For example: Elephants! Friends for Hannibal!

"Charlie," she started again, but fell silent, looking at his face. He really did look older. Properly thirteen. And his words made him sound even older still. "You wouldn't be letting me down, kid. You'd be proving me right."

But he says he loves her once, twice, and it knocks the wind out of her enough that she pulls out of his grasp. "Don't make promises you can't keep."