Chapter 26
WhatsApp group-chat
Will-mart: How did the meeting go?
Liverpool: It went pretty well. Jo loved it and it will be published next weekend! How's the bonding section? Anyone cried yet?
Will-mart: I dropped a tear or two. I'm so emotional...
Liverpool: I sense sarcasm mmm.
Will-mart: Of course! I'm tired here and they keep talking about the same thing over and over and over and over...again.
Laurex: I can come a rescue you if you want. I can say Olivia is sick and we need to go home.
Will-mart: Please do!
Liverpool: I'm on my way.
Twenty minutes later
"Where to guys?" asked Olivia behind the wheel.
"We wanna go home. Y'all drained me today." Laura cried in exhaustion.
"I know right. Ecstatic seniors plus bonding section is equal to pain in the ass. Take us home!"
At home, the girls took a shower and relaxed in the sitting-room whilst watching Bob the builder. An argument about whether or not hypnosis is effective arose in the middle of the show. Of course, Olivia won bringing into evidence that she was trying it herself and was working a little. Later into the day Olivia got ready to go for her dinner so she could tell Jayden that everyone forgot about her birthday. Still confused on whether to dress up as though it were a date, she looked it up on the Internet.
"Hell no! You ain't wearing those usual maxi dresses of yours. I'm tired of the same looks again and again." Willy was not pleased at all about Olivia reaction towards Jayden's generous offer. She was not enthusiastic enough to treat it like a date. She had evidence and intuition. She put on a black short sleeved tweed dress and flat pumps with her hair tied into a bun.
"I am pleased and very late! I will leave this instant."
"Have a great night Olivia."
This is a very fancy restaurant. The boldly gleaming lights, classy champagne bottles and glasses on every couple's table. Maybe this was a date after all. The restaurant's receptionist led me to my table and I waited for service and Jayden whilst checking my phone for more notifications. Suddenly it was quiet but I did not pay attention to it and thought that maybe I was focused too much on my phone so that's why the noise was gradually decreasing. I raised my chin and laid my phone on the table before I opened my eyes to see the big surprise everyone put together. At least I hoped.
"What the heck Toby! What are you doing here?"
Okay quick recap.
One day after the break-up/caught cheating
"He is here Olivia. Go and talk to him," suggested Willy. She had not talked to Olivia yet but quickly caught up when she came crying back home last night. So Toby was invited in to sit on the couch and talk. Silence for over ten minutes.
"Uh if you're here for the ring I can give it to you." There was no love in Olivia's eyes anymore. He felt it and hated it. He had messed up.
"I'm not here for that. I just thought we could talk."
"Talk then."
"Amanda and I -"
"Are exclusive?" No affection just eager to know the truth.
"We are and have been for a very long time and-"
"What about Lizzy? Does she know about her?" She completely erased her name out of the 'dearly loved' girls by Toby Davis.
"Are you seriously asking about Lizzy right now! Fuck Olivia I messed up okay and I'm sorry!" his anger was elevating. It wasn't of rudeness but guilt. And Olivia,
"You're sorry for which part. The fact that you lured me into your arms and your stupid life just so you can please yourself away from your fiancé."
"She is not my fiancé, you are."
"Are fucking hearing yourself right now Toby. You gave her a ring, the same ring you gave me. It is your trophy and sign to showcase to the rest of your crazy world that you own your women. You aren't different from my father!"
"Your father? Your father! I am far much better than him. I have plenty of money to spend on anything I please. I can buy anything I want and for whoever I choose-"
"Oh please Toby, you don't do it because it is the right thing to do. You please people for your own selfish reasons to gain power and control over them," they both stand, "you wanted to own me despite having another girl heads over heels for you." She was utterly disgusted.
"Fuck you Olivia to think that you are so perfect and innocent that you feel I'm very ungodly-like to cheat like everyone else out there . There is no decency from you. You pretend to be the victim in all of this when you very well know you are responsible for bringing yourself into my life. I made you from nothing. So don't dare stand there and look at me and judge me like I am a nobody!"
"There you are Toby, nice to finally meet the real you. I do not pretend to be whatever you call me to be. I'm realistic and did what I could because I did not have a choice. If you think I loved you because of your lavish life, you are very wrong. It is nice to know that you think of me as your property and prize for doing something humane for once in your life."
"I don't have time for this Li.. Olivia. Please be out of my house at sunrise tomorrow. I do not wish to see your face ever again!" He slammed the door angrily and drove away.
Present day
"Motherfucker I asked you a simple question, why the fuck are you here?" She held the butter-knife so close to her hands, she wanted him dead at that moment.
"I do bring out the devil in you don't l?" he asked regrettably.
"Don't you flatter yourself! Please leave before Jayden gets here."
"Hush young lady. Why do you think he texted you that he won't be picking you up?"
"You entitled son of a-"
"Hey Liv I just want to talk."
"Listen to me fuck-boy, I am not your toy that you can throw away when you're tired of it and get it back when you miss it. You would be lucky to have me." She took her bag and exited the empty restaurant.
"I would be," he said mumbling to himself.
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