The Billionaire Darkness

Chapter One-Hundred Twenty-Five

That night I walked along the sidewalks of Brooklyn to work under the steady bright overlapping lights of the buildings around me.

I found night peaceful, though I also knew that if anything happened, I'd be able to protect myself. My friends had even seen me go to the self defense lessons though I had more recently stopped going because I felt comfortable with what I knew.

I'd also stopped going to places that I was unsure about so in the end I knew where I was going no matter what. Night exploration had led to too much bad in the past year.

My mom had also been more cautious about knowing where I was so nothing bad could happen to me.

I also understood why after everything, school, and work. Though exceptions could be made depending on what happened when I got to Thornbrook Academy. We'd talked about how if I was going with friends that was okay just as long as it was a group, or someone that she liked if said person was a guy. Some girls I didn't trust though they could be cruel and the whole world knew it.

Getting to work I walked in and Sam instantly seemed slightly more jumpy in a positive way. She was probably my favourite person to work with so when we ended up being assigned shifts together and worked well the manager began to put us together as a pair, and it's never changed.

"Olivia!" she declares and I laugh lightly since she could cheer me up with just her presence that was how Sam was and I never got bored of it.

"Sam," I reply as I walked into the back room to take off my coat and put on my apron.

When I came out, I watched the short line shift forward and we began both taking orders getting people's drinks and anything else that each customer had asked for which as expected always ended up being a lot of people until there was only two people still in the shop aside from me and Sam.

"So, what's new in the world of Olivia Thorne?" she asks and I smile.

"Well, I got a scholarship to a private school here in New York," I reply as I wiped off the frothier while Sam just stared at me.

"What?" she says and I was met with a wide-eyed expression.

"Yeah, I received one for Thornbrook Academy in Manhattan," I explain, "it's for academic scholarship, and if I graduate there, I would get a straight shot to whatever university I want," I add and she looks like she would explode with pride.

"That's amazing Olivia, my work bestie gets to live the high life now!" Sam exclaims looking like she debated exploding in place.

This time I had to suppress laughter as a customer entered the café and came up to the counter.

"Hello what can I get for you?" I ask putting my customer service voice into my tone.

"Venti mocha cappuccino please," the girl across from me says and Sam rushes off to go make it while I accepted the payment before I do the cleaning as we went until the coffee was presented and the girl gives us a smile before leaving.

"Have you gotten a tour of the school?" Sam asks looking at me as the store clears of one more customer who had been sitting and working on his laptop for the past two hours on what Sam and I had guessed was an econ assignment for university or college.

"Yes, it's not even comparable to a school, it's like a compound behind the walls and hedging that hide it from outside view. New York's elite just ended up on this modern renovated heritage site for an education," I muse and Sam laughs.

"What does the inside look like?" she asks leaning forwards in place as she did.

"Very modern though I could see how the school was meant to stay looking like an early nineteen-hundreds manor. There was also out buildings that looked like dorms, a polo pitch, a pool wing, and probably every possible classroom for someone to take whatever they wanted. The whole place also made me not want to touch anything".

"Oh, come on, you would fit perfectly make all the plastic surgery altered rich girls jealous of you, besides you probably would be the smartest person in there," Sam says and I give her a mute expression though I appreciated her efforts.

Why were all my friends convinced I'd be able to go toe-to-toe with the 

I knew where I sat in the system that I'd be walking into knew it quite well, I got to see a group of them several times, and at the end of the day I was going to be along side the likes of millionaire heirs not normal students that I was used to. At least in Williamsburg everyone was equal to a degree, I now going to be attending a school I'd be best considered as dirt on the shoes to everyone there aside from any other scholarship students who attended though I had a feeling that they all hyper focused on the tasks and things that would allow them to keep their scholarships in the first place.

"I wish that were true, but I doubt it," I say as everything is finished being cleaned and we began to work on tidying the area where customers were allowed and though it didn't take long, I began to think about all of the things that had happened in the past year. I'd also been thinking about my therapy meetings and how they were working, along with the various confirmed techniques that my psychologist was using to help me, or solidify what I was doing. What I couldn't get over however was that my life went from being normal aside from having a toxic ex to being accepted to Thornbrook, and the longer I thought about it the more I categorized the good and bad until everything was added up in my head.

"I don't I think you'll do amazing Olivia just don't forget about us," Sam says bringing me back to reality.

"I couldn't forget about you Sam, you're too close of a friend to me to be anything less," I praise giving her a smile that she returns as we stood in the middle of the now spotless area where we worked.

Walking into the back I changed back into my coat and grabbed my bag before heading to the front counter and charging myself for the food I decided to take with me, and walked off towards the front doors.

"Bye Olivia," Sam says giving me a wave that I returned before stepping out of the door and walking off back to my home with one of my headphones in.

By this time, it was ten at night and I was tired though the presence of the set of various items on me that I could use if I needed to protect myself gave me cause to relax along with knowing that anyone who looked scared was often picked out as a target. These were things that my defense instructor had told me when I asked.

The other part was that I knew where I was going and I'd gotten better at being confident in the past weeks, I had things to look forward to after all and that was just how things were and I was willing to embrace them.

After all my confidence was something, I was never going to give up or let falter ever again.

That thought sat in my head on my way home and it brought a small smile to my lips as if I'd stated it then just thought about it.

    
    
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