The Author: Karen Fang Words Checked: 4627 Words in Oxford 3000: 94%
CONTENTS About The Author......................................... 4 Chapter One .................................................. 5 Angels Wake Up Chapter Two ................................................ 11 The Boy in a Taiwan-logo T-shirt Chapter Three .............................................. 15 The Girl with Red High-heels Chapter Four ................................................. 19 Dream comes True Chapter Five .................................................. 26 2
Meeting Plan Chapter Six................................................... 33 Misunderstanding Chapter Seven............................................... 39 Angels’ Eye Drop Chapter Eight ............................................... 41 Miracle happened About The Author Love sign is talking about a story where the author lives. It’s a love story which is happened between a boy who loves to wear Taiwan-logo t-shirt and a girl who wears her red high-heels. They dream about each other because of little angels’ magic power. The little angels have overslept over five hundred days and that causes earth to have no love, they, therefore, decide to find their jobs back and make the plan. The boy with his friend and the girl with her friend try to find the one who appears in the dream everyday. Can dreams come true? According to this story, the answer is absolute optimistic.
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Author is a 4th grade female student in English department store of Wenzao. Drama and acting is her habit. After reading the story, you may understand the author better.
Chapter One --- Angels wake up In a faraway fairyland, every thing there is very quiet and hazy. The clouds are very close to you, so it seems that you can even touch them. Everything is almost white. You cannot see many colors in the fairyland. The animals are which you’ve never seen on the earth. Everything looks different, marvelous, and surprising. However, that peaceful and lovely scene is no longer broken by a long loud yawn. The little angels that have lived there for over a thousand years all wake up in this splendid place. Three angels, Sophie, 4
Maple, and Frieda, have dwelt in the fairy land together for a long time. Sophie is the youngest angel of three, and she also is the most fuddled fairy, always wants to sleep. Maple is very short-tempered and impatient. She cannot wait for one thing over than twenty seconds. Besides, Frieda is the leader of the angel group. She always has lots of interesting ideas and leads Maple and Sophie to carry out those interesting ideas. In the summer of 2005, they finally wake up from a long repose. They have already overslept for over five hundred days in the fairyland. After the long repose, what is going to happen? ‘Good morning everyone,’ Sophie wakes up and speaks drowsily. It is the first sound to break the quite, peaceful, and long time. ‘Good morning…,’ Maple answers her looking at the sky, ‘hey, it is evening now, not morning,’ she corrects her impatiently.
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‘Then…good night,’ Sophie replies and giggles. ‘How long have we dickens slept?’ Frieda asks wonderingly. ‘Well…we have overslept for over five hundred days,’ Maple thinks for a while to answer her question. ‘How long is a year certainly equal to on earth?’ Sophie asked. ‘One day in our fairyland is one year on earth,’ Maple answers stretches herself. ‘I don’t care about that; I want to continue to sleep.’ ‘I want to sleep, too. Good night,’ Sophie says contentedly. Soon, Sophie and Maple go back to sleep again. On the contrary, Frieda is thinking about something but cannot get the answer. She is pacing around the fairyland and tries to figure out the answer. Eventually she decides to ask Maple for the answer. ‘What is our duty? I cannot remember it,’ Frieda asks. ‘Our job is to spread love to the earth. What’s wrong?’ Maple replies directly. 6
