His Love His Hate novel Chapter 13

Olivia noticed that Joseph hasn't been sending her letters as frequently as he used to, she figured maybe he was quite occupied with work, she convinced herself that everything was okay and to stop over thinking things, so to achieve that thought, she engaged herself more at work to get herself distracted

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It was lunch time at Olivia's workplace, she decided to go to a nearby restaurant that day rather than the company's cafeteria. She ordered steak and fries for lunch, while eating she noticed a guy walking towards her, he looked quite familiar like she had seen him somewhere before but she couldn't remember where

"Hi Olivia" the guy said smiling at Olivia

"Hi?" she hesitantly replied

"Do I know you?" She asked still trying to figure out who he was

"Yes and No"

Olivia was confused at his reply

"May I join you?"

"Oh, my apologies. Please sit"

"We went to the same high school" he started

"I'm Justin, Jordan's best friend"

Olivia then got uncomfortable

"Oh" was all she said

"I know you and Jordan weren't best of friends"

Justin said staring at Olivia, trying to figure out her expression before he continued

"I know about all he did to you back then. I even tried to stop him but he didn't listen"

Olivia just looked at him surprised at what he was saying

"I want to say I'm really sorry about what happened back then. I Know I should've helped but I was a coward"

"Umm. Justin it's fine"

Olivia stopped him before he could go on blaming himself for what happened, she didn't want anyone feeling guilty when everything was now in the past

"Jordan and I are friends now. We've settled our differences"

Justin was astounded by what Olivia just said

"Wow.. that's unbelievable"

"Yeah, so I thought" she replied with a small smile

"Umm..so, what do you do now?" Olivia asked changing the topic

"I'm an accountant"

"Really?!"

"Yeah. What about you?"

"Well, I work as a secretary"

"Nice"

"And Joseph?"

"He joined the military"

"Wow!"

"Umm. Are you- are you still friends with Jordan?" She awkwardly asked

"Yeah. He was my best man at my wedding but we haven't been in touch of late"

"You're married?!"

Olivia exclaimed, surprised that he would settle down so soon

"Yeah. I'm also a dad now"

"Family man Jordan. I'm a father now" Justin corrected

"Woah! I wasn't expecting to hear that. It seems you aren't wasting anytime now, are you?" Justin laughed at his friend's joke

"I'm glad to have reached you man, I thought we were never going to speak again after my wedding"

"Same here man" Jordan replied

"By the way, I saw Olivia the other day and damn she looked so hot" Justin complemented, Jordan stole a glance at Olivia as Justin said that but Olivia was busy with her phone, Jordan wondered who she was chatting with that got her full attention

"We talked for a while" Justin continued

"She told me you both are now friends, how come? You never told me about it"

"I'm sorry man, it was sudden" Jordan replied

"Maybe we can talk about this some other time?" Jordan suggested

"Sure...oh yeah, I'm having my birthday party tomorrow night, it's going to be dinner at my place. We can talk then"

"Okay, that's fine by me"

"And hey. You can come with a date so you don't get jealous of me" Justin teased

Jordan smirked at that "Oh no, that's where you're wrong. You know I'm never jealous when it comes to you"

He said in return making Justin laugh

"See you tomorrow Jordan"

"Okay, bye" Jordan replied then hung up

"I'm sorry about that" he then apologized to Olivia

"Oh please don't be. It's okay" she replied

"Would you go out with me for a friend's birthday party?"