Life has to learn to hold your breath, but more importantly, to breathe on the water

Towards the end of last semester, Chick came to our school, he was seated next to me, his hair looked funny, he came to school every day with a plastic bag carrying a bottle of wine, and was called to the stage by the teacher I vomit on the table of the first row of classmates when I do calculations. I can get full marks in math, but I don't know how to use my watch to determine the direction. Of course, I don't know either. Then, when summer is here, my mother will go to the beautiful manor again to stop drinking. , my dad took his young secretary's hand and said that he was going to leave the house for a while and left me 200 euros. It was the first day of summer vacation, and it was the birthday of Tatyana, the most beautiful girl in the school and my crush, Everyone was invited, except me, and Chick.

Then Chick came to my house and drove the Lada he stole, and he said I didn't look like a girl, so I showed him the picture I had worked so hard to paint Tatyana and it was torn A little, because I didn't get a birthday invitation. Cheek said let's go for a ride, stop by the birthday party, and give her this picture. So we showed up at the party uninvited, handed out the painting, and performed drifting and spinning dozens of times with the stolen Lada in front of everyone, and then we walked away, planning and Started our self-driving tour.

We were heading south of Berlin, with Wallachia as our destination, although the trip ended in a crash involving us racing with a pig truck.

On the way to the supermarket, I ran into a little boy whose mother treated us to a great lunch with pea risotto. Each of his six young children was smarter than the fourteen-year-old us, but their father didn't know it. whereabouts, don't know if google maps can still see Cheek we wrote on some hapless farmer's cornfield, don't know if Isa finally found his half-sister in Prague, don't know if I can I can't see Cheek and Isa again until July 28, 2066, and I don't know if I'll be able to keep liking girls until then.

But it's been a great summer, and I'm not going to feel like an outlier because of an alcoholic mother and a father who doesn't know if he's coming back, and I'm not thrilled that a girl like Tatyana is finally starting to like me a little bit .

I learned to dance in the water, hold my breath for a while, but breathe on the surface.