Pilot

**Pilot** is the first chapter within the first book of the Amore novel series, which was originally uploaded to the internet on Thursday, September 23, 2021.

## Synopsis

This episode is responsible for introducing the six primary characters of the series, Amore, John, Donna, Rebecca, Lisa, and Ashley. The episode also introduces Amore's desire of Amore (restaurant) increasing its variety of food items instead of just selling pizza and drinks to customers.

## Summary

Amore and her family are introduced to the audience. Amore is a ten-year-old fifth grader who is starting her final year of elementary school. Amore is the only one in her family who has red hair and an unusual first name. John's hair color is black, Donna's hair color is blonde, and the remaining girls have either black or blonde hair. Ashley is a trouble-starting fourteen-year-old high school freshman who is the first girl to have black hair. Rebecca, who also has black hair, is a seven-year-old second grade student who loves music. However, her love for music was not discovered until the seventh chapter of Amore. And Lisa, who has blonde hair, is the youngest of the family at four years old. As a result, she is the only daughter not starting a new school year.

The series begins with the entire family eating breakfast at the dining room table. Amore says the first line of the series when she talked about how they're gonna have another school year affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Then the conversation shifts from the pandemic to Amore making a request to her father to increase the variety of food items sold at the restaurant from just pizza and drinks. Then her father denies the request before the three oldest girls head off to school to begin another school year. And after Lisa leaves the dining room, the parents discuss how much the girls are starting to look more and more like women before John gets ready for work.

In the overnight hours, Amore sneaks into Rebecca and Lisa's room, wakes up Rebecca, and asks her to meet her in the living room. Once they both meet in the living room, Amore asks Rebecca to help her change her father's mind about increasing the restaurant's variety of food options. Rebecca denies the request at first. However, due to Amore's additional begging, Rebecca changes her mind. Then Lisa comes into the living room and ends up helping change John's mind as well.

At school, Amore meets Jake (her boyfriend) and asks him to help her change her father's mind about increasing Amore's variety of food menu items. Jake, who is also in fifth grade, accepts Amore's request and gets involved in Amore's upcoming plan. Then all Amore had to do was try and get her big sister to join her as well.

In Ashley's bedroom, Amore sneaks inside and catches Ashley kissing her boyfriend (Eric) who wasn't supposed to be in her room during the overnight hours. Amore asks Ashley to help her change her father's mind about increasing the variety of food items at Amore. Ashley says no at first. But Eric decides to help out. And the only way Amore was able to successfully able to change Ashley's mind was to give her some money.

In the basement of the Cooper household, everyone that was part of Amore's plan was present. Then Amore just went ahead and announced her plan to everyone. They planned to sneak into the restaurant outside of normal business hours when it would be completely dark outside and make the place seem like it made the major change.

Later, everyone that was involved in her plan walked up to the door of the restaurant. A four-digit PIN number had to be entered to get inside. Jake offered to use his coding skills to get them inside. Then Amore told him that woukdn't be necessary and entered "2011", which was successful. Amore then tells everyone that is her birth year before everyone heads inside. Then everyone starts executing the plan without getting caught.

Later, on a Sunday, the whole family drives to church. Then John passes by the restaurant and suddenly notices that someone went inside without permission. Amore notices this and comes up with a way to hide what she and her sisters did a little while longer. Then the family drives away to church while Amore's secret was kept hidden.

Sunday evening, John tells her daughters to come into the living room. All four daughters come into the living room and sit down on the couch. Then John tells them that he caught everything from the security cameras. Amore ends up telling the truth, which causes her father to get mad at her for doing what she did. After that, Amore ends up getting grounded for a month by her father. Then Amore's sisters end up getting grounded for the same duration after deciding to take Amore's side.

The following Monday, John walks into the restaurant and discovers that more customers are entering the restaurant than usual. Because the customers initially thought that Amore was selling more than just pizza and drinks. And after multiple failed attempts of informing his customers on what actually happened, he ends up announcing that the new food items will arrive in about a few weeks.

After work, John calls all four girls back into the living room. Then John ends up apologizing to Amore and explains to her that business has increased significantly after what she did. John ends up ungrounding Amore and her sisters. Then John decides to celebrate the new change with his family in the best way possible.

At the restaurant, after the change took place, the whole family decided to eat some takeout at the restaurant for dinner on a Sunday night when the place was closed. Everyone was trying out all the new food items Amore began serving. Also, pizza and drinks were included. Even dessert was included. And everyone had some great opinions about the new items. Then Lover by Taylor Swift starts being played in the background before the family continues enjoying the new food from Amore.

## Music

**Lover - Taylor Swift -** Closing scene.

## Trivia

* This is the first ever episode of Amore.
* Amore's house is also introduced in this episode. The real-life location of this house is in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, which is a suburban city of Detroit, Michigan. However, the exact location is unknown.
* After this pilot, Ashley's toxic personality was introduced in the second episode.
* It is revealed that Amore's birth year is 2011.
* Amore Cooper was born on a Monday.
* Amore Cooper is named in reference to the Italian word for love, which is "amore." Italy is the birthplace of pizza.
* Amore Cooper's ethnicity is white and her nationality is American. The same thing applies for the rest of her family, Jake, and Eric.
* This episode introduces Amore, her family, her boyfriend, and Ashley's boyfriend.
* John founded and established his pizza restaurant back in September 2012.
* Amore Cooper owns the first and last lines of the pilot episode.

## Quotes

**Amore**: All I did was guess. Oh, and F.Y.I., the PIN is the year I was born. Two, zero, one, one. Come on everyone, let's step inside.

**Ashley**: Can we not talk about the virus right now?

**John**: I still say no to the idea, and that's final.

**Donna**: First, the restaurant gets its name from her. And now, she's upgraded to making marketing decisions nine years later? Honey, I think we may have a future pizza restaurant owner in our household fully ready to take your place after you retire.

**Amore**: Well, it looks like we're gonna have another school year affected by the Coronavirus.

[The first ever line of the novel series.]