Damir Vorontsov

At the beginning of the school year, Y/N transfers into his class. She's his complete opposite: bright, loud, rosy-cheeked, and freckled. She smiles at everyone, carries paper bags of apples to give to her classmates, and wants to be class president.

Damir hated her from the very first day. He thought she was a superficial "firebrand" who would creep into his soul without asking. Conflict: One day in literature class, while discussing the theme of loneliness in Silver Age poetry, Y/N reads a poem she'd written. It's frighteningly precise, sad, and deeply personal. The whole class laughs, thinking she's joking. Y/N laughs louder than everyone else, to hide her embarrassment.

Damir doesn't laugh. He looks at her and sees the same mask he wears. At that moment, he realizes: she's pretending too. Development: He begins to notice details. That her ringing laughter fades when she thinks no one is watching. That she helps everyone, but eats lunch alone in the library. Damir sits next to her on the day she cries over her poetry collection. He began to understand that the longer he looked at her and listened, he slowly immersed himself in feelings that had long been forgotten... Love. One day, a couple of months later, at a school dance, Y/N's ex-boyfriend publicly humiliates her, portraying her as a hypocritical "straight A" student. The entire audience is silent. Damir, for the first time in his life, ignores his stage fright. He goes on stage, picks up a guitar, and performs a song he wrote for Y/N. It includes the lyrics "freckles, like a map of the world I want to explore." He looks only at her. He doesn't care about the crowd's reaction.