They both have feelings for each other at the beginning of the story.
But for them it was only the beginning of the real story.
Go back to the beginning of the story and start again.
How does the main character change from the beginning of the story to the end?
At the beginning of the story, he was around 15-16 years old.
The reason for that is lost at the beginning of the story.
And somewhere along the way he came to understand that what you see is, in truth, just the beginning of the story.
But the text is only the beginning of the story here.
Consider: a. What did the character want in the beginning of the story?
But size for its own sake is only the beginning of the story.