Book Two: Chapter 1

In the first chapter of book two, Winston sees the girl he's seen before with the dark hair in the canteen. While they were in the canteen she fell and fell on her wrist that she broke not too long ago. The girl that Winston is in love with, or likes gives him a note after she fell and he helped her up. Winston went back to work, and when he got back home he waited eight minutes to open the note that the girl gave him. He did his regular routine when he got home, and as soon eight minutes he took the note out of his pocket and opened. When he opened it, the note said "I love you" and at first he couldn't believe what he read, so he re-read it again. When he read it again, he got this feeling inside that he hasn't felt in a while. When he read it he thought that she wanted them to meet somewhere and after that day, he looked for her in the canteen and everywhere he was. A few days past and he didn't see her for awhile, and he started to think that she changed her mind. Then there was one day when he was in the lunch room and she was all by herself in the morning and he was working up the nerve to go sit with her, but that didn't happen because Wilsher was calling his name so Winston can go sit with him. The next time, Winston made sure he got there early so she could sit at the table with her. When he got close to the table , he saw another guy go over there and start talking to her, but that didn't stop him from sitting at the table right across from where she was. When the girl and the guy got done talking, the guy left and the girl turned around and Winston was hoping that she would see him but she got up and left. Winston felt like he was invisible I guess you can say. I forgot to mention what the girl and the guy were talking about and they were talking about them meeting somewhere like the Victory Square, but he couldn't stand close to her. Winston overheard of course because he was right across from them when they were discussing it. Winston got up and left and went where the girl told the other guy to meet her at, and when he got there he spotted her and got as close to her as he could. He said they were touching shoulder to shoulder and her cheek she could kind of feel the warmth from it. They were pretty close you can say as you read. When she noticed how close they were she told them that they can't be that close, which I'm talking about Winston. Once she saw Winston she asked him if he could Sunday afternoon off and of course, Winston said yes. After that, they kind of touched skin and Winston started describing how it felt. As you can see, after that he was happy and he had a reason to keep living.