Destiny ~ Book Two Of The "Meant to Be" Series

Chapter 4

His eyes are so innocent, so pure and broken. His breaths are so uneven, his jaw in some noticeable and he looks a little skinnier and taller. I haven't seen him in so long that the memory of his face started fading. My fingertips lightly touch every inch on his face, admiring and biting my lip trying not to cry. It has been more than a few minutes and we just stare at each other in silence, both of us confused and surprised at how much one-another's changed. I spill a few tears as I wipe them away quickly, so my vision doesn't get too blurry. My thumb touches his bottom lip as I crash my lips to his harshly while tears keep streaming down my face. I try to feel every inch of his soft lips. I wrap my arms around his neck as I do my best trying not to sob against his lips. When I start losing control of my emotions he pulls back and holds me tight in his strong, large arms while I quietly bubble and cry against his chest.
   "I missed you so much . . ." I say letting out a sob immediately after the sentence as he hushes me and strokes my hair lightly, trying to comfort me.
    "I missed you too" He says, as I hear his voice breaking and shaking, trying not to cry. He is often hurt, but he doesn't like showing it. It isn't like he doesn't trust me, or that he is embarrassed to cry in front of me. It's that; whenever he cries, or feels hurt in any way, it makes himself feel weak. It makes himself feel rotten or unstable. What he doesn't know is that he is one of the strongest people I know. For so many years, he managed to live under his fathers roof while he repeatedly beat him everyday, and in the meantime, he managed to save Olivia. Olivia has gotten beaten as well, she told me, but if Tobias wouldn't be there to keep the situation a little calmer for her, she would of gotten through hell till now.
  Tobias wipes my tears as he cups my face in his hands. "Can I ask you now, why you never replied to any of my letters?" He asks shivering from the worry. I take a deep breath as I sniffle.
   "I never replied because I thought you never wrote" I say and his eyebrows furrow. "My mom . . . She hid every letter you sent . . . She his them all from me" I say between sobs. He lets out a sigh as he closes his eyes and strokes my hair. "Then she blocked you and everyone else from my phone" I add. "That's why I never got your texts. That's also why my texts wouldn't send" I say shaking my head as I wipe my tears. "I thought you didn't love me anymore. . . I-I thought that you—you got over me or . . ."
    "You thought" he repeats. "Thoughts aren't often true" he says and gives me a weak, sad smile. My lips curl into a smile as my eyes fill in a puddle of tears as he kisses me again. Our lips move in perfect sync as I slowly sit on his lap (not exactly on his lap. My legs are on top of his/my butt on the couch but my legs kind of on top of his lap, if that makes sense). He kisses me so passionately and holds me so tight while my hands gap on the hem of his shirt. He pulls back once again and our foreheads still touch as we breath the same air. "How long will you be staying?" He asks and the corners of my lips lift.
   "I was planning to move in, after I got sure Im not going to lose you again" I say looking up at him through my eyelashes. The look in his eyes is so priceless as I can see his happiness floating around the room while he picks me up and swings me in the air, crashing his lips to mine once again. His strong arms hold me on the air and our lips move in perfect sync. He slowly starts to put me back to the ground, but I still stay on my tip toes so I can get as much from the kiss as possible.
   "Let me see her!" I hear a little girls voice from outside as I immediately pull back in fear. I turn my head towards the door.
   "Olivia! Wait till Tobias gets home!" I hear Nita's voice. "Olivia, don't!" She yells on the top of her lungs as Olivia's muffled high pitched voice scream and a huge noise can be heard from outside. I gasp as my hand covers my hand.
   "Olivia no!" Tobias screams while he runs outside. The door closes behind him as I just stand there in shock. I can hear Tobias yelling and letting out a sob. I sprint outside the house as I see Olivia laying on the ground. A car stands next to her body as the driver comes out of the car cursing. The car hit her. . .
  The car is small. It's one of those little cars that can only fir two people and it has a light blue color. Olivia lays on the ground, her beautiful locks on her face as a little blood comes from her soft hands and on her forehead. She looks so grown up I barely recognize her.
  I see Nita call the ambulance and the police as I slowly kneel next to Tobias and Olivia. He picks her up while a few tears stream down his face. "An ambulance. Now!"
   "They'll be here in two minutes" Nita says breathless while you can see a few tears sliding on her cheeks. My small, shaky, cold hands stroke Olivia's hair out of her face. She looks so pale right now, so limp. My heart aches as I feel the tears burning on my eyes. I let out a scream when my brain finally processes what just happened.
    "This is all my fault" I say to myself as I sob. "I shouldn't of come. I shouldn't of come. I shouldn't of come!" I start off whispering, but by the end when I keep repeating the same words, I scream my lungs out as my throat stars to feel sore.
    "Tris, just shut up!" Tobias yells at me while he shakes like crazy with Olivia in his arms. I don't blame him for yelling at me like that. I totally deserve it. It's stupid and selfish of me to keep yelling that it's all my fault, while his little sister was just hit by a fucking car. I am just worrying and making him more nervous. I can hear the ambulance sirens as the doctors get Olivia and place her in a bed (that looks terribly uncomfortable) and put her in the vehicle. Me and Tobias run to the back of the ambulance vehicle as they close the doors and start driving fast. My eyes start feeling heavy as my mind gets dizzy, everything happened so fast, I barely even know what happened. The last thing I see before I pass out is Tobias holding Olivia's hand tightly as he lightly kisses it and mumbles something under his breath–praying. He did the same exact thing when I was sent to the hospital, but then I didn't understand what he said. Now I can hear him say;
"God, I'll do anything, even kill myself, just save her. Please save her" He repeats over and over again.