Valentine’s Day

Trevor is thinking about asking someone to be his valentine for the first time. At Catholic School they didn’t celebrate Valentine’s Day, so all he knew about it was that Cupid shoots you with an arrow to make you fall in love. At H.A Jack Valentine’s Day was an important day for the school, so because of its newfound importance, Trevor decides to ask Maylene, the only colored girl in the school, to be his valentine. All the girls at the school had decided that they were perfect for each other and that meant that he must ask her to be his valentine, even though he later realized that the only reason they were considered perfect is because they looked similar and they were the only two people like that in the school. He had no idea what to do, however. “I didn’t know the first thing about having a girlfriend. I had to be taught the whole love bureaucracy of the school. There was this thing where you don’t actually talk straight to the person.” This event is so hilariously accurate to what it is like at school. Trevor describes his experience exactly how it would be on a real Valentine’s Day. If I were to describe how it’s like to ask someone even to be your Valentine it would be identical to this. People in school take things like this incredibly serious and essentially it is a bureaucratic affair. Anything similar to this at our school would be enacted exactly how it is described, with all the friends talking to friends and formality. The way relationships work at school is hilariously serious and important, anything that has to do with relationships becomes the talk of the grade by the end of the day and most times anything like this is ended by the end of the day. School relationships are exaggerated and taken really to an insanely high level of importance.

This picture of Cupid is to represent Valentine’s Day and what Trevor thinks Valentine’s Day is.