Chapter-3

I was sitting in the school library reading a book peacefully. Then suddenly someone called me.

'Adam Kate!'

Zach came to me all of a sudden whom I have never talked to willingly. He acts like a playboy. He always try to act cool but failed miserably every time he tried to.

'Please write me a letter.'

He heard the rumor that I write for others. Zach is a friend who grew no less than 36 cm during the winter vacation. I looked up at him and asked,

'To who?'

'To my fiancé.'

'Fiance?', I looked at him shocked.

'She's my dad's friend's daughter. They set us on their own.'

'You're lucky. You don't have to ask girls out on dates.'

'I am sick of it. I am not the type to date one girl. He forced me into this. If she mails me HE wants to check it. He wants to know everything. He acts like a FBI agent.'

'Who?? Your dad?'

He sighed and nodded placing a photo of a girl on the table.

'She is pretty,huh? But since she is congressman's daughter she'll be shallow.'

~~~

I came to village to spend my vacation here.I was in the river with some village boys catching fish.

'Drive!Drive!Fast!'

'You let them slip out between your legs.' one of them said being annoyed by my action. I accidently let go the net and the fishes slipped out between my legs and now I am in trouble.

'City boys are slow.'

'Gransia isn't a city, Grustia is.'

'Oh Gransia...we have a city hall.' we started arguing about cities.

'You catch them and I'll draw them. Look carefully,idiot.Let's go.'

Then they again started catching fish but I wasn't giving attention cause I was looking at a figure behind them. A fairy riding a cart. She was looking at our direction with a small smile mixed with curiosity on her face.

'What are you doing?'

Then they look at the direction where I was looking.

'She is old Fernandes's granddaughter. I heard she is from Gransia.'

'Wait, you are from Gransia right?' one of them asked looking at me.

'Yeah.' I said nodding my head. My eyes still focusing on her.

'We can never dream of having her.Old Fernandes's son is a congressman.'

'So, she is a congressman's daughter.'

'Then she is a congressman's son, you idiot?' he said making fun of me.

I don't know what's gotten into me, I unknowingly waved my hands at her. And she looked at us with a smile painted on her face and waved her hands back.

'Oh!'

'She's .....'

'She is waving.'

'Let's wave back.'

'Hey, wave!' 'Hellooo!'

As I was standing behind all the boys they all thought she waved her hand at them. Only I know to whom she actually waved her hands. She was having an affect on me. I don't know what should call it.

~~~

'I found one.'

'Let me see!'

'It stinks.'

'I got one. It's a big one.It sure ate a lot of cow shit.'

We were in the field looking for beetles. They suddenly stopped talking. Then I saw the boys looking at my back. I looked back and saw the girl from yesterday. Her face had the innocence of a child. She had doe eyes, sharp nose and beautiful lips. She was here with one of her friend.Her friend asked us,

'Is it a beetle?'

'A beetle! But I have never seen one.' she exclaimed excitedly.

'Do you want this?' ,I asked her.

She looked at her friend like she is asking for permission.Then she came to me.I hold the beetle in front of her and asked her ,'You wanna bet?'

She was going to touch it but her friend yelled from behind.

'Yaah! It's cow shit, it's dirty.'

She moved away a little bit.Then she suddenly asked me kinda whispering,

'Have you seen the haunted house across the river?'

'What?... Y..yes.'

'Can you take me there?'

'yes.'

'Do you know how to row?'

'S..sure.'

'Then let's meet at the ferry at twelve tomorrow, okay?'

With that she left the place. I don't know what happened to my heart. It was beating faster than before and a weird feeling in my stomach. I smiled like an idiot looking at her figure walking away.

'What did you said to her?'

'She said something....'

The boys asked me with me with curiosity who were standing a little far from us.

'City boys are surely different.', one of them said throwing cow shit on my face. But I my mind was not with me as I didn't cared about what they did.

'Hey! Teach me how to row! You'll teach me, right?'

What do you think what will happen in the ferry?