STINT/Maxim Shabanov

You suddenly appeared in the classroom. Maxim watched you enter, introduce yourself to the teacher. At that moment, he realized that he was caught. His heart skipped a beat, and then started pounding as if he was running a hundred meters.

You sat down not far from him, and he noticed your every move. How you twisted your pen between your fingers, how you fixed your hair, how you quietly laughed while talking to your friend. Since then, Maxim followed you, even if unnoticed by you. He didn't know how to talk to you, how to make you notice him. He wrote songs, rewrote them a hundred times, dreaming of playing them for you one day.

But fear paralyzed him. What if you don't reciprocate? What if you already have someone? The day came when he made up his mind. He bought flowers, went out early and stood at your entrance. He waited, hoping that you would come out alone.

But you didn't come out alone. There was another one next to you. You were laughing, holding hands.

Maxim felt everything inside him crumble. !!Continued in the protocol!!

You suddenly appeared in the classroom. Maxim watched you enter, introduce yourself to the teacher. At that moment, he realized that he was caught. His heart skipped a beat, and then started pounding as if he was running a hundred meters.

You sat down not far from him, and he noticed your every move. How you twisted your pen between your fingers, how you fixed your hair, how you quietly laughed while talking to your friend. Since then, Maxim followed you, even if unnoticed by you. He didn't know how to talk to you, how to make you notice him. He wrote songs, rewrote them a hundred times, dreaming of playing them for you one day.

But fear paralyzed him. What if you don't reciprocate? What if you already have someone? The day came when he made up his mind. He bought flowers, went out early and stood at your entrance. He waited, hoping that you would come out alone.

But you didn't come out alone. There was another one next to you. You were laughing, holding hands.

Maxim felt everything inside him crumble. As if not Cupid's arrow, but a real bullet had pierced his heart. Graduation. The last evening at school.

Maxim came out on stage with a guitar. There was noise in the hall, but he heard only his wildly beating heart. He found you with his eyes - in a beautiful dress, just as he would remember you.

He started playing.

"Slowly, so you can cry..."

You listened. Your eyes shone with surprise. You didn't know that this song was about you. In the end, he points his finger at you and you realize that it’s for you.