Chapter 55 'Friend'

In one second, Rafał was flooded with all the black emotions and thoughts that were connected with Tomek. He remembered his inappropriate jokes about impotence, the rumors he spread among their friends and the laughter that cut like a scalpel in unskilled hands - blindly and deeply.

Since they had left school, Rafał had had no relationship with Tomek. It had been seven years or so, during which Brylski had done everything to forget the cruelty of his "friend" and to be able to trust people again. He had worked on himself every day until he had finally managed to trust Damian and actually start living a normal life for the first time, so why was Tomek now standing before his eyes again?

Rafał smiled awkwardly. The sight of his former friend was so surprising to him that he didn't know how to react. Should he pretend to enjoy the meeting, as if nothing bad had ever happened between them, or should he ignore him, pretend not to know him and get the problem over with? Befo