The day had been better than many before it had.  There hadn’t been too many times when she had thought of all that it was that she had lost.  She had even started to feel like she wasn’t as alone as she thought she was.  Her friends had decided to make a whole day out of the concert.  Complete with a shopping trip to the local mall for a new outfit for that evenings outing.  She went along with them and found that she was having to force her smile less often and that she was actually having some fun.  Things were starting to feel like they had before her world had come crashing in around her.

The time for the concert had come, so she got into the new outfit and joined her friends in getting ready for the show and leaving to go.  They all left together in high spirits excited about that nights show, most hoping that tonight would be the beginning of the return of their old friend.  They thought that they might have seen the beginnings of that smile of hers that she had been missing for so long.