Valentine Charity

The rest of the weekend went by quite uninfluential. The football team lost their Saturday game so although plenty of students were still out partying, the mood was a little bleaker than the usual Saturday night.

At the beginning of the week, Mark noticed that their were pink flyers all around campus. On the flyer, it read ‘Find your true Valentine.’

It didn’t make much sense already considering they were nowhere near the date of Valentine’s Day. But as he read on, he realised it was just a silly charity stunt.

It was a charity event, raising money for the college sport department. Not really wanting anything to do with the school’s sport, Mark tried ignoring the event, not really interested in giving up any money for it.

How it worked was that students would pay ten dollars to fill out a relationship questionnaire. Once done so, you would hand it in to the organisers and through some elaborate algorithm, you would receive a few names that you’ve matched with. It was then up to you whether or not you tried furthering that into something else.

He wouldn’t have followed through with this until he ran into Tiffany on Monday night in the common room, it turned out she was one of the organisers of the event.

“Are you thinking about signing up?” she asked him as she passed him one of the flyers.

“Umm I’m not sure, just doesn’t seem like my kind of thing,” he said politely.

“That’s cool, completely get it,” she replied.

Whether he actually sensed this or not, he felt like he was picking up on a hint of disappointment in her voice. In reality, she wasn’t disappointed in anyway but it led to him making a rash decision just based of his fear of disappointing his college crush.

“Actually!” he let out, “Maybe I’ll give it a shot.”

“Oh awesome, thanks Mark, it’s just ten dollars.”

Mark fished out some cash from his wallet and handed it over. In return, she gave him a sheet of paper that had roughly twenty five questions on it.

“Once you’ve finished it, come find me, all the results will be back by Friday,” she said smiling.

Later that night, he looked over the questionnaire, ready to answer everything as honestly as he could. They seemed to appear as fairly basic questions such as ‘What do you value most in a relationship’ and ‘Do you prefer to be the more dominate or submissive member of the relationship?’.

Finishing up the questionnaire for Tiffany, he gave to her the very next morning and awaited his pending results at the end of the week.