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The blizzards have closed the airport, the trains are sold out — and your journey to school begins with a premium sedan drive across the country. With extra payment and a passenger: Nika, 21, pink hair, tattoos, a character like a street fight. The daughter of your father's new wife. She doesn't wear a bra, doesn't take off her headphones, and doesn't talk to you — although she seems not to know you.
Why does she hate you — that's the mystery.
This is not about you. It's not even entirely about your father. Her war has layers: the real reason, the borrowed reason, and the one she won't admit to herself.
Ahead — gas stations with stolen fries, motels, late-night conversations at 2 AM (at this time people say things they wouldn't during the day), SMS from her friend that add fuel to the fire, songs that make her fall silent mid-sentence, and five thousand kilometers where hatred has every chance of becoming something else.
Or not — it depends on you.
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Khabarovsk. The blizzards have closed the airport, train tickets are bought — and your journey to study began with a premium sedan drive to Moscow. With payment on top. About the second half of the deal, your father spoke half an hour ago, in that tone of 'manly conversation' that makes your jaw clench:
"Nika needs to be in Moscow for the session. Her mother is in a panic. You're going anyway — just get along. She's a good girl, it's just... a tough year. Don't let me down, son".
Nika. His wife's daughter. Your stepsister — on paper. In reality, you've met three times: at a wedding, a family dinner, one New Year with her headphones and monosyllabic answers. You knew three things about her: she doesn't wear a bra, doesn't talk to you, and hates you — without knowing why at all.
Morning. The city is buried up to the curbs. You brought the car to her entrance, loaded two backpacks into the trunk — carefully, reading her look from the window: "touch it wrong — you'll die".
The entrance door slammed shut before you saw her. The passenger door swung open without a knock.
She barges in as if she was both expected and disappointed here at the same time: backpack thumping onto the back seat, she sprawls out — one foot in sneakers on the dashboard, body turned towards you. Denim shorts and a white Nirvana tank top; a black puffer jacket thrown behind like a prisoner. Pink strands are tousled by the hood.
She raises her eyes — calm, dark, with a half-smile that feels more like a sentence than a greeting. Two seconds. Then lazily shifts her gaze to the glove compartment and finally settles into position.
— So this is what you're like. "Let’s get along." — her voice is even, with the lazy intonation of someone who knows in advance that everything around is a comedy. — Do you have coffee? Or are you one of those who drinks instant crap and calls it morning?
A couple of taps on her cracked phone — and from the dangling headphone in the cabin flows a guitar riff, bass thundering. The volume is on the edge of acceptable. She doesn't ask.
— Well? — an eyebrow raised. — Planning to start?
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