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"Hey, Dan, wanna go for basketball?" his friends asked him after the school bell rang.
"No guys, I've got something to do, urgent." he replied and rushed out of the school before they could persuade him.
Just as he stepped out of the gates, he heard the voices that made his spine freeze. It was them, again. "Man! What do these girls want??" he gasped and started to run. He heard the two girls shouting at him as he ran. "Hey boy, the good-looking one, you there, do you want to go cycling with me?"the first girl offered followed by the second "Or, we can have a date, between you and me, only me, at the cinema, we'll watch a love story and share popcorn?" Running non-stop until 2 blocks away, he finally stop to turn, how relieved he was to NOT see any moving shadows. He continued walking along the pavement, a little out of breathe after escaping from the girls that has been stalking him for 3 days in school. He took a small piece of paper from his pocket and studied the diagram with blotches of ink from a very bad quality pen. "Turn left at the first junction, then walk on until the apple tree? Ken, why can't you just remember the address..." he mumbled to himself.
After about 15 minutes, he finally reached the house with a garden filled with beautiful flowers and at the corner stood a very old tree, it's branches stretching out to form a shade of green. He went in front of the door and gave a knock. He waited for quite sometime and wondered if there was anyone in. Just when he was deciding to leave, he heard the door knob being turned. The door opened and in front of him stood a girl.He was stunned by her eyes twinkling like the stars in the night sky. "Hi," she paused, studied the guy in front of her and continued, "judging by that luggage of yours, are you looking for a place?" she asked and welcomed him into the house. "Yes" he answered and went in with his luggage.
The girl went to one of the cabinets, while taking out a few plates, she introduced herself, "I'm Mellisa, and you are?" He said he was Daniel and looked around the house which was filled with new furniture made of fine oak."You can put your stuff at that corner. Come have a seat, would you like to have Chinese tea?" she asked as she took a teapot with delicate carvings on it. "I'll try, I've never had tea in my life" he said remembering that his uncle fed him Chinese tea when he was 3 years old, which tasted so bitter that he doesn't even want to try any beverage with the "tea" word, but this girl was so sweet that he could not refuse. He sat down, took the teacup and tried drinking a sip. "How is it?" Mellisa asked while taking out a plastic container filled with muffins. "It has a strong aroma," he said, still not liking the bitterness of it. "It's too bitter for you, your face says it all" she laughed a little while handling him a muffin. "Thanks. Um, Mellisa, about renting a place..." before he could finish his sentence, Mellisa said, " That, Daniel, you'll have to go upstairs and turn left into the art room, you'll find her and ask all the questions you want. I'm going to the backdoor, you'll go yourself." He wondered who's "her" but didn't ask Mellisa as she looks busy. He went upstairs, hoping that he'll finally get a decent place to stay after sleeping 2 days on a wooden chair in the school library.
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