125 Things Could Be Better (2/2)

Eli took one last look back at the dark forest and secretly wished farewell to the butterfly princess he met. Calming his mind and setting his goal in sight.

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Olivia watched the news and she couldn't help but smile to herself. Loreley squealed as she heard the commentaries from the news anchor. ”The top questions for today flooding social media, our news forum and emails are, who is the designer of the remarkable dress of the butterfly princess and will this prince look for his princess and find love? This reporter thinks they will, especially with this candid picture of the two of them kissing. We sincerely wish the masked couple the best of luck.”

Loreley looked at Olivia and gave her a wide grin. ”I can't believe with even you disguised he figured out it was you.” Olivia shook her head and gave her a bittersweet smile. ”He had no idea it was me and I didn't know it was him until a whipped my shoe at him...” Loreley's jaw dropped. ”So he got caught cheating on you... with you?!”

After a few moments of silence they both burst out into laughter. ”Oh my... I can't even imagine how... hahaha.... the guilt... are you gonna... oh it hurts!” Loreley tried to say complete sentences in between her laughter and tears but found it rather hard. Olivia covered her eyes with one of her hands, as tears streamed down her face as she laughed. After the laughter died down Olivia kept her eyes covered but continued to cry.

”Hey, Olivia it's okay now. It's funny that he fell in love with you all over again, he didn't cheat on you or anything.” Loreley said as she grabbed her free hand. Olivia shook her head. ”He didn't know, how can his heart waiver even if I wore a disguise? What if it was someone else, what if next time it's not me but some other girl would he leave me... leave our children?” She said with a shaky voice.

Loreley moved up on the bed and wrapped her arms around her body.There was a knock on the door and a small crack was opened. Blair, Autumn and Laila peaked inside. When they saw Olivia slumped over crying they rushed in. ”It's not what it looks like!” Blair shouted as she rubbed her back. ”That's right it could have been the angle of the camera making it look like Eli kissed her!” Laila chimed in but her words caused Olivia's body to shake harder.

Autumn moved the others aside and made Olivia look her in the eyes. ”So what if that scumbag cheated on you! You have some pretty outstanding women here that will not let you do this alone. These babies will have one strong momma and some pretty fabulous she-daddies, so dump that a**hole to the curb or beat the sh*t outta the sl*t! Choose and we will stick by you.” Olivia gave her a bright smile and was about to say something when there was another knock on the door.

Blair moved faster then Autumn and lunged at Eli with her claws out. Marek stepped in between and caught her mid attack. ”Why are here!” She hissed as Laila and Autumn moved in front of Olivia, blocking her from his sight. ”OliviaI can't begin to apologize... I did something stupid and I want to beg your forgiveness. I want you to know that I... but last night I did... I...”

”Shut it scumbag!” Autumn yelled as she balled her fists and brought them up, readying herself for fight. ”Now, now, enough is enough you guys. Go on now move to a corner, give them some space to let them talk it out!” Loreley said as she collected everyone and started to move them to a corner. ”Shouldn't we be giving them some privacy?” Laila said as she was being pushed along. ”What?! No way! I wanna see this play out!” Loreley said happily as she herded the girls and Marek towards the corner.

Eli took a step forward and tried his best to look Olivia in the eyes but moved his gave towards the muted TV. They were showing the couples dancing again. He instantly paled and Olivia moved her gaze towards the TV. ”I didn't know you could dance so well...” She said quietly as she watched the TV screen. ”We've danced together before, remember at your birthday party and the debutante.” He said as he stepped a few more steps forward, trying to ignore the TV and keeping his gaze locked onto her instead.

”Just the waltz, nothing fancy or intimate. There have also been more opportunities for us to dance too but every time we get pulled away from each other... accidents, threats and River... are we even meant to be together anymore? Has your heart changed? Do you want to leave me and be done with all the stress, the anxiety and the constant warfare?” She said as she wrung the blanket over her legs.

Eli froze and dropped his gaze to the floor, he couldn't look at her anymore the guilt was horrifyingly overwhelming. He shut his eyes tight and thanked his friend for knocking some sense into him. For not letting him give into temptation and chase after something that very well might have not been really. ”See you've thought about running away. You've probably thought about not wanting to be -?!” Olivia started but Eli brought up his gaze, he looked positively furious. Her words broke his guilt loop and brought forth something else entirely.

”Shut up! Don't you dare put idiotic words into my mouth! So I acted stupid, I have acted stupidly many times before, I probably will keep doing stupid things in the future!” Eli stomped forward closing the gap between them and grabbed Olivia's shoulders. The fire burning in his eyes made Olivia shiver involuntarily.

”You better be listening well Ms. Olivia Steel, there is only one person in this world that can make my heart ache, one person who could just give me one look and drive me crazy, only one G*d d*mn person who can make me more human! Believe it or not, everyone around me thought I would die alone, that I was some humanoid who could only feel something when I was absorbed by a book! I only have a handful of friends who know better and before I even knew it, I developed a crush and got lucky enough to have it turn into love! You are the only one for me! You will never be replaced, EVER!”

He pulled her close and placed a passionate kiss on her lips. Olivia tried to push away but Eli grabbed the back of her head and kept her in place. ”What if you find someone better then me?” She said breathlessly when they finally parted. ”Lock me up and kill the b*tch. I will do the same if you even glance at another guy with even a sliver of love. Your love is only meant for me, as mine is only meant for you.” He said as he pulled her into an embrace.

Loreley started bouncing on the spot in delight, Laila and Blair started to choke up, Marek did a mini fist pump and Autumn just watched closely.”Please forgive me for everything.” Eli pleaded as he tightened his embrace. ”Only if you can forgive me.” She said as she snuggled into his chest. ”Always!” He said as he pulled her away and placed a hand onto her cheek. ”You swear?” Olivia said as she batted her eyes. ”I swear.” Eli responded as his gaze turned incredibly loving.

”You know there is only one thing that could make things so much better.” Olivia said as she placed her hand over top of Eli's and gave him a sweet smile. ”Tell me I will do anything.” Eli's words made Olivia's eyes sparkle with love and a bit of mischief. ”I didn't mean to whip it at your face so can you give me back my shoe. I need to give it back to Loreley.”