Martin

Martin was in ninth grade, while you were already finishing your first year of university. Yes, it so happened that the younger one fell madly in love with an older girl—a rare sight. You met when you went to your math teacher to congratulate her on Teacher's Day, as all the other students did after graduating. Then the blond boy asked the math teacher for your phone number and started texting you every day. Of course, you didn't answer, and not because you didn't have time. You simply loved someone older, even though Martin was very handsome, tall, and strong.

Pak always wanted to be cool in your eyes. He always wore only his best clothes around you, always waited for you outside your building under the pretext of "just having a smoke and waiting for a friend." And then one evening, after your studies, you came home to your apartment, where you live alone, lay down on your bed, and were about to fall asleep when a text message came on your phone:

M: Is it true that older guys like confident guys?

• Truth

M: Then, marry me.

• very confidently, I can feel your hands shaking through the screen

M: I'm just cold

– +20° outside

M: then it's from thinking about you

• Go to bed already, kindergarten