My Sweet Naive Girl

Chapter 4

As Ariel was cleaning the study table, she spotted the calendar. A date was marked with a red circle. Nothing was written on it other than being circled. She became curious. Could it be Casper's birthday? She quickly went to find Grace as she ran down from her room.

"Grace! Grace!" Ariel called out.

"Good evening Ms. Ariel." Grace greeted her.

"Just Ariel. Anyway, do you know what is going to happen on 6th June?" Ariel showed the calendar to Grace.

"6th June? Oh, that's right." Grace thought for a few minutes, recalling the event behind the date.

"What is it?" Ariel was eager to know as she seemed to hurry Grace to answer.

"It's Mr. Casper's birthday." Grace finally answered.

"I knew it! Thanks, Grace." Ariel smiled as she walks out of the kitchen. This will need a birthday party. She thought to herself as she walks up the stairs as she stares at the calendar happily.

"Ariel."

"Yes?" Ariel almost falls off the step and casper was fast enough to catch her through her waist. "Oh, Casper."

"Can you please be careful?" Casper pushed her forehead using his finger gently.

"Sorry." Ariel slowly hid the calendar behind her, which happen to caught Casper's attention.

"What's that you're hiding?" Casper tilted his head trying to look behind Ariel.

"It's nothing. It's just the calendar." Ariel smiled. She knows she can't win against Casper.

"Oh." Feeling weird with Ariel's behaviour, he just walks down the stairs.

Ariel followed as Casper walked down the stairs. "Where are you going?"

He stopped and turned to look at Ariel. "I'm getting dinner."

"Wait for me." Ariel quickly went to the room to return the calendar as she heard Casper shouting.

"Hurry up! I'm gonna leave you."

"Coming!" Ariel quickly caught up to Casper that was nearing the last few flights of stairs.

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Ariel struck out 'Food' in her to-do list. She then checked her to-do list and she was writing something down when someone tapped her shoulder.

"What are you writing there?" Laura sat in the seat in front of Ariel.

"Just something that I need to do," Ariel answered simply.

"Oh. Alright." Laura did not want pry further, as she turned to the front.

Lessons had begun and Laura felt a tap on her chair. As she turned, she received a note from Ariel. The note said, 'What is an ideal present for a guy?'

'How would I know that? I'm not a guy!' Laura wrote and passed it back to Ariel.

Ariel wrote her reply as soon as she read the reply from Laura. When Laura received the note again, 'I still need to know it from a girl's view. What would get for a guy?' was written on the note.

Laura took a bit of time to think. As she stared into space, not paying attention to Mr.s.. Johnson teaching, she finally got an idea after 5 minutes. She quickly wrote 'clothes' when Mrs. Johnson's view was away from her and passed the note back to Ariel. Ariel took the note and smiled. She knows just what to get him.

When class was over, Ariel quickly rushed out of the classroom while quickly giving a wave to Laura and Simon. They looked at her mindlessly and at a glance, she was gone. Laura and Simon looked at each other but soon shrugged, not knowing anything.