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JADE I lay on my couch, my cheeks stained with tears. Olivia stood in my open-plan kitchen, baking up a storm. She’d come over after I hadn’t taken any of her calls or replied to her texts. “You should have told me,” she said. “I started getting worried when you didn’t come on Wednesday like you usually do.” She took a baking sheet of sugar cookies out of the oven and put it on the stove to cool before putting the cake batter in round tins into the oven. “I didn’t know what to say,” I said in a creaky voice. I pushed my fingers into my tangled hair and massaged my head. I hadn’t done anything since Hannah had fired me, and Aaron had dumped me, all in one day. “You could have told me what was going on,” Olivia scolded. “After talking on Monday morning, everything sounded so great.” “It was too good to be true.” Olivia sighed and brought me a cup of tea from the kitchen, sitting down on the couch opposite me with her cup of tea. She would wait in the living room until the cake was ready