Lorenzo still hid in the cellar during Chap5~6. And then his half sister Olivia came to the cellar which Lorenzo did not expect at all. She came to the cellar to find her box of her staff. Accidently, she found Lorenzo; then she knew the secret of Lorenzo which was he did not go to the ski week but hid in the cellar for several days. At night she had no place to go, so she came back to the cellar. At first, Lorenzo did not allow her to come in to cellar to spend the night with him because he did not want Olivia to mess everything up, and he did not want others to disturb him. “You’ll mess everything up. There isn’t any room. It’s dangerous. I’m here undercover.”
Moreover, he did not know much about Olivia, and he even had bias about her. He just knew Olivia from his parents’ mouths. She was Lorenzo’s father and his divorced wife’s daughter. She pretended that she was a photographer, and she failed high-school exams. She even ran away from home couple times. Every time Lorenzo’s father came to see her, he must come back with a bad mood.
“My father didn’t speak easily about his daughter. Every now and then he would go and visit her and he always came back in a bad mood. From what I could understand Olivia was crazy.”
Besides, Lorenzo saw Olivia’s letter “Diary of a Hatred” that made Lorenzo very unhappy because he thought his father was very polite and nice; he thought Olivia did not know everything and she should not say bad words to father.
“I read it three times. I hadn’t realized that Olivia hated Dad so much. I knew they didn’t get on, but he was her father, after all. I mean, give him a break! If you didn’t know Dad you might think he wasn’t that nice. He looked like one of those men who takes himself too seriously, as though they carry the weight of the world on their shoulders. But if you met him at the beach in summer or on the ski slope he would be very polite and nice. Anyway, Olivia was the one who had decided not to see him any more. She was the nasty one who had ganged up on his best to rebuild their relationship.”
He finally let her in because if he did not let her in, she would yell and wake everyone up to tell them that Lorenzo was hiding in the cellar. “She moved towards the middle of the garden and in a fairly loud voice said, ‘Listen up, everyone! Can you hear me? A boy is hiding in the cellar. It’s Lorenzo Cuni, who’s pretending to be away on ski week… Hello…” Lorenzo did not want his mother to be woken up so as those neighbors; he did not want to be embarrassed, so he went to open the door for Olivia.
Why he started to feel sorry for Olivia and wanted to help her?
As the content mentions that she was very beautiful before. She had curly blonde hair, black and grey eyes, and some freckles on her face. She was tall and had big, wide breasts. Now she is now as beautiful as before. She lost a lot of weight; her square cheekbones stuck out; her long blonde hair had been cut short. She looks very stretched and tired. Every man must have compassion for womanhood. I felt like Lorenzo wanted to take care of Olivia. Besides, she was really sick. “She looked liked she’d been chewed up and spat out by a monster who had found her too bitter to eat.” It might make Lorenzo sympathy for her. “I crept towards her and put my ear up against her face. She was breathing. I took the stub out of her mouth and then I got a blank at and put it over her.”
The most important reason is that Olivia helped Lorenzo solve his biggest problem which was making a fake phone call with his mother to let his mother talk with” Alessia’s mother” and making her believe Lorenzo was on ski week. She did a perfect job. Lorenzo was very happy because of that.
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