The Unhoneymooners

The same morning, Olive prepares for her job interview with her cousin David at his restaurant, Camellia. Olive has done restaurant work before, but the high-end nature of the clientele and food offerings mean she will need additional training. David hugs her when he notices her stress, and Olive leaves grateful for her support system. She realizes she is not truly disappointed about her job loss, since she is not facing financial precarity, and she has never truly found work that engages her. Thinking of work and passion leads her to schedule a meeting with Ethan that night, and she is anxious about how he will react and upset she cannot call her sister for support.

Ethan arrives, and Olive is sad that their formerly close relationship already appears so endangered. He says she misunderstood Dane. Olive realizes she could make peace, but that this would not be true to who she is becoming and to smooth things over with Dane would be a betrayal of herself. She reflects:

I’m trying to fix the parts of me that aren’t working because I know I have a choice in how my life goes—that it isn’t all luck, but as soon as I try to be proactive, it’s like no one wants to let me.