She smiled and shook her head, wanting to just run with him and not deal with the problem sitting in the red mustang.

"Who's that chump? Is that really what you're wearing? You couldn't bother to straighten your hair or put on something nice? I want to go to a party."

" Really, that's the first thing you're going to say to me?! Besides, I told you I want to talk, not go to a party."

"Whoa look who developed an attitude this summer? Tough shit, I haven't partied here all summer."

"Ya know what if that's how you're gonna be then turn around."

As he pulled up to a red light he spoke"Liv, I'm sorry, seeing with you another guy just makes me so jealous. I've missed you so much. Look I bought you this, and he pulled out a bracelet , it's special to the island and had our initials put on it ," he put it around her arm, then tried to kiss her but she turned her cheek.

"We will be having a talk very soon," she told .

The party was about 20 minutes away down near the beach house. It was one of Brody's friends from the neighbor school he had met at a football camp. Olivia didn't know anyone and with the way they interacted in the car, Brody ditched her when they got in the party. He came up to her with two drinks he was getting drunk and mad wasn't having fun.

"How do you expect me to have fun when I don't know anyone, and someone has to drive so I can't drink?"

"Whatever, you can be such a bitch," he left her on the deck alone.

She had only been with him for an hour and wanted to be back with Fitz. She's not sure why she even agreed to come, she should have listened to Fitz. She looked at her phone, and there was a picture they took last night, her sitting between his legs and his chin resting on her head. They looked great together. She had enough of Brody and decided to text Fitz, she hoped they wouldn't run into each other, but she couldn't stand being with him any longer when there was someone she was falling in love with back at home. If he didn't care enough to be with her or even talk to have a civilized break up then she was leaving.

Fitz watched them drive away and made eye contact with Brody. He knew that Brody felt threatened by him and he put his arm around Liv who shrugged it off.

"It'll be alright Fitz, she really does like you, she needs time to figure this out. You don't know what he's like, she worries about you" Marissa tried comforting him.

"Yeah, you can hang out with us still if you want" Marissa smacked him and gave him a dirty look.

"Thanks, but I'm gonna go eat and shower to get ready for tomorrow. Do you wanna ride together, I can drive my new jeep?"

"Awesome."

He walked inside and after his shower his parents wanted to take him for dinner. He appreciated all of the attention and changed into a white v-neck and a pair of dark blue though he tried to keep my mind off of Olivia he couldn't help but check his phone. They enjoy dinner and talked about tomorrow's practice. Fitz drove them in the new jeep and expressed how much he loved it.

"Fitz, I know this is hard on you, but I'm really proud at how you've handled yourself the past few days. That's the boy I missed all these years, but I'm so glad you are here now. Just give her time, Olivia will figure it out," she kissed his cheek before they left.

"Yeah buddy, she has never looked at Brody the way she looks at you. She's confused and needs time to figure things out."

"She told me she is handling it, she needs to protect me, whatever that means."

"I never understood how or why her parents let her date him. His family has a reputation, they are vindictive."

"They let him date her because if they didn't they would've snuck around. God Edward, you know nothing about teenage girls, you better learn quickly."

He smiled at her and she smiled back, Fitz was oblivious to this interaction as he pulled back into the driveway. His phone went off and he looked at it.

Fitz, please come get me, I don't know where Brody is and I'm all alone at this party with people I don't know. I need you.

He looked at his parents and they gave him a hesitant look.

"Fitz, I should come with you," Edward insisted.

"I'll be ok," he drove way too fast, but was worried she was in trouble and wanted to get there.

She waited there another twenty minutes, knowing Fitz would be here soon and not caring to tell Brody she was leaving. That's when she came outside, a tall blonde, who was giggling to her friend. She was talking about what she just did with some guy, then Liv saw her bracelet, it was identical to the one Brody had just given her. She decided to make conversation with her.

"I love your bracelet, where did you get it?"

"This guy I really like and have been talking to all summer just brought it back from Hawaii, he even had our initials put on it," she exclaimed.

Liv smiled and told her it was beautiful. She then turned and strutted into the house, seeing red and ready to finally let him have it. He came out of a bedroom readjusting himself and she what she had been told for so long was finally confirmed. She threw the bracelet at him.

"You must think I'm a real fool don't you? Everyone told me what an asshole you were but I just couldn't see it, I was blinded by my infatuation!"

"Olivia, what did you expect? When you act like that I'm not gonna sit there and not have fun!"

"How long have you been seeing her? I heard her out there. What did you think you could keep another girlfriend at a different school and I'd never find out You know what, we're done, I've had enough, I'm done with you!"

