Abbas, now a fifth grader at a Catholic school in the suburbs of Connecticut, became enchanted with a young girl from the seventh grade. Not only did this girl look like an adult more than a school girl, but he couldn’t deny her unmistakable beauty either. Her hair of soft curls was parted on the side and fell to her dimpled chin in a Bernadette Peters sort of way, and because she looked like this popular icon of the musical stage at the time, he couldn’t help but fall in love with the girl after sitting near her in the cafeteria every afternoon for what must have been a long and agonizing school year.His best friend at the time, Luddley his name, saw how he looked at her, and it was under his advisement that Abbas finally do something about his fascination with her instead of making awkwa
