"How Could I Have Let This Happen?"

Chapter 1 - An Olivia Introduction

How should I start this introduction? As I thought...no clue.

Well at least now I can faintly remember why I got a B in Human Communications.

Alright so lets start off like this.

Let's pretend we're in a high school classroom. Now look around and what do you see?

The teacher, that special someone you have a crush on (wink wink), your bestfriend, that irrelevant person that you dislike, the jokesters, the teachers pets, the ultimate trivia students, the slackers, and that's about it.

Okay well lets go a couple steps back to before we reached the slackers. Well right there is a girl, not in the front where she is easily spotted, and not in the far back with the strange couple making out. She's in the middle of the classroom, wearing a green sweater, and some mom jeans. Very urban outfitters of her. Well her head is stuck in a book. Yeah we just grazed by her, the bookworm. Well hello! That dime right there is me, Olivia Jaundes. The shy, the romantic, the total book in her hands Olivia Jaundes.

So...why I'm I making you think about a high school classroom. Well we all have that moment in our life, that soon enough it becomes the reason you happen to come out of your comfort zone. That moment for me was when Oliver Kent caught me. In a trust fall.

"You gonna fall anytime soon um...?" He's trying to find a way to ask for my name without offending me.

"It's Olivia--like Oliver but instead of an -er its and -ia"

He looks at me puzzled. Now I remembered why I don't speak up in class.

"Right...well, anyways. We should get this over with. I'm not gonna drop you."

" Well that is the sole purpose of this activity." I mutter as I close my eyes and lean back.

Oh Oliver does in fact catch me, or more so breaks my fall with his own body. I'll accept either description.

"Ouch" I groan

"What do you mean Ouch? You're not the one who has a 180 pound gorilla on top of you?"

"180 pound gorilla?" I roll my eyes. " I'm not that heavy, and I don't look like a gorilla. How about instead of criticizing me, you go to the gym and bench a little more than 60 pounds."

I hadn't realized that the class had gone quiet, and that my voice had gotten louder.

"Aren't we a hidden little fire cracker?" He smirked as he oh so charmingly shoved me off of him.

Everyone went back to their trust fall exercise as Oliver and I lock eyes.

He blinks, I smile in triumph.

"Well Olivia Jaundes, the names Oliver Kent. Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too."

We shake hands, and quickly stand up. Class is over and we go our separate ways. A strange ending to a junior year of high school.

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Now If I could go back to that day. Maybe I wouldn't be lying nearly dead on a table four years later.