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After meeting with the team, we went outside to the Burj Khalifa, where soon a whole performance was shown. It shimmered, fabulous buildings and flowers appeared. It seemed that there was a hole cut in the sky through which we could see a small piece of a fairy tale, and there was a black sky all around. Kostya and Alex decided to buy Turkish ice cream, where the seller put on a show, not giving a horn and deceiving the buyer in every possible way with a long stick in his hands. We all laughed heartily, the boys were smiling so much, they tried to dodge the stick, but in the end the ice cream man slightly grazed their noses, and then he gave them the cone. Then the singing fountain show began. We squeezed in a little closer, everyone took out their cameras and started filming. I couldn’t take my eyes off the water,

exactly following the beat of the music, it rose, then became wavy, then shot sharply. When I looked at the water, the light and heard the music at the same time, I relaxed. We were returning to the hotel by metro so we arrived quite late and fell asleep without memory.

06.07.

Breakfast at this hotel was already different. There I took sliced watermelon and melon, rice with vegetables, pancakes and coffee with milk, which all the girls were eating while we lived there.

Then we took a taxi to the beach, disappeared warm into the waves, I swam a lot. We collected fantastically beautiful shells, I found pink, yellow and even purple ones. There was a kiosk right on the beach where we got ice cream, which was very useful. But I was still very tired, I was sick and dizzy. When I came to the room, I ordered brownies, as sweets raise blood pressure, and drank nurofen. I was afraid that I would pass out. At 12 we returned to the mall for lunch. Luna noticed that I wasn’t feeling well and quickly asked where my bottle of ammonia was. I was carrying it in my pocket all day. We sat down on a bench because I practically couldn’t smell it. But after sitting for a while, I felt better. Together with Ira, we went to the supermarket for sweets and coffee, which raise blood pressure well, which I just needed. Then we ordered a small pizza. I showed Ira a performance from the week of foreign languages at school, my productions and many other funny photos. Then we went to Chupa Chups, where I took a small box of sweets to give to my brother. Ira took the same one, Nessa joined us. After payment, the kind seller handed us branded marshmallows to all three of us, even Nessa, who didn’t buy anything. It warmed my heart so much, I smiled. Nessa still wanted to buy white jeans, so she ran off to look for them. Half an hour later, we came to the same store, but while we were looking for her, waiting for an answer in the chat, we bought paired hair crabs, bracelets on our legs, I also took bracelets- rings on my hands. Ira chose a white hair crab, and I chose a pink one. These were the shopaholic girlfriends. Nessa left to choose, but Ira and I returned to the exchange, as there was going to be a general meeting soon.

There was no place, but I had to sit down so that I could live until evening. I asked the boys to move over and squeezed in next

to Alex so that we were literally waiting for the Luna and Maya on top of each other. His leg and arm were in contact with me. We discussed the souvenirs we had bought and waited for the teachers. Before that, I bought skittles, but I couldn’t open it, so I asked Alex. I treated everyone.

Then we visited the Frame, this square-shaped building separating the old and new city. Alex was walking next to me, not with the guys, I was surprised, but I didn’t have the strength to ask questions. We walked in silence, but my heart didn’t worry, it didn’t beat wildly, I felt protected. Alex was still next to me when we were queuing for the elevator, and looked away when our eyes met, but we were close. I was dizzy, and I was afraid to look down at the top because I might pass out. I was photographing the Luna, and for a while we just walked and looked at the sprawling Dubai. The girls took off the trend “Pedro pe”, took a photo for 0.5 and the usual one together with the whole team, Alex was standing next to me. Rachel was announcing the information. He was standing behind me, very close to my face, and I could feel his breath. We took the elevator down, and he let me go ahead. We discussed some small things on the way back to the subway. There was no carriage for women, so we all rode together, I stood next to Alex, and our hands touched from shoulders to wrists. I could feel the warmth of his body.