‘So, you mean that there have been no love existing on earth for over five hundred years?’ Frieda says restlessly with huge shock. They have overslept that generates no love existing in the world. During the five hundred days, the people in the world became more and more unfamiliar. People care only about themselves. Love seems to be extremely rare in the world. Frieda suddenly gets an idea. ‘Let’s go back to work now,’ Frieda suggests to them anxiously. ‘But…how can we do that?’ Sophie asks. ‘I have a great idea. You just have to follow me!’ Frieda answers excitedly and gathers them to discuss the plan. What is Frieda’s plan? She decides to pick up a boy and a girl, and let them dream about each other in their dream. Every time, they can only dream about one part of her/his body from each other, for example: neck, ankle, and shoulder. They both have special signs on them. The signs are the things which angles 7
call “Love Signs.” They want to let love exist on the earth again. What will happen through the angles’ fancy ideas? ♦
Chapter Two--The boy with Taiwan-logo T-shirt
In another place—earth, and in a small country, Taiwan, the season now is summer. Summer is the moistest and hottest season. In northern Taiwan, the Taipei University is congested with many students as usual. Next to Taipei University, there is a bachelor flat called “Eros Land.” In the apartment, many students live there alone because the landlord forbids flat shares. ‘Austin! Austin! Wake up, wake up! It is already eight thirty now. Would you please wake up! I will never go to buy breakfast on holidays anymore!’ Edison is yelling angrily in front of the door, where a wooden plank showed “SLEEPING” is suspended. Edison is a student in the philosophy department among Taipei University. 8
‘I dreamed her neck! I dreamed her neck finally!’ Austin burps, gasps and walks out from his room excitedly. Austin is a student in the art department among Taipei University. There are some specialties for Austin; one is that he likes to wear Taiwan-logo Tshirt and another one is that he always burps when he is kind of excited. Austin and Edison rented a flat several months ago. Edison deceived the landlord that there was only one person who wanted to rent the house, so the landlord rented the house out to Edison and Austin. ‘What neck? I know, you dreamed about that girl again, didn’t you?’ Edison asks putting the breakfast on the table. ‘Her spotlessly white neck, it is so beautiful, as white as the sky!’ Austin immerses himself in his imagination. ‘Excuse me; the sky is blue, isn’t it?’ Edison breaks his imagination. ‘That’s not the point, okay. The point is that the girl who wears the red highheels caused me to think about her all 9
night sleeplessly.’ Austin is still in his imagination. Austin dreams of the girl only on Saturday night; every time he could only dream part of her body. Last time he dreamed of her shoulder, and the first time he dreamed of her red high-heels. ‘Come on, it’s only a dream, that is not reality.’ Edison doesn’t believe that dream and scolds him coldly. ‘No, I believe that will be possible. In a romantic night, she wears red high-heels and I wear my Taiwan-logo T-shirt. We enjoy the stars in the sky and spend all night together.’ Austin immerses in his imagination again. ‘Okay, forget it. Later on I would like to go to the library to do my research paper, would you like to go with me?’ Edison asks. ‘No, I want to continue to sleep for a while,’ refuses Austin. ‘Oh, right. We had better not go together because of the landlord.’ Edison seems to have something in mind.
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‘Please dry the clothes for me, thank you.’ ‘No problem. Take care, bye,’ Austin replies. Edison goes out of the apartment toward the school library. However, they don’t notice that on the other side of the apartment, there are also two girls having the same situation as them. ♦ Chapter Three --The girl with red high-heels On the opposite side of the “Eros Land”, there are two girls just waking up in a lovely morning 2005. ‘Doris, wake up. Today is a wonderful day; you shouldn’t have slept so long time. You should wake up and see the wonderful weather and wonderful season.’ The girl, Phoebe, in red highheels is talking to the girl in the next room while the girl, Doris, is walking out of the room with sleepiness. ‘Hum…what’s wrong with you this morning? You are speaking verse. Did 11
