Three years ago

Jace's POV.

"And then the hot babysitter turned out to be some satanist trying to sacrifice him cause he had blood of the innocent." She explains with her hands.

Olivia is an early riser, this morning she decided to wake up early and then wake me up and tell me all about some movie she watched.

I'm currently hungover, laying flat on her bed while she's on top of me, straddling my hips as she explains the events of the movie.

"What the fuck?" I respond, my throat feeling dry.

"Literally the words that popped up on my screen when they drove two knives into an innocent guy's head." She laughs.

"Okay, sold, I'll watch it." I give up my protests.

"Many people don't like it, they say it's bad." She trails her index finger along the tattoo on my torso, it's barely a touch, she's just ghosting her finger along the ink but it still makes my skin feel fuzzy, my stomach tightens and my dick twitches.

I swallow.

"You didn't think so?" I grasp her hand then I play with her fingers so she doesn't think anything of it.

"I thought it was one of those good-bad movies." She's now tracing the ink on my fingers, "What do these letters stand for?" She examines the letters on each finger.

A, M, L, R.

Staring down at the letters, I smile, "Aron, Mariana, Luna and Regina. Mi familia." I drag my eyes back to her face.

"Who's Regina?" She asks quietly with caution.

"My Mama." I answer playfully cause judging by the way she asked it, she probably thought the name belonged to my long lost half sister or ex girlfriend.

She grins, her eyes still glued to the inked letters, "I love that you did something like this for your family." She says, her words sounding a little sad.

I wanna ask her about her parents and why they're so comfortable with leaving their teenage daughter all alone without constantly checking up on her but I feel like she'll tell me about it when she's ready.

"I love your smile." I tell her, just so she can smile and it works, her cheeks turn red and she smiles a very shy smile.

So beautiful.

Life is a lot easier when Olivia and I are smiling and sharing things but same goes with the girl sleeping in the next room.

"I should probably go check if our guest is awake." She says, leaning down to kiss me then she climbs off me and gets out of bed.

"Be nice." I prop myself up on my elbows.

"I'll try." She hurries of the room and shuts the door behind her.

I grab my phone to read all the messages from my mother, her threats are becoming smarter and smarter everyday.

After reading all the messages from my mother and the ones from Diego asking if we were all having a threesome, I open my Instagram and I blink at all the unnecessary followers I've gained since I got out of jail for hammering that douche's car, my DMs are full of people I don't know but I click on the one on top cause I recognize the name.

Tyler.

He sent me a video, I click on the video, praying that it's not actually an adult video.

It's a video of me and Cass, talking.

I roll my eyes at the fact that he filmed us.

I sigh, concentrating on the screen and trying to remember what we were talking about.

We both laugh, Cass covers her mouth with her hand and slaps my shoulder while I shrug. I hold her hand high and she twirls around, she holds my hand in the same way, telling me to do the same thing and since I'm taller than her, I duck my head while doing it.

I don't know when my lips stretched into a smile but I'm smiling, we look happy and playful and now it's just.... Done.

I groan, throwing the device across the room.

Silence.

It's too quiet.

I climb out of bed and that's when my head throbs, making the room spin.

I step out of the room and I slowly follow the low voices coming from the guest bedroom, the door is wide open and they're both standing in the middle of the room, facing each other.

Olivia lifts her hand and slaps Cass across the face, Cass's head whips to the side but she doesn't rub her cheek, she just rolls her neck and looks back at Liv.

"Got it out of your system?" Cass asks Liv, Olivia responds with a hard glare.

"What's going on?" I stride into the room, Olivia faces me then back at Cass before storming out of the room, bumping into my shoulder.

"Where's my car?" Cass places her hands on her hips, looking around the room for her car keys like nothing happened.

"Left it with Tyler." I answer, watching her suspiciously.

"Okay." She finally looks at me but it doesn't last long, she sits on the edge of the bed and starts putting on her shoes.

"What did you say to her?" I ask, she careens her neck, brows knitting together.

"Excuse me?" She stands, pinning me with a serious cold look.

"She slapped you, you must have said something to provoke her." I say.

"Wow," She folds her arms over her chest and stares at the wall behind me. "What do you think I said to her, Jace?" Her eyes dart back to mine.

"I don't know, that's why I'm asking." I point out.

She takes a deep breath, her chest moving with the rhythm of that breath then she looks to her side, disappointment written all over her face.