We went to dinner at the Mall of the Emirates. I told Alex that we would join them at a table if they found an empty seat, which was quite problematic here. Alina, Ira and I decided to order pizza, and while Alina was ordering, I met the gaze of a passing Alex, who shrugged and smiled, which meant that they hadn’t found an empty table yet. Later we saw that they were still trying to do it, and Alex even stole a nearby table and chairs to accommodate the whole team. He sat down opposite me, and from time to time we looked at each other and smiled. Along with the pizza 2 hot peppers were put in the box. Kostya and Rachel ate it as if nothing had happened, like a piece of chocolate without even wincing.

Ira and I went shopping a little, came to the exchanger at the appointed time, but only Alex was sitting there. He looked tired. When we returned to the hotel, I took a shower. Now I just couldn’t stop thinking about everything that happened that day.

7.07.

After breakfast, we went to the pool, which was located on the top floor of the hotel. The girls lay on the deck chairs, went down into the water, the boys came up. Polina, Tania and Lisa played peepers until the first laugh, with their heads half under the water, it was funny. On the one side, there was a depth of 1.2 meters, and on the other – 0.8. Ira and I were a height of 175 and 178 centimeters, it was somehow not very good, but the water was cool, so we were able to relax. The boys swam tirelessly from one side to the other, because there was definitely no point in them just standing there.

Ira and I went back to our rooms, changed our clothes and she came to me. We realized that we had already bought a lot of souvenirs, so we decided to see what was unnecessary in my bag. I found two large transfer tattoos with a sparrow and swallows. So we went to make them, ha ha ha. We transferred a sparrow to Ira, and swallows were for me, now we were like captains. I transferred purple butterflies to my neck, which in the overall composition of the body looked like I was a bad girl. Nessa came and asked to make a couple of butterflies for her too, one was on her collarbone, and two more were just like on my neck. Lisa came, the adults in the group wrote that they would go to the Mall to eat, we asked, “Can we go to lunch too?” there was no answer.… Luna and Maya were in the pool, the boys wrote that they were there

too. I wrote to Alex.

– 

Are you

still

in the

pool

or

have

you

left? Where

are

Luna

and

Maya?

– 

I think so. Kostya told me. He just came

in.

– 

I see, how are we going to have lunch, did they tell

you?

– 

No.

– 

Emae.

– 

Yeah.

– 

Hahaha.

– 

Will you order room service or what should we

do?

– 

I’m hz. I’m not really

hungry.

– 

Not to eat is like a

variant)

– 

Hahahahahaha. I’ll

know.

Maya wrote that we would order lunch at a cafe near the hotel. Ira, Nessa and I ordered noodles with chicken and vegetables

and milkshakes with Bounty, Ferrero Rocher and Nutella respectively. There were a lot of noodles, we didn’t even eat half of them. Those bottomless containers were again. It seemed to me that I would burst, but the pill successfully digested everything.

We went to the Museum of the future by subway. I was walking with Alex at the end of the group, when we were transferring from one line to another, he ran out of dirhams on the metro card, so he ran to replenish, meanwhile the whole group left on the escalator to the station cars. Fortunately, I managed to shout to Rachel that Alex was in trouble, and we would be coming soon, otherwise he would have been lost. I not only wanted to wait for him, but also to show, at least, the way where we should go, because he didn’t get behind the turnstiles at the fork and had no idea where to go. For the rest of the time, he walked beside me all the way to the museum. The ground line station went directly into the building, we went down the circular staircase to the 1st floor. We were told that the free part of the museum was only there, where the exhibits were only whales or seals floating in the air, we didn’t decide who was right. They were silvery, with a tail like butterfly wings. They swam up to the stairs, and everyone reached out to touch them. I was thirsty, but I couldn’t open the bottle, Alex was standing next to me, helped me open it. Lisa immediately began: “Oh, Alex, oh, open up,” in such a thin voice. The girls were bullying me now for my own feelings, but they attacked the wrong one.