you dream about the boy last night again?’ Doris sits down and scratches her short dyed hair. ‘You are right. I dreamed about him again. This time I dreamed about his eyebrow.’ Phoebe sneezes and imagines the boy’s face. Phoebe is a student in the philology department among Taiwan University; she and Doris are classmates. Phoebe likes to wear her red high-heels, even though they are already old and shabby and she always burps when she is nervous. ‘Hey, I don’t think the guy is as wonderful as you say so. Think about this; a boy with a Taiwan-logo T-shirt…I think he may be a butcher. Whahah…’ Doris laughs at her and makes a clumsy posture as is killing something. ‘I am getting angry. If you deride me again, I will not talk to you anymore.’ Phoebe is angry and warns Doris not to deride her again. ‘I believe that some day, I will meet him on a romantic night; he and I held our hands
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together to view the stars in the sky. That will be really exciting…Ha—tu.’ ‘Okay my dear Phoebe; I believe that you are right. And I will check if there is anyone wearing Taiwan logo T-shirt for you.’ Doris apologizes for her rude talk. ‘I would like to go to the library later on. Will you like to go with me?’ Phoebe asks gathering her books. She puts all the clothes in the basket and gets her books. ‘No, we should avoid appearing at the same time. Because the landlady prohibits flat shares, I lied to her that I rent the room for me only.’ Doris talks stealthily and archly. ‘Alright, so would you help me to dry the clothes on the veranda?’ applies Phoebe. ‘Ok, no problem. Come back early, so we can go to the new restaurant tonight,’ Doris answers. ‘Okay. Bye.’ Phoebe says. Two girls are going to the two parts where the two boys are also going. 13
♦ Chapter Four --- Dream comes true The angels in the fairyland notice all the things happened on earth. They are worried about them, so they decide to let each one of the boys and girls see another girl and boy. They sent magic to the world. Here is the veranda of the “Eros Land” apartment. Because of Edison’s asking, Austin goes to the veranda and dries the clothes for him. The veranda isn’t big or small. There are already some clothes on the clotheshorse, some are for male and some are for female. The weather is pretty suitable for drying the clothes. While Austin is drying the clothes, Doris comes up to the veranda, too. Doris holds the basket with their clothes. At this moment, Maple follows them and also comes to the veranda. Doris and Austin cannot see her because she makes the magic to be invisible. When Maple sees that both of them are in the
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veranda, she is so anxious and excited that they are going to see each other. ‘If Doris sees Austin, she will tell Phoebe that she saw the boy with Taiwanlogo t-shirt, whereas Edison sees Phoebe, he will tell Austin that he sees a girl with red high-heels. Whahah…great,’ Maple thinks inwardly and chuckles. Austin hangs up the clothes one by one but he does not even see Doris. Also Doris hangs up the dresses, the clothes, and the shirts, but she does not see Austin at all. Maple is very worried and impatient. As Austin hangs one black T-shirt that separates him and Doris, Maple gets an idea. She takes the black T-shirt to fall off the clotheshorse so that Austin could see Doris and Doris could see Austin. However, the day was not Maple’s day; at the moment the clothes falling off, Doris is just turning to another side from Austin. So Doris does not see Austin and Austin does not see Doris either. While, Doris finishes hanging the clothes, she takes her basket and goes down stair. Seeing the 15
situation, Maple is getting more impatient and she is eager to let Doris see Austin. She waves her magic wand and it touches Doris’ shoulder. Doris suddenly feels something and goes back to the veranda. ‘Ah…’Doris screeches and hides herself briskly. She sees Austin and the Taiwan-logo t-shirt speechlessly. ‘Is that boy wearing Taiwan-logo t-shirt? How can that be possible? Could it be said that dreams come true. He really had a handsome face and eyebrow. I have to follow him and find out where he lives.’ As Doris is thinking about the plan, Austin finishes hanging his clothes too. She takes her basket and follows after Austin. ♦ On the other side, here is the front path of the library. Sophie is already there waiting for Edison and Phoebe. She is just like a little girl looking at every thing with great animation. While, Edison taking his books walks toward the library on the front path, 16
