Pairing: CharliexMatilda
Name: Why couldn't it be me
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Charlie had just turned sixteen. His dad had gotten him a car, and his mom had gotten him a watch and the keys to the car. All of his friends had been there. All of them, except one.
Charlie looked at the mirror, which was sitting on his bed side table. He was supposed to be going to sleep right about now, but he had to at least see her. Talk to her. Tell her his idea.
Charlie had been visiting Matilda a lot lately. He found that he could confide in her, any troubles that he had. He also found that her birthday was next week. He had already gotten her a present, a beautiful necklace, but he had thought about it all the different ways. And he knew that when she turned sixteen, she would be whisked away by a duke of a different land.
Thinking it through, Charlie decided that she would be sixteen very soon, and he already was sixteen. He was from a faraway land. Technically he was sort of a duke, since his family owned Bone's, which was almost half the town in and of itself. So why couldn't it be him?
Why couldn't it be him that would whisk Matilda off her feet, bring her here, and show her what his world was like? Why couldn't he be the one she loved? Why couldn't it be me?