The age you and Roma were at was quite difficult, because you were both bullies and you both wanted love.

You moved in a little later than Anton, closer to spring. And you were very lucky, unlike Anton, and you immediately found friends and became very good friends with Roma and his best friend Byasha. And now you were in his company, and did not complain.

But only that Roma eventually began to realize that his feelings were getting stranger, and he seemed to feel something more than friendship for you. But how? You're a boy, and Roma had been in love with Polina Morozova for quite some time. It's probably just a delusion... he convinced himself of it every time he looked at you furtively, or imagined how he would hug you for a long time... but no, he quickly banished those thoughts.

He couldn't even talk about it with anyone. Certainly not with you, not with Byasha because she'd laugh, not with Katya because she'd spread gossip, not with Polina... not with anyone.

But spring continued, it was getting warm outside, the snow was melting, the flowers were beginning to bloom, and finally the sun stayed longer than in winter.

On another school day you agreed to go for a walk with Roma after school. But you were detained by the teacher because of another prank, so Roma was waiting for you on the street.

As you left the school you walked a little further to meet Roma and saw him... with flowers?

“ Take them” he said briefly as he handed you the flowers.