Sophie suddenly pretends to be an angel statue standing in the middle of the path. ‘I don’t remember here is used to be an angel statue.’ Edison sees Sophie and feels strange but continues to walk. Sophie at present sees Phoebe is walking toward the same direction, but Edison is getting further away. Sophie is really nervous and she decides to use her magic. She waves her magic wand and it touches Edison’s shoulder. Edison seems like he has forgot something and turns back to the front path. At the same time, he listens to the sound, ‘Koa…koa…’ and he suddenly sees Phoebe with her red highheels walking toward him. ‘Auch…’he cries out and lies prone on the road. Phoebe is so scared when she sees Edison lying on the road pretending as a dead body. She cautiously approaches Edison and wants to see what’s happened. Edison notices that she is approaching him. He doesn’t want her to see him, so he makes a terrible sound 17
to scare her. Phoebe is totally shocked by him and runs away with fear and doubt. Edison gets up after Phoebe leaves. ‘Red high-heels. There is really a person wearing red high-heels! How can that be possible? Could it be said that dreams come true? Wow, she is quite beautiful; I have to track her for Austin,’ Edison says. After he thinks so, he picks up his books and follows after Phoebe. Sophie is extremely happy when she sees Edison trying to follow Phoebe and she hurries up to go back to the fairyland and tell Maple and Frieda the good news. Angels make the wonderful plan to cause each one of the girls and the boys to see each other. They are looking forward to seeing the day that dreams come true. ♦ Chapter 5 --- Meeting plans ‘Edison, Edison. I am going to tell you the big news! I dreamed of her face; she is really beautiful! She is too 18
beautiful for me to explain her beauty,’ Austin runs out of the room shouting excitedly. While Austin is running out of the room, Edison also comes back and tells him the good news. ‘Austin, Austin. I have to tell you great news! The great news will cause you never to have a daydream again! Wake up! You will get great luck!’ Edison is also eager to tell the good news to Austin as soon as possible. ‘What’s the news? I believe that my news is better than yours.’ Austin is surprised that Edison also has the good news to tell him. ‘Really? Okay, you say first,’ Edison says. Then Austin tells Edison that this afternoon, after he finished drying the clothes, he came back to the room and had a nap for a while. He dreamed of the girl’s face. It’s the first time that he clearly saw her face. He is in haste to tell Edison the good news. After Austin tells him the good news, Edison tells him 19
that this afternoon while he was on way to the library he saw the girl with red high-heels. Edison told him that she is also beautiful and seems just like what Austin told him. ‘Oh my god. Is that true? Did you follow her? Where did she go? Where did she live? Tell me, hurry up!’ Austin is eager to know everything about the girl. ‘Please don’t be so edgy, okay. Don’t worry. I did follow her of course. However, the time which I followed her is getting longer; the distance to our apartment is getting shorter! Finally I recognize where she lives. She lives in the same apartment as we do; she is living across from us!’ Edison tells the big news to Austin. ‘God. I couldn’t breathe now! Should I go to talk to her now? What can I do?’ Austin is really nervous and doesn’t know what to do. Edison tells him not to do anything now. If he goes to her now, how can Austin know whether the girl also dreams about him or not. He suggests 20
Austin should do a complete plan which can make them know each other. They decide to make up a chance encounter tomorrow at nightfall. ‘Tomorrow, you make up the chance encounter on the way to the library, because I saw her on the way to the library at nightfall today. Now, we can make the complete plan and we can only wait for nightfall tomorrow!’ Edison tells Austin the plan confidently. And now, the only thing we can do is to wait for the nightfall to come. ♦ Across from their room, the same thing is happened to the two girls. ‘Doris, Doris. Wake up! Let me tell you the big news. This afternoon, I fell asleep and I took a nap; and I dreamed of his face! Not only the eyebrows, I saw all his face! He is really handsome and very charming!’ Phoebe rushes into the room and wants to tell Doris the good news. ‘Phoebe, Phoebe. Let me tell you my great news! Don’t sleep anymore; the 21
