Out With the Old
Eventually, Miranda and Ella befriend a crowd of popular kids, leaving Olivia behind. They do not fight about this. They spend a week sitting through “painful lunches” with Olivia until Olivia decides to stop showing up in the cafeteria. Miranda and Ella do not ask any questions.
After a while, Olivia does not even mind the change. She spends several lunches in the library reading War and Peace, and she is amazed at how much it is like a soap opera. It is all about people fighting and dying for love, and Olivia thinks it is great. She wants to marry a man who loves her like that someday.
Eventually Olivia makes friends with a girl named Eleanor she knows vaguely from...