The Boy from Brighton

After being saved from a near drowning, 11-year-old Charlie spends a day following his young rescuer through the streets of Brighton, unwittingly falling in love with the teenager. a love that will later return in time. Eleven-year-old Charlie thinks he is invincible. He is convinced he has a clock for a heart, which makes it impossible for him to die or feel the sort of heartache his mother always feels every time she and Charlie must flee another abusive loser who doesn't deserve a woman like Charlie's mum.
So yet again Charlie and his mum find themselves at Aunty June's in Brighton on the south coast of England. But while Charlie's mum seeks refuge, Charlie himself lets his curiosity get the better of him in his latest attempt to prove his own immortality. That's when he meets him. The boy who saves Charlie's life. The boy from Brighton. The Boy from Brighton is a sweet and touching 13k-word short story about a love so new and naïve it doesn't realize the wonders that await.
It is not a romance in the traditional sense, but its message is one of friendship, family and letting the universe do its thing in its own time.