great news is too great to let you sleep. Come on, your luck is coming!’ Doris runs into the room and shouts toward Phoebe’s room door. Then Doris tells her the big news that she met the boy who always wears Taiwan-logo T-shirt this afternoon. Of course she followed the boy and discovered where he lives. ‘Really? Where does he live? Where is he now? Please tell me, hurry up!’ Phoebe is so anxious to get all the information of the boy with Taiwan-logo t-shirt. Doris tells him that this afternoon she went up stairs and wanted to dry the clothes, and she saw the boy in Taiwanlogo t-shirt. She followed him; however she felt really confused why he was in the veranda of this apartment, too. Then she followed him to the floor where they also live. The boy actually lives across from them on the same floor in the same apartment! ‘Dear…don’t tell me that is true. I cannot breathe now. What should I do? 22
Should I go to find him now? Tell me what I can do!’ Phoebe is too excited to think. ‘Of course not! You cannot go to find him now. You don’t know if he dreams about you, too; it’s too impetuous to find him now. You should wait for tomorrow nightfall and go to the veranda which I met him today. And we should make a wonderful plan to let you know each other.’ Doris suggests her. They decide to wait until tomorrow nightfall. Angels in the fairyland know everything, and they are looking forward to the nightfall tomorrow. They decide to use their magic to make the nightfall come earlier. Also, both the pairs of boys and girls are all looking forward to the nightfall tomorrow. However, will that really be a good plan or is that the beginning of a tragedy? ♦ Chapter 6 --- Misunderstanding
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It is almost nightfall the next day. It is also the time they are going to meet each other. ‘What time is it now?’ Austin asks. ‘It’s already four o’clock. It was the time when I met her on the way to library. Prepare your books and dress well. Let me check your apparel.” Edison checks the clothing from head to feet but stops on his T-shirt. ‘Gosh, you are still wearing this stupid Taiwan logo T-shirt,’ he is really angry when he sees the T-shirt. ‘Is that wrong? I think it looks great,’ Austin retorts. ‘Totally wrong! It seems like you don’t have any sense. Wear mine, this is better than yours.’ Edison asks him to exchange their clothes. Now Edison is the one who is wearing Taiwan-logo Tshirt. ‘Okay, you look better now. Go! It’s time. Good luck.’ Edison invigorates Austin. ‘Thank you, buddy! Please help me to collect the clothes which I dried yesterday, okay?’ Austin asks him. 24
‘Okay! You don’t have to come back so early! You know what I mean, right. Bye!’ Edison says. Austin takes his books and hurries to the front path of the library waiting for the girl with the red high-heels, whereas Edison takes the empty basket and goes up to veranda. ♦ In another side, the girls are already well-preparing. Doris suggests Phoebe to play the flute and show her good temperament. So Phoebe prepares the flute and a recorder; she is going to play the cassette. ‘It’s already four o’clock when I saw him yesterday upstairs in the veranda. Let me check for your dress again.’ Doris measures with her eyes from Phoebe’s head to feet, but stops on her shoes. ‘Oh my dear, you want to wear these shabby red high-heels!’ Doris is angry. ‘I don’t have other shoes to match this dress. What should I wear?’ Phoebe is very worried. 25
Doris thinks for a while and sees her own shoes, ‘here, you can wear my shoes. It matches your dress!’ Doris and Phoebe exchange their shoes. Now Doris is the one wearing the red high-heels. ‘Okay I am going to leave now. By the way, help me to return those books, okay?’ Phoebe asks. Doris promises to return the books for her. Then Phoebe takes her flute and goes to the veranda, as Doris picks out the book and goes to the library. ♦ When Phoebe gets to the veranda, Edison is already there to collect the clothes for Austin. Phoebe is excited originally when she sees the sight of Edison’s back. Yet as Edison takes a turn and Phoebe sees the wrong face with the right Taiwan logo T-shirt, she feels extremely desperate. ‘That’s not him,’ she says. She drops her flute and runs away with a broken heart. As Edison hears a big sound, he turns to the direction of Phoebe. He picks up the flute and tries to call her and 26
