All I Want For Christmas

Chapter 4 - Stressful Summer.

Three Months Later...

Olivia's P.O.V.

I know this may sound like I'm being dramatic but the past three months have honestly been the worst three months of my entire life.

For a young woman who was once living a fairytale with her prince charming and was supposed to have the best summer of my life with him and our friends before we headed off to college with each other but unfortunately, my summer was far from a dream, if anything, it was a nightmare which was more akin to a movie which tortures you mentally and emotionally, not a Disney one.

After I had discovered my boyfriend and twin brother were nasty, horrible pricks who didn't love me as much as I loved them, I decided to make some changes to my future plans so that they no longer included Colton or Tyler.

This summer was supposed to be the best one of our lives because it would be our last one were we're free before the stress of college and eventually the real world took over our lives but for me, this summer has been terrible as I grieved my broken relationships with my boyfriend and my brother and made changes to my once unchangeable plans.

Initially, my plans after graduation were to go travelling with Colton, Tyler and our friends before attending the university of Colorado together in the fall but now everything's changed.

The day after I discovered Colton's betrayal, I did two things which I thought I'd never have to do but I did it anyway.

The first thing I did was I went to my old high school to change my college choice from Colorado to New York which wasn't easy for me to do but I managed to get it done thanks to the amazing admin team at the school.

It wasn't an easy decision for me to make because I had always hoped to attend university in my hometown, not just because it's closer to my family but also because it's the school which both my parents and my auntie and uncle attended as well but as we know, life is full of surprises and now I've been forced to rearrange my plans to avoid those two dickheads.

The second thing I did was that I went to my local family planning clinic were I got screened for every STI possible including HIV.

Once again, this wasn't easy for me to do, in fact, it was downright embarrassing but luckily for me, I had a nice lady in the room with me who gave me some much needed comfort and made the whole process a little bit easier for me.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to successfully avoid them all summer because they've been doing everything they can to try and get my attention and spend time with me as they include me in their plans whilst I've been doing everything I can to avoid them, especially after I found out from Demi that their 'boys day out' three months ago also included Chelsea who just had to tag along with them because according to Colton 'she's got no friends to hand out with'.

It's true that she hasn't got any friends but that's her own fault because every friend she's ever had has cut her off because she keeps trying to steal their boyfriends.

Anyway, I've been able to avoid the boys for the most part thanks to Demi, my parents and also Colton's parents as well who know everything that's happened and were absolutely livid with them.

Demi already knew about what Colton and Tyler had done but our parents didn't find out about it until a couple of weeks later when my mom had found me in my bedroom crying my eyes out and she refused to leave me alone until I had told her why I was upset.

I didn't want anyone else to know about this, especially not our parents because to be perfectly honest with you, I was completely embarrassed by the whole thing and I just wanted to sweep the whole thing under the rug forever until my mom found me and she was so angry with what her son and nephew have done that she immediately wanted to confront them with my father's baseball bat but I managed to stop her.

Unfortunately, I couldn't stop her from telling my father and my auntie and uncle about the bet and they wanted nothing more than to hand their asses to them, especially when they learned about Chelsea's involvement in it who they really don't like and have always had a lot of disdain for her because of her weird obsession with Colton and also when I told them about my plans to leave Boulder but I once again managed to stop them and convince them to let it go for me.

None of them were happy about my plans to leave and they all tried to get me to reconsider my decision but I refused because I just wanted to move on with my life and forget all about this painful chapter in my life which I knew I wouldn't be able to do if I was constantly around Colton and Tyler.

If you're wondering why I never told them about Chelsea's pregnancy, well, it's simple really.

I didn't tell them for two reasons, the first is because it's not my place and the second is because I knew the McKenzie's would've been livid if one of their kids told them they were gonna be a teen parent and Colton deserves to stew in the worry and panic that he'll be feeling about telling them he was gonna be a dad.

Unfortunately, I won't be around to see the show because I'll be leaving Colorado tomorrow now that the summer is finally over and done with and even though I'm sad about leaving my family, I'm also really excited about the next chapter in my life as well.

