Young Love (after The Brothers Grimm)

There was once a young girl in Cody who was swimming alone at the municipal pool on a hot summer day.

She soon found herself near a group of young boys who were playing around wildly in the water, splashing one another with the great foolish delight young men feel in that time just before they become men.

One of the boys would look her way, splashing his friends with particular vigor when he was looking, looking to see if she was looking at him.

She however looked straight ahead, though she wanted to look at him as she was of the age where she was beginning to want to be liked by a boy, just as he was of the age when he wanted to be noticed by a girl.

But she couldn't look at him, though he kept splashing, harder and harder, partly to shower his friends with more water than he was being showered with but mostly in the hopes of being seen by the girl, at whom he would glance after each of his splashes, though she never once looked at him, she simply couldn't, or wouldn't, and kept staring straight ahead at the surface of the water in front of her.

Thus began the courtship, though neither knew at the time this was the beginning, both being in the water, young beautiful people, one splashing, hoping to be looked at and one not looking but wanting to.

Someday they will be together, though the boy doesn't know this the girl is sure. For it is true that love often happens over a long period of time.