One Hundred Sleepless Nights

Chapter 9: You're Not Alone

~Olivia's POV~

"PIZZA!!!" Jaime yelled as he entered the house. "And tacos for Mike..."

"Tacos!!" Mike squealed like a little kid and ran and grabbed the tacos from Jaime.

"Is it always like this here?" I asked my dad as I walked into the kitchen.

"When food's involved, it gets a little loud."

"Pretzel crust pizza for the young lady!" Jaime said as he handed me a plate with pizza on it.

"Thank you, sir," I smiled at him.

"Don't eat it just yet, we're gonna eat in the living room so go ahead and pick a movie," Tony told me.

"Alrighty." I grabbed my plate and went to the living room I look at the TV. "Umm, where are the movies exactly?"

Jaime laughed and ran into the living room. "Here ya go," he said as he opens a drawer full of movies.

"Thanks," I smiled and started looking through them.

I grabbed the movie Frozen and turned to look at dad, holding it up accusingly. "I cannot believe you have this."

He blushed guiltily. "Come on, everyone loves that movie." I nod and giggle and he comes up to me and puts it in. I jumped onto the couch, starting to eat my pizza and dad sat on the floor doing the same.

Mike sat down next to me, already finished devouring his tacos and looked at me with raised eyebrows. "Frozen? Really? You couldn't have picked Harry Potter?"

"I was gonna pick Harry, but I basically know all of them by memory and I've never watched Frozen."

Tony sat down on the recliner. "Star Wars is better," he said, showing me his knuckle tattoos.

I shrugged. "I've never seen them." Tony gasped dramatically.

"Uncultured swine," he said, shaking his head.

I giggled and Vic threw a pillow at him. "Be nice to my daughter, ese."

Tony pouted and started to eat his pizza.

The movie began playing. "Wait for me!!" Jaime yelled and sat at the end of the couch, placing my feet on his lap.

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"Hi! My name is Olaf and I like warm hugs!" Olaf said in the movie.

"Awww I wanna hug you Olaf! You are so adorable I can just squish you!" I said, giggling.

The boys laughed. "Vic, you better watch out for Olaf, he'll end up being Liv's boyfriend" Jaime warned.

"I'll meet you in the alley, Olaf," dad said, cracking his knuckles.

~

"Oh, Anna. If only there was someone out there who loved you."

"Asshole!" Mike yelled.

~Vic's POV~

When the movie finished, I looked down at my daughter, fast asleep in my arms.

"Guys, look," I said, smiling at her.

"We'll clean up, you go ahead and take her to bed," Jaime said, smiling as he picked up the plates. I picked up Olivia and took her to her bed. I tucked her in and kissed her forehead. I walked off to leave, but she grabbed a hold of my arm.

"Dad, don't leave, please?" she looked at me, yawning.

I smiled. "Okay," I got in the bed and put my arms around her protectively. I kissed her forehead once again. "Goodnight, dollface."

"Goodnight, dad," I smiled, glad that she felt safe with me.

~Olivia's POV~

I woke up and rolled over, looking at the clock. 11:00 a.m. Damn, I can sleep.

I got up and walked downstairs. Yawning, I walked into the kitchen where I found my father filling out some papers.

"Good-morning, Mija!" He smiled. "You hungry?"

I shook my head no. "What you filling out?" I asked.

"Papers for your school." He looked at me.

"School?"

"Yup, you will be starting your freshman year and school starts soon," he answered, setting his pen down.

"Can't I be homeschooled?" I asked, whining a little.

"I thought about it, but I think you should make friends. If it doesn't work out then I will consider homeschooling or online school, but until then let's just give this a try okay, hon?" I nodded. I seriously didn't want to go to school, my heart began to beat fast at the thought of meeting new people.

"Can I use your phone to listen to music?" I asked, wanting to listen to the classical music that always helped me calm down. Tchaikovsky was so relaxing to me.

He nodded. "Only if you let me pick the songs." I tilted my head and shrugged. I may as well step out of my box a little. "I'll play some stuff by some friends of mine." He grabbed the bluetooth speaker and connected it to his phone, turning on Spotify. "This is Of Mice & Men. I've also got Sleeping With Sirens, Bring Me The Horizon, and some of my own band on here. Also, let me go order you a phone, you can't use mine forever." I grabbed the speaker and went to my room, laying on my back on my bed and listened to the lyrics.

Don't let the world bring you down

There's always hope for the willing