Eyes of Fire [Sam Uley]

EIGHT|Cakes

Olivia had been really busy the last few weeks, especially ever since the great Chief Charlie Swan had given her permission to sell her bakery items out of his house.

Not to mention that at least five days a week, Quil led an army of hungry Quilete teenagers to the doorstep of Chief Swan's house and it had gotten so busy, that Opal and Carmen were helping Olivia with the constant flow of cash.

"This is crazy, Liv." Carmen said as she was quickly coming into the kitchen, where the great baker was doing her best work. "We are out of butterfly cupcakes, we are almost done the three cowboy cakes and we are also running out of the cream pies." Carmen recited and Olivia sighed.

"These are done." Olivia said and Carmen took the huge tray of muffins out of there in her hands, as Olivia was continuing to bake, decorate, and add even more flavors to each of her desserts. "More cupcakes are ready to go out!" She hollered.

"I will never understand how you do this." Opal said as she had come running at the call, being careful not to trip with all the cupcakes balanced on the trays in their little cups still. "And also, why do you only sell all of these for ridiculously cheap!" She said and Olivia sighed.

"I'm not trying to buy my way out of here quite yet, Opal." Olivia replied with a sigh as she was blinking sweat out of her eyes and a moment later, she was carefully decorating a three layer cake that was supposed to be for Sam's birthday. "Hey Carmen, come and get it!" Olivia called out again.

Carmen walked back into the house as her jaw dropped at the sight of it. "What do you think?" Olivia asked hesitantly and Carmen was laughing a little, as she was stunned at the sight of it.

"This is amazing." Carmen said and Olivia smiled a little bit. "Are you coming to the party?" Carmen asked and Olivia looked at her with a sigh.

"San told me that he didn't want to see me the last time that we spoke over the phone, Carmen, so I shouldn't go." Olivia admitted and Carmen looked at her with disbelief in her eyes. "He said it, not me." Olivia said as she raised her hands up in surrender and a moment later, Carmen looked like her ears were going to start pouring with smoke.

"I'm sending him over here to apologize to you!" Carmen shouted and Olivia jumped at the surge of noise, quite unexpected from Carmen who was usually the quietest of them all.

"Carmen, Carmen!" Olivia caught Carmen's hand, before she could finish the punching in the number and Olivia hung up the receiver. "If Sam wanted to talk to me, I'm pretty sure that he would have already just come by." Olivia said and Carmen looked at her. "If he wants to talk, he can come to find me. He already knows where I am." Olivia reminded her patiently.

"It just doesn't make sense to me, Livvy. I mean before he disappeared, he was talking about you constantly. Hell, I could have sworn that I overheard him saying once, that if he hadn't been with Leah, then he would've probably gone to you." Carmen stated and Olivia stared at her friend. "You know some of his shit that not even Leah knows."

"Bullshit. Stay with me, when there is literally every other person in the world that he could choose? Me? No way." Olivia said as she waved her hand dismissively as she was turning off the oven. "I'm nothing except trouble for everyone, which means that I don't deserve it even if you're not lying to try and make me feel better. Don't bother, because I'm not worth it."

"Do you really think that?" Carmen asked and Olivia glanced back at her. "You really think that you're not worth it?" She asked and Olivia's eyes were sad.

"I'm not worth any of this." Olivia replied with a surprisingly steady voice as she was turning away to wash the dishes.

Neither of them knew, but somebody else had been listening clearly now, to the entire conversation and he had his own feelings on the topic at hand. Sam stood at the edge of the treeline and he could smell Olivia's pain as he turned on his heels as he was quickly loping away from the house.

After the bake sale had been shut down, Olivia's cupcakes alone had earned them hundreds of dollars, simply by selling them for much less than they cost to make and in doing so, had been able to sell out the whole stock of stored ones and then, plus the ones that Olivia had baked throughout the day.

Olivia split all of the money into three big jars, plus the tips and then, she made sure that the three jars were all equal.

"Well, my ladies, we made almost $900 each this last week." Olivia stated and she pushed the other two jars towards them. "Now get going, would you? I need to clean this place up." She said and then, Opal was catching a ride with Jared and Carmen sighed. "What is it now, Carmen?" Olivia asked impatiently.

"Neither me or Sam, thinks of you as worthless. No matter what you say to either of us, no matter what you think of yourself in your own head. We don't think that you're worthless, Olivia, you really shouldn't think so either." Carmen said and Olivia went completely dead quiet at the words and Carmen walked out of the house.

Olivia shut the door behind her friends and silently, she looked around the mess of their kitchen. "She forgot the cake." Olivia groaned under her breath as she looked at the three layer cake. "Of course, she forgot the damn cake." Olivia muttered to herself as she was putting the cake into the fridge and she was making sure to place it in such a way, that it wasn't going to be damaged in any way.

"Hey Olivia, I'm home." Olivia turned around to see Charlie walking in, who was looking at the kitchen. "You need help to clean that all up?" Charlie asked.

"If you're willing to give me a hand?" Olivia asked and Charlie laughed.

"Just let me get out of my uniform, gun and badge. I'll be right down to help you after." He said and she nodded slightly and she turned back to doing the dishes.

There was a knock at the door and Charlie ran to get it. "Hey, Olivia, it's for you!" He called out and Olivia left the dishes where they were and she walked past him and to the door.

"Hey Leah." Olivia said and Leah was looking at her. "What's going on, why do you look so pissed?" She asked and Leah sighed.

"I was wondering, if you knew where Sam was." Leah admitted and Olivia looked at her with confusion in her eyes.

"Sam hasn't spoken to me in weeks, Leah, I'm sorry." Olivia said and Leah's eyes were downcast. "Hey, what's going on?" She asked at the upset expression in her eyes.

As much as she knew that Leah had been in the wrong for blaming her, she also knew, it was tough for the girl who had thought that she had lost her boyfriend for two weeks until he had shown up. "He hasn't spoken to me for the last week and he just seems to be avoiding me. I just wanted to ask if you've seen him." Leah admitted and she was nodding.

"You wanna come inside?" Olivia asked.

"Sure, thanks." Leah murmured as Olivia opened the door wider and then now, Leah was walking in.