We went outside to take pictures, Ira made me just unreal photos again, I helped Nessa. Then we went inside the building, sat at tables in the cool, Nessa and Lisa went again, Nessa left her backpack and phone without second thoughts. Ira gave the backpack to Luna, and we put the phone in my bag and went outside. Nessa came up with the words, “Where’s my backpack? I took it inside, send it.” Ira and I lied professionally that we didn’t sincerely know where her things were. When Nessa realized that there was no backpack, she asked the people who were now sitting at the same table where they were advised to contact security, then we had to say that it was a joke. “What are you doing? I almost turned grey!” – Nessa screamed and almost forgot, but Lisa was very scared, and I said that your bullying had returned to you. We took a picture with the whole team with the Easy School flag so that Rachel was standing at the bottom with the camera, and all the

guys were upstairs. Even today, we had a task to take certain photos, we took photos with the girls near the skyscraper, with passers-by of different nationalities and others. We took the subway to the Burj Khalifa from the other side and went as far as 3 hours along the Dubai Mall. During our stay in Dubai, Ira and I made a list of stores that we still planned to visit. First of all, we bought a cold drink at Starbucks and went to a huge bookstore. I came up with a life hack so that we wouldn’t stay in the same store for all 3 hours, because it was too real with its size. We walked for 10 minutes, and I offered to meet at the ticket office in 5 minutes, during which I managed to get around everything. When you had a limited time at your disposal, during which you could find something pleasant for yourself, you immediately accelerated, and your eyes analyzed shelves filled with different goods faster. As a result, I bought a set of decorative tapes and a notebook in a line with a vintage cover, which closed with a metal hook. It will become my future personal diary, in which I will also write down sketches of new works, bright moments of my life, decorate the pages with drawings, stickers and small things, looking at which I will be able to keep memories for a long time. It cost a lot, but I always spent a lot on literary work. I like when I write on beautiful sheets, for me diaries become a part of and the main inspiration. There are those who can write on the skin of a banana, but I’m not like that. It’s important to me.

Then we went back for jewelry, bought a set of rings, chains and earrings. It was good that Ira had the luggage. I bought Pepsi in a jar, which Ira ended up finishing, and a chocolate bar with salted caramel. Then my eyes fell on a store with a beautiful office and all sorts of little things. The rows with the goods were arranged so that the cash register was located at the end of the circle, bypassing which the buyer passed by all the shelves. Well, how could I leave here without buying anything? I took a pen in which a pencil and two pastes of black and red colors were in one case, as well as two notebooks on rings with plastic dividers, one of which I wanted to bring to my best friend Vika. We were just thinking of ordering a pair of notebooks. Ira took some trinkets for her sister, and we left such a magnificent store.

What was stopping me? Lack of luggage. And then absolutely all the girls would envy us: We went to Victoria’s Secret. Well, of course, we didn’t start buying branded pajamas for 9k rubles yet, but we found very beautiful black cropped hoodies on sale. They’re just unreal. As soon as we went into the locker room and put them on, we fell in love with them. There was also an action in the cosmetics department: you took 2 glosses, and the third one you could take as a gift. We bought a gloss for the moms, and decided to give the third one to Luna. For some reason, I was given a huge package, and Ira was given an average one. And everyone thought that I had bought half of the store, and there was only a hoodie and glosses, but now all the numerous bags were in one. On the way, we stopped at a cafe with the unusual name Gloria Jeans cafe. I got white hot chocolate and Caesar salad. Ira got a sandwich and a cappuccino. There were about 20 minutes left before the meeting, so I suggested going. We barely made it in time, as we were at the other end of the Mall. Everyone rushed to ask about my huge package from the sun. Ira and I went up to Luna and gave her the gloss, she hugged us and was embarrassed. It was not every day that you got a gloss from the VS, was it? Almost all the girls in the group had purchases from this store. Alex had bought a white Adidas T-shirt with a bright print, Luna and Maya – paired Vans sneakers, Nessa had taken a huge cinnabon, and Mike – a watch. The team went to watch the fountain show again. A few minutes before the start, I talked to Alex.

