theirs is not the most romantic of beginnings,
but a beginning nonetheless –
a hurried inquiry from the girl to the boy:
"have you seen neville's toad?"
(the boy shakes his head,
apology painted in streaks across his face,
and the girl turns away with an exasperated huff.
she forgets this encounter.)
they are the special two,
the only ones who have no knowledge
of the chimerical world they are immersed in,
and the boy does not let this slip from his memory;
in this fantastical dream,
in this universe clouded by myth,
the girl is his only link in the chain of reality
and the life he knows when he awakens.
and when he finally falls,
a child in the eyes of his otherwordly utopia,
he thinks of her,
and he wonders if maybe he made her up too.
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