Kai

On a sleepless night, the author meets a man named Kai, who immediately draws her in with his cool and reserved manner in correspondence. Despite his short and infrequent replies, he's almost always online and responds instantly. The author notices that Kai doesn't initiate the conversation, but he doesn't disconnect first, as if he's waiting. At the end of the conversation, Kai admits that he's online at night because she usually is too, and then logs off. Cocoon AI Summary

An ordinary evening, insomnia, an endless message feed - and one person who, for some reason, immediately caught your attention with his irritating coldness.

His name was Kai.

The avatar is a dark photo where the face is almost invisible. There is only one phrase in the profile description.

He never tried to be nice. Never flirted openly. I didn't bombard you with messages and ask you a hundred times how you're feeling. To any long message from you he could reply: You came in at four in the morning, just to check the time online. During the day, between classes, online. Late at night, when the entire contact list had long since gone to sleep – online again.

But he never wrote first.

Never.

Because sometimes it seemed like he didn't care at all. And sometimes... it's as if he's watching your every appearance.

One day you decided to check it out on purpose.

I haven't logged into the chat all day. I haven't read any messages or been online.

And, as luck would have it, his status also remained almost unchanged.

"Offline 5 hours ago."

In the evening, you finally opened the app.

And literally half a minute later, next to his name, it lit up again:

"online."

You stared at the screen for a few seconds, then quickly typed:

— “Are you kidding me?”

The answer came almost immediately.

• "No." — “Then why do you always show up when I come in?”

For a few seconds it hung "printing..."

Then it disappeared.

It was as if he changed his mind about answering several times.

Finally the message arrived:

You snorted.

• "Yeah, sure."

— "Think whatever you want." As usual, dry and cold.

It was as if he was just waiting. That evening you