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Girl Meets Boy

And suddenly there he was, this tall, quiet boy in a blue andwhite shirt . . . I'll always remember the first time I saw him.

Donna is on a boat. She is going to Spain with her family for a holiday. On the boat she sees Mark, a tall, good-looking boy. But Mark is very shy and he doesn't talk to her on the boat. W h o will help them to meet?

Will they be together?

Derek Strange writes books and stories for y o u n g people. He lives in London with his family. He has one son; his name is Mark. In July 1993, Derek and Mark went to Spain on a boat for a holiday . . .

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Girl Meets Boy

DEREK STRANGE

Level 1

Series Editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter

Addison Wesley L o n g m a n Limited Edinburgh Gate, Harlow,

Essex C M 2 0 2JE, England

and Associated Companies throughout the world.

ISBN 0 582 40111 9

First published by Penguin Books 1995

This edition first published 1998

T h e moral right of the author and of the illustrator has been asserted Typeset by Datix International Limited, Bungay, Suffolk Set in 12/14pt Lasercomp Bembo

Printed in Spain by Mateu Cromo, S.A. Pinto (Madrid) All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the Publishers.

Published by Addison Wesley Longman Limited in association with Penguin Books Ltd., both companies being subsidiaries of Pearson Plc

Donna's story

My story starts in late July. It was July 21st, I think. It was the first day of our holiday, a hot July day. I stood in the sun and looked at the sea. It was eleven o'clock in the morning. I was on the boat at Portsmouth with my mother and father and my sister, Louise. Sea birds played near our big boat and the small boats near us on the sea.

I started to look at the people with us on our boat.

They all watched the sea birds and talked and laughed.

They were all happy on the first day of their holiday too. And suddenly there he was, this tall, quiet boy in a blue and white shirt: he was really good-looking. I'll always remember Wow! He's lovely.

the first time I saw him.

Look!

He didn't see me then. He was with some friends.

One of the boys was his brother, I think: they had the same blue eyes, the same mouth and nose, nearly the same hair. His brother and one of the boys with him tried to catch the sea birds and he smiled at them. Then they came and stood near us, and they talked about the small boats on the sea. I watched him over Louise's head all the time!

His brother and his friends made a lot of noise, but he was quiet and didn't talk a lot. Then suddenly he looked at me and his eyes stayed quietly on me . . . and he smiled his lovely smile with his shy blue eyes.

The people near me on the boat, the sun, the sea, the birds, the noise of his friends, time - it all stopped.

At that m o m e n t there was only him and me, me and him. Him and his smile for me. Only the two of us.