The world didn’t seem like a lonely and gloomy place when you had a friend to share your burdens with. Both Ashley and Jessica woke up in high spirits. There was a bounce in their steps, a silly smile on their face when they came downstairs for breakfast the following day. Both Tyler and Jerry noted it and commented on it. Tyler even teased Jessica, “Who are you, and what have you done to our fiery and cynical Jessica, who was always angry at the world and suspicious of everyone around her?”
She smiled and said, “She got a lifeline,” looking right at her new friend Ashley.
Tyler knew that the girls had forged a friendship through mutual pain and would be able to soothe each other’s hurt, but he also knew that in order to heal completely, they would have to befriend their demons by making