He grabbed her by her waist, "You need to calm down, you're making a scene."

Liv glared at him and pushed off me but he grabbed her arm, that's when first connected with the side of Brody's face. He released her arm and Fitz turned to make sure she was ok.

He turned back to Brody, "Don't ever touch her like that again!"

Brody stood up wiping the blood from his lip "Who do you think you are?"

"Someone you should be very concerned about," Brody tackled him and they began to fight, rolling around and throwing punches. Fitz ended up on top and was hitting him, before another guy came in and finally broke it up.

Liv grabbed Fitz' hand "Fitz look at me," she cupped his cheek and made him make eye contact "no more fighting I just wanna be with you." She kissed him, and he shook his head.

"Ok, let's go," he said and he quickly calmed down, taking her hand as they left.

"I see how it is, you're going to regret this Olivia. And whoever you are, you better watch you back"

The last comment of Brody's confirmed Olivia's biggest fear, she looked at Fitz who was bleeding from a small cut above his eyebrow and was starting to bruise on the same cheekbone. She was scared of what could happen to him because of her, but when he looked at her and smiled, she was put at ease.

C. 12

Once they were out in the jeep and out of the area Fitz turned to Liv and took her hand.

"Are you ok? Did he hurt you?"

She shook her head "No, but Fitz, you're bleeding. I shouldn't have invovled you." She had tears in her eyes. He pulled over, grabbed her and wrapped her in a hug and let her cry into my chest, as he rubbed her back.

"Shhhh, it's ok Livy, it's ok. Where should we go?"

"Go to the beach house, it's not far from here."

"Wherever you want, Livy."

They pulled into the beach house and went inside. He took off my sweatshirt and Livy grab some stuff to clean him up. He took a seat on a barstool as she cleaned the blood off his face and the small cut it came from.

"It's not that bad, I don't think you'll need stitches," she used a small butterfly bandage to close it.

They stared into each others eyes. Then she kissed him, a deep passionate kiss, like they'd never have this chance again. Her hands moved to pulled off his shirt then up his shoulders. He picked her up as she wrapped her legs around him. She continued to feel his muscles and their kisses were the most intense he had every felt. He sat them down on the couch and her hands started to move down the front of his body towards her final resting spot of his belt buckle. He stopped her as she was trying to undo it.

"Livy, I want you, but I don't want to rush things. I want it to be special, not like this, not because you're hurting and want some comfort. Let me take care of you another way. Come on, let's go outside. " He sat in the same position as the previous night and she laid her head against his bare chest, while he wrapped his arms around her and kiss her on the head. He leaned back relaxing as she pulled the blanket up.

"Believe me, I want you, but I want more than your body. I want to know all of you, your mind, body, soul. I don't want to rush anything with you," he had his hand under her chin making her look at him before he kissed her again.

"Fitz, I just want you by my side all night," they sat in silence holding one another.

Fitz couldn't believe what had just had transpired in the past hour. How could someone begin to treat her like that? Brody was an even bigger ass then he could have imagined and he knew this football season was going to be interesting.

She grabbed his hand breaking him from his thoughts and peppered kisses on it. "Fitz, your hand looks horrible, let me get you ice."

Before she could leave his grasp, he kissed her making sure she knew he was claiming her as his "I needed to do that."

She smiled at him as he brushed the hair out of her face. She tended to his hand and his cheek They laid down together on the couch, there was no need to talk, because their actions said enough. He held her in my arms and rubbed her back. She easily fell asleep. As much as Fitz wanted to stay there with her all night he knew they couldn't. Their parents were probably already pissed and this would make it worse, plus it was their first day of practice tomorrow, but for now he was content to lay here holding Livy.

"Fitz, wake up." He replied with a bunch of incoherent mumbling.

"Fitz" she placed my lips on his and kissed him

"Mmmm Livy, more."

She continued to kiss him as he woke up and our sweet pecks turned into makeout session.

"Livy, we can't stay here tonight. If we do, our parents will never lets us alone together. You're dad might like me but not that much."

"I know…. but you can sneak in my bedroom window," she smacked him playfully then stood up. It was 10 and they knew they both needed to get home. Their phones were lighting up with missed calls and messages.

He ran his hand through her hair."You're so beautiful, you know that?" this led to only more kissing.

" we really need to go."

Fitz put his shirt back on and she wore his sweatshirt. They walked back to the jeep hand in hand. She put on the cd that she made him and kept her hand on his leg as he drove. They let the words coming from the speakers express how they felt about each other. For the first time in a long time she felt comforted and knew everything would be ok as long as Fitzgerald Grant III was by her side.