returns the flute to her, but Phoebe is already leaving. Edison feels confused and takes the flute home. ♦ On the front path of library, Austin is already there waiting for the girl with red high-heels. He is still practicing the plan that they discussed last night. At that moment, he hears the sound of highheels, ‘that’s her!’ Austin thinks so. The happiness is no longer broken because he sees that Doris is wearing the red highheels awkwardly toward him. Austin, feeling disappointed and frustrated, runs away without noticing that his books are dropped. Then Doris notices that the person in front of her has dropped his books. She goes toward to pick up the books and wants to give the books to the person. But as she approaches the person, the person runs away quickly. Doris doesn’t know how to deal with the books, so she takes the book back. ♦
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After seeing the terrible meeting, Angels get great grief and they regret making the stupid decision. They think if that could start afresh, they would wish everything wasn’t ever had happened. They cry for the sadness of Austin and Phoebe; they cry for the wrong decision. They cry and the sky also drops rain; no it’s not rain, it’s the angels’ eye drops. That is a miserable tragedy. Austin runs away to an unknown street. He is dejected and limps slowly on the street. ‘Jerry! Let’s hurry to go home. It’s raining now.’ A woman shouts to her son holding his hand. ‘Is it raining now? I only can feel the moistness on my face,’ Austin mumbles. His eyes are mirroring the grief that is in his heart and his soul. He doesn’t know what to do; he just loafs around until the rain stops. He cannot believe the dream anymore. He finally understands that the dream would never 28
come true. He goes back home and decides to move out of the apartment. ‘Stay here! Are you sure you really want to go? Maybe there is another girl who likes to wear red high-heels.’ Edison tries his best to persuade Austin to stay. But Austin doesn’t say anything; just keep ordering his things. ♦ Similarly, Phoebe runs away from the veranda and goes back to her room. She is extremely sad and cries alone in her room. After Doris comes back, she sees Phoebe crying sadly. Phoebe decides to go to the veranda and relieve her sadness. ‘I am going with you.’ Doris is worried about her. ‘It’s okay. I won’t do something bad. I will come back soon.’ Phoebe goes upstairs alone. Austin goes out of his room and decides to take his clothes and also returns the flute which Edison picked up earlier today. ♦ 29
Chapter 8 --- Miracle happened When Austin gets to the veranda, Phoebe is already there watching the night scenes. But it is too dark that Austin couldn’t see Phoebe’s face clearly. He thinks that the flute is hers; originally he wants to return the flute directly, but he just puts the flute nearly by the girl then turns back and gets down. Because putting the flute down makes some sound, Phoebe turns around and sees the flute and the man. She picks up the flute and wants to call him to stop; however she sneezes and that causes her to turn back. The sneezy sound makes Austin turn back again. He sees the girl and wants to call her, so he approaches her. But as he is approaching, he burps and turns back again. This time both of them wouldn’t turn back anymore. After a short time, Austin is standing in front of the right door. He wants to talk to the girl again. ‘There are so many stars in the sky,’ Austin says. For a while, he thinks the
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girl doesn’t want to talk to him, but she does… When Phoebe stands in front of the left door, she hears the man talking to her as she is really surprised. She looks around the sky and answers, ‘right, there are so many starts in the sky. It’s really beautiful.’ ‘I always dream about a girl with red high-heels.’ Austin feels impressed when he hears the reply and he knows even though he talking to the girl, she wouldn’t understand what he is talking about. However…she does. As Phoebe steps on the first step, she hears the coming sentence. She was shocked and excited. She answers, ‘I always dream about a boy in Taiwanlogo t-shirt.’ This time, both of them turn back and see each other. They recognize the front person is the one they have dreamed about every week. They finally meet each other and also make their dreams come true. ♦ 31
After this perfect case, angels find their jobs back and never oversleep anymore. As a result, the world is again full with love. ♌
The End
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