Ellie sees Ashley crying and immediately walks over to her distraught friend. "Ash, what's wrong?" She says as she puts her arm around her.
Ashley looks up at Ellie, and then hugs her. "Ellie, don't leave me! I could never lose another friend! NEVER!"
Ellie says awestruck, "What are you talking about? I would never leave you."
"You mean you haven't heard?" Ashley says.
"It's only 8:30 in the morning. I'm not that awake."
"So I guess you haven't heard that- that-." Ash's voices breaks. She starts crying more than she ever has in her life!
"Ash, what's going on? You can tell me, Ashley."
"Something terrible happened last night."
"What?"
"It's in all the papers."
"You know I don't get the paper, Ash."
Ashley can barely get the words out and breaks every few second to cry. "Last night…someone got in a horrible…accident."
Ellie, looking more concerned and freaked out now says, "Accident!?! Who got in an accident? What happened!?!"
"Someone we know, was declared…declared…dead, this morning." She starts crying more and more.
"Who?!?"
"Craig."