Prologue
After that fateful summer, we accepted the loss of the pants and taught ourselves to live apart. Despite our busy lives at college and socially, we always spoke at least once a week, emailing several times a week and meeting up for holidays in Bethesda, as well as the odd weekend. Life after the pants wasn't easy, there were arguments over missed calls and plenty of times when the four of us could not be together; but we got through it stronger than ever. Graduating year we'd been planning for since we'd returned to our second year at college. We were going to live together for three months over the summer. Then our lives were going to part again when Lena went back to Rhode Island to do a year long teaching course with the hope of teaching art in Bethesda. Carmen was going back to Williamstown for a six month internship at the Williamstown Gazette, whilst Tibby worked at a filming company in Washington DC for some work experience. I, Bridget, am moving back to Providence to coach a junior soccer team at a school out there. So our final summer, before summers became a season and we stopped having months of free time, was starting. Three months of movie nights, pizza eating and popcorn fights were ahead of us. That was, until my friend Jane came to visit…