The Seven Loves of John Bates: First Love
II. First Love
John's certain he's in love with Marie. He is thirteen and she is eleven, and there's nothing better than spending time with her. His brother normally tags along, but John's beginning to get fed up of him. When Marie's not there, George is fine, but sometimes he just wants to be alone with her.
That doesn't matter, though. It's alright to love her more, because one day he's going to make her his wife, and you're supposed to love your wife more than anybody, aren't you?
Then her father gets a new job and she moves away, he writes her but she doesn't care to write back, and it ought to bother him but it doesn't. Maybe it wasn't love after all.
John's certain he's in love with Marie. He is thirteen and she is eleven, and there's nothing better than spending time with her. His brother normally tags along, but John's beginning to get fed up of him. When Marie's not there, George is fine, but sometimes he just wants to be alone with her.
That doesn't matter, though. It's alright to love her more, because one day he's going to make her his wife, and you're supposed to love your wife more than anybody, aren't you?
Then her father gets a new job and she moves away, he writes her but she doesn't care to write back, and it ought to bother him but it doesn't. Maybe it wasn't love after all.