The Wrong Choice – Chapter 1
Hello guys! So here is the new version of The Wrong Choice. A lot has influenced this including the soap operas I watch. This story will focus on a younger Olivia and her journey and will include flashbacks from her teen years and college days.
It was Monday evening, a quite typical Monday evening for a lonely housewife. Olivia had never pictured herself in this position, everything was supposed to be different. All throughout high school and college she never dreamt of this, she wanted more for herself. Despite her home life, her school experience and academics were relatively great. Her teachers and friends expected much more of her. She may have not been as driven those days but she still aimed higher when it came to her goals. She'd also thought about how complicated her life happened to be at the time, but at least she had some people to share that with, she wasn't totally alone as she still had her friends and loved ones around her but nowadays, she hardly heard from anybody and lost touch with a lot of her friends. As for family, her parents, well, they were nothing more than two people she shared blood with. Her mother and father had made their feelings for her clear the minute she was born. She had given up on them a long time ago.
Olivia undressed and entered her shower. She turned the tap on before resting her hand on the tiles and allowed the hot water and steam to run on her for about 2 minutes before realising she slipped into deep thought yet again and remembered what she was actually supposed to be doing in there. She moved directly underneath the hose and began to run her fingers through her hair, with her nails digging hard into her scalp. She began to think about how her life had drastically changed since she graduated from Harvard 2 years ago. That's all she seemed to do these days, that and cry every now and then whilst performing what she believed were mundane tasks.
She had never been this unhappy in her entire life, and she had been through a lot, but she had to deal with it. She made her choice and she was normally so indecisive, that when it came to choosing or making decisions, she'd just have a "screw it all" attitude. She'd chosen to be with the love of her life, expecting everything to get better and thinking it was best for her and her life, however, she got a rude awakening and she never realised it would hurt this bad. "They knew, they knew and I didn't listen to them." Olivia thought before her ex best friends words played over in her head. "That man uses you. The man who defiles you..." A tear began to roll down her face and she started to get emotional but she quickly sucked it up and told herself to grow up.
After all, she had made her choice and now she was living with it. She never intended to hurt Mellie, oh who was she kidding, but she had to admit as horrible as she felt, seeing the smug look Mellie always carried being wiped off her face felt good. For as long as she'd known Melody Francis, she had always been so stuck up and prissy and Olivia hated it. She was always looking down her nose at her. The night the entire campus, including Mellie, found out about she and Fitz had to be one of the worst days of her life, no matter how great it felt to see Mellie upset. However, she never intended on hurting Jake, her on-off boyfriend for those years. It wasn't normally in her to hurt others deliberately, unless they crossed her and that definitely wasn't the case for Jake, but she just loved and felt she craved the whole danger and passion element that she got from being with Fitz. Hurting Jake was probably the biggest mistake she had ever made, and she had made a lot in her life time.
She never had boring nights with Jake, everything with him was fresh and spontaneous. She could have fun with him, she could laugh with him, she could let loose with him, she could be random with him, she could be herself around him with out a care in the world and he'd still see her as the most beautiful creature on the planet that he'd do anything and everything for, he was the one person in the world who understood her. He was the number one person she thought about daily. She felt guilty as hell when she told him she wanted to be with Fitz but she knew he would accept it as he loved her and only wanted her to be happy and wanted what was best for her. She had no idea what had happened to him after she left DC as she knew Fitz would not want her to have any contact with him.
She had lost touch with her other friends, Abby and Stephen, who she had known since elementary school. Her wild ways pretty much destroyed their friendship. They constantly tried to get her on the right path but it got to a point where she was just beyond help. Abby had remained in Washington DC and married a District Attorney from what she had heard. Olivia was happy for her but wished she could actually talk to her.
After she and Fitz had graduated from Harvard, they married and settled in the small and quiet town in rural Vermont. She didn't hate it there but she couldn't deny how incredibly quiet it was. She wasn't use to it as she grew up in a more active town but she managed to get used to it eventually. He ran for Mayor and successfully won with her help, it wasn't easy but she could make anything happen with her talents which she used to consider making a career out of. He wasn't around as much as she hoped he would be, they'd usually only spend one night a week together but Olivia got bored easily and soon got tired of it.
Olivia suddenly couldn't hold it in any more. She found herself with her hand moving down the tiles as she broke down in tears and fell to the floor. Releasing tears for her troubled and complicated life, for her loneliness, for making the wrong choice. After about 10 minutes of crying, she turned off the shower, wiped her tears so it hadn't looked like she was crying and walked out of the shower with her bathrobe wrapped around her and found Fitz' staring at her. "Good, you're out. Can we talk now Livvie, please?"