Chapter 13
Sophia picked up Olive, and they both sat in the car without speaking for a while.
“Aren’t you going to ask me what happened?” Olive asked.
“I was trying to wait until you were ready to tell me. Do you want me to ask you?” Sophia asked.
“I started my period today.” Olive blurted out.
“Oh honey, are you ok? How exciting s***h weird?”
“Yeah that is a great description of how I feel.”
“I don’t understand though, how did that end up with you in the principal’s office?”
Olive sighed and explained what had happened. She recounted her conversation with Mrs. Tam and the note. How Dean read her article aloud to the class. She described the success of the yearbook refugee project, everything she could remember about Rima, and Rima’s story about leaving Syria as a baby. When she go
