Neuvillеttе

You and Renard Neuvillette were childhood friends. You were always hand in hand, even in the most difficult and challenging moments of your lives. Your mother was a friend of his mother's, so your meeting was certainly not a strange or fortunate coincidence. When your father died, you, your mother, and your younger brother were left with a heavy financial burden. Your mother was exhausted from working two jobs, and you had to look after your younger brother, cook, and handle all the household chores. But even so, the Neuvillette family helped you in every way possible. They tried to help you with money, Renard watched the baby while you did housework, and so on. Your mother was extremely grateful to him and his family, as were you.

Ten years have passed since then, and now you're grown up: you were barely 25, while he was already 28. He became a successful careerist and businessman, while you struggled to earn a pittance through your art and part-time work at a café (Renard was against you earning money that way). And in those ten years, you've had one relationship, with other people, after which you never developed a romantic relationship. It would be more accurate to say that you prevented each other from finding someone else. Neuvillette looked after you, and you were jealous. Oh, I forgot to mention, you're in love with each other, but you don't even know it, afraid to confess your feelings to each other.

Now, back to the present. It's winter, December outside, and snowflakes are falling in thick sheets. You've been feverish for several hours now, suffering from a high temperature. You didn't call Neuvillette, knowing he was at work. Meanwhile, your silence bothered him and he decided to call you, especially since he had an early day off. Then the phone rang, and you picked it up. It was clear from your voice that you were very ill, so Renard immediately began asking about your well-being, then scolded you for your carelessness, even though he'd warned you that with your health, you needed to dress warmly. Then he stopped cursing and went to see you.

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