*-.-*-.-*{If the Truth Hurts, You're Killing Me}*-.-*-.-*

Failure is a belssing in disguise

*-.-*-.-*{If the Truth Hurts, You're Killing Me}*-.-*-.-*

He started to walk fast down the street, breathing in the autumn air.

Why he was furious was against him but he couldn't get the feeling out of his body. It was like a pulse, a living, breathing demon inside him that was ready to come out and kill anything in its path.

He hated Rico so much. He had to ruin everything for him.

He had to admit, he was slacking off his job, but it was in good reason. She was a lady, and even though he has killed more people than an average person's life span; he tried to act normal.

And she was definitely not normal.

With her hair always framing around her face, and the way she could smile made everyone's knees go out. Oliver even had to admit that, but something about her always took him off guard. Was it the way she laughed when no one else was laughing? Or was it the way she would run away to the big old tree near the school? He could never understand why she would react the way she did.

He swiftly turned into a dark alley where many garbage bags laid across the ground. To Oliver it looked like a bunch of corpse lying on the ground, dead and meaningless.

"Melvin! Dammit Melvin I know you're here, get your ass out here now!"

A scrawny old withering man came out of the darkness with a bloody hand. He looked up at Oliver with horror in his eyes.

"Ma-ma-master, I am sorry to keep you waiting…"

Oliver looked at the filthy man and sighed. Even though he treated the man inhumane, he still pitied the man.

"Melvin, what on earth happened to your hand?" He asked calmly.

"They told me not to tell sir," Melvin said as quietly and shaky as possible.

His anger began to arise in him for what seemed like the millionth time that night. Was he ever going to go to sleep tonight? He supposedly had school tomorrow.

"Melvin tell me. Now." Oliver said while gritting his teeth.

He looked anywhere but Oliver's faces, praying that the men who did this to him were not near him now. They were supposedly professionals, but even professionals can kill in their sleep.

"It was R-r-r-co's men…" He said ever so quietly. He held his arm delinquently trying hard to show the pain he was feeling.

"Well damn," he said while shifting back and forth. He felt very uncomfortable when it came to things like these because it showed people he had a heart and people should never know that.

"Well let's go get you cleaned up then," Oliver said gently while motioning to the streets.

"Y-yes sir," Melvin said heartedly. He tried his hardest not show his appreciation on his face. He knew if he did his master would quickly change his mind and leave him in the cold, like he did most of the time.

Oliver took him to his house, cleaned up his wound and then sent the little man on his way. It wasn't until he looked in the mirror till he realized what a mess he looked like. His hair was starting to grow longer than he was use to and the bags under his eyes looked more like purple splotches on his face.

He quickly found scissors in a drawer and started cutting his hair. He couldn't believe how differently he looked with shorter hair. It made him almost look, vulnerable. He splashed some water on his face and still felt the anger boil back in him. He glared at his reflection and suddenly ran out of his house.

He had no idea where he was going but he knew he was trying to run away of his fears. It was impossible to do but being Oliver Oken, he knew he could at least try as hard as he could to do so.

He then ran near the school and thought of burning it on fire, but realizing he left all his explosives at home, he had no choice but to mentally schedule that for another day. Instead he ran up to the school and stopped right in front of the door. The door that he stupidly used to go to a room and find a blonde petit girl whose name was none other than Lilly Truscott. A door that he has walked through on more than one occasion to make that same girls life miserable, it pained him to look at it. The old rusted door looked pathetic against his muscular body and so in one swift punch he hit the door.

He smashed the door, leaving a lovely dent in it making it look almost half broken. Like how he felt, damn what was wrong with him? Why did he feel this way? Especially for her, or was it even about her?

He was going to punch the door again until he heard a scream near the big tree. His curiosity got the best of him and he instantly ran down to the lake. The tree was so life like standing all tall and mighty, and in the moonlight it gave the tree even more of an old home feels to it. He sadly couldn't admire the tree for long because standing next to that tree was none other than Lilly herself. She hugged herself trying hard not to start crying so instead she lashed out another scream and fell to her knees.

Oliver quietly started to walk around the tree trying hard not to startle the poor girl, but unfortunately she knew he was there.

"What do you want Oliver?" Lilly asked quietly.

He was silent; he had no idea what the answer to that question was.

"Well?" She yelled impatiently.

"I honestly do not know, all I know was that I ran to get away."

"Hah," she whispered, "I wish I could do that as well…but I can't." She cried.

He walked right in front of her staring at her head bent over. Her hair was covering her face which seemed like a wall shutting him out of her life.

"May I ask why…?" He asked politely.

"Why are you being so nice to me, you hate me and I hate you!" She yelled while getting up. "I have been getting through my life without you just fine so you can go now, there's nothing to see here."

"I'm not here to help," he said calmly, "I just want to know why you're crying. We may hate each other but doesn't that secretly mean that we care too?"

"You, caring? I'd have to see it to believe it." She said bitterly.

"Well you'll never know unless you tell me!" He barked; he was getting tired of trying to be nice. It was obviously getting him nowhere.

She was speechless, how could she not see that he cared? She was too much of a feminist to even see that the boy had an interest in her. She did find him more attractive with his hair shorter than it was before but she hated to see the pity in his eyes. She hated people feeling sorry for her.

"I'm getting married." She grumbled, trying to not look him in the eye.

Oliver looked at her funny, "Well shouldn't you be happy then?"

"No it's nothing like that, I'm being forced into marriage. I have no choice."

"Well why the hell not?" He yelled. This talk was not making his anger go away, quite frankly, it made it worse.

"Mr. Rangsford has signed a contract with my grandmother that if he gave my family food and a house to live in then he would get something in return. Anything he wanted." She said emotionless.

"And he wanted your hand in marriage. Isn't he almost sixty?" Oliver asked disgustingly.

"Yes," she cried, "but I don't want to get married after school, I want to go to college or at least try."

"Wait, you're getting married after we graduate? That's not fair it's only a few of months away!" He was outraged, what kind of sick person would do something like that, and to a young intelligent girl? She could do things that Oliver would never be able to do and yet this happened to her? Then it all came crashing down on Oliver when suddenly, his mind seemed to take over his body.

"Well I just can't let you do that Ms. Truscott." Oliver asked politely taking a step closer to her.

"And why not?" Lilly asked taken aback, she didn't know what to say to his last comment at all.

"Because, I wouldn't be able to kiss you."

After that one comment their lips both collided and none of them even thought about the consequence of their actions. All they thought about was each other and wanting to be closer to each other as possible.

I apologize for never updating, I have been through a roller coast of emotions and blah blah blah. So I'm sorry, here is a chapter though! I haven't written in awhile so how bad was I? What was your favorite part? How will I ever know unless you review :( But to those three reviews that commented, boy you guys are cool! Thank you .Love., Lecrazyannex, and kaynam13 because of you I had enough confidence to put this up. Sorry it took me forever to put it up though!