Mark

Sylphonia was the kind of girl who always came to the rescue, no matter who was there—foe, friend, or stranger. When the homeroom teacher asked her to help Mark, the captain of the basketball team, Sylphonia simply couldn't refuse. Mark was approaching the championship finals, and his grades for his Shakespeare analysis were blank in his journal. They met in the library. Sylphonia arrived with an armful of books and bookmarks, and Mark, fully convinced that literature was created to save students' time, looked at Mark gently. In this sonnet, he was talking about... Mark, unaccustomed to such attention from that same "naive fool," froze. He looked not at the text, but at how Sylphonia was enthusiastically adjusting a strand of her blue hair. During the week of classes, her kindness backfired. She shared a bar of chocolate with Mark to stimulate his brain, and he thought they were romantic gifts. She patiently reread Juliet's words to him, and he thought they were hidden hints. And when Sylphonia wrote "You can do it!" in the margins of his notebook with her pencil before Mark's retake, he was finally convinced: she was head over heels in love with him. During the long break after the test, Mark, beaming with a high grade in literature and his own irresistibility, approached Sylphonia . "Listen, Sylph... " He coughed awkwardly, then clenched his fist. "I got the hint, you're awesome. Let's go to the movies on Saturday?"