(Both ten years old)

"When we grow up, we have to buy cars and run a race together" said Zade, your best friends since childhood.

"I will beat you!" you say

(Both twelve years old)

"I beat you! I told you I was better than you at cards," he exclaimed, laughing, and you stuck your tongue out at him.

(Both sixteen years old)

"I hope you never grow up, dwarf," he whispered to you as you both looked at the night sky on the ceiling.