His Love His Hate novel Chapter 4

When Joseph was done with practice he decided to give Olivia a call, it rang twice before she picked up

"Hello" he heard her sweet voice say

"Hey babe, can you come over to my place?"

"Are you okay?" She worriedly asked thinking he might be hurt

"I'm fine, I just need to see your beautiful face" he said making her blush at his flattering comment

"Okay, I'll be there"she replied before she hung up

Joseph felt bad about lying to her and not telling her the real reason why he wanted her over at his place because he knew if he did tell her that they needed to talk about her weird behavior earlier today, she would have a million excuses not to come over.

"Mom, I'm going over to Joseph's place" Olivia informed her mom while putting on her sneakers

"Okay honey, but please don't stay too long and don't do something stupid, you know what I mean" her mom warned which only caused Olivia to roll her eyes

"Bye mom" Olivia said before gently closing the door behind her.

Olivia arrived at Joseph's house and knocked on the door, the door opened revealing Rachel

"Hello honey, come in" she greeted Olivia with a bright smile which she returned before giving room for her to walk in

"Thanks Rachel. Umm is Joseph home?" Olivia asked

"Yes. He's in his room" Rachel replied pointing towards his room

"Thanks" Olivia replied then excused herself to go to Joseph's room.

Olivia knocked on the door just to be careful not to behold a sight she doesn't want to see yet. Joseph stood up from his bed to get the door, he smiled as soon as he saw Olivia

"Hey beautiful" he said giving her a peck on the cheek which caused a blush to rise to her cheeks

"How was practice today?" She asked as she walked into the room to make herself comfortable on his bed

"It was fine" he replied sitting beside her on the bed

"So... Why did you call me over? "She quietly asked, Joseph took a deep breath before speaking up

"Olivia I know that you'll get mad at what I'm about to ask but I really need to know what happened at school today... Did someone hurt you or are you still sad about this morning?" He asked hoping she'll talk to him

'I should've known he wouldn't rest until he knew what was upsetting me' Olivia thought to herself

"Olivia please say something" Joseph pleaded.

Olivia thought of something to come up with but she couldn't think of anything

"Joseph I-um-we-um. We need to give ourselves a break"

She winced not believing she just said that, she had no other choice but to do what Jordan had threatened her to do, she knew she was hurting both herself and Joseph but it's what's best for her. If breaking up with Joseph would give Jordan the satisfaction that he needs to leave her alone she will feel a little better because she really needs her freedom from his constant bullying, that's her being selfish but she has to do it.

"Then tell me why you came up with something like this all of a sudden?!" He angrily asked

'if only she could trust him to tell him the truth' he thought to himself

"It's just... I don't want you putting me first in everything you do or any decisions you make Joseph" she said, it wasn't the truth but it wasn't also a lie

"I want you to think more about yourself" she continued

"I do think about myself but I also care about you, don't you get the fact that I love you and I don't want anything bad happening to you? That's why I get worried a lot" he sighed then continued

"Look Olivia, I Know you're only saying this because of the discussion we had this morning. I promise I'll think about myself okay? But please don't deprive me of knowing about what's going on in your life, I'm your boyfriend and I need to know how you feel at all times, okay?"

Olivia only nodded in defeat, having mixed emotions, both of happiness and disappointment because there was no way she could convince Joseph to stay away from her, if only she could tell him that Jordan was behind all this, but it's better this way, she concluded to herself.

"Promise me that you aren't going to come up with us breaking up again"

"I promise"

Olivia quietly replied making Joseph relieved, he gave her a kiss which turned out to be a lot more passionate, but Olivia stopped it before they would get more intimate because she wasn't ready to lose her virginity, at least not yet

Jordan got really mad after hearing their conversation, he just couldn't understand why Joseph didn't want to break up with Olivia

"You're going to pay for this Olivia, that's a promise" he muttered to himself and went back to his room, not bothering to go to the kitchen as he had earlier planned