[Olivia]:
Two more glasses later, my whole body relaxed. Stefan didn't complain when I sat really close to him. Everything felt too woozy to even make sense so I curled in his arms, basking in the warmth of his hold and banishing the sense of danger to the darkest part of my mind, where my darkest traumas lay dormant. I was about to awaken them but who gave a s**t?
"Before I resumed as a student, I ran away from home." I sighed. "I ran away from my parents. I didn't want to be anywhere close to them because they commited a crime against me. I was never treated like their daughter. I spent most of my life taking the blame for things that weren't my fault."
Stefan played softly with my hair while his thumb softly rubbed my arms. "You know you can decide not to talk about it if you don't w
