Chapter 5
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"Olivia", I repeated
She kept on talking about random stuff but I was stuck on the part when she told me her name.
"Hey, where are you lost?", she asked me
"Nowhere, I have to go inside maybe it's the time to cut cake", I said and walked inside without turning around to her. The moment I decided to give up on Olivia again the swirling memory of her came infront of my eyes. I went inside there was a huge cake on the stage and everyone was waiting for me to cut it. I went to the stage putting a fake smile and stood beside the huge cake which was on the shape of our logo with my name on the top.
I looked toward my employees they all were smiling at me, in that crowd, Olivia also came and signed me with a thumb up. I couldn't help but notice her smile, just as Olivia used to smile.
I kept on staring at her when a huge round of applause came from the employees and I cut the cake. Waiters distributed it to everyone. I was with Brian with cake in my hand but my total attention was on Olivia her way of eating the cake and licking her finger at last everything was like my first love. Everyone started dancing again and Brian was pulling me to dance with him at that whole party I didn't see Saira anywhere.
"Where is Saira?", I asked him
"She is in her room since the start"
'maybe I hurt her bad"
"Don't worry she will be fine, anyway it was just a one night stand it was crazy of her to expect more"
"still", I said looking toward Olivia, who was signing me something. I moved my head telling her that I didn't understand anything she was saying.
She was signing that she was going out, waved her hand at me signing goodbye, and went outside. "I have to go", I said to Brian and ran outside following her because I just couldn't let her leave. Of all the girls I went out with she was the one who resembled Olivia the most. her each action used to remind me of her.
I started the engine of my Lambo and went after her. She was walking on the footpath with a lollipop in her hand. I pushed the horn and grabbed her attention.
"hey", she shouted waving at me.
"Come inside', I shouted and she came inside the car,
"Wow, it's a dream come true", she exclaimed
"Why?"
"I always wanted to be on Lamborghini and you clearly granted my wish she came toward me and kissed me on my cheek with enthusiasm. That kiss left the series of currents burning through my body my hopes that she could be my Olivia became stronger and stronger.
"I am happy that I could fulfill your wish', I said I wasn't faking any of my expressions because with her in my side I was happy.
"Where is your house I will drop you there?"
"4th street right avenue"
"Well, I am new here, so you have to show me the direction"
"Go straight, for now. I will keep on informing you", she said turning on the music box
"wow, I always used to wonder how it could feel like being in a rich car listening to pop songs", she exclaimed again
I smiled at her, her childish behavior that was what I was liking the most
"Hey, are you smiling at me? It must be normal to you rich guy but for me, I have always dreamt that someday my prince would come in Lamborghini in suit and paint and will take me to his own apartment with rich antiques and give a big diamond ring to me", I kept on watching her because it felt like Déjà vu. Olivia told me the same thing when I was at the hospital. That was so strange and that made me more curious about her.
"Hey, are you okay?", she jerked me when I kept on staring at her, "take right"
"What?", I stammered
"I said take right"
"Oh, I am sorry", I said turning right.
"So were you fed up with the party or you really wanted to drop me home?"
"maybe the second one", I said while she kept on looking at me in despair
"Are you trying to flirt with me?", she said folding her hands
"No, how can I?"
"Yeah because there is a lot of age difference between you and me"
"Someone told me that love is blind, and age doesn't matter today"
"Don't use my words against me"
"Okay, zip-up", I said taking my fingers to my lips.
"Take right"
I moved the car to the right again. "It seems far, were you thinking of walking all the way back home before I came?"
"Yeah, it doesn't take long, just an hour"
"An hour is not a just"
"I hate being at home. So it's better to walk than be there"
"Why?"
"I live with my dad and stepmother rest you can think yourself", she said
"I can understand I also used to live with my dad who never cared about me and my stepmom for whom I was just a servent who used to eat free food"
"that is what happens to me too, I don't know what their problem is"
"And once in a while when you pile up the courage to confront them they got so mad that, they began to cry infront of dad as if we tried to murder them"
"Yeah, that is why I sneaked out of the house today. I confronted her this morning"
"Don't worry I kept my hand on her head. I lived with them for 7 years and when I look back in that part of my life it feels that was what made me stronger"
"You are a nice person, Denzel", she said leaning her head on the seat
"why you said that?"
"It just came out of my mouth. Okay, m home now stop", she said pointing toward a small house next to the street.
"Is that your house?", I asked
"yes, it's small but atleast I have a place to sleep", she said going out of the car, "thank you for dropping me home", she said going toward her house.
"Well, Olivia", even taking that name was fluttering my heart
"Yes", she said turning around
"I am in this place for the first time, I was wondering if you can show me LA tomorrow", I stammered
"you want me to guide you to get a tour of this place?", she exclaimed
"Something like that"
"I would like that, she said with a cute smile and turned around running toward the door. It seemed as if she was jumping out of excitement I also couldn't stop my smile.
I just wanted to be there until the next morning and pick her up from right there but I was afraid that would creep her out. I went back to the restaurant but I kind of left my heart there. For the past two years I was faking everything to every girl, but that time with Olivia it felt real, my every action, my every word, and my every smile was real. I know she wasn't Olivia I wanted but her every action reminded me of Olivia who came to finish her high school 16 years back in the city where I lived.
"where were you all this time?", Brian asked me as soon as I reached there.
"I just went outside to have some fresh air", I said going to my room. The party was already over and everyone was already in bed. I went to my bed but couldn't sleep even a little bit that time my heart was not stable I wanted the morning to come fast so that I could meet Olivia again.
It was already 2 am when I got into the bed. And as soon as the clock hit 7 am I got up from my bed and headed toward Olivia's house. It was lame to be that early infront of her house, but I couldn't control myself.
I waited until it was 9 am, and when there was no sign of her even after waiting 2 hours for her there, I pressed the horn. the door opened but instead of Olivia a middle-aged woman opened the door, she was looking at me suspiciously but I didn't care too much about her and after 5 minutes of her looking at me like that I shouted
"Hello, mam, can you call Olivia for me?"
She looked around her and pointed toward herself, "yes mam I am asking you. Please send Olivia to me", I shouted again. When Olivia herself came outside, she was wearing a one-piece and was carrying a cute purse in her hand looking beautiful than ever. She directly came toward the car and stand infront of it
"Well you can come inside", I said
"Not unless you open the door for me", said she staring at me as if she was really going to return back if I don't do it. I got out of the car opened the door for her and again got back to my seat. Her stepmom was still looking at us but we totally ignored her and I started the car and we went from there right away.
'You made me do that to show your stepmom, don't you?", I asked being really confident about that.
"Did you see her expression, she was so jealous of me. This day just got amazing"
"Do you know after my company started gaining attention the first thing I did was buy a fancy car and used to drive around my step mom's house every day"
"That just feels amazing right?"
"So amazing", I said when my mobile rings. I looked at it, It was Brian I knew If I pick up the call he will start nagging about me not being there so I switched off it.
"What are you doing?", Olivia asked, "it might be an important call"
"I just want to spend a day of my life without any disruption and business calls", I said
"So it's just you and me today", said she leaning her head down on the car seat and staring at me
"Yes".
- Writer
