An Optical Gift
This
story is purely fictional, any characters names, situations, events and
problems described are purely coincidental.
by Bobby
I fell in
love for the first time when I was 5. Really! It was in the kindergarten. I
started kindergarten that year as my mom thought I needed to get used to a
group of children before I would start elementary school. And .. I fell in love with a girl the very first day. I still
remember her name: Martina. She was cute. Tiny girl with red hair and small
glasses on her nose. We played together.
Later in
the first grade of my elementary school I fell in love again. I do not remember
the name of the girl, but I remember her auburn pig tails, little nose and her
glasses. She wore those glasses children used to wear in the mid sixties.
Rather cat eyes, brownish. She wore a grey plastic patch over her right eye. I
did not know why, but I liked that. I never spoke to her. I just looked. It
took one year. Ten her family moved and I have not seen her since that last day.
