Well, the seven days thing is obviously failing, because I'm queen of lazy and all that. Still - here is chapter 3. :)

3. One-Sided Love

When John meets Alice at the age of fifteen, he's convinced. He's grown up since Marie, he knows he has, and Alice is pretty and clever and sweet and gentle, and John knows he loves her. He sends her flowers from his father's shop, shares his lunch with her, buys her little presents and hides them in her schoolbag, for the pleasure of seeing her surprise when she finds them. After all, isn't that what love is?

He's told nobody, but he really is in love with Alice.

And his heart really is broken, when he sees Alice kissing George on the cheek as they walk together towards the path through the woodlands – the path known to the whole school as the meeting point for lovers.