The Reason Behind Me

Olivia's POV "Three... Two... One!" The bell finally rang, and I quickly kept all my books before scuttling out of the classroom.  "Room 65." I mumbled to myself repeatedly, looking at the unit numbers above the classroom doors.  "Room 65!" I said and shuffled over to the classroom.  My eyes lit up the moment I saw Mia, confirming that I'm at the correct classroom. The teacher had just dismissed the class and I see students leaving the classroom in cliques.  Here comes Mia. I thought to myself.  I smiled and walked over to her with a grin, "Have you seen a beautiful brunette around 5'2? She has brown wavy hair and she's wearing a sweatshirt with skinny jeans."  "Aww... You think I'm beautiful?" Mia blushed.  "I was looking for a girl named Eleanor." I frowned, holding back a laugh when I see Mia blush even harder from embarrassment.  "Oh uh... I don't... I.." She stuttered.  "I was just kidding M’z... Relax!" I said throwing my head back in a laugh, "That was really funny though."  "Shut up dimwit." Mia pouted, "And I love that nickname you just gave me, Oli." She smirked.  "I'm sure you could do better than call me Oli." I said, "But I like it still."  "Of course!" Mia declared, "Who wouldn't like a nickname given by the one and only Mia Hudson!"  "Oh, you're such a dork." I teased, turning into the cafeteria, "Pizza!"  "Where?!" Mia shrieked gaining attention from the students.  "I was just joking." I giggled, "But I guess you would really kill for a pizza eh?"  "I would kill you first." Mia said, "No, I would eat you up because you took my pizza away and I'm hungry."  She smirked for a while and flushed once she realized what she had said, "Oh my god. I'm so sorry."  "I wouldn't mind if you'd do that." I winked.  We walked towards the other girls and I smile, "Guys, this is Mia. Mia, this is Amelia, Isabella and Charlotte." I introduced pointing to each of them respectively. "Hi Mia! Nice to meet you!" The girls greeted in unison.  "Nice to meet you guys too." Mia smiled.  "Take a seat Mia." I said pulling out a chair for her.  "Thank you." She said and sat down on the chair.  "I'll go get your food for you. What do you want?" I asked getting my purse from my bag.  "Pizza!"  "There's no pizza today M’z," I chuckled, "There's pasta, salad, nug- "  "Nuggets then!" She yelled cutting me off.  "Alright chill." I laughed.  "Well you, my peasant is buying food, me the queen shall go to the toilet." She replied getting up, "You better be back by the time I'm back."  I rolled my eyes and nodded my head for her to go, then, I lined up at the end of the queue to buy our food. I watched Mia walk towards the exit, but a crowd soon formed around her. What's going on?  Mia's POV "What do you think you're doing hanging out with Olivia Macpherson?" One of the girls that cornered me asked. "Yeah! Why are you constantly talking to her?" The other added, "She's like too good for you." She snorted. "Who are you guys?" I asked, trying to put up a brave front, "And who are you to say that she's too good for me? I certainly know her better than all of you here do!"  "Oh Mia Mia..." The girl who seems like the leader of the group smirked, "She's a popstar from a girl group and who are you? A loser from high school?" She laughed, the group of girls giggling after.  "P…popstar?" I stuttered, stunned from what I've just heard, Olivia's a singer? Why didn't she tell me? "That's right loser." She said pushing me, making me stumble backwards. "What are you guys doing?" A familiar voice laced with anger and worry questioned, "Move out of the way."  Olivia? "Mia, are you alright?" Olivia asked. "Olivia, I know you’re just friends with her right now because you're new to the school. but don't worry, you can just join -"  "Shut up and leave Mia alone. I'm warning you, the next time I see you anywhere near her, all of you are dead." Olivia snapped and the girls took a step back in shock.  "Let's go M’z." She said and gave the girls one last death glare before pulling me away by my arm.  "Olivia Michelle Macpherson! What was that about? You owe me an explanation!" I whispered-screamed whilst Olivia led me out of the school compound. "I'll explain to you when we've found a place to sit down and talk." She muttered and we turned into the playground near the school. "Talk." I demanded once we've found a place that's out of sight to sit down.  "Listen, I didn't mean to keep the fact that I'm in a girl group from you. It’s just that many people in my life has come and gone because they were just using me. I didn't want the same to happen to the both of us..." She trailed off looking away, "I'm sorry. Please don't be mad at me." "Olivia, look at me." I said, "I'm not mad at you, but all this came as a surprise to me and I need time to digest what you've just said." "I understand. I'll leave you alone if you want." She replied, getting ready to stand up.  "No, its fine Oli. Which girl group are you in though?"  "CIAO." She answered, "Amelia and Charlotte are part of the group too. We have another girl named Isabella but she's twenty, so she has already graduated."  "Wait, the name sounds familiar." I said frowning. 'We're from X-Factor 2012."  2012... That's the year I got into a car accident and lost my memory. I woke up to the sound of machines beeping around me. I tried to sit up but pain stroked through the right side of my body.  "Oh my god Mila. Can you hear me?" Marielle, my best friend asked.  "Yes.' I groaned opening my eyes, "What happened?" "You were in a car accident Mia; you were on the way home from junior prom when a car hit you on the road." Marielle said helping me to sit up. "Junior prom? I'm only fourteen Marielle, stop fooling around."  "Oh my god. I'm calling the doctor." Marielle said and ran out of the room in a rush.  "What?" I asked confused.  Soon, a doctor and a nurse walked into the room with a clipboard, "Good morning Mia. I'm doctor Howard. How are you feeling?" He asked. "I'm good, just a little numb and pain on the right side of my body." I replied.  "That's normal since the car hit you on your right side pretty hard." The doctor nodded, "Can you tell me what the last thing is you can remember?"  "The only thing I can remember is hanging out with Marielle at a friend's 14th birthday party." I said and the doctor nodded his head.  "Mia, I think you had lost two years of your memory."    Ever since then, I've had trouble catching up with my schoolwork and all the things that I've done but forgotten. My father happened to have a job promotion in Miami and the whole family decided to move here together in the interests of me. Olivia's POV "M’z?" I said and Mia remained silent.  "M’z?" I said again and still there's no response.  "Hello? Earth to Mia?" I said loudly, waving my hand in her face.  "Huh what?" She muttered turning to look at me.  "Lunch period is over; we have to head back to school in five." I answered.  "But school is a ten-minute walk from here!"  "I'll race you to school. Ready set go!" I shouted and ran off with Mia tailing behind me. Mia's POV "Are you sure I watched X-Factor 2012 before I lost my memory?" I asked Marielle who was busily typing her school report on her laptop.  "Yes Mila. Will you finally please let me finish my report now? I'll call you when I have the time." She groaned.  "Alright." I sigh rubbing my temples, "Are you a hundred percent sure?" I asked again.  "For the last time Mia, yes. And you were insanely obsessed with this girl group called Five Harmony? You even went to one of their shows." She replied with an unsure tone, making her statement sound more like a question.  "CIAO." I corrected.  "Right. CIAO. Wait, how do you know? Oh my god, did you regain your memory?" She questioned.  "No. I made friends with Olivia Macpherson the first day I arrived here. I met her at Miami Beach." I explained and I heard a gasp on the other end of the line.  "Olivia Macpherson?" She repeated.  "Yeah. She's really nice and we're attending the same school."  "A pop star attending school? Please don't get your lady loving hard broken." She said with a bitter and concerned tone.  "I am not in love with her!" I exclaimed, "We're just friends." I added.  "You never know! Now, let me finish my report you lil shit." Marielle teased, "Goodbye!"  "Bye." With that, she hung up and I sighed, "If there's a god up there, please help me." I whispered.  Olivia's POV Mia and I were assigned to be each other's partner for the English project, and we've decided that I should go over to her house to work on it.  I knocked on the front door and a middle-aged woman opened the door, "Hello, who are you looking for?"  "Hi Mam, I'm here to do a project with Mia." I said looking into the house. "Come on in. She's upstairs in her room, do you need a drink?" She offered and I shook my head, "It's okay, thank you for the offer Mam."  "Call me Sinuhe." She smiles warmly, "Walk up the stairs and turn right. Her room is the one one the left." She says, using her hand to give me directions to Mia's room.  "Thank you Sinuhe." I said and made my way towards Mia's room.  "I won't let these little things slip out of my mouth, but if it's true, it's you, it's you. Oh, it's you they add up to, I'm in love with you, and all these little things." I hear Mia sing and damn, she has the voice of an angel.  I'm legit getting ear-gasms. It's so raspy yet smooth at the same time, it's so unique.  "You have a beautiful voice." I commented and Mia turned around to look at me with a smile and may the Lord help me, it's the cutest I've ever seen in the past eighteen years of my life.  It's like her whole face lights up and her chocolate brown eyes shines with happiness like a little child that had just seen Santa Claus. Small vague dimples appear on her cheeks and wrinkles form at the side of her eyes.  "Hi." She greets blushing, biting her lips.  "Hey." I grinned and walked into her room, "Do you mind if I close the door? I can't stand opened doors." I asked.  "Yeah sure, go ahead." She replied and shuffled over to her school bag to retrieve the worksheet for our project work whilst I closed the door.   "We're finally done with the first part. It was tough." I whined plopping myself onto Mia's bed.  "You're such a lazy bum." She said and sat down beside me, "Oli?"  "Hmm?" I hummed in response, signalling her to go on.  "I think I used to be a fan of your group, according to my friend at least. But I lost my memory two years ago and I can't remember anything between 2010 and 2012." I said, "I went to one of your shows in Miami."  "Miami? That's the year we first debuted." I said thinking back to the Harmonize America Tour, "I'm sorry about your memory loss."  "It's alright." She smiled softly, "I've accepted that part of my life. Looking on the bright side, all the bad things that happened in between those years are forgotten!" She said.  "Your mindset is just so beautiful; I wonder what is going on inside that pretty little head of yours." I chuckled.  "What's going on is that I'm trying to digest that fact that you have such beautiful green eyes." Mia whispered lovingly.  Olivia's POV "What's going on is that I'm trying to digest that fact that you have such beautiful green eyes." Mia whispered lovingly.  Holy s**t. Mia thinks that I have beautiful eyes. What is life. Someone please hold me before I faint.  We soon found ourselves leaning into each other slowly. Inch by inch, I felt her closer and closer to me. I could feel her breath on me, and I closed the gap.  Our lips moved in sync like they were meant to be, like her lips were made just for me, to mould into mine. Sparks flew and I legit saw fireworks. My hands flew up to her neck and pulled her closer into me, wrapping my other arm around her waist.  We pulled away from each other when oxygen was needed desperately, and I stared into her eyes.  Mia's POV Olivia stared into my eyes and I found myself panicking. This isn't supposed to happen. I don't like her; I love her as a friend.  "Uh I g…gotta gay. Go, I gotta go." I stuttered and mentally slapped myself. Gotta gay? Seriously Mia? What a way to make things even more awkward.  I grabbed my things and walked out of the room. Wait, that was my room. Ugh Mia? What are you doing?  I sighed and walked back into the room to see Olivia packing up her things with a hurt look on her face, "Oli?"  "I'm just leaving." She replied, the previous hurt on her face replaced by anger.  "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to walk out like that, I just... I don't know." I muttered, "Please stay?"  Olivia seems to relax a little and nodded her head, "But did you really just run out after your room after a kiss?" She teased.  "Stop it." I whined and I feel blood rushing up my cheeks.  "I'm not even laughing at you." She said trying to hold back her laughter.  "You're really holding back at laugh and poking fun at me you lil shit." I retorted pouting, "You're so mean."  "I'm sure." She said with sarcasm, rolling her eyes, "I'm like the meanest witch on the whole planet who loves to laugh at people who ran out of their own room after kissing someone."  "Olivia Michelle Macpherson!" I screamed.  "Karla Hudson! Keep your volume down!" We cringed when my mom shouted from the kitchen.  "Alright, alright. I'll stop." She said, walking towards me, "On one condition. Give me one more kiss."  I shook my head and pouted, "No."  She smirked and tilted her head to the side, "You know, I've never in my life seen someone -"  "I'll give you one more kiss!" I said cutting her off.  "Good." She smiles walking towards me and attached her lips onto mine.  Her lips are so soft and luscious, and it feels so right to kiss her. I don't ever want this to stop.