To Be So Young And In Love

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

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Julie and Alan Watson had been very close friends for ten years with Kathy and Ronald Holmes, their next door neighbours. None of them had had children when they had first met, but one year later baby Mycroft was born, and the year after that Harriet was born. Three years after Harriet's birth Sherlock and John were born within days of each other. John was born first and Sherlock only three days after. The two boys had always been inseparable. Sherlock had curly dark hair, a pale complexion and grey/blue eyes. John was blonde with stormy blue eyes and a kind smile. They had always been so close, even bringing the families closer than they already were.

They went to primary school together. Sherlock was extremely clever and John was what kept him happy and balanced.

At the age of five Sherlock and John were sat in the Holmes' living room watching one of the soaps that Kathy enjoyed so much.

"What is a boyfriend?" John asked Kathy.

"Well, it's someone you love and want to be with. It's what Ron was to me before we were married." Kathy tried to explain.

"Does it have to be a boy and a girl?" John asked.

"No, it can be a boy and a boy and a girl and a girl too. Whoever you fall in love with." Kathy explained.

"What's it like when you fall in love with somebody? Is it different than just loving someone like a brother?" Sherlock questioned.

"Yes, darling. You see, when you're in love with somebody it isn't a mum or a dad or a sibling or just a friend. It means that you don't just like them as a friend but you want to do things like kiss and cuddle and you just feel different around them. And when it's true love, like for example me and your daddy, my tummy feels all funny and he makes me smile all the time and I feel sparks when we touch." Kathy said, attempting to explain things to five year olds was very difficult, but she had tried her best.

Sherlock and John nodded in understanding and went back to the television, though Sherlock quickly got bored and he and John went to the garden to play on the swings.

"Mummy?" Sherlock asked Kathy as she read him a bed-time story.

"Yes, sweetheart?" she asked.

"I think I'm in love with John." He said.

"What makes you think that?" she asked.

"Because I feel like you said it would feel like. And because I know some people say we're like brothers. And I do love Mycroft, but I love John differently than a brother." Sherlock confided in his mummy.

"So what are you going to do about it?" Kathy asked.

"What can I do?" Sherlock asked.

"Well, you can tell John how you feel. And if he feels the same then that's good." Kathy advised.

"What would happen if he feels the same?" Sherlock asked "Would that make us boyfriends?"

"Maybe." Kathy smiled.

Sherlock lifted his head from her shoulder and looked up innocently "What if he doesn't feel the same way?" he asked.

"Well, you can stay being friends. You're still young, don't worry about it, Sherlock." She said.

Sherlock nodded and let her return to the story.

At the same time in the house next door Julie was tucking in her five year old too.