The next day I woke up with the big smile on my face. My parents gave me the best wishes and beautiful gift – green watch.
My good mood disappeared when I went to school. I had a lot of tests on that day and I couldn’ t forget what I had promised my mum.
‘ Hey … Rachel, right? All the best!’ A tall boy with little forced smile but friendly grey eyes was staying in front of me.‘ Oh, thank you. That’ s really nice. Who are you?’ – I asked.‘ I’ m Finn. You have a birthday today, haven’ t you?’‘ Yes. But … how …” – I wasn’ t sure what I should do. Did he know me?
‘ You have a watch on your hand. New. I figure out it has to be a gift. And you have been sitting alone all day, so … we have a lot in common’.
‘ I have to admit, you are really perceptive! I mean with this watch. It’ s not really hard to notice that I’ m not really popular person’.
‘ So am I! Listen. Today is Valentine’ s Day. Would you … maybe … go somewhere with me? I don’ t know, cinema, library …’
‘ You know, I don’ t even know you. Tell me something about you’.
‘ So … I’ m Finn, I’ m sixteen. I am keen on football and running. I don’ t understand chemistry. I love yellow colour. I’ m afraid of spiders. Moreover, I have two sisters, Grace and Isabel. And, if we’ re talking about me, I’ d like to take this opportunity to say that I love poetry’.
‘ Haven’ t you got any twin sister?’ – I laughed –‘ I’ m Rachel. I’ m sixteen. I love football and running. Okay, I hate yellow, but it doesn’ t matter, does it? I have two brothers, Cole and Sam. They aren’ t living with me now. They have their own families’.
‘ Really? And what about poetry?’‘ I don’ t understand it but I like reading it.’‘ So maybe we can go together to the library?’ Our meeting was really great. I have never read any of Finn’ s favourite
books but he wasn’ t surprised. He told me that he had never met someone who was interested in this kind of literature.
Afterwards, when we were eating ice-cream and walking around a city, he asked me:‘ Are you always alone at school? Why?’ I had to think.