FIFTY- TWO

Olivia and I were in my room and Mark was leaning on the doorpost while watching us talk, then he asked,"So Olivia, when do you think I can meet your mom?"

"What? My mom? Uhh, she's really busy, I don't think she'll have the time."

"Why?"

"She'll be working."

"What does she do?"

"... she's a...caterer."

"And she's too busy to see the guardian of your friend?"

She nodded several times and I looked at her, a little disappointed then I said,"Wait, so you just think of me as a friend?"

She stuttered,"U- um, no, no, no."

I arched a brow and asked,"So what do you think of me as, then?"

He's just like his elder brother!

I looked at her with a smirk and she was silently freaking out then I asked,"I'm making you nervous, aren't I?"

She pulled in her lips, put her hand over my face and yelled,"Shut up, weirdo!"

Mark and I chuckled then a maid came and said,"Master Marcus, Mistress Olivia's mother is here to pick her up."

"Okay, gotta go, bye!"Olivia yelled as she picked her bag and ran out of the room.

Mark and I chuckled together.

Olivia sat on the car and her driver began the journey.

She looked at Mark and me looking at her from the door and I winked at her and did a gun with my hand.

She turned away sharply and blushed.

What is wrong with me?

Why do I feel this way?

Why does he make me so nervous?

Do I like him?

No, Olivia!

He's the enemy!

But he's so charming and sweet.

Olivia you're an idiot!

That family hurt your mother in so many ways, you have to get revenge!

Olivia was very conflicted in her thoughts as she walked before her mother and said nervously,"Hi mom."

"Hello my little olive, how is everything going?"

"Oh it's fine... Tommy is crazy about me, he can't think straight when he's near me."She lied.

"Why are we wasting all this time love? Let's just strike them like we have been doing."Mr Nelson said, impatiently.

"Patience snookims, things like this are best done slowly. You may go Olivia."

She nodded and ran to her room, angry at herself.

She screamed in her pillow and slapped herself across the face, she did it again, saying stop liking the enemy each of the seven times she did it.

She held her red cheeks in pain and lay down.

She stared at the ceiling and saw my face, she furiously turned back to the bed. She wanted to suffocate herself.

But, she missed me, she looked at her phone and picked it up. She went to my contact and squealed.

Oh no!

Why?!

Why is he so attractive to me?!

Resist the temptation!

She tried to stay strong for her mother. She hated her father as he left her mother when he found out she was pregnant.

Her mother was the most attractive girl in her high school and town.

The best looking guy, who doubled as a jock had an eye for her and they soon began dating, but not without birth control.

She didn't listen to her parents when they told her he was a bad influence on her. This went on until she got pregnant, then he left her...

Her mother went on to become a supermodel and date several powerful men, but she had loved none of them more than the one who broke her heart—Mark Hawkins.

Olivia had never met her father and didn't want to meet him, she hoped he had a car accident, was dead or was in a coma.

In fact, she didn't hope anything for him, she was sure he had a new family by then.

The rain began to fall and she looked out the window, to the mansion where her forbidden love lived...

Mark and I were about to go to the park when it began to rain, Mark said,"Well, I guess we'll have to postpone it."

"Aww, come on, it's just a little rain."

A thunderclap sounded and the rain turned to a downpour the moment I said that.

"I take that back."

I slumped on the couch, disappointed, then Mark said,"We could do other stuff."

"Like what?"

"Like talk about Olivia."

I looked at him with a wide smile then he said,"I thought it was only you who liked her but now...you are nailing her."

I giggled.

"Where did you learn to talk like that?"

"From you."

"Oh, and where did you get the confidence to talk to her?"

"Meh, I guess it was always in me."

He shrugged his shoulders and said teasingly,"And now...Tommy and Olivia, sitting in a tree, k- i- s- s- i- n- g..."

"Real mature."I said sarcastically.

He continued and I eventually started chasing him around but he didn't stop.

After he started acting like an adult again, he said he'd take me to work that Monday, for a photoshoot...as a model, I literally flipped.