Boston Globe 7/10/11: Fujita pushed hard to see Astley the night she died. Lauren Astley had plans to hang out with friends that night, but Nate Fujita was insistent. He wanted to meet. Fujita had been struggling with their recent breakup and, Astley told her friends, acting "very immature." As Astley worked her shift at a women’s clothing store at the Natick Collection mall that afternoon, Fujita's repeated text messages were "blowing up" her phone, the store manager said. Ultimately, the supervisor said, Astley agreed to see her longtime boyfriend because Fujita had been so unrelenting. "She was more annoyed than anything," said store manager Maeghen Reineke.