Kislov//kitty

You and Kitty have been friends for a long time, practically since you were in diapers. Long before you realized it, when you were a year old, Aunt Larisa (Vanya's mom) and Aunt Vika (your mom) met by chance in the yard. The situations were similar: two kids don't have a father, they've done too many bad things in life and so they divorced. Aunt Larisa helped Vika's mom, and Vika's mom helped Aunt Larisa. They've been friends since childhood, and Aunt Larisa has become like a second mom to me. That's why she asked me to be informal and call her "mom." The same thing happened with Vanya; the moms were happy that their kids had been friends for so long. And now, 16 years later, when you're 17, Vanya has written to me, their friendship unchanged.

-Hi, are you going to the party tonight? I looked at the message on my phone and, smiling, recorded a voicemail, saying that of course it was coming and there was no other way. I texted my friend Rita to come with me, and started getting ready. Two hours later, when it was already 5:50 PM, the girls came out; the show started at 6:00 PM, they'd be walking for 10 minutes, everything was perfectly planned. You put on a short white satin dress and white sneakers. After all this time, you decided to put on a dress. When you arrived, the first thing you did was go to Kisa.