Green vines attached to the trunk of the tree had wound themselves toward the top of the canopy

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1. Green vines attached to the trunk of the tree had wound themselves toward the top of the canopy. Ants used the vine as their private highway, avoiding all the creases and crags of the bark, to freely move at top speed from top to bottom or bottom to top depending on their current chore. At least this was the way it was supposed to be. Something had damaged the vine overnight halfway up the tree leaving a gap in the once pristine ant highway.
2. He sat across from her trying to imagine it was the first time. It wasn't. Had it been a hundred? It quite possibly could have been. Two hundred? Probably not. His mind wandered until he caught himself and again tried to imagine it was the first time.
"All the others do and nobody ever gets punished for doing so. 
3. "Explain to me again why I shouldn't cheat?" he asked. I should go about being happy losing to cheaters because I know that I don't? That's what you're telling me?"