Oliver Queen was on an all-time high. He was the center of the frat party. As par with the frat parties, there were alcohol flowing. This is the fourth Ivy League college his father had paid for him to get into. He was a proud member of Phi Kappa Psi and Tommy being there made the experience all better. Today was a party organized by the Kappa Alpha Theta the infamous sorority of the Brown for one of their own.
Things were going very well until a shy blonde girl approached him and smiled at him. She was very happy to see him and leaned in to kiss his cheek and intertwined their fingers together. He did not have a clue as to who she was and while he was about to ask her that he saw her, Sara Lance, his off more than on again girlfriend Laurel's sister. She was smiling at him in a way that made him remember all the things he remembered doing with her last night. She was fun and was not looking to move in with him unlike her sister.
He pushed Laurel out of his mind and began making his way to Sara when a furious red head blocked his path. Before he knows what is going on, his nose was bleeding from the punch the girl threw. Tommy joined his side before he could even open his mouth and the girl was hissing "You don't even know her do you?"
He tries to smile at her but all he can manage is a grimace and the red head was on a roll yelling at him how he slept with his friend 2 days ago and had promised her he would take her to the frat party. He has a vague memory of sleeping with a blonde 2 days ago who was a Melinda or something. Apparently, that was a completely wrong thing to say because her name was Melissa and he would have been seriously hurt if not for Tommy holding the red head back.
Then the red head did something he never expected, she smiled and started to speak in a language he didn't understand. Pain, he felt stabbing pain in his chest when she was done. The blonde girl from earlier came running and dragged the red head away. The pain was so intense that all he knew was Tommy calling him before everything went black.
He woke up next day to a constant ache in his chest and Tommy and Melissa sitting by his bed worried. I am so sorry this has happened was the first thing out of her mouth. "That was my sister. She is very protective of me. She cursed you. That ache you feel is the pain you will carry with you until you meet your true love and only and only if she accepts you for who you truly are will the pain go away. If she accepts you and kiss you, the pain will go away. If she rejects you, you will die. Your heart will tell you when you found her."
True to his nature, he did not think much of it. He always thought Laurel is his one true love why else would she stick with him even though he cheated on her all the time, oops. He is meeting Laurel at the coffee shop now. She will kiss him as usual and everything will be alright. With that thought, he kissed her and nope nothing. In his paranoid mind, the pain began to intensify.
He loved Laurel he really did. She was beautiful and almost always put up together. She was ambitious and has her goals set in life. Oliver couldn't help but think that her goal currently involved becoming Oliver Queen's girlfriend at age 18, movign in with him at age 21, becoming his fiancee a year later and they will have a beach wedding with all their friends and family precisely 6 months later. She was rattling on and on about an apartment she was looking at later that day that will be perfect for them.
He really did not even remember telling her he will move out of his family house. He vaguely remembered nodding his head to something she was telling when they had sex last week, but then that was nothing new. The ache in his chest is not going away and he just wanted Laurel to stop talking, so he told her to go look at the apartment and he will look at it after his trip to China with his father. If Laurel was disappointed, she did not show. He vaguely wondered how much time she is spending with his mother because right now she looked exactly like his mother when he tells her he dropped out of another college. The face that potrays that I am so disappointed in you but I love you so I will tolerate you.
His mind started to race to who could be his true love. It could be Sara. He did felt attracted to her more than anyone else. Maybe if Laurel knew that he slept with Sara, she will drop the moving in together for a while. With that thought in mind, he dialled Sara and asked her to accompany him on the boat. They were on the boat and hoped maybe Sara was his true love. She was fun to be with and very beautiful. She was full of life and like him does not take life seriously. The more he thought about it, the more sure he was that she was the one. With such eagerness, he kissed her and his heart dropped. The pain did not alleviate. He was panicking and in his panic he told her about the curse.
Sara laughed and told him that maybe he has heart burn or all the anxiety he was feeling because Laurel was pushing him to move in with him was causing the pain. Maybe she was right, he would relax in this trip and if it is because of his anxiety then the pain will go away. He was still remembering Sara's laugh when he was the lifeboa with his father and the captain of the boat. He still has not wrapped his mind that Sara is dead, Sara the girl whose smile brightened the whole room, Sara the girl who flirted with him like there was no tomorrow, Sara the girl who believed in living her life to fullest today because there could be no tomorrow. God what has he done.
The island was slowly tearing away everything that was the old Oliver away and he was missing home. He always looked at the picture of Laurel when he missed home. That picture was the only thing from home that he has right now. Slade took immense pleasure in telling him sleeping with Sara may have killed any feeling Laurel for him but he will not believe that. He thought of a goal. He would get back to Starling City, fulfil his father's last wish, keep the city safe, and make Laurel love him again. The constant ache in his chest reminded him that someone out there is his true love. He was a changed man now, maybe Laurel will be the one for him now and not the old Ollie.
When they failed to get off the island and he killed Fyers, he was beginning to lose hope of leaving the island. Through all this, Shado was there with him. She trained him, saw something worth in him believing. She also told him stories of magic that made him believe the curse all the more. With hope in his chest, he kissed Shado and even if he did not know it at that time doomed himself with Slade. So many thing happened to him in the last 5 years, he has earned friendships and lost them, fell in love, lost his love. He was not the same Ollie that got on the boat with his father. He is a killer now and the one constant thing in his life is the constant ache in his chest.
Even after being back at the city he did not get the peace he thought he would find. Everything was different now. His sister was verging on becoming a woman, his mother has remarried, Laurel hated him so much that she wished he died on the yacht. He himself wished he died on the yacht in place of Sara. The one constant thing was Tommy, his beloved best friend Tommy. Tommy was the same or he acted the same but unfortunately he is not the same Ollie. He knew Tommy and Laurel and sleeping together, so he did not dare even approach Laurel. He was getting confused about Laurel. One minute she was wishing him dead, the next she was sharing icecream with him.
Before he could think too much about it, he had a busted laptop full of bullet holes he needed data from. Walter recommended him someone highly talented from the IT department to help him with with any technical issues that he might have. He did not think much when he stepped into the small cubicle. All he saw was a blonde ponytail and someone wearing pink shirt. He cleared his throat and felt the name slip from him like honey "Felicity Smoak, hi I am Oliver Queen." His heart was thumping in his chest. She was vision of beauty. She was chewing a pen and god what a color on her lips. He was drawn to her, he cannot explain it but he can feel it in his bones that this girl is going to become someone very important in his life.