A forgotten promise held very briefly in the light of day.
A small kiss presented by two young schoolchildren for each other.
A love long forgotten with the passage of time as their lives changed and moved on.
One grew up to fall in love with her older stepbrother as she had moved on from one forbidden love to another; she still managed to portray an element of innocence with in her love.
The other fell for a boy that she had developed a rivalry with.
When they met again, it wasn't with the youthful promise of old, but it was with the new, renewed promise of friendship.
Yet that love was refreshed with in their memory yet it made no difference to the end of childish love.
The old chaste kisses presented on the bus ride of their youth as the 'friends' parted to return their homes where none was the wiser was not reintroduced to the young women.
The Belgian and the Hungarian sort of missed the kindness and softness of their childhood love for each other that had never felt the pressures of society where all was well as long as their precious love was hidden from the world.
They only felt the yearnings of the soft touch of an innocent love where sex was unheard of and didn't exist, and love's only means of conveyance was through tender and brief kisses tied together with the joined hands that they held together.
Love was simple yet the love seemed almost too much for the young bodies of the girls that put each other first.
The heartbreak had also seemed to be too much for the young girls to handle as one moved to live away with her new stepfamily.
Emma then met Tim, but it wasn't until years later that her heart switched from Elizabeta's tender care to that of the newly discovered love that she now held for Tim.
High school had brought new love for Elizabeta as she gained a rival that she would later fall in love with.
The gentle love of youth was forged in to that of friendship as the two women grew up.
Love changed things for people yet it was obvious that the two women would stay close together in their newly defined friendship.
Their vow of secrecy that had been established when the two were but little girls had not been broken by either of them.
Tim and Gilbert were none the wiser about the girls' relationship when they were supposedly too young to fall in love.
That love hadn't been destroyed since then just changed as they grew and changed; their friendship was just as precious to them now as their romance had been when they had been eight.
Sometimes it came up when they were alone; whether they regretted moving on or if they only looked back on it as a shared childhood infatuation.
Neither regretted moving on or their past love, and neither viewed it as just an infatuation.
It had been so much more to them, and sometimes they could still feel it beating beneath the surface, the innocent love that they had never forgotten for each other as the world moved on around them bringing their now grown up selves along with it.
They never spoke about the feelings brewing beneath the surface, but the other always knew about it even though they had returned each other's heart as well as given their hearts to another.
That love was precious no matter what even though it was locked away never to see the light of day again.