บท 602: A Gift?

Yarin's POV:

"If only I had been born a few years earlier," I said dejectedly. "If I were the same age as Lily, all my troubles today would be gone. I could boldly confess to her. Even if she rejected me, at least I had tried instead of hiding under the blanket and whispering like a soft egg."

But things might not be that difficult. "But then again, the age difference between us isn't that big, is it? I'm twelve, and she's sixteen. She's only four years older, a gap much smaller than our parents."

"But Mom and Dad were already adults when we met," Heller said. "You, Yarin, and I are just primary school students to Lily. We may be junior high school students soon. But what's the use? No one would want to be in a relationship with a primary school student, even if they were a little older. When you are sixteen, god, Lily would be twenty. This is even worse. It would have jumped from an age problem to moral and legal problems."