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** Subverted rather brutally with the eleven-year-old Sansa Stark. Sansa is delighted by her ArrangedMarriage to the tall, handsome twelve-year-old crown prince Joffrey Baratheon. Joffrey even makes a show of courting her. It's not long after that, though, that his veneer slips and he turns out to be a petulant brat at best and an abusive sociopath at worst.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Kids' Stuff", the heroes are all turned into kids, with mental states to match, which causes Wonder Woman's interest in Batman to turn into this. Batman seems to reciprocate, although trying to be cool about it.

* ''Literature/ByTheGraceOfTheGods'': Main character Ryoma is an 11-year-old boy who finds himself in this with 11-year-old girl Eliaria Jamil. Even when they are split off (since she attends a WizardingSchool while he works on his own business), they keep sending letters to each other. Fans joke that Eliaria's family are helping Ryoma increase his standing so he can marry Eliaria when they become older.

** The episode "[[Recap/ArthurS2E14SueEllensLostDiaryArthursKnee Arthur's Knee]]" [[ImpliedTrope implies]] that [[NewTransferStudent Sue Ellen Armstrong]] has a crush on the show's titular eight-year-old aardvark when she teasingly tells him that she wrote "nice things" about him in her diary, and he blushes in response.
** A later episode, "[[Recap/ArthurS8E9FleaToBeYouAndMeKissAndTell Kiss and Tell]]", Arthur's second youngest sister D.W. hears from her friend Emily that she was kissed ([[IKissYourHand on the hand]]) by a boy while visiting France and how it made her feel like a princess in a fairytale, and she sets out to find a "prince" of her own, choosing her classmate [[ShrinkingViolet James]] as her "prince" when he votes for her suggestion for what song to play at naptime in her preschool and spends the rest of the episode trying to get a kiss from him via HintDropping. [[spoiler:She does ultimately get him to kiss her [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot simply by asking him to]]]]. She later takes her [[ShipTease seeming crush on James]] even further in the S14 episode "[[Recap/ArthurS14E2TheAgentOfChangeDWUntiesTheKnot D.W. Unties the Knot]]", where she sees a reality show about fancy wedding parties on TV and decides to have [[TokenRichStudent Muffy Crosswire]] set one up for herself and James (telling her that the bride's name is "Deeangelenora Woo", which makes her not realize that the bride is supposed to be D.W. herself). [[spoiler:However, the twist here is that D.W. actually doesn't realize that a wedding doesn't just mean having a fancy party, but actually marrying the groom and living with him for the rest of one's life. When Muffy explains to her what marriage actually entails, she immediately starts having second thoughts about the whole thing and says "No" at the ceremony (not that it would have been legal for her and James to really get married anyway, since they are four)]]. Unfortunately for D.W.'s father, he still ended up with the ShockinglyExpensiveBill for the wedding arrangements, as per tradition.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Aang, who's 12, has a crush on Katara, who's 14. [[spoiler: They get together in the last episode]].

* ''Film/{{Flipped}}'': The basic love story of Bryce and Juli who meet since they were kids and their [[UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo switching feelings]] as they grow up as 7th graders.

* ''Literature/ByTheGraceOfTheGods'': Main character Ryoma is an 11-year-old boy who finds himself in this with 11-year-old girl Eliaria Jamil. Even when they are split off (since she attends an AcademyOfMagic while he works on his own business), they keep sending letters to each other. Fans joke that Eliaria's family are helping Ryoma increase his standing so he can marry Eliaria when they become older.

* The ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6350913/1/Harry-Potter-The-New-Marauders The New Marauders]]'' by [=PotterFanSteve=] has Al Potter and [[OriginalCharacter Carolyn]], who are pretty clearly [[NoLovesIntersect destined for each other]] from the age of 2 (actually 3, as Al continually reminds everyone) when Carolyn plants a (childish, innocent) kiss on him on Valentine's Day. It's kind of adorable and not really squicky, mostly because the story makes it pretty clear that Carolyn was imitating Harry and Ginny. After that the two are just best friends until they're 12 and 11, respectively, and even when they start dating not much more than cuddling and a bit of kissing goes on until the two really hit puberty.

* ''Literature/AngelaNicely'': Just like in the parent series, Angela has an unrequited crush on Bertie and thinks of herself as his girlfriend.

