“It’s about Olive…your girlfriend.” My heart tightens at the sound of her name.

“Ex-girlfriend,” I correct her.

“I know that you have had your doubts about whether or not she possibly was the one who called the FBI.”

I shrug, trying to pretend that I don’t care.

“She didn’t do it,” Nancy says, shaking her head.

I narrow my eyes, not sure if I should believe her.

“If they found her by following her, that I don’t know but she did her best to get to you without being seen.”

“How do you know?” I ask, still skeptical.

“Let me tell you a little story,” Nancy says.

As I listen to everything that Olive has done ever since I got arrested, tears come to my eyes.

At first, I think that Nancy is making things up even though in her profession that’s a very dangerous thing to do.

But after a few moments, I know that what she’s saying is the utter truth.

She finishes by telling me about how Olive got Owen’s DNA and confirmed that it was actually he who killed both of them. When I hear that part, I worry for a second that our conversation might be recorded and someone might use this as information against her.

“She really did all of that?” I ask, wiping away tears with the back of my hand.

Nancy nods and goes into her plan for getting the district attorney on board to do the DNA testing.

According to her, it will still be an uphill battle but she’s on good terms with him and she hopes that handing them Owen, a convicted criminal, on a silver platter would be enough for them to let me go.

But it’s still not a done deal.

I spend the next few days floating on a cloud. People get into fights around me.

They throw curse words and punches but nothing touches me. The only thing I think about is Olive. She didn’t turn me in and she has been fighting to get me out of this Godforsaken place the whole time I have been in here.

She found out more than I ever thought was possible. She talked to Ricky and Pink Eye and so many other people from a world I thought I had left long ago. She even talked to my mother.

Olive is coming to visit me today and I have been counting down the minutes until I see her again. I won’t be able to touch her or to even smell her but I will be able to see her and for now, that’s enough.