If they hadn't been human, they would've been butterflies.
Prompt: Andrometamorphosis - Plastic Tree

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Silently they watched each other as they grew. Neither one was aware of the other’s quiet observations, but both had arrived to the similar conclusion.

A beautiful creature has been born, rescued from the spite, hatred, and sorrow it had been accustomed to; everything due to a forbidden love that nobody would have expected.

But the latter part they didn’t know.