As interesting as the city was, she welcomed the difference of the countryside. It was slow and quiet and green. In the city, Olivia felt like she was in the middle of a never-ending sensory ride—the heat, the noise, the kids and animals roaming around the city, the bodies packed together. It overwhelmed her and she wasn’t even walking with the masses outside.
But in the countryside, it was a different life. People were happy living in huts, talking to their neighbors, laughing and playing guitar. It was a simpler life. She wondered if she could ever live like that—forget about the Waldorf name, the paparazzi, the ambition to make a name for herself.
Once they started walking, Olivia figured that looking at her surroundings was helping her cope with the hike. She had never walked that fa
