It Started with a Kiss By : Rachel Guo
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Index
Chapter 1
Page 6 ~ 10
Chapter 2
Page 11 ~ 14
Chapter 3
Page 15 ~ 19
Chapter 4
Page 20 ~ 24
Chapter 5
Page 25 ~ 29
Chapter 6
Page 30 ~ 38
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Introduction: Two people – a genius, and an idiot They are totally from different places in different conditions. However, her brave confession and keep on carving unflaggingly. She makes all the impossible tasks into possible.
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Chapter 1 It was the worst day in Jean’s life. Her love letter was rejected and a serious fire accident destroyed her new home. Today was really not her day! Jean is a seventeen-year-old girl. She studies at a very famous senior high school- Yang Ming Senior High School. However, she is not smart, so she is in the worst class; everyone in her class is not smart and never does well on their
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tests. Naoki is a seventeen-year-old boy. He also studied at Yang Ming Senior High. He is the most intelligent
student
at
this
school.
Moreover, he is a very good looking boy. By the way, he is the boy who just rejected Jean. Jean has had crashed on him since she first saw him.
However, she was
rejected and Naoki said to her “I don’t
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want to spend time on this boring thing, especially you a brainless girl.” Jean felt so sad. She did not believe she could spend two long years on this proud, cold-blooded boy. Jean thought she was the unluckiest girl in the world. Why have all of these miserable things happened to her? Jean’s father, Charles, went to her and told her some “good news”.
Charles’s
high school classmate, Ben, read about
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the news of the fire accident from the newspaper.
He called Charles and
asked if Charles would mind moving to his house.
Maybe it counted good news
for Jean. Jean never thought Ben was Naoki’s father!! Well, how could she describe this “special day?”
When she saw
Naoki that night, she felt so embarrassed. She would be a groundhog so that she could dig a hole and hide herself in if she
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could.
She could not imagine what
would happen the following days.
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Chapter 2 Naoki and Jean have lived together for about two years, and they are going to graduate from school very soon. Naoki still treats Jean coldly, but Jean still loves him. She once said she will never give up the idea to be with Naoki. “Wait! Wait! Wait!” Jean said to Naoki and was running after him. “Look! From now on, you must stay
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away from me at least one hundred meters,� Naoki said coldly. Jean was rejected again, but she still kept walking after Naoki, and she really wanted to have an opportunity to be with Naoki.
However, it seemed the dream
would never come true. Even though she had been rejected many times, she still loved Naoki. Naoki’s mother, Helen, likes Jean very much.
She even wants Jean to be
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her daughter-in-law.
She saw this
situation, so she started to plan how to get Naoki and Jean together.
The
prince and Cinderella are supposed to have a happy ending, aren’t they? She created many opportunities to let Naoki and Jean get together.
She
always found many excuses and left two of them home alone.
Moreover, she
told Jean what Naoki liked to eat how to cook the dish and make a cake.
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Poor Jean, she never made the dish neither the cake successfully.
Jean
received some good information that Naoki was a very good cook because when she ruined the dish, Naoki was the one who always made the dish better and more delicious, just like he had a magic wand.
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Chapter 3 “Which university are you going to?” Jean asked Naoki curiously. “It’s none of your business,” said Naoki. “Ha-ha, I asked a stupid question, right? Of course you are going to National Taiwan University,” Jean murmured. “Well, could it be said that you want to go to the same university with me?” Naoki asked in a banteringly way. “Nonsense.
I never thought of this,
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and even more I will never qualify to go there,” Jean said nervously. She was shocked why Naoki knew what she was thinking about.
She
really wanted to go to the same university with him, but how? “Have you thought about your future, Naoki?
Go
to
National
Taiwan
University and after graduating from school, come to inherit my business. Don’t you think it’s good for your
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future?” said Ben. “I’ve never thought about going to National
Taiwan
University.
Furthermore, I am not planning to go to any university! I don’t need professors to teach me.
You know I can study myself.
Don’t make any decisions for me.
I am
supposed to make my own decisions, not you,” Naoki answered angrily. Jean heard about their conversation inadvertently. She never knew what
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Naoki was thinking in his mind, but she knew that Naoki had not figured out his living goal yet.
She was worried about
Naoki, but what could she do? She thought maybe she could help Naoki to find his own dream and future. Jean asked many people about their dreams, and she got some ideas.
Some
people want to be a college student; some people want to find a job after graduation; some people want to be a
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cook; and some people want to work for themselves, and of course to be a boss. Everyone has his or her own dream. Jean thinks the information might help Naoki to find his goal.
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Chapter 4 Naoki seems that he does not care about his own career, neither even talked about what Jean had done for him. He told Jean to stop daydreaming, and it was useless for him.
Moreover,
he laughs at Jean because he thought she was not very smart. “You are too smart so that it seems nothing to you.
You know what?
I
think the universities are only set up for
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you this kind person.
Even though we
are stupid, and always don’t do well on tests, at least everyone in my class still has his aim,” Jean said firmly.
“For
your own future, it’s worthy to take some tome.” Naoki never thought Jean would say this some day, and for what she said was right.
Well, maybe you could say he
felt a little thankful in his mind. Charles found a small apartment, so
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he and Jean moved out of Ben’s house. He did not want to disturb Naoki’s life because Jean. He knew Naoki would have a good future, so he could not let Jean ruin his life. Moreover, he wanted Jean to give up the idea of being with Naoki.
