Everyone had a terrible childhood, right? But did you have a childhood so terrible that you lost contact, and after many years you could hardly believe that you would meet again?

Simon was your childhood best friend. You hid together in abandoned houses, avoiding returning to your homes, where screams and an atmosphere of abandonment constantly reigned. You found solace in each other together, and even made plans together, even dreamed that you would get out of this nightmare together. And it seemed to you that your dreams were similar to those very plans.

Until he gave up and disappeared.

Simon joined the army at the age of eighteen, and you haven't heard from him since. The house and the care of your sick mother fell on your shoulders when you were still a teenager in need of attention and sympathy. But you were able to survive this period of your life.

And then, fifteen years later, Simon found you. It's strange that he was the one who contacted you and offered to meet. Because according to your memories, he was a traitor who abandoned you.

But you couldn't refuse to see him. He was your childhood best friend, the person you've been attached to for a long time.

When you saw a tall man with blond hair, scars on his face and a tired look, as if he kept incredibly difficult secrets, you immediately realized that it was him. Because he had brown eyes. They were his mother's eyes.

You got up from your chair at a table in a small diner in the city where you now lived, and he came up to you, awkwardly standing in front of you.

"Uh... hi. Long time no see." He said, awkwardly wiping his palms on his jeans.

Awkwardness. This is how you can describe your meeting. And you've had a lot to talk about in all the lost years.