"Good morning Cedric!" "Hi Cedric!" "Then Kid!" "Ha ha ha ha!" "What a life one leads, when one is eight years old." "**The pebble in the shoe.**" "Ah!" "Wretched animals." "Stupid pigeons." "Everything is their fault." "This afternoon had well started." "This time I was ready to go for it." "I was well decided to declare my love!" "Of Course, for them it is easy." "They coo and the trick works." "Ahh!" "But for us..." "Do you think that it will work this time?" "Euhh, I hope so!" "Since then she is waiting for me to declare." "She is coming." "Go away." "Quick." "Euhh!" "*Wolf-whistling* huh!" "What are you doing?" "Well, I want to see how you are going to do it!" "No, you think you are at the cinema." "Get out of here, woodlouse!" "Cedric you are fighting again." "Not at all." "I was narrating a movie, "the massacre of woodlouses wearing glasses."" "*grunts* it must not even be a good movie!" "Euhhhh!" "Listen, Chen!" "I..." "Ha ha ha ha..." "Euhhhh, you're leaving..." "Cedric why do you get angry all the time?" "I am not angry." "I just wanted to..." "I just wanted to tell you that..." "Good morning, Chen." "Are you coming to play with us?" "Euhh, No!" "No questions." "I have very important things to tell Chen." "Oh!" "What would he want to tell her!" "?" "Hmm, Stupid things!" "Yes, boys are so stupid." "Well, Cedric what did you want to tell me?" "Hmm, how life is complicated?" "But nevertheless, it was the simplest words that I wanted to tell her." "Chen..." "Chen I love you!" "Aww..." "Cedric!" "Chen, I want to marry you." "Aww Cedric!" "Between us now, and for life." "For life!" "Yes but in reality, things are not so easy." "Oh well I wanted to tell you..finally, yes telling you..." "Pull over! Hi Cedric!" "Hi Chen!" "Oh, no you would not want that we go for a walk elsewhere." "Of course, yes!" "By seeing your face, I was afraid that there might be something very grave." "Grave..." "of course, it was grave" "I was about to tell her the most important thing of my life." "Oh, girls!" "It is very complicated." "Finally, to have a quiet moment, I took Chen to the village." "Chen..." "I..." "love you..." "Aww..." "Cedric!" "Chen.." "I have a small pebble in my shoe." "Oh..." "Ouch..." "Ah..." "Ouch... what were you saying?" "And so we think that the moment has finally arrived, but snap!" "a grain of sand or rather the small pebble in the shoe." "Nothing is more irritating." "I... euhh..." "and then nothing." "Little devil!" "Assassin!" "If I catch you!" "Wait for me..." "Cedric!" "You will see, a middle-class' good blood!" "Ah..." "Cedric..." "Aie..." "Chen... you have nothing broken!" "But finally what is wrong with you Cedric?" "you fight with everyone" "You want to tell me something but instead you throw pebbles at the farmer." "It's your fault!" "you never listen, when I want to talk to you." "And you do not even pay any attention at the small pebble that I have in my shoe." "Oh... it hurts terribly." "Damn!" "Be calm!" "I am going to call the firemen for help." "The cops." "The hospital!" "The firemen!" "Wait Wait!" "I am going to carry you." "No, it is too late!" "The bad has happened now!" "hmmm!" "But, stop Cedric!" "Put down to the ground!" "Ohhhh!" "Ahh!" "No panicking." "Everything is alright." "Ahhhhh!" " This is too wise!" "Good morning Chen." "Hi, Cedric!" "But what are you..?" "Mind your own business!" "Cedric, it is useless to remove your anger on Nicholas." "This is the last time that I am going out with you." "Can I.." "May be..?" "Hmm.." "I never ever want to see you Cedric!" "Yes, that's good because I also have seen enough of you!" "Chen..oh.." "Heck.." "Aie ouch..ale..ouch..ahh..ahh.." "Its' a crazy life!" "I was decided to confess my love hmm... and all good I could do was to break up with her." "What an idiot!" "No, but I swear.." "And then Kid!" "Everything is not running into circles!" "Your little Chinese girl?" "Hmm Hmm.." "Grandpa, I do not understand how to behave with girls!" "?" "Explain to me, Kid..what's.." "It is not like this" " If I want it first then" "And here you are!" "?" "where were you?" "Have you done your homework?" "It is pointless to remove your anger on the kid!" "What!" "?" "Have you seen in what state you're!" "?" "Do you think I have only this to do?" "Cleaning your cloth?" "And you?" "you are not removing your anger, maybe?" "No, Sir!" "I am taking care of my stuff!" "And here it starts again!" "Normally, my son, it is on me that it falls!" "Ah, you..forget yourself!" "hmm!" "He's right!" "You do not add anything!" "Saying so" "Have I ever narrated you the story of life,kid?" "What is he going to invent this old lunatic?" "Stop, being mean to my father." "Can you?" "This is the story of your grandma and me." "I love it when my grandpa narrates me his stories." "I do not understand everything but deep inside I feel that he is right!" "One day, long time ago," "Matilde and me, we decided to go through a path together." "The path of life." "Yes!" "And I can tell you that this path is not a highway there are holes, pebbles, peatlands" "And pits?" " And also pits, yes!" "Your grandma and me, we moved forward hand in hand and we crossed obstacles and we always got out of it." "And then one day, a beautiful baby fell on us." "It was mum!" " Yes!" "And we continued our way by three." "But, the more we moved forward, the more she grew up." "And on a good morning, she met a young man." "Dad?" " Yes!" "Then, she left us!" "And they took another path, for both of them." "But lots of pitfalls also like all the path of life." "And then, you?" "you both were all alone?" "The two of us." "But, one day your grandma, began to hobble." "She had a small pebble in her shoe?" " We can say it this way, kid!" "We tried a lot to remove that small pebble." "But we could not." "Then, she sat under a tree." "An apple tree?" " Well, it can be!" "And me I continued my road." "Alone." "Why didn't you wait for her?" "On that road, we cannot stop, son!" "It is just like the road is taking you away." "Then, we bid each other farewell." "And I continued alone." "But your parents, them.." "they don't stop getting their feet into pebbles and obstacles." "When they are not arguing, they are angry towards each other." "This isn't path anymore." "It is hell!" "But one day, one of these two, will also have a pebble in the shoe." "And the other one, will regret the time that they used to walk together." "It will be too late!" "Look, this looks like your Chinese girl!" "Oh, Chen!" "Good evening, Chen!" "You know..you are.." "I apologise for getting angry before you are not upset with me a lot?" "No, you know Chen, if one day you also have a pebble in your shoe.." "You must never sit down under an apple tree." "Oh really!" "?" "why?" "Oh, because it's my grandfather who narrated me a story." "Anyways, my grandfather is great!" "He knows a lot about life!" "and loads and loads.." "Ah..the same.." "And then, this is the story of my grandfather's path of life." "And this is all what you wanted to tell me when we went walking, Cedric?" "No, I wanted to tell you that..euhh.." "I am sorry, Cedric." "This is too funny." "But what's happening here?" "Look, what he has on the nose!" "Ah, yuck..droppings of pigeons!" "Boys will do anything to be interesting." "It looks like we can make manure you know." "Psst..and then Cedric, then is it it?" "Hmmm..it is not fair." "I was almost about to tell her..and then.." "Things never go the way we want it to be." "But I must be very cautious for Chen not to have a small pebble in her shoe" "Hmm.." "Never!" "What a life one leads when one is eight years old."