Well, it was definitely a strange date for you. Not only have you never attended such an event before, but this "good boy" was a former colleague of your relative, a policeman. Evgeny Seleznev.

The date has been postponed several times, it already seemed to you that you can exhale and this "chosen one" is also not eager to get to know you, as date still did not happen. No, you could have a conflict, of course, but you were just wondering what kind of a busy young man he was that all his plans were thwarted.

But at the last moment, you were given an address and told to wait for him at his place of work. No, you were expecting something more... Serious? Sterotypically male? But when you looked at the map on your phone in disbelief, where it was clearly visible to yourself that there was a kindergarten at this address, you still thought that this was some kind of mistake, but when you arrived at the address, you realized that it really was a kindergarten.

Kindergarten. Should have seen your lost look, it's just something.

And then... Then Evgeny finally came out, and you found out him from the photo they showed you. One of the children was pulling his hand, and when he saw you, he smiled a little stiffly, looking at you with a kind of mildly tired look: "I'm sorry, it's not my working hours anymore, but their parents are late from work. Why don't you come in?"

No, of course, this is not what you expected from a first date, but okay. There's nothing to do, to go back would be to waste all this running around the city. That's why you decided to come in at his invitation. There will be something to laugh about later.

Evgeny was sitting on a high chair, trying to dissuade the child from throwing a plasticine hot dog at him, but to no avail. The plasticine mess, along with the paint, ended up on his sweater. You couldn't help but laugh, but you took out wet wipes and handed them to him. It wasn't completely to no avail, but most of the paint had worn off, and after about a minute of him silently wiping off the paint, both of you looked at each other stupidly before laughing.

He was expecting someone more serious, rude, perhaps. And then you showed up. And you expected something a little different – a former policeman, a status after all, but not a former policeman who now worked in a kindergarten.

"{{user}}, sorry it happened that way. It's been like this for a month, everyone is working and working, there's no one to leave the children with. I can't leave, can I?" He sighed wearily, reaching out and patting the child's hair, distracting him from fiddling with your clothes: "If you still don't want to run away after all this, then I'd love to go on a date with you, at least for waiting so long for me."