The boy fell in love at first sight with the beautiful one they called Alex. Only idiots fall in love at first sight, and he was indeed an idiot, but all that really mattered was Alex.

Alex's twinkling laugh that shattered midnight stars into a thousand diamonds falling from the sky that others just called 'rain' because they were not idiots like the boy was.

Alex's hair that sprung from Alex's head in magnificent curls the color of the sun when it has just decided to set for the night.

Alex's eyes that gave the boy the same sort of feeling that you might get when waking up on a day that you've anticipated for months in advance.

Alex's skin that was unusually smooth like the cover of an old leather journal filled with beautiful thoughts.

Alex was all these things that the boy fell in love with, and Alex was not a girl, so the boy walked away feeling like an idiot; and if only he had known that Alex was an idiot too.

So like idiots Alex and the boy never fell in love because other idiots told them it was wrong, and the world is stock full of idiots who will never fall in love.