An Almost Common Love Story (by Gabriel R.)

       The following story was told me by one friend, because I don't now any first date story.

       My friend (she prefers to keep her name unknown) told me her cousin Jenny* (in all this text, the little black ink star will mark the names changed to preserve the character's privacy) fell in love with Matthew*, a friend. But Matthew was in love with Vivian.

       On a sunny Sunday, my friend (let's call her "J.") and Jenny were at their grandma's house, watching a movie, Mission: Impossible (!) and eating popcorn (with honey -- !!). Meanwhile, Matthew and Vivian were walking together on J. and Jenny's grandma's street, between kisses and hugs (OK, actually, they were just walking together, without the kisses and hugs).

       Then, Matthew said: "Vi, now I'member! Sorry, but I must go to ***'s house."("***" is J.'s old boyfriend. Did you understand why the three asterisks?) So, M. said "bye" to V. there, and she said "bye-bye" to him, but the liar went to J. and Jenny's grandmother's house. (I really suspect J. has hidden something in this episode, maybe not to envolve ***, but I don't know the whole story, so... )

       So this story is too much boring, I'll finish telling you the end: Matthew confessed Jenny he loved her; one rainy month afterward Vivian found herself crying alone, for Matthew abandoned her; and spring's sunbeams shined through gray walls of clouds above the lovers' heads when Matthew, the Kind, asked Jennifer, the Unkind, to be his girlfriend (the real life was much less poetic. It was cold, he asked her, she said "aye" and they went out in that day. So boring. But nice.).