"I'm such a fool," She mutters to herself, "I'll see you around, Jace." She doesn't even glance at me when she tries to leave.

Just as she's about to walk passed my shoulder, I grab her hand, our shoulders touching and our eyes meeting glancingly.

It's in this moment that I realize that I hurt her, the same way everyone in her life hurts her and this wrong place, wrong time bullshit better be vise versa in our next life.

I look down at our touching hands, tightening my grip a little cause I have a feeling this is the last time I'm ever going to hold her hand.

"See you around." I whisper, releasing her hand, she looks down at the distance I just put between our hands and her forehead creases which makes her face look hurt.

She finally walks away and I feel like I just lost something really important, a treasure.

I stand here, staring at nothing in particular and just, feeling numb.

She was only here for one night but the room spells like her, and the thing about scents is that they hold memories, not really wanting to dive into those memories, I quickly exit the room, strolling back to Olivia's.

"What did she say to you?" I ask as soon as I enter.

"Nothing." She's pretending to make herself busy by packing up her stuff around the room.

I sigh, "Olivia."

"She didn't say anything, Jace, she was being nice to me and that's what bothered me so I slapped her." She says, confidently.

I scoff in disbelief.

"I'm sorry, did you just say you slapped her because she was being nice to you?"

"You fell for her, she can't just make you fall for her and then smile at me like we're friends!" She flies her hands in the air.

"She didn't make me fall for her, Olivia, what the hell?" I snap.

"She did, cause that's what girls like her do, they draw men, they seduce men and when they're done, they leave!"

"Is that what you think?" I step closer to her, "You think she seduced me into liking her?" I tower over her.

"Don't act like you didn't hear the things people said about her when she first transferred and not only that but her brother's friends had a lot of dirty things to say about her too." She tilts her head, keeping her gaze strong.

"That's because you don't know the real her." I say.

"And you do?" She shoves my chest with her finger, "Tell me, what do you know about her?" She shoves again.

"Stop." I turn away but she hurries to stand in front of me again, blocking my escape.

"No, tell me, cause if you don't tell me then I'm just gonna keep thinking you slept with her and that it was so good you can't even stand it when I touch you." She blurts out angrily, wiping the tears that escaped her eyes.

"What?" I feel confused.

"Oh c'mon, Jace, I touched you earlier and you literally told me to fuck off-" I cut her off by palming her jaw and cupping the back of her neck, glaring into her eyes.

"Olivia, I swear to God, you need to fucking stop," I say through gritted teeth, "For fucks sake, I'm with you, ain't I? I'm dating you, not her, you have no fucking idea how hard it was to lose a friendship that never really started, I never slept with her, she was just a friend who I developed feelings for, if you think that's a mistake that you can never forgive then so be it, I'm only human, who the hell hasn't made mistake that they regret?" I drop my hands, she drawls in a breath, staring up at me.

"I'm sorry." Her chin quivers.

"Tsk, are you though?" I narrow my eyes.

"I'm not, I don't even know why but I'm not, I just really don't like that girl."

"Why? She means no harm."

"You defend her, Jace, you speak highly of her, you've formed this bond with her, she knows you more than I do and she's prettier than me, okay? Can you blame me?" She plops down on her bed.

The worst thing you can do is make your partner insecure about themselves.

I kneel down in front of her, holding her hand and smoothing it.

"I'm sorry, I know I fucked up and I can't rewind time to do it over again but Liv, baby, you're gonna have to forgive me, I need you to trust me because our new beginning starts today, no more drama, no more Cassandra Richardson, it's just you and me." I hold her chin then I graze her lips with my thumb.

"Promise?" Her voice shakes and she's looking at me with a lot of hope in her eyes.

"I promise." I smile at her.

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A\N: Smells like happily ever after, or does it?

Okay, so I've noticed that a bunch of people were expecting this to be some cute love story between Olivia and Jace, I'm not saying it's not, because the next chapters are going to give you exactly that but if you're here and you've read all my stories then you know I'm not all about that, my characters are so dumb they never know when love slaps them in the face. I know this story is so much more complicated but, I planned this out while I was still writing love is overrated and I'm sorry but I'm not going to change anything so walk with me or don't, it's totally up to you.

Also, if you're looking for something fresh out of my draft, check out my new story, "No, Maybe, Yes" it's mainly about two best friends falling in love, it's not so serious, I'm actually just writing it for fun.

Thanks for reading♥️.