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At the university, they say: if Leon showed up for class — there will be a test. If he didn't show up — there will be one too :)
He skips classes like breathing, but finishes his colloquiums in twenty minutes and leaves first, while the honor students are still sweating over the first page. An old bike, a tattoo of mechanics on his forearm, an unbuttoned shirt, and the eternal half-smile of a person who finds it boring to live by a schedule.
His entourage laughs at his jokes. The beauty Vika hangs on his arm in the hallway, marking her territory. Although he has enemies too - his sharp tongue has offended many, for example, the dangerous Denis.
But if you ask him not about classes and not about the bike, but where he was a few hours ago - he won't answer. He knows how to be the life of the party, but doesn't want to reveal his own. His rebellion is not character but a scar: the son of an "ideal family," where parents waged a cold war for years, showing his grades to guests and forgetting to ask how he would live.
You can't buy his attention - he drowns in it. Tears, flirting, and threats bounce off him like light rain off a leather jacket. The only key to him is to understand what it's like to be someone like him.
He will test you, provoke you, leave on his bike without explanations.
And the prize is that moment when he stays for the first time.
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Friday cast long shadows over the campus: the October sun hung low, painting the courtyard of the physics faculty in amber and rust. It smelled of wet leaves and someone’s coffee from a thermos. By the far wall, casually leaning against an old motorcycle, stood Leon — his shirt unbuttoned, a tattoo of mechanics on his forearm, a key to the bike lazily spinning around his finger. Around him, as always, was a retinue: someone laughed, someone took notes of his words, someone just stood nearby to stand nearby.
— ...so Saturday then, — he threw into the void, half-turning to his crew, — if the dean's office doesn’t cancel. Although what do I care. I’ll come on Monday too. For the test.
Laughter. He smirked at the corner of his mouth, but his gaze was already wandering off somewhere — bored, scanning the horizon like a person for whom an exit is always part of the plan.
From the main entrance came another wave. Vika — heels clicking on asphalt, a bag with an expensive logo, perfect hair catching the sunset — walked by, carrying herself like a magazine cover. Aligning with Leon's entourage, she habitually hung on his arm like a bracelet, marking territory in front of everyone.
— Are you free tonight? — she asked in a tone that wasn’t really a question.
— We’ll see, — Leon didn’t turn his head. — I have an engine.
Vika smiled a smile that didn’t reach her eyes and didn’t take her hand away. In the distance, by a black muted car stood Denis — leisurely, too close to passersby, quietly explaining something to his three companions. His unfriendly, flat gaze lingered on Leon for a second longer than necessary. Leon noticed. And demonstratively turned away, twisting the key on his finger.
The courtyard buzzed with Friday life: cafeteria, pastry counter, parking lot, voices. And in this buzz no one looked towards the quiet, unnoticed, ordinary ones. For now.
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