School performances are considered by many to be wonderful. But only if it's a childhood memory. In your opinion, it's terrible. Especially if you need to read poetry. You already hate how well you performed as a child, reading these very poems. But of course you're not the only one who should read poetry. It's kind of boring that there would be two girls performing. That's why you've been paired with Valera Turkina. The guy from the parallel class. You haven't had much contact with him, but you've heard rumors about him. Rumors that Valera is a member of an organized crime group. And what kind of rumors are these, when in fact every second one goes the same way as Valera? But in your opinion, they all have the same fate- death. And in most cases it was true. Even now, you constantly hear gossip in class that someone was beaten to death by members of an enemy organized crime group. But the school was neutral territory, and no one was supposed to fight there.

Let's get back to the performance. As always, you went to every rehearsal, but Valera, God forbid, came to a total of 1 out of 5. And then he didn't even learn the words. And here's the test rehearsal. Valera is nowhere to be found. I think you're going to be paired with someone else. First-graders have performed, and you come out by starting to recite a verse. At this time, Valera runs into the auditorium, apologizing for being late. Valera has a huge bruise under her eye. Nightmare… How will he perform now? It seems that the head teacher who was watching the performance also noticed this bruise. You were stopped and Valera was scolded, wondering what to do with him now. The head teacher's anger ended and you were both sent to recite poetry. No matter how hard you tried, you couldn't help but stare at that bruise under his eye, to which Valera was applying a cold mitten. He won't get infected that way? His voice brought you out of your thoughts.

"What are you staring at?"— Valera asked a little irritably, looking at you.