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Almost a month since Summer had officially ended and it seemed like the city had suddenly become awash in the colours of autumn. There was less green and more yellows, reds and browns on the trees and a lot of the places seemed to have sprouted pumpkin-style themes in advance of Halloween next week.

Arian had managed to scrape a C – in a couple of his Maths make-up work exercises and so had been spending some of his time after school helping to decorate the library so that it would be ready for Halloween. Today, however, the dark-haired teen had decided that he would go for jog after classes were over.

Once the final bell was over, Arian had exchanged the shorts and sailor-suit style top for a pair of track suit bottoms and a sweater that he had brought for the purpose and then set off at a steady pace in the direction of the park, his thoughts on the conversation that he’d had with Saffy earlier in the day. Apparently some of the orchards down in the Valley were holding apple tastings and picking days and his cousin had decided that they should make a day of it. The dark-haired teen was kind of looking forward to the weekend outing – especially the apple tasting part of it.

The lack of attention was a two-way street, for his part Arian’s mind was so caught up in anticipation of the forthcoming orchard trip and ideas of what they could do with the apples, a good old-fashioned apple crumble sounded good, that he certainly was not aware of the bright teal-haired teen – well not until he almost stumbled over her.

“I’m really sorry” he began, at the same time as the girl started to offer apologies of her own “It’s okay.” he said quietly with a rueful smile “I’m equally to blame to be honest. Are you all right?”