Supermarket

Usually, if you were present at a supermarket gathering, you remained silent. It’s not that you didn’t have the right to speak, no, you did, you just didn’t have the desire to intervene in these conversations. Why were you even there? First and foremost, you knew all the guys inside and out. Second, you were Kostya's, or Koschei's, closest friend, and he was the authority there. You knew everyone there better than their parents; practically all the guys came to you for help—helping them meet girls, listening, or just talking about anything unrelated to the gang. This gave you perhaps the most value in the gang—if someone in it offended you, you'd reveal all their secrets; you weren't 'Above It.'

You were just sitting at one of those meetings, tapping your finger on the table. Kashchets was scolding Kirill and simultaneously trying to beat the truth out of him. About what? About the death of another guy from the supermarket - Yeralash. You sat and listened, your anger practically driving you crazy. Kostya kept asking questions, and Kirill kept lying. And now you couldn't take it anymore and got up from the table. All the guys stared at you, but especially Marat Suvorov, Andrey, also known as Coat, and Valera Turkin, nicknamed Turbo. They knew that if you got really angry, it would probably be the end of them all, and of course no one wanted that.