For the Romantic Drabble Challenge.
Hugo & Lily ii. Maybe.
Maybe, her fingertips whisper, maybe they can do this. And he wants nothing but to believe her, he wants nothing but to forget she's his cousin, he wants nothing but her fingertips to scream "I love you" against his skin.
Oh, how he wants that.
And therefore, to ignore that itch somewhere close to the root of his heart, he pretends. He has always been a pretender, so it's with ease that he slips into the world where shadows are short and faces are loving and winds are soft and they aren't related, and where she really, really loves him.
