I get out of bed and dress into a t-shirt and some shorts. Not many people know this, but my town gets pretty warm in the summer. Everyone assumes it's always cold, but I guess it is pretty up north so I don't really blame them. I walk over to my Honda Civic and drive over to Wal-mart. It's filled with leftover Canadian flags from my birthday a couple days ago.

I don't think I'll need a shopping cart since I'm only getting Alfred's present. I scan some of the aisles wondering what exactly he would like. Maybe he'd like a t – shirt? I don't know…

I continue looking through the clothes section until I see it… a t- shirt with a Superman Logo

"It's perfect!" I say walking over to it.

I go to check out the price but suddenly I hear a familiar voice behind me. "HEY Alfred!" I hear Carlos's voice yelling at me. Oh great… not again! Carlos doesn't like my brother Alfred because of their history, so he constantly confuses me for Alfred and punches me in the face.

"No you don't understand!" I frantically back away. "Yeah right Alfred you can't fool me this time! Matthew would never get a Superman t – shirt!" he cracks his knuckles menacingly.

"Oh no!" I quickly turn around and run away from him.

I don't know if I can explain this one away or not! He saw me reach for a Superman shirt! Oh Maple Leaf! How am I going to lose him? I can hear him running behind me as I try and speed through the aisles and dodge the incoming shopping carts. I quickly look behind me to see if he's still on my tail.

Carlos is charging right at me with a look of determination in his eyes. AHHH HE'S GETTING CLOSER! I run faster looking behind me when all of a sudden I feel my face hit something squishy and I fall backwards landing on my butt.

I shake my head and see everything spinning while I hear someone talking to me.

"Oh my! Are you okay?" the person asks me.

The room stops spinning and she suddenly comes into my view… OH MY MAPLE LEAF! She's the most beautiful girl I have ever seen in my life! Her hair is short and grey with two barettes on the side and an orange hairband. She's wearing blue overalls and a white button shirt that has a blue bowtie and-

Oh no…

My eyes widen when I realize what the squishy thing that I ran into was. I can't believe I accidently ran face first into her huge boobs! I feel my face going red as she looks at me with her gorgeous blue eyes while I'm sitting on the ground. "I-I-I… I'm uh…" I stammer

"ALFRED!" Carlos yells as he stares me down.

"AH!" I scream like a girl as he grabs me by my t – shirt collar.

"STOP!" the girl grabs me by the shoulders and pulls me back. Carlos's grip weakens and he lets go of me and the girl and I fall backwards and collide on the floor. I open my eyes and adjust my glasses to find myself… on t-t-top of her! My glasses are steaming up! Oh Maple! I must be blushing really hard.

"SORRY!" I blurt out while jolting upright and standing up. I can't believe I was on top of her! Oh no I hope she's not mad at me!

She gets up fine and looks at Carlos "Why are you being so mean to him?! He's not Alfred!" she says.

"Yes he is! I saw him trying to get a Superman t – shirt!"

"No, I know what Alfred is like. My brother used to go on and on about him. This isn't Alfred because according to my brother Alfred is loud and obnoxious." She suddenly pointed to me "He isn't loud and obnoxious, and I know my brother wouldn't lie to me" she explains.

"No you don't understand he's-"

"Are you calling my brother a liar?!" she gasps.

Suddenly Carlos looks frightened of her and then quickly shakes his head "No not at all!"

All of a sudden she smiles at him "Okay then, goodbye!" she waves at Carlos. He gives me a dirty look and then walks away. Wow… did she just save my life?

"Wow that was a close one! Are you okay?" she looks at me concerned. Oh no, I feel my cheeks getting redder "Uh… y-yeah I'm fine" I reply meekly. "So if you're not Alfred, who are you then?" she asks. "Oh… I'm Matthew, Alfred's brother. We look alike so a lot of people confuse us." I explain while staring at the ground.

"That must be awful!" she remarks. "I know I would hate to be confused to my brother. A lot of people don't like him either." She explains.

"Well it's okay, I'm used to it" I shrug still staring at my feet.

"Hey! You know what maybe we could hang out sometime" she offers. I look up and see her smiling hopefully at me. "S-s-sure…" I stutter. "GREAT! Here I'll give you my phone number and we can talk later." She grabs my hand and I feel my heart pounding loudly in my ears. Her hands look really tough, but they're actually soft as she writes her number on my hand with a black marker. I want her to hold my hand longer, but she let's go when she's done and hands the marker to me. "Now you write your number" she beams at me.

Oh Maple…

I feel my hand shaking nervously as I take her hand in mine. I'm really trying to keep my hand steady as I write but I screw up a couple of the numbers. Okay I'm finished now, just give her the marker now Mat.

I try to avoid looking at her… chest… as my eyes travel from her hand to her beautiful blue eyes. "Thanks Mattie! I'll call you!" she takes the marker and starts to walk away. I can hear a bouncing sound as she's walking away… those aren't her… are they? Oh man, I still feel embarrassed for running into her like that! I'm glad she's not mad at me though… and I'm glad she gave me her number.

I look at her number scrawled out in black marker and smile. I guess my social life isn't so terrible after all…