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A boy dressed in a green suit, his hair tied loosely into a tail and a brown-eyed girl in a blue dress sat next to each other on a small bench that stood among lilac bushes, lost in the shadows of a large garden.
- I don’t want to marry you, - finally said the girl, looking intently at her companion.
- Me neither. But dad said that we should.
- Mother said that too.
They became silent again, lost in their uncheerful thoughts.
- I don’t want to marry at all! - continued the boy quietly, twisting a button on his shirt.
- No, you should! – exclaimed the girl confidently.
- Well, not early at least! Dad married at 49, I want it like that too.
- I want to marry, just… not you, - said the girl, fiddling with the material of her dress.
- Whom then? – asked the boy eagerly.
- There’s a boy on third course, his name is Ted. Though he doesn’t want to marry either and says that all girls are stupid.
- Rodi used to say that too… You know what we can do? – the boy opened his eyes widely. – You can marry Ted and have a daughter, and I will marry her!
- Great! – the girl clapped her hands.
- Promise? – the boy stretched out his hand, as it seemed to him, in a very serious and adult gesture.
- Promise!
The moment their palms connected, there was a light as if a shining golden snake slid around their hands.
- Wow! I’ve seen something like that once, - whispered the boy, mesmerized. – The time when dad made my uncle give an Unbreakable Vow.
Very often it is so that child magic comes to be stronger than any adults expect it to be.
The light from their hands disappeared, but the children would remember forever the warm June morning and their first vow, fastened by magic.