The Wrong Choice – Chapter 12

"How much longer are you gonna be babe? We've gotta be there in 20 minutes." Jake yelled up to Rebecca as he fixed his shirt.

"Yes, I'm coming down." She answered. She gathered her black clutch purse, fixed the hem of her fitted long sleeve purple dress, placed her shoal over her shoulders and proceeded to go downstairs.

"Finally, I thought you'd never get ready." Jake told her

"Yes, well perfection takes time." She said referring to her hair, outfit and make up before kissing Jake on the cheek and moving towards the hall mirror. "Remind me again why we're having dinner with your ex and her husband, the husband she cheated on you with?" She questioned as she checked over her lipstick one last time.

"That's all in the past, we've both moved on and we're happy and friendly. Besides, Olivia and I were friends, best friends in fact way before we were lovers. We've known each other since we were like six."

"Knowing her for most of your life doesn't make the idea of this dinner any more awkward." Rebecca countered while adjusting the chest area on her dress to make her breasts look better."

"Well it's not awkward to me, plus, she invited us so it clearly isn't awkward for her. Now would you stop being so vain and come on." He jokingly told her as he grabbed her by the shoulders and lightly pushed her towards the front door. Rebecca laughed it off and walked out of the door towards the car to drive over to Olivia and Fitz' home.

Olivia and Fitz' home

Fitz was casually and slowly pacing up and down by the large front window of their home anxiously awaiting Jake's arrival. He'd be lying if he said he was excited about seeing him, he did used to date his wife after all but he had to do his best to hide it, seeing as this dinner was his idea. He needed to make sure what happened between Olivia and Jake and what they had was truly in the past and this dinner was the only way to ensure that.

As he continued to pace up and down, he noticed Olivia coming down the stairs. She was wearing a red cotton fitted dress with straps that sat above her knees, black 6 inch Jimmy Choos and a black waisted cardigan.

"You look nice." Fitz said to her slyly, acknowledging her outfit.

"Why thank you." She answered before fixing her cardigan and walking over to him to give him a kiss on the cheek. "Did you check on the pork?" She asked him.

"Yep, it should be ready soon." Olivia only answered with a smile, right before fluffing her hair for the third time since she reached downstairs. The two of them stood by their front window waiting for their guest and about 5 minutes later, a car pulled up outside.

Olivia immediately rushed over to the door waiting for it to ring an alas it did. Fitz watched her from the living room noticing her enthusiasm.

She slowly opened the door up and gave Jake an instant smile.

"Hey, good evening. I'm glad you could make it." She greeted. Jake smiled back at her. Her smile slowly faded when her eyes fell onto Rebecca.

"Yes, well we weren't sure at first but we decided it would be good for you, Jake and your husband to catch up after all these years. Didn't we babe?" She said turning to Jake.

"Yeah, we did." He answered.

"Well, come in, come in." Olivia said excitedly as she ushered them into the door way.

"Fitz!" Olivia yelled. He came walking through to the hallway fixing his blazer. He came up towards Olivia and placed his hand around her waist. He gave Jake a quick look up and down before slightly narrowing his eyes towards him. Jake did the exact same before giving Fitz a brief smile.

"Jake." Fitz greeted him before pulling his hand out to shake. Jake did the same and their hands met. "It's been a while, I'm glad you could make it."

Jake pulled him in for a brief manly hug and Fitz accepted. "Yeah, about 6 years and it's no problem. We really wanted to see you both and catch up.." He answered.

"And you must be Rebecca? Good Evening, I'm Fitz and welcome to our home." Fitz held out his hand to Rebecca to shake and then moved in to politely kiss her on the cheek, she did the same.

Jake and Olivia's gaze met during this exchange between their partners

"Well thank you for inviting us, we really appreciate it." Rebecca answered.

"Shall we?" Olivia said as she clasped her hands together and poited towards the dining room.

"Yes let's!" Jake said enthusiastically as he placed his hand around Rebecca's waist and followed Olivia and Fitz into their dining room.

The four of them entered the large dining room and took their seats. Fitz pulling out his chair for Olivia and Jake pulling out his for Rebecca.

They took their seats and just stared awkwardly at each other for about 10 seconds, before Jake broke the ice.

"So, it's been a while. How have you two been? How's the political life treating you both?" He politely asked. Fitz took a sip of his wine before answering.

"Well, you know it's not really anything new to me. You know my father's been in politics since before I was born so this world isn't something I've had to get used to since I was raised around it. So what about you, what have you been up to since you graduated Georgetown?" Fitz politely asked him.

"Well, I took a gap year, which was very much needed and then I decided to attend Stanford, you know, for my masters, I wanted to focus more on law and fulfil my mother's wishes." Jake calmly answered.

"Oh, yes your mother. How is she?" Fitz wondered.

Olivia immediately looked back at Jake with her mouth slightly agape. Jake looked back at her and they held each others gaze for a brief second. She knew this was a tough topic for him so she wanted him to know he didn't have to answer if he didn't want to.

Jake took a deep breath. "Uhm, she passed away, a while back." Jake uttered before taking a gulp and holding his head down. Olivia then did the same.

Fitz held his hand on his chest. "Oh my God I'm so sorry, I had no idea."

"Obviously." Jake uttered. The tension in the room was thick, but Jake didn't really give a damn. He had always disliked Fitz so being around him and pretending to be mature best buds was really awkward. Part of him wanted to take Rebecca and leave immediately, but he didn't want to let Olivia down.

Sensing the tension between her fiance and Fitz, Rebecca quickly cleared her throat and decided to change the conversation.

"So uhm, Olivia, what are you cooking again?" Rebecca asked, even though she didn't really care.

