Elfy

Part of her knew that she was being cruel. Part of her knew it was wrong to kiss him because as soon as she got back to Shiz she would pretend this had never happened. She would pretend she had never kissed him.

It wasn't that she hadn't wanted to. She wasn't ashamed of him, or of his fondness for her. It was just the fact that as soon as she graduated from Shiz University she would be expected to marry well. And marrying well did not mean marrying for love. Marrying well meant marrying just above her station so she would be able to advance her family.

But that was a long time from now, she reasoned with herself. Now she was just sitting on a porch, alone with a boy. The fact that he was a Munchkin and she was Gillikinese didn't matter. The face that he was studying farming and she was studying sorcery didn't matter. The fact that his family was poor and her family was wealthy didn't matter.

All that mattered was that they were alone and that he loved her. And so she let him kiss her, innocently, lovingly.