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until later, when Brady was driving her home, that Savannah had a thought.  “We haven’t taken a picture together.  We’ve been dating for weeks now and not a single photo.”
                  “Then we’ll have to fix that,” he grinned.  Grabbing her phone, he opened up the camera and moved in next to her.  With a quick smile he snapped the picture before returning her phone. 
                  But what caught Savannah’s attention was that he didn’t ask for her to send him a copy.  She didn’t even feel the urge to post it anywhere or make it her profile photo. 
                  “Hey, I was having a conversation at the snack table with one of the theatre girls.  Do you think it’s possible that Mrs. Samuel bought her cookies from the bakery instead of making them herself?”
                  Turning to look at him, “What brought that on?”
                  Brady turned to face Savannah as he started making his points.  “Hannah was looking at the cookies and noticed that they weren’t quite like how homemade cookies tend to turn out.  No slightly burnt bottoms or irregular sizes.  She pointed out that there were also four different kinds and it would take a couple of days for her to bake all of the cookies needed for all of the Bible Study classes.” 
                  All she could do was blink in response.  “How would she know?” Savannah finally asked. 
                  “You know, I don’t know.” 

                  Savannah Blake stared at the picture of her boyfriend, Brady Johnson, and herself.  It had only been a few days since it was taken, but something was not quite right about it.  She had trouble making sense of it because Brady was the perfect gentleman.  He opened doors, including the car door – he would make her wait to be certain that he had not parked her next to a puddle.  He asked her opinion about everything. 
                  Actually, that was a bit annoying!  Sometimes a nice surprise would be better than having to discuss everything before they did it. 
                  Her parents adored him – probably since he had brought her mother flowers before their first date.  Some nights they would have study nights and he would barely touch her; her parents had no problem with him being in Savannah’s room with the door closed. 
                  Savannah knew what the problem was – the urge to do anything other than hold hands was gone!  She liked knowing that she always had a date to places, that she could call on him if she needed help with anything (as long as he was not at work), and that everybody liked him. 
                  However, it did not change the fact that she no longer felt any urge to kiss him, that any of the chemistry they felt early in their relationship was gone. 
                  Too bad she was thinking about all of this while watching his baseball practice. 

                  There were a few things that Brady did not want to think about during practice, but certain things were intertwined more than he cared to admit. 
                  He could see his sister, Kelly – a junior – talking with his girlfriend, Savannah, in the bleachers while the team warmed down.  Kelly had only been sitting there for a few minutes, knowing how long it would take practice to last; he refused to think about where she had been before then. 
                  His girlfriend, however, had been there for most of practice.  She watched practice at least once a week and it was usually the day after one of her track meets when they didn’t have practice.  He would then take her home and they would either do homework or watch T.V.
                  They had a routine and had only been dating for three months.  Half of the time this routine meant spending time