Three years agoJace's POV."Have you ever felt like you were meant to meet certain people?" I ask Cass's friend Tyler from Hawthorne, who has been patient enough to sit here and listen to me blubber about senseless things.We're sitting at the poolside table, he's smoking himself to death while I'm staring at Cass chat with her other friends across the pool.I've been thinking about our conversation earlier, about how she doesn't want to lose our friendship cause it's the only good thing she has right now.Yeah, so here's the thing.... It's not gonna work out.Our friendship is bound to fail one way or the other."You mean like destiny or some shit?" He blows out smoke."Yeah, like destiny." I nod."Some people will bring meaning to your life and some will bring the kind of pain that will later turn into a lesson so yeah, I believe in destiny." He responds, lifting the joint back to his lips.I sigh, leaning back in my chair, "So where am I supposed to put her?" I mutter more to mysel

Three years agoJace's POV."And then the hot babysitter turned out to be some satanist trying to sacrifice him cause he had blood of the innocent." She explains with her hands.Olivia is an early riser, this morning she decided to wake up early and then wake me up and tell me all about some movie she watched.I'm currently hungover, laying flat on her bed while she's on top of me, straddling my hips as she explains the events of the movie."What the fuck?" I respond, my throat feeling dry."Literally the words that popped up on my screen when they drove two knives into an innocent guy's head." She laughs."Okay, sold, I'll watch it." I give up my protests."Many people don't like it, they say it's bad." She trails her index finger along the tattoo on my torso, it's barely a touch, she's just ghosting her finger along the ink but it still makes my skin feel fuzzy, my stomach tightens and my dick twitches.I swallow."You didn't think so?" I grasp her hand then I play with her fingers

Three years ago.Jace's POV."I look like one of those guys that try too much to impress a girl," I glance down at my outfit before turning my head to look at Diego, who's spinning around in my chair and restraining from laughing at my appearance."You look just fine," he waves a dismissive hand."Why do I have to wear a suit? We're not even going out, it's an indoor date." I point out."Yeah but it's still a date and you kinda have to be a real gentleman tonight, you owe her that." He says.I look at myself in the mirror again and I re-adjust my necktie."I know." I whisper underneath my tone."You know, you and I never really talked about this whole Cassandra versus Olivia thing." He says behind me.I pause, my heart somehow aches in my chest and I look down at my shoes for some reason."And it shall stay that way." I speak."Nah," I hear his footsteps approaching,"I think we need to discuss it, Jace, we've been friends since we were in diapers and I've never seen you look so confus

Three Year's ago.Jace's POV.My house feels weird without my family running around it, they're out of town for the weekend and I sort of miss them but Olivia is here and that's somehow better.We took a shower together, she was shy at first but then I kissed her and she let loose.We still didn't fuck but it was the best shower ever. Diego would call me a pussy but I think I'm finally getting the hang of that thing they call patience.I'm willing to wait for her to be ready."Hey, who's guitar is this?" She walks into the living room wearing my sweatshirt, staring down at the guitar in her hands."Aaron's." I smile at her."He sings." She states."Like Justin Bieber, yeah." I chuckle, nodding."Cool." She swings her fingers on the strings and plays something short and quick."I didn't know you played." I squint my eyes at her."Then I probably shouldn't tell you that I sing too." She mumbles, biting her lip."You sing? What the hell, Liv?" I widen my eyes, clearly shocked by this inf

Three Years ago.Jace's POV.Growing up, my mum made Milkshakes a solution to everyone's sadness, other parents would take their kids out for ice cream but she always thought milkshakes were better than ice cream.I'm not exactly sad, but I'm also not not sad. It's been two weeks since Olivia's parents showed up in town, two weeks since she and I had a fight over her moving around with her ex, two weeks since she assured me that he was nothing and I meant everything.I left it alone and we moved on but I barely see her, she calls me and we text all night but it's not enough. I wanna hear her laugh and kiss her while she's smiling at me.Anyway....I haven't been to Shake n' Sip since.... I don't even remember, well, I guess since Reign graduated, she brought the fun and humor to the place and I just couldn't see myself walking into the shop and not hearing a sarcastic remark from her.And yet here I am, drinking milkshakes on the counter, kinda like the same way a grown man with probl