Here is the next chapter. Sorry if I killed some of you in the waiting time but you've gotta love school don't ya? I am on holidays now so I should be able to get a few chapters up in that time. Thankyou to all of you who reviewed I am really gratified. And Catnap a Harry Potter fic is under construction.

Anyway, enough talk heres the chapter.

Chapter 5

Tibby opened the phone book. This was the moment of truth. Were there any Vreelands, Kalgaris, or Lowells in Bethesda any more? She opened to L. There it was C Lowell. Tibby reached for the phone but before she could dial it she realised it was just Tina's. She put her cell down and opened to K. Every page held the same truth. The Sisterhood had grown up and moved away.

Lena was very hot. But gone were the days where she could strip down to a pair of boxers and a push-up bra. So she was in a pair of jeans and a maternity blouse. If it was 100 degrees outside it was a million underneath all the clothes. Aetos was in a thin jumper as he wandered around the strangest place he had ever seen. Aetos was struggling to understand Americans and their way of life. MacDonald's was his first meal in Bethesda and he still couldn't understand why you would pay money for rubbish like that. He would wander aimlessly through the Kalgaris residence looking in the cupboards at all the strange foreign products. Lena decided if she wanted to see her friends, she had better start now.

Bridget was home. She found the place where she truly belonged. She was at the door of Carmen's old apartment. But the problem of Gilda's destruction was playing on her mind. She was going to ask Tina to help her. She knocked on the door with a trembling hand. She wasn't really sure if Tina would recognize her. The door opened slightly and then Bridget her a muffled scream from behind the crack in the door. Mrs Lowell flung open the door then pull Bee into a loving embrace.

"Bee you're home! Oh Bridget I haven't heard in you in years," Christina cried

She ushered Bridget into the living room where a brown head kid was playing Xbox.

"Ryan," Christina said trying to hide the excitement in her voice, "Meet Bridget, She's a friend of Carmen's."

"Hi!" Bridget said brightly.

Ryan completely ignored her and went on shooting someone in his game. Christina meanwhile was fussing about. " Oh Carma has only just gone out to the doctors. She coming back at three,"

Bee felt her elation rise " So Carmen's here is she?"

"Yep and guess what, she's pregnant!"

It couldn't have been clearer that Tina had wanted to say that but then she said, " What about you? Are you married are you pregnant, give me the goss!" She wiggled her eyebrows the way she used to when she thought she was one of the girls.

"Well," Bee started

And for the next half an hour, she told Christina about her marriages, her kids, and her pregnancy. When she had finished, Tina looked at her in concern.

"Why are you here then?"

"Oh! Well….um…Well my marriage isn't all that good and the kids didn't want to come and……"

And before she knew it she was sobbing. Christina gathered Bridget in her arms and told her it would be all right. Aftter a warm cup of tea she bid Christina goodbye and went back to her motel.

"What!" Carmen exploded "she was here and you let her go before I got to see her!"

"Hey I've got her motel number but it's late now you can't go out," Christina tried to explain.

Carmen sat down on the couch and said in a resigned voice "I guess you're right. Bee probably doesn't want anyone barging in on her while she's asleep anyway, Night Mom" and she walked back to her bedroom.

That night Carmen had fitful dreams of blonde hair, of soccer balls, of summers years before and she was saddened at how miserable Bee's life would've been without friends. She knew in her heart no-one could be without friends.