When Jean got the news about
moving out of Chang’s, Jean was very sad.
She thought maybe she never
would have any opportunity to see Naoki in the future.
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To make her father feel better, she decided not to meet Naoki anymore, but she knew she could not. Therefore, the best was to keep a distance from Naoki. She kept away from him the possible situations that she might meet Naoki.
However, things happen all the
time. She never knew that Naoki would stay at Yang Ming University, which meant she could not keep Naoki away
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her mind. For Helen, she was very pleased with this news, and she thought Naoki and Jean would keep in touch, and there were still opportunities that Jean could be her daughter-in-law. She was so sad about Charles and Jean had to move out of their house.
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Chapter 5 Naoki decided to go to the same school as he studied in senior high school.
After the graduation test, Jean
was assigned to University of Yang Ming. Jean felt a little happy with her test result. She would go to the same university as Naoki.
It meant there were still many
possibilities to see Naoki on campus. Actually, Jean felt a little happy about this news.
After all, she still
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loved him. There was a pretty and intelligent girl in Naoki’s class, Queenie. She also liked
Naoki.
She
went
to
this
university because of Naoki, and she had heard many things about Naoki when she was in senior high school. Queenie always found many excuses to “date” Naoki.
She asked if Naoki
could teach her schoolwork, and go to the movies on the weekend.
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Moreover,
she knew Naoki wanted to find a part time job, so she invited him go to her house and to be her younger sister’s tutor. When Jean heard about Queenie, she realized she had a rival! She discovered many ways keeping Queenie away from Naoki.
She did not
want Queenie to take Naoki away. Jean had a school brother, Jason, and he liked Queenie very much. He had
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long been familiar with Naoki, too. He was not very happy to hear that Queenie would date with Naoki. To win her heart, he even found a person to plunder Queenie, so that he could save her from the danger. That way, Queenie would think he was a hero. He and Jean always followed after them secretly, so that they could know what Queenie and Naoki were doing. The Christmas was coming soon,
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and Jean wanted to invite Naoki to go to party with her. She did not want to see Queenie go to the party with Naoki because it would be harmful for her. “If Naoki agrees to go to the party with me, it will be the best Christmas present for me. I can dance with my Mr. Right. What a life!�
She knows that is an
impossible task, but she still wanted to try.
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Chapter 6 “Jean, invite my son, it will be his pleasure,” Helen encouraged Jean. “But, Aunt Helen, you know Naoki will not agree to go to the party with me,” Jean worried. “Don’t worry, he is my son, and I know him very well. I am very sure he likes you.” “Aunt Helen, thank you very much for saying these kind words.
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I promise I
will give a try to invite him.
I hope he
will agree to it.” “Good girl, that’s my Jean.” Jean went to Naoki and asked him if he would go to the Christmas party with her. “Naoki, may I ask you something?” “Ok, what do you want to know?” “I’m wondering if you would go to the Christmas party with me?” “Um…..”
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“If you don’t want to, that’s okay.
I
won’t force you to do the things you don’t want to do.” “Well, I don’t think I have any date that evening.
I will go to the party with
you.” “Really? much.
That’s great, thank you very
I will appreciate.”
“No problem, just don’t make any trouble for me.
I’ll pick you up at six
thirty to evening. Is the time okay?”
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“Sure, no problem!
I’ll wait for you at
six thirty. Thank you.” Jean can’t believe that Naoki agreed to go to the party with her.
She felt
very happy after that night.
She was
too excited to fall asleep.
“Thanks for the ride, Naoki.
I thought
you would go to the party with Queenie.” “She did ask me to go with her, but I
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didn’t agree.
I think maybe I should
give Jason an opportunity.
After all, he
is working so hard to get Queenie’s heart.” “Well, I think you like Queenie.
You
go out dates very often.” “There’s nothing between Queenie and I,” said Naoki. “Really?” Jean said happily. “Yeah, we did go out.
But all the things
I can with her is just to teach her
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schoolwork. I don’t think we can be a couple.
She’s not the kind of girl I
like.” “Naoki, will you consider to be my boyfriend?” “Um…” “I have crashing on you for four years. I know I have made a lot of trouble for you.
But
I
really
didn’t
mean
anything.” “Well, you know what?
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Since the day
you gave me that letter, it had ruined my life.
Life has
become unusual anymore because of you. You
completely
ruined
my
life.
Everything had become uncontrolled as I planned. However, the irony is that you changed my life.
Before you showed
up, I didn’t know what I wanted to do in the future.
You helped me a lot and
also helped me to find my own dream.” “I….”
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“You know you are big trouble for me, but it’s very sweet. I don’t know what my life would be like if you had never appeared.” “I’m so surprised, Naoki, you know that?” “Maybe I’ll marry you… but not from the arrangement from my parents. I don’t know.” “Are you serious?’ “Do I look like I’m joking with you?
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Merry Christmas and so nice to have you in my life!” “Does it mean you agree to be my boyfriend?” Naoki didn’t speak, but Jean knew the answer.
She knew her life will
change badly into good. It was the best Christmas present she had received in her life, her life will become better and better because of Naoki.
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