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NINETEEN | CONFESSIONS

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NINETEEN | CONFESSIONS

The bell on Frank's Pizza Parlor's door dings when Olivia steps inside.

"Welcome to Frank's Pizza." The hostess greets. "Are you dining in or taking out?"

"Dining in." She answers. "I'm supposed to meet some friends here."

"Olivia?" She nods. "Yeah. They're back here." She follows her to the private dining room. "Wait. You're Olivia Peterson right? Your boyfriend died in that crazy mall fire."

She sighs.

"Yeah. He did."

"Wow. I'm sorry about that."

"You didn't cause it."

"I have a boyfriend too and I can't imagine—"

She scoffs.

"Everyone can imagine. They just don't want to live it."

She opens the door to see the kids, Steve, Robin, Nancy and Jonathan.

"Great you're here!" Dustin says. "Now we can order pizza."

"It's good to see you Liv." Nancy says. She sits down.

"Yeah. It's uh good to be seen." She says. "I know I've been... holed up for the past couple of weeks."

"Didn't want anyone to see your new hair." Steve jokes. "I get it."

Olivia cracks a smile.

The group orders their food and chows down.

"So." Dustin begins with a mouthful of food. "We wanted you to come here because we wanted to see how you were doing."

Olivia finishes her slice and wipes her mouth.

"No you didn't. You asked me to come here because you wanted to know how I could do what I did."

"Well that was the other reason." Mike says.

"So you wanted to have this discussion in a very public place?"

"Not that public." Dustin says. "That's why I asked them to put us back here."

"Look, I don't think that I should—"

"Please." El grabs her hand with pleading eyes. "Please tell us."

She sighs.

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