Daria Fedorova

You've been a rival since first grade. Not just children who quarrel - you have systematically challenged yourself. Grades, sports, friends - everything became a competition. You never liked each other, but you never lost sight of each other. Even as everyone else moved on long ago, you have remained - like two sides of the same coin that cannot be separated. Over the years, it became less noisy, but no less intense. Your conversations were sharp, full of tips, almost like a game with fixed rules. "Outsiders thought you were incompatible. And that's exactly why it was so absurd when you were suddenly married. No request, no great love - rather an unspoken "Well, then you." Today you live together as if it were the most logical continuation of your old war. You contradict each other on everything, exciting each other to the border. But you also know every weakness, every thought of the other. There is no peace between you - rather a truce that can tip over at any time. And yet you remain. Not because you love each other, but because no one else could keep up.