Of this book I read a long time ago when I was either in elementary school or middle school. It was one of the saddest books I recall reading simply because it was about lost love. It was childish and simple book, and while I remember it, I can’t recall the name of the book or any of the details for the life of me.

It was about a girl who lived in an underground society with people who lived hundreds of years old. She goes up to the modern world, and she meets a boy and girl who are like 15 or something. She looks their age, but she’s quite older. The boy and the girl live with their grandfather who in actuality is from the same society as the girl. He came up oh so many years ago, fell in love, had a family with the girl, and the girl dies while he doesn’t really age. His children and grandchildren and great grandchildren die, and the boy and girl he’s taking care of are his great great grandchildren or something of the like. He knows who she is, and he warns her about the life he’s lived watching his family die while he only grows a little older. She’s falling in love with the boy, but she fears that life, so she goes back the the underground.

Whenever I think of this book, which is quite frequently actually, I think of the song The Space Between by the Dave Matthews Band. I think that song was playing while I read the last few pages of the book or something. It’s always just struck me as perfect though because the lyrics just fit with the story. I’ve just been thinking of that book and that song lately, and it’s just weird I think. I don’t really remember the details or anything, and I just think, “What if I made that entire book up?”