This is like any other love story. Boy meets girl. He courts, he woos, he falls in love. Eventually, she's pulled in to the whole crazy scheme and there's your true love at last. It's special, of course, but only to them and maybe a friend or two. But that's where this story differs.

They fell in love in a war. Except, he was not the dashing soldier and her the fading belle. It wasn't that kind of war. They were fighters, eventually, but not when they tumbled; when they tumbled they were just silly teenagers. Yet their love went on to become impassioned propaganda, in a twisted kind of way, and they became the shining couple, the hope. What followed was the tragic hero's death that took them desperately young. But that's all following our story.

Put yourself in summer, a particularly lovely summer and of course the birds are singing sweetly and romance is glistening in the air. Imagine four teenagers, on the brink of adulthood, all of them restless with a war overhead but still young enough to forget it. Then envision a boy and a girl, completely incompatible. Well, there's your beginnings.

And really this is just like any other story. But with a little more magic…

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And thus a possible beginning. Like? Hate? Review and tell me why!