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Chapter 18: When We First Shared Stories (Flashback - In the Jared's car, driving to DineE) Friends? Could they be friends. Friends... Friends don't look at friends with the kind of heat we look at each other. Friends don't want to kiss friends... How can we be friends then? How can she understand this strange world? She had been cocooned for so long, caged in her own self-doubt and insecurity, she never dared to rip free and fly. And now here she was, suddenly thrust into new people, a new world and it was all so confounding, big. The universe was chaos and she was not made for chaos. She had never been adventurous, she had always loved the safety of routines, but now, here, she wanted to live. She was so tired of just existing. "Can we be friends, Jared? Do you think we can be?" J