Once upon a time, a boy and a girl became best friends. They talked about everything under the sun until there were no secrets left between them.
Well, maybe just one secret.
One day, he jerked his head up off his desk, turned to her, and in a moment of sudden curiosity asked the deadly question.
"What's your reason for living?"
She, who had always felt so small and insignificant compared to him, could only stare in surprise as the word 'you' appeared in her mind over and over again.
She licked her lips as she readied herself to say the word, but it only took one gaze into those intense tawny eyes to make her falter. She tore her eyes away as her tongue stumbled over the lie.
"I don't know."
Years and years later she would realize how silly she had been in her youth. Not for having lied, but for having thought he was her only reason for living.
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