Exit Strategies, Monday, Period 2

[jedigrammarians]

Today the Danger Shop looked like a very fancy, very intimate, very romantic restaurant, complete with several small tables for two, each with a relatively attractive humanoid seated at them.

"Welcome, kids," Aphra greeted them. "In honour of the holiday, today you'll be learning perhaps the most important escape skill of all. Breaking up!"

So romantic!

"Now I realise this may make me sound like a cynic, but the ability to end a relationship with a minimum of hurt on both sides is a rare and valuable skill." It certainly wasn't one Aphra exercised well. "So today you're going to be breaking up with your long term partner. They're perfectly nice, they haven't done anything wrong, you haven't been unhappy, but lately they've been talking marriage and kids and you've realised you don't see that kind of future with them.

"So get out there and break some hearts. But gently."

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Re: Listen to Apha - ES [07]

[outofthequiver]

This whole last weekend, between the dance and the dates and the unexpected flowers this morning had been a lot for Libby, and she was almost hoping there'd just be another film with almost as much cleavage as plot so she could figure out how to just get her head back on straight again, so it was almost with utter dismay that she listened to the instructions for today's lesson.

Break-ups weren't really in the purvue of a girl whose only exposure to them were in those ridiculous novels that her sister liked where the protagonists realized the importance of finding a godly man to devote herself to and thus had to leave the handsome bad boy that would inevitably lead her into sin and away from God...

...that, and the tenuous possibility of a far worse break-up between her parents in light of recent events. Which could lead to divorce. Which was one of the worst things that could happen in a marriage, and it had been something she'd been trying not to think about as much as possible.

She shook her head, though, let out a breath, and reminded herself that this was all just a pretend scenario anyway, and probably nothing that she'd ever have to actually do, since she was...

...well, honestly, she didn't know what would happen to her and her future now. Except maybe that she'd be married to the medical field and Jesus, and she had no intention of breaking up with either of them any time soon!