– 

I’d like to go to the glass slide. Have you heard of

it?

– 

No, what are you talking about?

‘It’s

almost

at

the

top,

we

can’t

see

it

from

here,»

but

we

both

looked

up anyway and stared at the building for a while.

The fountain show began, I invited him to come closer, Alex with his broad shoulders walked almost to the water so that everything was clearly visible. I squeezed in behind him. We were standing next to each other, I was filming on my phone, but I was looking at the water. This time a very motivating melody was played, leaving an unforgettable impression. The evening was ending, then we went to the subway, Alex was standing on the escalator above, but he was looking at me, I caught his eye and lowered my eyes to the floor, I was smiling.

A little later, I came to Ira’s room with notebooks so that she could calculate the place in the luggage, we listened to music, and I

did stories in VK. Lisa went to Polina and Tania, I went back to my room and went to bed. I didn’t know what time Lisa came in, but I’d already turned off.

8.08.

#God’stask

This morning, as girls, we went to the pool, everyone swam, and I was writing this book on a sunbed. The phone had to be cooled periodically, and along the way I had to think about the plot. Kostya came and said that Alex and Yarik were still asleep, although it was already 11 o’clock. They tried to drag me into the water many times, but I couldn’t part with my muse and kept writing.

After lunch, we took the subway to the old part of Dubai. Then we walked to the embankment, which looked like in the cartoon “Aladdin”. There were small beige buildings, between them canopies were made of rags, somewhere made of wood. There was peace and quiet, there wasn’t city fuss and noise. We passed the local bazaar, the Luna took us to a shop, of course, we went there more enthusiastically because of the air conditioner, but apparently, we caught the vibe of old Dubai and in the next store sellers put on scarves for Alex, Mike, Kostya, Yarik, Luna and Sue. The men bought these unusual hats, or rather, Mike persuaded them, he was a master of creating movements. At the entrance to another room, the seller asked where we were from, to which we chorused, loudly shouted, “Rashaaaa!!!”, put on a hat with pendants on the Luna, then a golden scarf, Alex measured funny jewelry. There were Light bulbs in a circle on the ceiling, like baby rattles, and everyone who was above 170 hit their heads. There were fishing nets between the houses where you could go to the water, I caught such a pirate vibe, you would know. There was a Starbucks behind the next building, where we of course went. I ordered lemonade, Alex wanted to change 500 dirhams, but there was no change. There was quite a little space in the room, and we also had 12 people piled up at once, so I sat down next to Alex on one chair. I handed him the drink, which he was very happy about. Honestly, I wouldn’t have drunk it myself, so everything turned out just perfect. You noticed, didn’t you? Someone constantly finished eating or drinking something behind me. Didn’t miss the chance to eat for free, ha ha ha.

We boarded the ferry for 2 dirhams, the security said that it would take 15–20 minutes to go to the Festival Mall, where the fountain show was about to start. I sat down with Alex: he was nearby the window, I was closer to the aisle, I was photographing everything that was overboard on my phone, Alex moved, not wanting to spoil the frame, I calmed him down and leaned on his shoulder to take everything off in beauty. He asked if I was seasick, and I had to turn my head with my right ear and get closer to him to hear what he said. I answered, «I’m a pirate, pirates just don’t fly on airplanes.» He laughed. To our surprise, just 3 minutes later we swam to the shore. Going out onto the embankment, we saw a bright shopping center and a water surface with fountain bases that looked like boats from the “Pirates of the Caribbean” scene, where Jack and his team go to Tia Dalma. Alex and I went to the water, looking at each other, someone sat on the benches, we waited for the beginning. There were no people in the area, just alone colored children’s steam train, making a terrible melody. 5 minutes passed, then 10… There was no