Summary:
When he was a kid Liam used to think that love was an amazing, beautiful thing. He had the image that animated movies gave him, Disney princesses finding their prince charming and conquering everything.
Or, the one where Liam discovers that his love story and his prince charming might be slightly different from a Disney love story.
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Word Count: 2167
Independent Work
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When he was a kid Liam used to think that love was an amazing, beautiful thing. He had the image that animated movies gave him, Disney princesses finding their prince charming and conquering everything.
His mom once told him that whenever he was watching some Disney movie he would always get this shine in his eyes, that he would seat straighter on the couch, eyes glued to the TV and mouth parted. She would tell him how precious it was to watch him drinking everything in and smiling when the princess and the prince finally kissed.
Liam's head and heart were filled with fantasies, they were filled with ideas of what would happen when he was older, how would be the first time he fell in love.
In the beginning, he thought it would be love at first sight. He thought that he would look into someone's eyes and that the world would stop and everything except whoever was in front of him would stop mattering. He thought that things would go easy and that whenever he saw the love of his life he would know right away.
When Liam was seven, there was this girl in his class who Liam thought he loved like a Disney prince loves a Disney princess. At first, he had hated the way she dresses as well as her pigtails, but then she had kissed his cheek and he had given her a flower and he thought it was forever, that they were meant to be. But then she had kissed some other guy's cheek and Liam only felt sad for a few hours before going back to playing with Mason as if nothing had happened. He figured that she hadn't been his true love and that she wasn't his Disney princess.
When Liam was eleven, he understood that love at first sight wasn't for him while noticing that maybe he didn't need a Disney princess when he could have a Disney prince. There was a boy in his school that Liam didn't like at all. He was annoying and loud and full of himself whenever they played football and he scored a goal, he annoyed Liam to no end, but in the back of his mind Liam still thought that he was pretty and that it would be nice to maybe hold his hand and kiss his cheek, but then the boy would be annoying again and Liam would let those thoughts go.
The first time Liam really fell in love it was with someone he had never thought he would fall for.
From the moment they met, Liam and Hayden had bumped heads, they had argued and even ended up punching each other that one time. They had been at odds for years but, somehow, along the way things had changed. Liam had started feeling things for her, he had started to want to hold her hand and kissed her cheek like he had with those two kids when he was little. He wanted to be able to look at her and hold her.
And for some time he was able to. They dated and they kissed and loved each other, things were amazing, Liam learned what it was like to love and be loved, he learned how it really felt to be dedicated to someone and what it was like to smile with just the thought of them. It had been perfect while it lasted and Liam couldn't help but think that Disney didn't do love justice.
But then Hayden had to move away, she had told him one they when they were sitting in his bed watching a movie. There had been tears in her eyes and a frown on her lips, she had looked at her lap before looking him in the eyes and telling him that she was moving with her sister to another city, They could have tried to keep their relationship and make it work despite the distance, but both of them knew that it wouldn't work so that had been the end of their relationship. Hayden had left that day and Liam hadn't seen or talked to her again ever since.
