we went out of her room and into the hallway. There were a few people passing by which looked at us and made different expressions, but i didnt care. We didnt care. We had each other, and that was enough. We came out of the building and into the yard. i've always said the yars was one of the most beautiful things the school had. Given the numerous years the school had, there were big, ancient trees which gave shadow to the big yard. there were a couple of benches surrounding a little fountain with bushes behind. All of the benches were the same, placed around the little water source except for one. we calles that one the "ugly bench" as it was broken and far away from the others, surrounded by big, fluffy bushes. To that bench we were going.

"dONT YOU THINK THE YARD IS NOT THE BEST PLACE TO OPEN UP...'" SHE said, obviously reffering to all the people sitting near the fountain and in the benches.

"We're going to the ugly bench" i said "it wont be crowded there.." i explained. She looked at me confused.

"The ugly bench?" she asked "dont you think there are better, more beautiful places in this campus than the ugly bench..."

"yeah, maybe. But theres a reason, a very important reason for which i want us to go to the ugly bench and not to any other better, or more beautiful place"

She raised her eyebrows "if you say so.." she said as we got near the ugly bench.

She let go my arm and went to a side of the bench, where there was a green backpack. "Look," SHE SAID "somebody forgot his backpack here...thats weird. i didnt know people came here at all..." she said. She was do different, so genuine, so beautiful, that i was hypnotized, and it took me some seconds to answer.

"Its mine" i explained " i left it here before going to your room. It contains omething very important" i added and looked at her

"okay, mr mystery, are we going to play a game or not?" she asked as she sat down on the bench with a little smile on her face.

"Yeah" i said as i sat down next to her and took the backpackl. she was looking at me, i could feel her eyes on me as i opened the backpack and took out a brown little shoe box.

"Whats that for?" she asked

"you'll see" i answered as i left the backpack in the floor again, with the box in my hands.

"Inside this box," i explaines "there's fifty little pieces of paper. Each of them has a question written in it. The game ispretty easy. We'll take out a paper each and read the questions out loud. Then we'll have to answer them honestly..." i said, praying for her not to make fun of my silly game.

"okay" she just said and i sighed with relief "but i want to add a rule"

"whats that?" i asked

"we cant make any comments on what the other says and everything we say stays between us" she said

"Fair enough" i said "you wanna start?"

"no, you start" she said, and looked at the box, pointing me to open it and start the game.

i opened the box and closed my eyes, then i put my hand inside of it and felt the different creased papers on my skin. i took the one nearest to my finger.

i took the paper out and read it carefully, cursing myself for putting that question inside the box.

"read it out loud!" she said

i sighed and breathed deeply " whats the worst thing that could happen to you?"

"so…..?" she asked, probably intrigued, with a smile in her face.

"the worst thing would be….umm…. maybe be left alone in an island or something…" I said stupidly, not wanting to reveal the truth.

She looked at me attonished "you're lying" she just said

"what?"

"you're lying. I know when you're lying. Tell me the truth." She said

" im not lying. Ive never had really deep thoughts…"

"don't you dare lie to me, Miles, by saying you're not lying"

There was a silence, we both stayed looking at each other, she with a smile.

"OKAY…UMM..THE WORST, thing that could happen, ummmm, the thing that would break my heart the most,, umm would be.." I started saying "seeing you lie to me everyday again. Knowing you're not okay" I finished quickly.

"she raised her head and looked at me while I looked down embarrassed.

"that's umm-" she started to say

"no. you cant. Remember: no comments about what the other said"

"okay" she said and just smiled at me. The most beautiful smile I had ever seen.