The crowd’s response was thunderous, but Juniper and Daniel barely noticed. They stood there in their own world, snow gathering in their hair, lost in each other’s eyes.

“Show offs,” Sophia called out as she caught up with them, but her grin was bright enough to melt snow.

Hand in hand, they turned away from the courthouse and toward the future. The sun painted the sky in shades of the unknown as they made their way through the parting crowd. Behind them, the echoes of their victory song still rang through the winter air.