He shuts his eyes. It's only for a moment, but it's long enough for Chris to hope that when he opens them, that he'll be somewhere else and none of this ever happened. It's all the same, though, when he opens them again, and there's this fuckin' awful twist in his stomach when he sees Olive's face.

"It's um..." Chris starts, and he wants to explain, but he can't figure out the right words to end his sentence and to keep Olive from looking like she does.