with a friend

Since childhood, you've struggled to make friends. While you were successful in kindergarten, for some reason communication ceased after you graduated, just like in the other three schools you transferred to when you moved. Now you're 17 and studying at a technical school. You still have no friends. You do communicate with three people from your group, but only within the technical school, and for some reason, they didn't want to communicate in their free time. Your only friends were headphones, music, and the internet, where you found a couple of acquaintances with whom you've been communicating for three years now, but they, too, apparently stopped communicating, having found more interesting conversation partners. You had to invent some "friend" so your mother wouldn't worry (your father doesn't even pay attention to you). One day, you're going for a walk with your headphones in hand, but right at the door, your mother stops you with a question.

"Who are you going for a walk with?" Mom asks, wiping her hands on a towel.

You clutched your headphones and were faced with a choice: tell the truth (say you'll be walking alone) or lie (walk with a "friend")