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1
Olive said her first word 'Ama', after her grandmother -
2
Olive learns to walk and is able to begin exploring the world around her -
3
Olive begins to be exposed to her parents fighting, and her father abusing her mother and sister -
4
Olive spends more time with her grandmother so that she is away from her father -
5
Olive is exposed to the many kinds of flowers in the field behind her grandmother's house -
6
Olive starts kindergarten -
8
Olive learns about the language of flowers and their meanings from her grandmother -
7
Olive meets her best friend Ivy in first grade -
9
Olive teaches Ivy all about this language over the summer -
10
Olive's sister, Holly, graduates, and moves out of the house and town in order to escape their abusive father -
11
Stella moves to Ivy and Olives' town and begins attending their school -
12
Stella becomes friends with Ivy, and they hang over at one another's houses multiple times, making Olive slightly jelous -
13
Olives' grandmother dies, causing her to highly overreact, and go into a short period of depression -
14
Olive does not trust Stella for some time, and at one point is a little mean to her -
15
Olive is turned around by Stella's kind actions towards her when she hears about Olive's story, and Olive becomes friends with her -
16
Olive teaches Stella the language of flowers, creating a bond and shared intrest between the tree now-friends -
17
The trio forms a club revolving around the language and has weekly meetings -
18
The trio comes up with the idea to extend the language of flowers by applying meanings to unlabeled flowers, and they decide to take an expidition to find these flowers -
19
The trio tries to earn/raise money for this trip, and they try bake sales, but eventually resort to asking their parents for the rest -
20
None of the girls are successful, and this causes Olive to again overeact and goes into depression from which she does not quickly recover -
21
The club is disbanded, and Olive slips into even further depression (now)