A/N: Written for the Pairing Set Bootcamp challenge, 39. Teddy/Lily and for the Freeverse Frenzie competition, poem 131.
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41. Cousins
She was too young for him
but of all those children, he knew her the least.
She'd give him a little wispy smile
when he'd drop by
and it'd stay till he left again
(until which she'd hide most of herself
in her mother's skirt).
Sometimes, she'd give him a paper rose as well
growing more charming by the years
as she grew in skill and magic
And he'd give her little trinkets too
(because he didn't know her well enough
to give anything else)
and she'd say she got them all from someone
special , and he'd blush and try to say he was just
another cousin, but the words would die in his throat
Because he wasn't her cousin,
and they didn't have a relationship
of cousins.