"You can read this one too, if you want," Jane told Lizzie the next weekend solemnly. Lizzie had been acting pretty angry that week due to the fact that her best friend was now in another state with the creepiest man in the world. Everyone thought she'd be happy with Mr. Collins departure, but she was miserable as ever. Now she was going to be lonely senior year with not even her favorite sister by her side.

"I wish she'd just leave you alone! It's bad enough that she started all this now she's just rubbing it your face. Did she even say one word to you all year?" Lizzie grabbed the letter grumpily and sat down to read it on the bed. "Besides, why do people keep sending letters to you? This is the twenty first century!"

"Oh come on Lizzie, you're just hurt. I'm sure his agent just had a film set up for him and he had to go. He probably just doesn't have enough time for me."

"That's bull. He called you at least once a week, not to mention texted you a billion times a day," Elizabeth snorted, her eyes narrowing the longer she read the letter. "Ah, it seems that our dear Mr. Bingley will be staying away for the entire summer in California. How typical."

"And if he comes back I'll be in college," Jane said negatively, brushing out her hair slowly.

"That's just not nice." Lizzie shook her head.

"How is Charlotte?"

"I haven't talked to her," Lizzie replied, shrugging though the mention of her friend stung.

Jane frowned. "You know, that's not right either. You've got to talk to her."

Her sister sighed. "I will, I will. I've just got to calm down first, it's all been very stressful."

"Do you think they're going to get married?" Jane asked curiously.

Lizzie shrugged again disgustedly. "Probably. I just don't like the situation, but I suppose they're both pretty alike in personality and won't have many fights. She just wants to have a future, it's really bad that the only way she could see herself having one is through Collins."

"You've got to do what you've got to do," Jane commented, tying up her hair.

"Uh- huh. I'm going to go downstairs for lunch, do you want me to bring you up anything?" Jane shook her head.

When she got to the kitchen she was greeted by her aunt and uncle. "Aunt Mary and Uncle Tom, you came all the way over from California just to see us?" she smiled for the first time all week as she hugged the both of them.

"We just thought we'd drop in for a surprise visit with all of you. We have a pretty free few months, and ironically so do all of you, so we just thought we'd come over!" Her uncle winked at her and pulled a little on her ponytail.

"Well, how long are you staying?" their second oldest niece asked excitedly.

"For about a week, then we were thinking we would take Jane back with us for a while," their aunt answered conversationally. "We heard she's been feeling a little down lately."

"Yeah, I think she'll feel better just by seeing you here!" she smiled. "Would you like me to get her for you?"

The week with her uncle and aunt was eventful, and Jane brightened at the idea of having one last vacation before college started. Finally it was time for her to go and the entire family gathered around the car.

"Make sure you get to talk to Bingley," Mrs. Bennet whispered to Jane through the window and Mr. Bennet shot his wife a disapproving gaze.

"Text me, okay?" Elizabeth asked. Over the week she had come to terms that Charlotte was finally gone and that she did what she had to. She still blamed Caroline for everything though, and no amount of persuasion from Jane could convince her otherwise.

"I'll text you every day if you want me to." Jane smiled.

"We'll be back with her before you know it," her uncle assured her, kissing her on the cheek through the window of the rental car.

Jane promised to keep in touch and she did. She spoke of Caroline's cold dismissal when she arrived at the Bingley's mansion, she talked of all the stars she'd met, all the things she'd seen and she asked for Charlotte.

Charlotte left soon after Jane did for Arizona but before she did she made Elizabeth promise that she would come sometime over the summer.

"I didn't want to go to Arizona, but it seems I'll be going anyway," Elizabeth emailed Jane the day after her friend left.

"Yes, well, at least it's to visit a friend. How is George?" she had written back.

This question puzzled Lizzie, for she had not spoken with George for a fairly long time. She checked on his Facebook page and was startled to find that he was in a relationship with someone called Veronica King. After some snooping on her personal information, Lizzie determined that she had some money.

"Hm, he seems to be in a relationship. Why are people so rude? It would have taken two seconds to tell me," Lizzie pouted in her answer back. She thought about George's lack of communication for a moment and decided that the feelings she had ever had for him were hardly romantic and it would be best to just sever ties.

"What are you going to do?" came Jane's concerned reply.

"If he calls, I'll answer but I don't want to cause more drama than it's worth. I'll just wait it out and see. I expected myself to be more hurt if he ever rejected me, but right now I feel nothing. Maybe it's best to not have a boyfriend anyway."

It took about a while for Jane to respond back, but when she did it was merely, "Good idea."