Millie

Chapter Four- Healing

Cameron arrived just in time, to save me from another second of Olympia alone. He handled her much better.

O and I stand beside the jeep. We had got to the airport just as the plane landed. I would have been an hour early but my dear sister had three outfit changes for the boat night. So she said.

Camerons familiar form appeared like a mirage through the heat that swirled up from the tarmac. His smile widened as he dragged his pull along suitcase across the parking lot and spotted us leaning on the car hood.

He stopped walking and instead held out his arms in that way he always did. I squeaked with relief to see him and went running in his direction, my feet leaving the floor as I threw myself into his arms.

He winced as he lowered me back down with a squeeze "watch my pecks Bird" he reminded me.

I placed my hand against his chest and looked up to him with a regretful wonky smile "sorry... does it still hurt" I asked.

"Only when it's slammed into by girls who can't keep their hands off of me"

"Eew" I grimaced.

Olympia appeared beside me, her sneakers coming to a stop right at the tip of Cams. She gave him the once over "Do I look different" Cam asked her curiously.

"Not at all" she finally replied as she leant in and wrapped her arms around him, laying her head against his shoulder "You've always been the same to me"

Cameron almost looked disappointed. He had after all bulked up quite a bit, and even I could see his confidence was higher than I'd seen in a long while.

Olympia looked up and smiled "You've always been a hottie" she told him to his relief "and luckily for me...my favourite guy friend too"

"Favourite, Lym?" He asked with a grin "say it isn't so...I floated to the top of your list"

Olympia was pretty popular at school, she had many friends, both male and female and seemed to fit in with both quite easily. She was girly when she wanted to be, which she could never run away from with her natural beauty, but then put the girl in her natural element of long Ts and basketball shorts and she was happy in that more masculine side too. She had a swagger shall we say, that most girls didn't have, and a confidence in her ability and athleticism that most of her male counterparts lacked and could only envy.

"You've always been at the top of my list" she confessed, and she stepped back out of his embrace.

"So, what trouble have my favourite Nomikos girls been into" he asked, as we made our way to the jeep.

"Believe it or not... but we've been perfectly well behaved" I lie.

Cameron's deep laugh makes Olympia and I smile as we reached the jeep and threw open the doors. I had missed that laugh.

"I'll ask Josie" he says as he throws his luggage in the backseat beside him. "She is the only one who tells me the truth"

"We lost Josie to her new favourite fantasy novel when we got here... she's on book three and thriving in an alternate universe whilst we all tan and burst her ear drums" Olympia informs him.

"I love her" Cam says as we all shut our doors. "She's a breath of fresh air"

"She's clearly been swapped at birth" I add, as I pull out of the car park and onto the road back to the opposite end of the island where our villa was located.

My Mom had bought a Villa on the Greek island that her father was from about five years ago, it was large enough to house us all for these family vacations, and she regularly let it out to friends and other family for no charge. Her aunties on the island kept and eye on it for her when we weren't around.

"If Josie wasn't the blonde version of your Mama I may agree... but she's a Harper through and through"

"True... we have to claim her as our own..." Olympia agreed. "But I wish she would realise how cute she was. You know there's this guy at school whose in her year, and he follows her around like a puppy dog, but she doesn't even see it because her heads always in a book"

"Perhaps she doesn't like boys" I remind O.

"She does, she loves that werwolf Jacob in that book" She argues.

"Yeah but Bella was annoying as hell so it's not a great comparison"

"True" Cam agrees.

Olympia looks back to him "you didn't like Bella" she asks surprised.

"No" he says bluntly. "She's not my type"

I shake my head and look to him in the rear view "you don't even have a type Cameron"

"Well if I did... she wouldn't be it" he replies.

Olympia ponders that.

"Let's go find this boat... and the family of lunatics who are all embarking" I say as I turn up the volume in the car to a dance track.

The warm wind blew through the car, and my red hair took flight out of the open window. I hung out my arm and leaned into it as we drove the winding roads of the island. The smell of Olive trees and the salty water of the ocean made me feel so peaceful that I smiled softly out of the window for no reason at all. My heart and soul were beginning to lighten and find relief here on our family island, and everyone was here but Lala and Gaga who hadn't been able to leave Mary, and her declining health. When I got home she would be my first stop. She loved to hear about everything we got up to, and I knew our grandparents were missing us too, we never spent so much time away from them as we would this summer.

The song played, the crickets chirped as we past the fields, and Olympia and Cam were in a back and forth of catching up and enjoying one another's company...

I felt... Happy.

Despite every lyric of this song reminding me of Millie, for once... I was hopeful, that things could get better, and I could one day find her again and be worthy of her. I just had to hope that destiny would find a way to throw us back together.

Turns out, destiny was about to throw us back together a little sooner than I had realised... and my family would be the ones dating Millie whilst I was none the wiser.

When we latch onto someone we love... we don't like to let go. It's a Nomikos trait, and a  Willa Jameson instinct.

One day, we could thank my grandmother for the way this was all about to play out.

Until then, watch me be oblivious to everything slowly but surely working it's way out.