First Love Cannot Remain Hidden for Long

"they did not know what they desired. This only knew, that the kiss had destroyed him and the bath had destroyed her" - Daphins and Chloe (pg 149).

     Daphins and Chloe share what I deem the most pure time of love. They are truly bonded together in their friendship and the way in which their lives have been intertwined since each of their interesting births. Their births may be the element of the story that makes it a worthwhile and memorable story. Frye seems to highlight that a story must catch attention in its narrative aspects in order to be a story worth telling. The love that blossoms out of their early childhood can correlate directly to a connection made from their origins initially.
     Chloe is the first to recognize and identify her feelings towards Daphins. She is innocently helping him bathe and realizes then that "he seemed beautiful to her. And because that moment was the first time he looked beautiful to her, she thought that the bath was the cause of his beauty" (143). It is an interesting idea that she thought he was beautiful as a result of the bath. I know from personal experience that sometimes you never really see a person. It takes just that one altering glance or that one instance when you really and truly look at someone that your view of them changes. This I think is what Chloe is undergoing, she has know Daphins for so long and this bath was the time when she really sees him. But even after this she has a hard time explaining to herself that she does in fact have these feelings of love for her dear friend.
    Daphins is different in that it took their first physical encounter for him to uncover his romantic feelings for Chloe. After being chosen for a kiss by the already desirous Chloe Daphins reacts "like someone who had been bitten rather than kissed...Then, as never before, he was filled with admiration for her" (146). He requires that physical awakening where as Chloe was visually stimulated. It seems as though the male and female ways of discovering love are varied, but that if those true feelings of love exist there is no way to keep them hidden for long.