Falling for the nerd is hard but falling for him only gets harder when it threatens to take away your status at the top of the social ladder.
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Olivia Thorne had never really...
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OLIVIA
It has been three weeks since Ace literally disappeared, three weeks since Ace and I kissed, three weeks since I found out his scars on his chest covered with his tattoos. If you didn't touch his chest you wouldn't know.
After that night that he ignored and left me on the side walk and drove away he had been missing again. I went to their house as soon as the sun rose up the next morning but found nothing, no one, not even Alex.
I didn't understand how someone could be there one minute and the next they were gone with no traces.
That morning I had gone with my gift for Alex but since he wasn't there I took it back home. I wanted to also apologize to Ace for the previous night, maybe I was too pushy, demanding answers.
We all had scars that we hid from people so it was wrong of me to just demand answers like that. I never got the chance to apologize.
I tried calling him over a hundred times but it never went through. Both him and his brother's number. I even went to their places of work to ask about them but all the managers could tell me was "we have no idea where he is."
I was slowly losing it.
When my parents got back from their trip, it only reminded me of their impending divorce that was due anytime from my eighteenth birthday which was coming in a few days from now.
This was the first time I didn't want my birthday to come because more pain came with it.
Mum and dad didn't look like they were going to change their minds anytime soon. They were now at a point where you could call them house mates. They slept in different rooms and went to work at different times of the day.
It was only in the mornings of some days that you got to see them in the kitchen together. Luke promised to be around for my birthday since he missed Christmas and Thanksgiving. I didn't even care anymore.
I hated Ace but I still wanted an explanation from him, not for his scars but for him running away like that without any explanations again. After that I didn't want to see him on the face of the Earth anymore, he could drop dead for all I cared.
I was better at Calculus and with the help of Callum, I could say I didn't need Ace's help anymore. Callum wasn't too good with Calc but he was better than me and taught me what he knew.
