**In the village of Sheitok in Grandivia, there lived a very beautiful girl with blue hair and a fairly high IQ, which is to say, a bit of a nerd, named Victoria. Morning dawned on August 25, a Friday, just the day before Victoria's birthday.**
Excited to soon turn 17, Vic, as her mother usually called her, got out of bed like a physical education coach in "Barking at Stars (1998)" (Dragan Jovanovic) and hurried to the terrace to see the white clouds "floating" across the vast, blue lake that held a dazzling, yellow jewel at the bottom, formed from celestial dust.
After inhaling the hot summer air, which strangely smelled like blood, Vic returned to her room, made her bed, and set herself a very difficult task - What to wear today?
After agonizing over it for fifteen minutes, she put on a blue dress with suns and went downstairs to see what there was to eat. As she descended the stairs, she thought about going to the library in the nearby town of Kortex today. Her mother greeted her in the dining room with sandwiches already made long ago.
"Hey, Mom, are you already up?" Victoria asked with a big smile on her face.
"Yes, dear, I am, but you always sleep until noon in this house. And what's with the frown since this morning? Is it a boy, perhaps?" her mother asked with a curious grin.
"No way, Mom, don’t be silly. Where's dad?" Victoria replied with a slightly smaller smile than before.
"He's at work, dear. You'll never know where your father is when you wake up so late. You should have had breakfast long ago. Come, sit down at the table and take a sandwich.
"I think I'll go to the library today to see if there's anything interesting," Vic said somewhat excitedly.
"Go ahead, dear, go. Go freely, find whatever interests you and browse through it. Oh, if only you knew how many books I’ve read when I was your age. Not like you all now, glued to your phones. Well, I can't say you excessively use your phone. You've surely heard how harmful that is and how much it emits harmful rays," she proudly stated.
"No, Mom, it's just that I have this crappy Sony Ericsson Vodafone where you can't talk normally, let alone do anything more. I've been asking you for ages to buy me a decent Android phone so I can at least take pictures, but you always make excuses about not having money, etc. All my friends have better phones than me!" she exclaimed, feeling frustrated.
"But Victoria, how many times do I have to tell you we don't have the money for such luxuries? I'm not working right now, dear... Once I get a job, there will be, don't worry," her mother said promisingly.
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"Okay, Mom, I'm going now. See you, bye!" she said excitedly.
"Alright, bye, lock the door and have a good time!"
"I will, bye!" the girl said, thrilled to finally leave the house.
She took her keys and locked the door. As she walked towards the bus stop, she looked up at the sky and pondered on how far our planet is from the sun and other planets. She had always been interested in space and constantly wondered if there was life beyond planet Earth.
When she reached the bus stop, she noticed only an elderly couple sitting on the bench, waiting for the bus. The old man was bald with white mustaches and a hat resembling Charlie Chaplin's, wearing a white shirt with a red seagull embroidered on it and long brown velvet trousers. The old lady, seemingly a bit younger, had gray hair tied in a bun covered with a black net. She wore a purple jacket and a long black skirt.
I approached and sat on the bench next to them. While waiting for the bus, I overheard them discussing an order for marble slabs, vanilla cookies, and flowers. At first, it seemed very strange to me, but when they mentioned candles, I realized they were talking about a cemetery. I still didn't understand the mentioned marble slab. After a long conversation, I realized that grandpa, Bill, was a stonemason, and grandma, Gabriela, ran a flower shop called "Seagull" at the end of the village.
After a long wait, the bus finally arrived, and I boarded and took a seat. I noticed that the bus was almost empty and that all the passengers were much older people. Even the driver was no younger than sixty.
I was astonished at how such an old driver was able to drive the bus. I sat down and put my MP3 headphones in my ears. Time passed unnoticed, and soon I was at the station in the city.
The bus stopped, and I got off. The sight was incredible. So many people, all rushing somewhere. I don't remember ever seeing so many people in one place. I put my headphones in my bag and headed towards the library. The way to the library included passing through the market.
At the market, I could see so many different people all in one place for the same goal - money. Everything was being sold - from apples to live chicks, fish, sweets, etc. The market was a magical place for me. People gathered there to display their goods, waiting for buyers. Buyers constantly haggled to get the lowest price.
The market presented a completely unique sight that people hardly ever get to see because of the supermarkets that keep opening in various places around the city. After a short walk around the market, I reached the library.
On the library door, it said the opening hours:
Weekdays 8.00am - 5.00pm
Weekends 7.00am - 1.00pm
I opened the door and had quite a sight - so many, many books. There were various books from "How the world was created" to "How to revive artificial flowers :)". I started browsing around, looking for something about the cosmos and life on other planets.
I went from shelf to shelf, looking through each one until I finally found a book "worthy of my reading" titled "Planet in the Fiban Galaxy Where Life is Possible".
I thought to myself - WHAT AN EXCITING BOOK! - and accidentally said it out loud. At that moment, the old librarian in the corner spoke up, saying:
"Shh! Let others read in peace."
I ignored her and took the book when suddenly, from the other side of the shelf, a beautiful, black boy was smiling at me.
"Hi!" he said, winking at me.
"Hihi, hi!" I replied shyly, blushing.