As Amanda tried to close the door behind her Lucy wedged her foot in the
door and pushed it open until Amanda gave up and slumped against the wall.
"Alright, why don't you tell me what's wrong? You never act like his and you were fine until you moved back here from London?" Lucy spoke while trying to get Mandy's attention.
"Just leave me alone Lucy, Please!" Amanda asked while hiding herself under her arms and in-between her legs, as she crouched them into a comfort position.
Lucy grabbed Mandy's arm and tried to pull her up but just as she did that Amanda ran off down the stairs as Lucy called after her. Not caring where she was going she jumped in her car and just kept driving, until she was way out of town. Her cell phone kept ringing and ringing but she didn't pick it up she just let it ring and ring until she just shut it off.
"Where the heck did she go and why did she leave?" Annie kept asking Lucy as she paced the kitchen.
Ruthie responded in her wise old way, "I know why she left."
Both Annie and Lucy looked at her curiously as if expecting an answer to come from her mouth.
"But I can't say anything. I can say." Ruthie was cut off as Simon and Cecile walked into the kitchen.
"Hey everyone, we had a great time dancing." Simon was red faced with sweat and so was Cecile but Annie knew they had just been dancing nothing else, he wasn't allowed to do anything else without telling his parents where he would be.
Simon looked around the room and saw a tear faced Lucy by the refrigerator and a panic-stricken Annie by the counter.
"What's going on here?" Simon asked looking confused and bewildered.
"Nothing, never mind, just take Cecile home, not that we don't want you here darling but we need to take care of some family business." Annie spoke with worry evident in her voice.
Cecile knew the Camdens' well enough and said, "Alright Ill see y'alls later. Simon take me home please."
Simon grabbed the keys off the counter and walked outside with Cecile close on his heels worried, knowing that something was up because even though Mandy usually went to bed early she never missed a family meeting even though she hadn't seen them in ages.
He quickly walked Cecilia to her door and gave her a kiss goodbye, then jumped in the car and drove home.
"Okay what the heck is going on?" He jumped into the house and looked his mother straight in the eye.
Lucy responded in one sentence, "Mandy is gone."
"Gone, Gone, what do you mean gone?" Simon asked starting to freak out.
Lucy responded, "She left Simon, right after you and Cecilia left, she was starting to cry but you were just too wrapped up in your damn relationship to notice anyone but yourself. To stuck on yourself to do anything."
Lucy left the room running upstairs outside to find Kevin and hug him while she worried about her best friend. Just as she was going to run up to the apartment she ran to her room and started to dig desperately through her drawers looking for something. Ruthie chased her upstairs and watched her curiously from the door way.
Lucy looked at her and just told her, "Don't just stand there look in the old drawers in your room and see if you find a blue cloud print envelope."
Ruthie took off and they both looked for over two hours.
Meanwhile.
Amanda has stopped at a little restaurant about 2 hours out of town and was sitting in her car after she had ice cream and listening to "Cry" by Mandy Moore. She saw a theatre and noticed that playing in the box office that "A Walk To Remember," was playing. Her favorite movie because she believed it fit her life somewhat accurately. She bought a ticket and sat down in the theatre watching the movie so intently it was as if she had never seen it before.
Back at the Camden house.
"Alright, why don't you tell me what's wrong? You never act like his and you were fine until you moved back here from London?" Lucy spoke while trying to get Mandy's attention.
"Just leave me alone Lucy, Please!" Amanda asked while hiding herself under her arms and in-between her legs, as she crouched them into a comfort position.
Lucy grabbed Mandy's arm and tried to pull her up but just as she did that Amanda ran off down the stairs as Lucy called after her. Not caring where she was going she jumped in her car and just kept driving, until she was way out of town. Her cell phone kept ringing and ringing but she didn't pick it up she just let it ring and ring until she just shut it off.
"Where the heck did she go and why did she leave?" Annie kept asking Lucy as she paced the kitchen.
Ruthie responded in her wise old way, "I know why she left."
Both Annie and Lucy looked at her curiously as if expecting an answer to come from her mouth.
"But I can't say anything. I can say." Ruthie was cut off as Simon and Cecile walked into the kitchen.
"Hey everyone, we had a great time dancing." Simon was red faced with sweat and so was Cecile but Annie knew they had just been dancing nothing else, he wasn't allowed to do anything else without telling his parents where he would be.
Simon looked around the room and saw a tear faced Lucy by the refrigerator and a panic-stricken Annie by the counter.
"What's going on here?" Simon asked looking confused and bewildered.
"Nothing, never mind, just take Cecile home, not that we don't want you here darling but we need to take care of some family business." Annie spoke with worry evident in her voice.
Cecile knew the Camdens' well enough and said, "Alright Ill see y'alls later. Simon take me home please."
Simon grabbed the keys off the counter and walked outside with Cecile close on his heels worried, knowing that something was up because even though Mandy usually went to bed early she never missed a family meeting even though she hadn't seen them in ages.
He quickly walked Cecilia to her door and gave her a kiss goodbye, then jumped in the car and drove home.
"Okay what the heck is going on?" He jumped into the house and looked his mother straight in the eye.
Lucy responded in one sentence, "Mandy is gone."
"Gone, Gone, what do you mean gone?" Simon asked starting to freak out.
Lucy responded, "She left Simon, right after you and Cecilia left, she was starting to cry but you were just too wrapped up in your damn relationship to notice anyone but yourself. To stuck on yourself to do anything."
Lucy left the room running upstairs outside to find Kevin and hug him while she worried about her best friend. Just as she was going to run up to the apartment she ran to her room and started to dig desperately through her drawers looking for something. Ruthie chased her upstairs and watched her curiously from the door way.
Lucy looked at her and just told her, "Don't just stand there look in the old drawers in your room and see if you find a blue cloud print envelope."
Ruthie took off and they both looked for over two hours.
Meanwhile.
Amanda has stopped at a little restaurant about 2 hours out of town and was sitting in her car after she had ice cream and listening to "Cry" by Mandy Moore. She saw a theatre and noticed that playing in the box office that "A Walk To Remember," was playing. Her favorite movie because she believed it fit her life somewhat accurately. She bought a ticket and sat down in the theatre watching the movie so intently it was as if she had never seen it before.
Back at the Camden house.