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People said their being in a relationship wouldn't work out because they had no substance. It was mainly because they believed the couple had no plans.
It couldn't have been further from the truth.
Jessica had dreams of becoming a fashion journalist. For a while, she had considered the idea of teaching as a career. It was her fall-back if creating her own fashion blog didn't work out. Besides she loved children and she was pretty confident that she could even handle moody teenagers if she had to.
Toby, meanwhile, had never really known exactly what he wanted to do. His mind flipped between careers he thought would be exciting every two weeks or so, only for someone (usually his brother) to remind him that they wouldn't even consider taking him on, with his grades being as terrible as they were. And he didn't see the point in trying to do anything differently.
It all changed when he was fifteen. After the incident, which left him feeling guilty for weeks (even though people kept telling him there was absolutely nothing more he could have done), he found that his heart was set on becoming a paramedic and two weeks later - when his idea of an ideal career would usually change - the desire was still there. And he was determined now to see it through to the very end.
They'd been dating for two years by that point. Not for the first time, they found themselves discussing the future but something about the conversation felt...different.
They found themselves wanting to intertwine their plans. Of course, they had been part of each other's futures before but generally in the platonic way. Now that they were a couple, so much of their plans had changed and yet, at the same time, they hadn't really changed at all.
They both wanted to get married and have kids someday. Not too many of them, though. Three at the most would do for them. Their careers were planned out in their heads. They knew where they wanted to be in ten years time and they saw the other..
People said their relationship had no substance but they couldn't care less. How could there be no substance when they loved each other and knew what their plans were?