Best Couple (Class of 2018)

Small groups of people milled around the grass, greeting each other warmly with hugs and smiles. The mood was celebratory if a bit sad, everyone painfully aware this may be the last time they saw each other for a long while. It was sunny and warm so most people had removed their graduation gowns and caps, standing instead in their neatly pressed formal attire. Shane stood off to one side, still wearing his cap at a jaunty angle with his arm looped loosely around his boyfriend’s waist. Ryan held a small shield-shaped trophy that read “Best Couple. Class of 2018.”, turning it over absentmindedly in his hands as he and Shane spoke animatedly to a friend.