[FUN WITH READING 2018-20210A] A Romantic Meeting

20210張翔喻 (CHANG, HSIANG-YU)

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TITLE OF THE BOOK: Red roses

NAME OF THE AUTHOR: Christine Lindop

YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2008

ISBN: 9780194234344

A Romantic Meeting

We can easily guess that the story is about love from the cover which is full of roses. Love sometimes comes without warning. This is a story full of romantic scenes and touching moments. This is a story about a boy and girl falling in love because of coincidence.

In the beginning, they were both strangers. One day when Anna was waiting for her friend Vicki to drive her to school, all of a sudden, she saw a man walking to her with a bunch of roses. A thought flashed through her mind, “He looks nice.” Meanwhile, the boy which she was looking at whose name is Will saw her, too. A thought flashed through his mind “what a beautiful girl.” he thought. Then he smiled at her. Anna’s face turned pink. Just when Anna was thinking what to do, Vicki arrived. After the romantic meeting, Anna was absent-minded every day. She was wondering what the man was doing with the bunch of roses, “Is it for his girlfriend?”. And on the other hand, she also wondered who the girl was. He asked his grandmother, who he gave the roses to, “Is there a girl with golden hair playing the guitar?” His grandmother paused for a while and said no. Then in the following days, they didn’t see each other until one day Anna went out to eat dinner with her friend, Tom. When they were about to head home, it suddenly rained cats and dogs; meanwhile Will was getting in his car which was parked in front of the restaurant the Anna and Tom went in. He saw his friend Tom and asked him if he went a ride. Tom thanked him and asked if Anna could take a ride, too. Will generously agreed. At the time, he didn’t recognize Anna because she was wearing a hat that covered her whole face. Then they hopped on Will’s car and headed home in the big rain. When Will heard that Anna’s home was Grandview Apartment, he started to wonder if she was the girl that he had been thinking recently. Same as him, Anna was wondering, “Will he be the man carrying the roses?” After a while, they arrived at the apartment, they got out of the car, and then they began to talk at the same time. They got shocked that he and she were the two persons. In conclusion, they got together. After that day, Anna’s balcony was full of red roses.

Love comes in an accident. They didn’t tend to fall in love but love crashed into them by accident. So, don’t be sad that love doesn’t come. Just wait for it and it will come someday.