Chapter 70

“I forgot it’s Natalia’s birthday tomorrow, and I have no idea what to get her!” he cried desperately, running his hands through his hair roughly, confirming my earlier suspicions about the style.

“Calm down, you’ve still got time. Now, what sort of thing does she like?” I asked, thinking about Natalia and all the things I knew about her.

“I wanted to get her something she could keep, but I don’t know what….” He closed his eyes, obviously panicking.

“calm down. How about some pretty earrings? She likes studs, right? You could also get her a new jewellery box or something to put them in,” I suggested.

His face brightened. “Yeah! She has this like old crappy jewellery box at the moment. That’s a great idea! Oh God thank you, Lucia. I owe you big time!

I’m gonna skip this morning so I can go get it,” he said, smiling excitedly and running off, shouting bye over his shoulder.

I walked back to the school and noticed that there was hardly anyone around.

Holy crap, am I late? I start