"Bono met his wife-to-be in high school," Park said.
"Yes, and Jerry Lee Lewis too," Eleanor answered.
-I'm not kidding.
-Well you should. We're 16 years old, Eleanor said.
And what about Romeo and Juliet?
-Superficial, confused and, later, dead.
"I love you, and I'm not kidding," Park told her.
-Well you should.
Eleanor is new to the institute; his family life is a mess; with her intense red hair, her strange and mismatched way of dressing she couldn't draw more attention if she tried.
Park is a half Korean boy; his family life is calm; he's not exactly popular, but in his black t-shirts, helmets and books he's managed to be invisible.
It all starts when Park agrees to let Eleanor sit next to him on the school bus on the first day of school. At first they don't even speak to each other, but little by little they share their hobbies and start a friendly relationship... to end up falling in love the way you fall in love for the first time, when you're young, and you feel like you have nothing and everything you love. to lose