. It was uttery heartbreaking to watch their best friend, who was strong and happy all the time, to look so vulnerable and weak.

"Alright so, after this love confession of his, you decided in your pretty, little, not-telling-your-best-friends-anything mind to go kiss him, right?" Mia continued and Olivia nodded her head. "Right and so, you went to wait for him outside the lockers room. But Hyunjin came with you and then Jisung showed up, to tell you that I kIsSeD Minho...AhEm, yEAh and then, he left to tell the others, so you were left alone with Hyunjin again, right?" Olivia nodded her head again and wiped her nose.