The Last of the Mohicans - Uncas/Alice
The Camerons were not the only ones to have teased Uncas about girls. Uncas didn’t mind. He didn’t have lofty ideals about it; what good were swoons and fluttering hearts like in the books they made him read in school, when what you really wanted was someone you could be friends with, someone to work towards a good life together?
He didn’t expect to look up one day and see a girl pause by a rock near a waterfall; a girl who stood in perfect stillness, soaking up his world with fathomless dark eyes.