Prompt: Hook/Ariel, music, first meeting, Storybrooke
"Something always brings me back to you.
It never takes too long.
No matter what I say or do I'll still feel you here 'til the moment
I'm gone."
Her voice was a testament of melancholy, the tone disconsolate and tender. He followed the soft notes and the quiet intonations across the hallway into a classroom, like the lyrics were never to leave the room, like she dare not to show anyone the loneliness of her heart. A girl touched the black and white keys of the piano and looked outside. Her copper hair clinged in big waves over her back, but he craved to see her face as much as he longed to stop the wistful song.
"Excuse me miss?" he called.
She turned startled, the cascade of curls revealing a face like a dream long forgotten and eyes like the sea. He stared, trying to remember, trying to grasp an old memory, an old love.
"Have we met?" he asked bluntly.
A tear rolled down her ivory cheek and she shook her head.
