Short and Sweet

The girl used to sit close to the boy at recess because she knew he had secret pockets full of toffees and he only offered them to his special friends.

She didn’t pay him much mind, but somehow the older she grew the sweeter the shiny brown toffees became. So although she has finished school she still comes to sit in the park with him on Sunday afternoons and they suck toffees like schoolchildren again. They are too old for candy and games but they forget that.

Secretly she hopes he knows it isn’t the toffees she comes for anymore.