Olive Tree (WAIK Sequel)

Chapter 4 - "I love you."

Bea drew herself back from the Chinese food.

"I'm so full." She moaned.

"I didn't buy these fortune cookies for nothing," I winked and leaned over to grab mine and hand Bea hers. I pouted my lip. "Please?"

She gave in and giggled while cracking open the cookie. She removed the piece of paper from the crumbled debris and read it out loud. "You may face change. Change is good."

I raised an eyebrow and read mine. "You're the good samaraton. Don't change that."

I cleaned up our plates and take-out pots. I mentally made a comparison of the amount of food we both had consumed. My take-out pot had only a quarter of the special fried rice I'd ordered in it and her's had over half of the chicken chowmaine she'd ordered.

I proceeded to sit with her on the sofa in front of Jerry Springer's misfortunates.

A few minutes later, we heard Fabian pull up on the driveway. We heard Simon and Rose come running into the house, as hyper as a mouse on coffee.

"Somebody ate too much cake," Bea mumbled and untangled herself from me. "Or they've just been force fed sugar cubes for the last 3 hours."

Fabian hung his keys by the door and stormed over.

"Rose, Simon, bed," He watched them jump all over the sofa. "Now."

"Go get some of that Chinese we left, it's in the microwave. We're on case hyper kids." Bea said and rose from the sofa and took Rose from the arm of the chair.

"Thank you." He said and proceeded to obey Bea's orders.

As my girlfriend restrained a very sugar rushed 8 year old, Simon laid on the opposite sofa, totally blacked out.

"Partied too hard with the ladies, obviously," I chuckled and picked him up from the sofa.

"She bit me!" Bea yelled and dropped Rose on her feet.

I exchanged Simon with Rose and she took him to bed. I sat down with Rose and laid for a minute with her in my arms, allowing her to calm down.

"It's okay," I whispered and planted a kiss on her forehead.

"You'll make a good dad some day, Olly." Fabian leaned up against the door frame with the remainder of Bea's Chinese.

"I wouldn't," I gently lifted her up and began trailing upstairs. "They're my brother and sister. I have to be good."

"If you insist." I heard him mumble as I laid my sister into her bed, fully clothed.

"Olly?" Anne collapsed to her knees by my side.

I felt my bloody nose and just sighed.

"Thank god you're alive," I could only just see the outline of my best friend. I obviously didn't have my glasses on. "They beat the crap out of you and took your glasses."

As I saw her crying my heart broke into a million pieces. "Don't cry,"

"I can't believe you'd do that for me. You went all ninja on their asses."

"It hurts to laugh," I winced and turned on my side. I saw a very blurry Dwayne approaching her from behind. "Behind you."

I saw a side of my best friend I'd never seen before. Anne Avery punched Dwayne, someone that has bullied us since year 5, and he was currently bleeding from his nose. I smiled slightly.

In the morning, I threw on my plaid shirt and jeans and headed over to Bea's. I needed to talk to her about my dreams just lately. They're like flash backs, and I can't control them.

"Do you think it's how you're sleeping?" She suggested, sat on her mum's kitchen counter, devouring a bowl shredded wheat.

I shrugged.

"You could stay here tonight and see if the dreams stop. But whatever." She lifted herself from the counter and dumped her bowl in the sink.

"Too much temptation." I shook my head.

Bea just groaned and rolled her eyes. I've never seen her do that before. Never been moody towards me. Never been that argumentative. Accept from now. Even after we've discussed and discussed it, she won't just drop it. 

"Of course," She grabbed her coat and shoved it on herself. "Are you coming?"

"Coming where?"

"Louise texted me and wants to meet up on the pier before my birthday because she's going on holiday to Spain," She crossed her arms and looked quite peeved.

"It's alright for some," I mumbled. "Sure I'll come."

We made our way to the pier and spotted Louise from a mile away. She was wearing a bright pink summer dress, including a cream sun hat and matching sun glasses. Bea and Louise quickly embraced.

"I haven't seen you in ages," Louise exaggerated. "Hey, Olly."

"Hello, Louise." I smiled slightly.

"Can we go into that café? The wind is blowing my dress all over the place." She awkwardly laughed and pointed towards the familiar café along the sea front, surrounded by seagulls. The neon sign blinded us as we approached it.

That's it, I remember. Belle's Café. The day I was a savage beast and took Bea's innocence we had a gluten free sandwich at the same café after visiting my granddad's grave.

I took a glance at Bea, who was in awe with Louise at her new dress, and how cheap she brought it online. Louise had suddenly lost a lot of weight from the last time we saw her a few months ago, and something in the pit of my stomach burned in fear. 

"You look good," I brought her weight up instinctively. "Lost quite a bit, haven't you, Lou?"

"Yeah," She cleared her throat as we sat at the first free table we came across. "I went on a new dieting plan and met some really good people on it."

"Any love interests?" Bea teased.

"Unfortunately no. But there were a few hotties." She sighed back.

We all had a few colas, talked about Louise's travel stories and future plans, and then me and Beatrice took a long walk along the seafront, hand in hand. 

"I hope you weren't insinuating sex by leading me to that café," I cleared my throat and stared at the sea glistening in the sun's rays.

"And why would I have done that? We talked it out and that's final. Plus, I'm almost 18. It's no biggie." She protested.

We decided to get cotton candy, but she didn't quite finish hers, so I finished it for her.

"I love you." She smiled and kissed me with her hands hooked around my neck. Her lips tasted of cotton candy, and left a sweet aftertaste on my tongue.