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Friday nights were never supposed to mean anything.
For Julianne, they're just another part of the weekly routine - waiting at the sidelines of her son's soccer practice, coffee in hand, trying to hold her crumbling marriage together behind a calm smile. But when she starts talking to Quinton, a fellow parent with his own quiet burdens, something shifts.
Their conversations are easy, honest - a small pocket of peace in lives filled with unspoken tension. As their friendship deepens, Julianne finds herself looking forward to those brief Friday moments more than she should. It's not about romance. Not yet. But it's about feeling seen. Feeling heard.
And when everything else in her life starts to fall apart, that connection might be the one thing that helps her find the strength to start over.