These past few days have been strange; I realized my son is growing up so fast and he is already falling in love—haha, that’s right, his first love... A girl in his class named Ademis. At first, he spoke of her as "his friend"—in fact, he’s always mentioned her, ever since second grade... He even knows her birthday. Although I never paid much attention to it before, yesterday I realized that this friendship was actually something deeper. It’s really sweet because they’re just innocent kids, but at the same time, it feels strange that this has happened so quickly—haha.
On our way to school, my son wanted to stop and pick a flower for his friend; I thought it was really sweet, so I let him. Unfortunately, the girl didn't come to class yesterday, so he ended up giving the flowers to his teacher instead—haha.
He told me, “Tomorrow I’m going to take flowers to my friend; I hope she actually shows up.” Today, when we left the house, I didn’t remind him of anything—I wanted to see if he’d remember on his own. Once we were close to the school, he remembered and wanted to go back for the flowers, but we were running late, so I told him he could just give them to her tomorrow. Then, I spotted some beautiful white roses and had the idea to pick one for him to give to his friend. I was actually terrified of getting in trouble while grabbing it, since the roses belonged to a building where they are extremely protective of them. Luckily, no one saw me, though in my haste to snap the rose off, I pricked myself on the thorns several times—haha!—but I finally managed to get it and give it to my son. He was overjoyed; he had never seen a rose in person before, and this one was simply beautiful.
When he got out of school, I asked him how it went, and he told me something that left me in shock. Honestly, I was prepared for it to be his first heartbreak—for some reason, hahaha—but my son told me the girl thanked him and asked him to be her boyfriend. WTF? I didn't even know what to say.
Now, at eight years old, he supposedly has a girlfriend!!! I honestly don't know how to handle this situation—haha! He told me he wants to give his girlfriend a treat; I'm truly in shock. I could only laugh at his innocence and how sweet I find the whole situation.



