"Who are you?" Bess asked with as little interest to sound normal.
"My name is Jake" the teen said casually trying to impress Bess, Nancy guessed. In case you didn't know Bess was tall, tea blonde, blue-eyed, athletic, skinny, kick-butt, tom-boy any guy fell head over heels for her. Nancy the turned her thoughts to what Nancy and Bess were they were the most unlikely pair of friends in the whole world. But in reality, they weren't that different. Nancy spoke her mind and almost anyone in the world listened, and Bess was rather quiet, they were both adventurous, they were both loud and loved to go to friend's parties and were almost always the center of attention. Bess was model skinny so was Nancy. Nancy was thinking very hard about their differences when suddenly she came back to earth.
"…and this is Nance." Bess said calmly.
"HUH?!?" Nancy exclaimed she had been thinking, hard.
"How about you join us we're about to set up a tent we have two you set up yours over there and us over here." Bess invited. She went over and whispered in Nance' ear…
"He's perfect he gets along great with every one. What's wrong?" Bess looked a little concerned. "What do you think is wrong?" Nancy whispered back resounding unhappiness. She nodded and put her arm around her friend. That was one thing very similar about them they always comforted one another in their time of need.
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Once the tents were set up, we started on the new book everyone including Jake read one or two pages. Once everyone had read, Nancy calmly picked up a blanket and walked out and Bess followed like a puppy. She was there to comfort Nancy even though she didn't know what she was going through. Nancy and Bess talked for about a half an hour then the new person came outside to see what was wrong with the girls.
"… I really miss him." Nancy sobbed. When Jake came out of the tent, Nancy dried the tears on her face. Nancy and Bess both had a lot of pride and couldn't stand to hurt their pride.
"Miss who?" Jake asked. Bess answered and told him about Ned he nodded in understanding. He reached over to hug Nancy she backed away she wasn't ready for any affection except from her friends. Bess shook her head at Jake and he backed off. "I'm going to bed." Nancy said. Bess knew that Nancy wasn't going to sleep at all Nancy was just looking for an excuse to go and cry again and she was okay with that.
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"I guess I need to hit the sac too. Night" Bess yawned acting sleepy. She was just looking for an excuse to see if her friend was all right. She was about to go in the tent when Jake grabbed her arm and told her to stay and talk he wasn't ready to go to bed. Just then Nancy walked out of the tent and went to Ned's truck and grabbed something and was walking back Bess looked, it was his jacket. Nancy cradled it like a baby. It was her last connection to him Bess thought. Nancy hugged and kissed it repeatedly that night when Bess crawled in the sleeping bag. Bess could see fear in Nancy's eyes no matter how hard she tried to hide it. The other girls noticed it too. They tried to comfort her but nothing helped. They all watched as Nancy cried and rocked herself to sleep. They were all worried about her they had never seen this side of her it was new they didn't know how to handle it. They all had one thing on their mind, where was Ned, what had become of Nance's true love? Also they knew Nancy thought he was "the one" Nancy had dreamed day and night about them growing up and them getting married and having kids. Desi knew Ned was going to even give his high school ring to her. Now Nancy was left with a broken heart and broken dreams.