"Hey baby, do you need any help with that?"

"No, it's ok, thanks anyway, Colton"

I say whilst pulling my suitcase out of my dad's truck.

We've just arrived back in Boulder after spending two weeks together with our families in Dubai and I was kind of hoping that Colton would be too jet lagged to wanna give me any attention but unfortunately, I was wrong.

"Is everything ok, Ollie baby?"

"Everything's fine, Colton"

"Are you sure? because you've been acting really weird with me for months now"

He said and I sighed in frustration.

"Define weird for me?"

I ask with annoyance in my tone.

"Well, that's two things right there, Olivia, you always call me by my full name now which you've never done before because you always preferred to call me Colt or an affectionate nickname and you've also had this weird attitude with not just me but also Tyler as well all summer long like we've done something to anger or upset you"

That's because you have asshole.

I thought to myself as Colton stepped closer to me and placed both of his warm hands on my shoulders.

"Have I done something to anger or upset you, babe? because if I have then please...please tell me what it is that I've done wrong so that I can apologise for it and fix whatever it is that I've done wrong"

You can't fix what you've done, Colton.

I thought to myself as I put on a fake smile and looked up at the former love of my life.

"You haven't done anything wrong, Colton, I promise you"

"Are you sure?"

"Yes"

I say with a slight chuckle.

"The past few months have just been really stressful for me, that's all because I want everything to be perfect for us for when we start college together"

I tell Colton who smiles brightly at me as he once again closes the space between us until we were literally chest to chest with each other.

"It's already perfect, baby because we've got each other, that's all we need, everything else is just a bonus"

Colton said as he cupped my face and leaned in to kiss me but before his nasty lips could touch mine, we were thankfully interrupted by my eldest brother Michael who wasn't happy to see us this close.

Michael has never approved of my relationship with Colton because he always felt like we were too young and he was worried that I would eventually get hurt which he was right about but I'll never tell him that.

The last thing I want is to inflate Michael's ego and make his already big head even bigger.

"I thought you two were getting the bags in?"

"f**k"

Colton groaned low under his breath as I tried my hardest to suppress a chuckle.

It's clear as day that Colton was feeling frustrated because I haven't kissed him or done anything intimate with him since the morning I had found out about his betrayal and I can tell that our lack of intimacy was starting to get to him.

"We are, Mike, I was just giving my girl here a kiss, that's all"

"Well don't, she's just a kid"

"I'm eighteen, Michael"

I say whilst rolling my eyes.

"Yeah, a kid, Ollie"

Michael says before heading inside.

"We should get the rest of these bags inside before Michael sends out the cavalry"

"Yeah"

Colton says sounding annoyed.

We then got all of the bags out of the truck and put them in my house just as Tyler came walking down the stairs with a big, s**t eating grin on his face.

"Hey brother, wanna hang out in the cave tonight?"

"Actually Ty, I was kind f hoping that I'd get to hang out with my girl tonight"

Colton says whilst wrapping his arm around my shoulders and pulling me closer to him as Tyler looked at us with anger in his eyes.

As much as I'd love to stick it to my brother and take his little friend away from him for the night, I just couldn't because I didn't want to spend another second in Colton's presence.

"Go ahead and hang out with Tyler, Colton, I'm too jet lagged to do anything tonight"

"Are you being serious, Olivia?"

He asks sounding angry and annoyed which I ignored.

"Yeah, I'm being serious, I'm just gonna have a shower and go to bed early, so there's no point in us hanging out together tonight"

I tell Colton who looked at me like what the f**k? as a happy Tyler clapped his hands together.

"Great, let's go, brother"

Tyler said as he ushered a frustrated Colton out of our house.

When they were gone, I let out a sigh of relief as a wave of sadness overcame me because I knew that this would be the last time that I'd see them and if I had it my way then it would stay that way but unfortunately for me, fate had plans for us which were beyond my control.