They smiled at each other as they twirled on the dance floor, spinning around the other couples who had boring lives and would all go home and bicker.
“You know, we’re the happiest two people here,” he said.
“Probably happier than the bride and groom,” she agreed.
“And this is why I’ll never marry.”
“Because you’d rather dance with strangers?”
“Of course,” he scoffed. “I don’t ever want to tie myself down to a single woman. I can’t be monogamous.”
“Oh, really?.”
“Yeah, seriously,” he said.
“Well, I’m getting married someday,” she said, and danced the night away from him.
the charge of love – 14/1000
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“But I didn’t!” she begged.
“You did! We watch it all, we know you did.”
“But I didn’t mean to,” she said.
“There are rules for everything, and they are rules for a reason. There is a reason we assign you jobs, assign you housing, assign you recreation time. You don’t need to know those reasons, you just need to abide.”
“I do not abide!”
“Very well. That is admission of guilt for Rule #6, ‘Never Fall in Love’. You’re sentenced to a life alone, because you don’t know how to – “
“I know how to love. That’s all that matters.”
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