Summary

After Ami leaves, Olive receives a text from Tia Maria that she needs to go down to the restaurant and talk to her cousin David about the waitressing job. She heads down to the restaurant, gets a tour, and meets the waitstaff. David tells her to return tomorrow evening for training at four and Olive nearly breaks down when he tells her "I've got you, honey" (336).

Once home, Olive thinks about the fact that she should be halfway through her second workday at Hamilton. Despite the sadness of the situation, she thinks, "...I admit there is a tiny glimmer in the back of my thoughts--it isn't relief, not exactly, but it's not altogether different form relief either. It's that I've accepted that it happened--I messed up, i was fired because of it--and that I'm actually okay with it. That, thanks to my family, I...