Olivia looked over at her a little surprised as she wasn't expecting to receive any questions regarding what she was cooking.

"Oh, it's just roasted pork, it's a recipe I got from my father." She answered. "In fact..." She quickly checked her watch. "It should be ready now, excuse me." She got up from the table and walked to wards the kitchen, hoping there wouldn't be a fight between Fitz and Jake as she could sense the tension between the two.

Olivia carefully watched them all through the crack in the kitchen door, just observing how they behaved around one another. She had worked hard on this dinner and she didn't need it ruined by Jake and Fitz childishly fighting. She opened up her oven door and pulled out the roast, almost burning herself and placed it onto her kitchen counter.

She then took the tray into the dining room and placed it onto the table with everybody watching her.

"Okay everybody, dinners ready. Now, I know I'm not the best cook but I swear, I put my all into this so enjoy." She expressed

"It looks great!" Rebecca said enthusiastically

"Thank you." Olivia answered. "Well, what are you all waiting for? Lets eat!"

Despite them supposedly being there for dinner, most of the evening was spent drinking and reminiscing on the old days, but this was mostly done by Jake and Olivia and Rebecca and Fitz just awkwardly watched from the sidelines, feeling cast out.

"Not fair! You can't bring that up, she dared me!" Olivia said happily drunkenly referring to a very interesting game of truth or dare she and Jake were both involved in as teenagers.

"Oh c'mon! You're still using the "she dared me" as an excuse?! HAHAHAHA!" Jake laughed before taking another sip of his wine.

"I'm sorry, who dared who to do what exactly?" Rebecca asked awkwardly desperately trying to get involved in the conversation

"Oh, uhm...Hahaha, I'm sorry hang on, it's still so hilarious!" Jake continued to laugh as he tried to get his words together. "Back in high school, this really snooty stuck up rich girl, what was her name again?" He asked Olivia

"Uhm, was it Elizabeth?" She questioned as she wasn't 100% sure.

"Yeah, that was it, so yeah Elizabeth back in high school dared Olivia to destroy this girls Homecoming gown. I know, you're probably thinking it was terrible but this girl deserved it. She treated Liv like crap for years." Jake finished before bring his newly filled glass of wine to his mouth.

Fitz chocked on his wine as he was shocked to be hearing this. "Oh my, God, that was you?" He asked looking over at Olivia

"Yeah, I thought you knew." She said.

"No, I didn't. Wow, Mellie spent thousands of dollars on that dress. She went crazy that evening. She almost took it out on me!" Fitz exclaimed.

"Well nobody told her dumb ass to leave her bedroom window open for anybody to sneak in. if you ask me, she brought it on herself. And who spends $4000 on a Homecoming dress? Prom I can understand, but Homecoming?!" Olivia said in an annoyed tone but gulping more wine.

"What did you do to it?" Rebecca asked curiously.

Olivia brought her elbows to the table and rested her head in her hands before giving Rebecca a sly look. "I cut up the bottom half and threw wine down it." She said proudly giving Rebecca a small smile before finishing her glass of wine.

"Same again?" Olivia rhetorically asked showing her empty wine glass around to everybody. She stood up and nearly fell flat on her face onto the table. Luckily Fitz caught her in time.

She laughed at herself and Jake followed suit, something they would do as teenagers and in college when things in life just got too much for them to handle. They'd take a bottle of wine, sit on the roof of an old building Jake's mother used to work at that she still had access too and take turns drinking out of it and laughing at each others silliness.

"Actually, it's getting quite late. I was too busy enjoying your story that I lost track of time. We're supposed to be going to my sister's engagement party tomorrow in Philly, which is a very long drive so we better get home." Rebecca explained.

"Damn! I completely forgot about that. Yeah, we should go." Jake suggested as he got out of his chair and moved from the table, stumbling a little.

"Oh no!" Olivia expressed sadly. "Things were just getting entertaining." She said pointing her glass at them

Fitz looked up to Olivia and narrowed his eyes in disgust. He absolutely despised when she was drunk or tipsy. He felt it was an embarrassment to him and herself.

"Well I'm sure we can do this again. By the way, it was lovely. Thank you so much for having us."

"It's no trouble, really. Thank you for coming. We'll see you out." Fitz told her pointing towards the door.

"Yeah, thank you guys so much for coming. And lying about how "great" my cooking is. That was very considerate." Olivia joked.

"I wasn't lying, I found it delicious." Jake said to Olivia with a smile. She smiled widely back at him and they both held each others gaze for a minute too long, so long that Fitz noticed and stopped it immediately.

"Okay, well again, thank you for coming!" Fitz said as he moved closer to Jake and Rebecca and pointed towards the door.

"Okay, have a lovely evening you two. C'mon babe." He told them as he ushered Rebecca out of the house.

He and Olivia watched as Jake and Rebecca left their property, entered their car and drove off. He gave a light wave as they did and then closed the door. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath before looking over at Olivia.

"Do you think you at least act half decent when you decide to get drunk off your ass?" Fitz asked annoyed

"Excuse me?" Olivia snapped back angrily

"You heard me Olivia!"

She wanted to cuss at Fitz right now, but she was tired and just didn't have the energy, so she swept it under the rug. "Ugh, whatever, I can't be bothered with this right now. I'm going to bed, jackass." Mumbling the last part. She proceeded to walk up the stairs and stumbled a couple of times as she did.

A/N: So, that was chapter 12. How did you like it? Let me know by adding a review. By the way, there are more Olake stories on the site by the users Enjoi88 and Shondalandfan, you should check them out guys and show the authors some love.