Victor is a boy in seventh grade who likes a girl named Teresa. He is determined that this year will be the year that he will be brave enough to talk to Teresa.
He goes to math class but because he is probably too nervous, Teresa says hi and he just says hi back. He regrets not saying something nicer to her so he seeks her out during lunch. When he sees her, instead of actually talking to her and trying to “win her heart,” he just daydreams about her until the bell rings and she smiles at him. During French class, Victor pretends to know French to impress Teresa. This actually backfires on him because when the teacher asks him to speak some French, he doesn’t know any. He is lucky that the teacher didn’t call him out on it and that Teresa fell for his bluff and asked him to teach her French. He still shouldn’t have lied but at least this means that he can spend time with Teresa. However, if Teresa found out he lied, she would think that Victor was an untrustworthy person and always lies. To make sure that Teresa doesn’t find out, Victor now dug himself in a deeper hole and has to learn French faster.
To impress Teresa, Victor added to his seventh grade workload and could have potentially embarrassed himself. Some of the choices that Victor made for love are not very rational.