At the Beginning with You: Oliver & Thea
Thea was nervous, but she shouldn’t be. This was what she wished for on every birthday, prayed for every night, and daydreamed about like once a day. She should be over the moon about it and she was, mostly. Worries lingered though. She’d not slept all night as the what-ifs ate her brain. They still pestered her as their mother left to retrieve Oliver from the hospital so she didn’t start a fight when she wasn’t allowed to go with.
Now though, Thea could hear the voices drafting up from the first floor as she rounded the staircase banister. Lead-lined dread weighed heavy in a stomach and, in the few seconds it took her eyes to register her big brother’s face, she felt like all of the oxygen had left the mansion.
There was no stopping her as she ran down that staircase, “I knew it. I knew you were alive.” She wrapped her arms around her neck and hugged him tight. She buried her smile into his shoulder, “I missed you so much.”
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