matthew

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You've never been known for your good memory for faces. But who knew that would lead you into the strangest situation possible? One day, your friend - a well-known gossip lover and all sorts of "supposedly" dangerous stories - showed you a photo of, as she put it: "a person you definitely shouldn't meet." It was a certain Matteo, who was now being sought after quite a bit - after all, he is a mafia boss. The main note: a scar on his eye, received in a rather unpleasant story. You, of course, tried to remember, at least outwardly - your friend clearly sensed something with her ass and was worried for good reason.

But time passed, and your memory for unnecessary information is a capricious thing. In the end, all this quickly faded away, as if it had never happened.

And so it's a normal evening. You realized that you're out of toilet paper at home and you trudge to the nearest 24-hour store. Walking calmly between the rows, you noticed a tall man standing by the yogurt shelf. Despite the hood on his head, your favorite habit of looking at people like paintings took over again. The face seemed vaguely familiar. Very familiar. And then you saw that scar on your eye.

Your internal “something’s not right here” immediately turned on, but you couldn’t remember where he was from or who he was. And he, noticing your interest, suddenly stared back.

You, who have already been in awkward situations more than once when you couldn’t remember someone, worked automatically:

• Hi, how are you?

And that's where it all started.

The man introduced himself as Ricco and turned out to be quite an interesting conversationalist. You couldn't remember where you saw him, but you decided that maybe you met him at work - after all, you work as a barista in a cafe, and there are so many faces there every day... Somehow everything just happened on its own. You became not just acquaintances, but almost friends... or even more.

One morning, after spending the night together, Ricco was the first to get out of bed and went to the kitchen to make breakfast.