The Billionaire's Daughter novel Chapter 4

The next day, I came back to my place at the library. This has been my spot. Away from the prying eyes and venomous mouth of my school mates. This is my hiding place. Here I spend my break time and any free time from my classes.

I was confused when I arrived there and a long stem of white rose was on the table with a note on it.

Saphira,

My peace offering.

Let’s be friends. Please?

-Franco

I smiled. Yes, for the first time I really smiled. It was nice to smile for a change.

Who would not smile from those simple words? Simple yet sincere.

“I’m so lucky today to see your smiling face.”

If blushing is a sin, well, now I am guilty as charged.

“Franco, you didn’t have to give me a peace offering or anything. But thanks anyway.”

“So, are we friends yet?”

I tried to look for any sign that he was just joking or pranking me, but I couldn’t find any.

“Well, given that I do not have any choice or say on the matter, I guess we are.”

He sat in front of me and took out a notebook from his back pack.

“So, friend, I reviewed our schedule, all the classes we are seated together as Briones, Franco and Castello, Saphira. Ahhh. . . it’s a great thing everything here is in order. In alphabetical order to be precise! But, I was wondering for Physical Ed, I did not find your name. Why is that?”

“Directress, I would donate ample amount to your scholarship foundation or any charity that you wish, just ensure that my daughter Saphira will NEVER play any sports while she is enrolled on this school. . . . That is the imaginary dialogue I conjured of my mother when she demanded from the school head that I be exempted from PE classes. That was after my heart surgery when I was in 4th grade.”

He looked at me with concern. I was thinking, how can he look concerned when he just met me yesterday?

“Oh. You mean, you have a heart condition?”

His words were worried and sincere. Some of the many things that I am starting to like about him.