Alone Together

Chapter 5

Olivia didn't want to talk about what had happened at school. To her it was easier to keep it inside and deal with it herself rather than bother others. Every time Noah would try to talk to her about it, she would change the topic until he stopped pushing her about this. It's not healthy to not talk to others, it's not healthy to keep everything inside.

And she felt like she couldn't even talk to Hailey about it because she felt guilty. Somehow and unluckily, Brooke had seen what happened between Noah and Olivia and was now texting Hailey for information, which obviously she didn't give her. But the good news from that was that based on reading those texts from Brooke, she seemed to not know who Olivia was. She hadn't seen her face. All she'd seen was Olivia pulling away and and move to her next class, away from where Brooke was supposedly standing and then Noah following her. But it was only a matter of time before she did find out.

One of the things Olivia was afraid of was Brooke finding out who she was and then finding out about her youtube channel and then outing her on it. If Olivia ever decided to show her face on there it should be when she is ready and it needs to be done by her, not Brooke.

Olivia was sitting in her room on the floor, not really doing anything when she heard a soft knock on her door, it was open so when she turned her head, she saw that it was Noah.

Sometimes when she was left alone to her thoughts it would sort of drown her if she couldn't distract herself and if she didn't cry, there would just be a single tear on her cheek. Which is the first thing that Noah noticed. When Olivia didn't tell him to leave or to leave her alone, he slowly walked to where she was sitting on the floor and sat next to her. At this point he knew better than to try to talk to her about what happened at school. He wasn't getting anywhere that way.

He was sitting closer to her than when they had first talked to each other but still a respectful distance from her. He reached his hand forward towards her face and gently wiped the single tear away but didn't say anything. He didn't want to upset her and have her distance herself even further from him. But that single movement caused her slightly move closer and lean against him. So they were just sitting there in silence. Because Hailey was right, sometimes all you can do is just simply be there for her.

Noah thinks that it seemed to help her because after what felt like forever, Olivia fell asleep against him even though they were still in a sitting position. That was when Hailey quietly made her way in the room and noticed that Olivia was actually asleep.

"Is she actually sleeping?" Noah heard Hailey whisper. If Olivia was actually getting sleep then she was gonna make damn sure she didn't wake her. Noah slowly nodded.

While watching Olivia to make sure she didn't wake up Hailey said, "Austin is here by the way"

Noah was torn as to what to do. Knowing that Olivia doesn't get much sleep like at all he didn't want to wake her up but he also didn't want to make his friend go home. Noah then looked down at Olivia and moved one arm around her waist tried pulling her closer in his lap into a position that he could pick her up without waking her. Hailey backed up seeing this as to give him room to do so.

He was so focused on moving her to her bed without waking her that only Hailey noticed when Olivia seemed to move closer to him in her sleep. He laid her down and let out a soft breath of air that she didn't wake up. But now she was sort of holding onto him by his hoodie, which forced him to lay down next to her. Hailey noticing what was happening, moved to the other side of the bed and laid down on the other side of Olivia to see if she could get Olivia to let go of him and maybe lean against her instead. Which somehow worked after a minute. Neither of them even noticing that Austin was standing in the hall by the door watching the entire thing.