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We watched a few movies after which I told her to stay for lunch and she agreed. We spent the afternoon in my bed just talking about our lives and cracking a few jokes until we ran out of topics to talk about at which time she decided she should get home.

So I didn't get much out of Amelia as she was as clueless about what the matter was with Olivia and Heather as I was. I didn't want to talk to Heather about this or about anything else really. So I had to confront Olivia again. I was starting to get tired of this secrecy between the two girls and I was determined to know what it was about.

So as soon as I figured out that it was safe to approach Olivia in the evening, a little before dinnertime, I took the opportunity of having no one around to disturb us and asked her about it.

I knocked on her door. It was like she had made a permanent place in the guestroom because I rarely saw her outside apart from the time when we all had to gather to eat.