** Helga/Arnold is the most notable couple on the show, although Helga takes it more seriously than most people of her age. Hints are dropped several times that there will be a future relationship between the two. Had the canceled "Jungle Movie" been made ([[UnCanceled it is now]], better late than never), the series would have ended with Arnold and Helga as an official couple.

* ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'': Henry and June, it's rather obvious that they have crushes on each other.

* ''WesternAnimation/MartinMorning'': Martin and Roxanne. Roxanne even gives Martin a kiss on occasion, although it's always on the cheek.

* ''Literature/AngelaNicely'':
** “Starstruck!” establishes that Angela and her friends (all six-year-old girls) find a pop star “dreamy”.
** Just like in the parent series, Angela has an unrequited crush on Bertie, and thinks of herself as his girlfriend.

* A pretty weird example in a short story called ''The Brushwood Boy'' by Creator/RudyardKipling, it follows the life of a man named George Cottar from childhood to a glittering public school career and finally distinguished army service in India. Throughout it all he remains totally uninterested and unaware of women, despite them constantly throwing themselves at him. However, since early childhood he's nightly had dreams about a girl he met once at a pantomime, sharing adventures with her in an unchanging dreamscape. He thinks she's a figment of his imagination, but, when he's on leave from the army decades later, his mother invites an old friend and her daughter (who's just composed this charming song about dream adventures she's has all her life with an imaginary boy) to tea… Long story short, it ends the day after she arrives with the two of them lamenting the fact that they need to go through the formality of getting engaged before marrying.

* ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'': According to Riki, he briefly had a crush on Rin in middle school [[GreenEyedEpiphany when he realised that other guys were starting to notice her]]. It didn't really last, though.

** The webcomic continues the ShipTease between D.W. and James from ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', [[TimeSkip who are now eight years old]], and it seems that EveryoneCanSeeIt, even themselves, though [[CannotSpitItOut neither of them can quite admit it]]. There's a whole arc, "Play-Date", dedicated to exploring their feelings for each other. After the conclusion of that arc, it seems they've actually had a RelationshipUpgrade.

** A one-sided example with yet another one of D.W.'s classmates, Lucy, who is shown to have a crush on Bud Compson. Unlike the other two examples, there is no indication that her feelings are reprociated.

* ''Webcomic/NineteenNinetySomething'': Michelle's little sister, Jenny and Kendra's little brother Eric. They declare themselves "boyfriend and girlfriend" in the rebooted continuity. [[https://1990somethingcomic.com/comic/february-13-1993/ Their older siblings]] [[ShipperOnDeckl enthusiastically approve.]]

* There's quite a bit of romantic tension in ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', despite most Pokedex Holders being under 14 (at first, at least, since the series averts ComicBookTime):

** Ruby and Sapphire are all but an OfficialCouple. They like each other and [[spoiler:[[LoveConfession confess]] their feelings]]. However, Ruby [[spoiler:forgetting the confession]] puts a dent in them currently being a couple,

* In the ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' adaptation of the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime 10-year-old Serena has a huge crush on Ash. True to his nature, Ash is [[ObliviousToLove completely unaware]] of her feelings. [[spoiler:Surprisingly for a show that normally plays NoHuggingNoKissing straight for the main characters, she ends up kissing him in the final episode.]] The first few seasons of the anime also played a fair bit of {{Ship Tease}}ing between Ash and Misty, which the dub cranked up a little further.

* ''Anime/SonicX'' has Tails, an 8-year-old kit, fall in love with Cosmo, a young-looking anthropomorphic flower. [[spoiler:[[TearJerker It ends]] [[DidNotGetTheGirl tragically]].]]

* Al and May in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. May looks to be about 8 while Al is 14, but he's technically the soul of a 10-year-old boy who got trapped inside a large armor. The ending seems to imply that [[spoiler:they may have become a couple after growing up, as they're both shown in a family photograph along with Ed, Winry and their children.]]

* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'': Sanakan and Hugh have been in love with each other since they met each other as [[StreetUrchin orphaned pickpockets]]. [[spoiler:Then they literally make out in Chapter 18.]]

** J.P. and Maney have plenty of cute moments any time their on screen together.

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* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': When Lutz's older brother Ralph is introduced, one of the first things he does is [[PervertedSniffing smell Tuuli's hair and give her a compliment he seems to appreciate a lot]]. Myne promptly becomes a silent ShipperOnDeck for them.
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* In ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', one of the towns has a house with a pair of married children.