Kim stood at her locker gathering her books for her first period class. "Another day of school, another day of homework," she sighed to herself. Then someone tapped her on the shoulder.

"'Morning, Kim," Jack said smiling, with his hands behind his back.

"Hey!" Kim lit up, she was always able to look foreword to seeing Jack each day. She gave him a quick kiss.

Still grinning, Jack said, "Happy One Year Anniversary."

Kim put her arms around his neck, "that's right, it has been one year! that's probably a lot longer than how long the average teenager stays in a relationship."

Jack laughed, "yeah, in teen years, we're probably the equivalent to an old married couple."

"haha," then kim noticed that Jack's hands were still behind his back. She removed her arms from him and stepped back, "Watcha got behind your back, Jack?" she asked.

"oh nothing much," he said pulling out what was behind him.

"Jack, I thought we agreed we're not buying anniversary gifts for each other!" Kim protested looking at the small, flat, dark blue, velvet box he held in his hand.

"I know," Jack said, "but I didn't buy it."

Kim gasped dramatically, "you stole it!"

Jack rolled his eyes, "Just open it."

Kim smiled and opened the box, inside was a friendship bracelet that had the word "Love" woven into it. "Jaaaaacckkkk!" she said in awe, "this is beautiful! I didn't know you knew how to make friendship bracelets."

Jack laughed, "I don't," he admitted, "I've heard about them, and I asked my mom to teach me how to make them. 'Cause Kim, you're not just my girlfriend, you're my best friend in this whole world"

Kim kissed him again, this time more passionately. As Jack helped her put on the bracelet Kim said, "You even used my favourite colours. And I don't even know how to weave words into friendship bracelets! I hope it wasn't too difficult."

"Nah, it took me a while to get the hang of it but I eventually got it," Jack said

"I feel bad now that I don't have anything for you!"

"Don't Kim, you being my girlfriend is a great enough gift."

"Ugh, why do you have to be such a charmer? I'm probably the lucky one, I bet there are hundreds of girls at our school that would want you as their boyfriend."

"HA! sure whatever you say, kim"

"seriously, i'm gonna make this up to you!"

Jack held onto Kim's hands and looked her in the eye, "the only thing you can do for me is join me at Falafel Phil's tonight for dinner."

Kim gave a slight pout at the the fact that he wouldn't let her do anything for him, "ok," she said, "but I'm paying!"

Jack rolled his eyes, there was no use in fighting her so he said, "fine, whatever you want"

Kim smiled, satisfied, and kissed him again. The two headed off to their first period class. Kim said, "are you sure you don't want to go somewhere nicer? I know we don't typically go on fancy, overly-romantic outings, but if you're interested I can pay for it! it is our anniversary."

Jack laughed, "KIM! it's okay! I mean if YOU want to do something fancy tonight, I'd be cool with that, just don't expect me to wear a tie."

Kim shook her head, " please i've learnt to not expect that months ago. And I don't want to go to fancy restaurant either. Falafel Phil's it is!"

"Our favourite place?"

"Our favourite place"

After their dinner at Falafel Phil's, Jack and Kim went on a walk in a nearby park. They then found a nice, private spot under a tree and made themselves comfortable. Jack wrapped his arms around Kim and held her close to him. Despite being her boyfriend for one year, his heart still raced whenever she was this close. The smell of her hair made him never want to let go of her. She looked up at him with her beautiful brown eyes and smiled at him. Jack smiled back and leaned in and kissed her. He could feel her hands on his back and loved the way she tightly grasped him. He put his hand by her cheek, feeling its softness. He savoured every moment he had with Kim. He never met any girl he had felt so strongly about.

Then his phone rang.

"you wanna get that?" asked Kim.

Jack shook his head, "Nah, if it's important they'll leave a message." he continued to kiss her.

The phone stopped ringing.

"See," he said.

Then his phone rang again.

Jack groaned, "sorry kim, apparently this must be pretty important if they keep calling me like this. I'll be quick."

"no problem," kim said.

Jack pulled out his phone, "Hello?" he said, " Hey Danny! what's up? I haven't heard from you in ages! What? you're coming here for a visit? that's so awesome! Yeah, of course we'll hang out. Cool, I'll see you soon. Talk to you later."

Kim smiled at him, she enjoyed seeing the excitement in his face that he got from this phone call. "Who's Danny?" she asked.

"This old friend from back when I was training with my grandfather in China. We were like inseparable, we trained and hung out with each other all the time. We were at pretty much equal levels so it was always a challenge when we were up against each other. Danny is also a pretty good skateboarder. We've gotten in trouble a few times for being late for training because we lost track of time skateboarding. After I moved here, we kind of lost touch with each other. But I guess Dan was able to find my number."

"That's so cool that you're gonna get to meet up with your old friend!" Kim said, happy for him. "So do I get to meet this Danny?"

"Yeah of course!" said Jack, "always proud to show off the girlfriend," he grinned.