"Did you hear about Mary?" Annie said to Eric one night at the kitchen table.
He put down his fork. "What did she do now?"
"Ruthie was very upset because Mary ignored her Facebook friend request."
"Oh no," Eric said. "I was dreading this day."
"Me too! Why would Mary ignore her own sister's friend request?"
Lucy walked into the room at that moment. "What's going on? Why do you guys look so upset?"
Eric sighed. "Mary ignored Ruthie's friend request on Facebook. Do you have any idea of why she might
have done this? Is something going on with Mary that we don't know about?"
"I haven't heard anything."
...
Later that night, Lucy and Kevin were getting ready for bed. "I think Mom and Dad may be catching on," Lucy said. "We may need to tell them about Mary soon."
"Oh great," Kevin said. "I was hoping we could put it off a little longer."
"Mary didn't add Ruthie as a Facebook friend, and now they're getting suspicious."
...
"I don't get why it's such a big deal that Mary didn't add Ruthie as a friend on
Facebook," Martin said to Mac at school the next day. "I didn't add Ruthie as a friend."
"Yeah, and Ruthie seemed pretty upset about that too."
Martin shrugged as if to say, I don't know what you're talking about.
...
"Why won't Martin add me as a friend on Facebook?" Sandy sobbed while Simon sat next to her and looked uncomfortable. "He was able to SLEEP with me and put this baby inside of me, but he won't even add me as a friend on Facebook."
"Maybe you should have predicted that something like this would happen before you went and slept with him without a condom."
Sandy whimpered.
...
"Have you noticed that Martin never responds to my wall posts on Facebook?" Meredith said to Ruthie as they were walking down the hall at school. "I don't get it? Has he found another wall to post on?"
"I don't think so," Ruthie said. "But then I wouldn't really know because Martin's not friends with me on Facebook. And then I had this whole issue with Mary not adding me. It's been a very stressful month."
"I can imagine! But do you think you could maybe ask him the old fashioned way about this? You know? To his face?"
"I suppose I could do that."
...
"You mean you heard that Mary didn't add Ruthie as a friend on Facebook and you didn't see this as the perfect opportunity to spy on Mary and find out what she's up to?" Matt said to Kevin, taking a plate of pie out of the refrigerator. "What kind of Camden are you?"
****************Commercial Break****************