"This wasn't some story book tale. There were no happy endings. People would get hurt. People would cry. The bad guys would probably win. But for the sake of living up to the reputation children had of being blissfully ignorant, he would pretend that this was a story. The men trying to kill him would be the villains. And he and Wendy, they would be the naively optimistic teens who told themselves they could win despite the odds. Who pretended they had a chance at all. They would be the pretenders. And so begins their story." - The Pretenders.