Anyway she's, well, it's some sort of chronic illness, and it's got worse since spring. I don't make friends particularly easily, so this was really unusual we had almost all out lessons together, 3 or 4 hours a day, and felt like we'd known each other for years within the week. I've got this friend at school, a girl who I've sort of seen around for ages, but we've been really quite close since September, having never really talked (we were in a lot of the same classes but never spoke at all, like one convo in three years, and she was off a lot too).