Jennifer Close

When a friendship ends, people don't always give it the same amount of thought that they do relationships ... most of the time, friendships end in a different way - slowly, and without declarations. Usually people don't really notice until a friend has been gone for a while and then they just say they grew apart, or their lives became too different.

This is the first fall that I haven't gone to school. Maybe that's why I feel weird all the time.

I think I miss Ben,_ she told Lauren one night. __o, you don__,_ Lauren said. __ut sometimes, I really think I do._ Lauren sighed. __sabella, you miss the essence of a boy. That__ all.