Story idea

Hmmm...I'm gonna add to my wish list. I dunno which final fantasy I wrote on the other post, but I think I wrote the wrong one. Well, I'm gonna get final fantasy crystal chronicles: rings of fate and echoes of time.

Oh, yah, the story idea...
Guy working at supermarket is confronted by a little girl, who tells him "I have no parents."
He thinks she means that she lost her parents, so goes on the intercom to ask for her parents. The strange thing is, she can't tell him who her parents are, even though she's ten or so. She may or may not tell him her name to use.

When no parents come, he takes her to the police station after his shift, and they realize that she is anemic (right, when you forget everything?) and think that she is an orphan, and discuss sending her to an orphanage. The little girl enters the room the boy and the officers are talking in, and runs up to the boy and hugs him, apparently quite attached to him already. She refuses to go with the officers, and they ask the boy if it would be okay for her to stay with him (I'm thinking hes a college student, or somewhere around that age...), and he sort of grudgingly agrees.

Yes, they will have names. If the girl does not give the boy one to call her, than the boy will make one up for her. (haha, melon...) So, the filler is the few weeks they spend together until the officers get an orphanage to accept her, and do all that paperwork, etc.

So, my dilemma...I want the guy to fall in love. The thing is, the only people he can fall in love with are the little girl (option 1), or a random girl that helps him throughout the story (option 2).

Option 1: This option has to do with some type of magic, or physiological stuff. if he falls in love with the little girl, that would be about a 10 year age difference, and he would also be branded a pedophile. So, to avoid that, I would make it that the girl is actually just the wandering soul of a person (originally I thought it would be some (option 1.1) far off princess, but I don't really want this to be a fantasy mumbo jumbo, since it just doesn't fit, so it could just be a (option 1.2) girl his age, maybe in a coma?). He would fall in love with her because she is surprisingly mature for a 10 year old, and he would free the girl from her coma, and they live happily ever after.

Option 2: I was actually considering this one more, but then I came up with the more realistic (option 1.2) version of option 1, so now this seems kinda lame. So, in this one, this guy would meet another girl that helps him take care of the little girl, and he falls in love, etc, etc. then, turns out that the little girl has a family, and when she sees them again, she remembers everything, and yay, happy ending, the older girl and guy go visit her sometimes. LAME. She is the wandering soul of a girl in a coma. There. I've actually read a manga like that. It was an interesting idea, though I forgot what actually happened...in that, the guy in the coma was manifested as a ghost boy who wasn't able to pass on because his living self hadn't actually died yet. I think they did something like getting the ghost boy to meet his real self, and they joined, remembered everything, and woke up. Happy ending.

That's all I have for now. This would be a novel, not a manga, maybe cuz I feel like fantasy must be associated with pics, and this isn't fantasy...in a way...

Happy good Friday!! And happy early Easter, and if you know what this is, English STAAR testing!! Bleh...:43