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// 10. 
// Story: Fifteen Friendships 
// by AShadowOfCygnus 
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Warm summer afternoons were spent on a picnic blanket in the orchard. She talked, and he listened. She joked, and he chuckled. She griped about her students, and he encouraged her. She laid her head on his shoulder, and together they watched the puffy clouds go by.

Was there any deeper meaning to it? Did they want to spend the rest of their lives together? Neither of them really knew, and neither of them really cared. It was nice enough to just sit there and while away the hours as the sun went down, without expectation.