Ana nodded. "She and I got to be really close, we shared a language, we loved to cook, you could find us in the kitchens for hours, gossiping and laughing. It's probably fair to say she was my best friend. When she found out she was pregnant, I knitted her a blanket, like my abuela used to do."
She sipped at her drink, wishing it was bigger. Or stronger. "Then she and Jace left, and it just feels like...a piece of me left with her. I got so used to having her around, to texting her weird things at all hours of the night, and now she's not here anymore." She sighed. "It's stupid, I feel abandoned in the midst of a huge crowd of people, not to mention, she wasn't my only friend. But she got in the farthest past my ridiculous walls."