What is Love? It's tough for an 8 year old to know that she is in love with a boy 3 years older than her or just in love in general. Emily is a normal 8 year old kid from Doncaster. She's naive(she's 8) and doesn't know what is happening to her whenever he is around. She feels butterflies and rainbows whevever she looks at him. But the only thing she knows about him is that his name is Alex and he is 11 years old. Wayy too old for her.