step, talking about something with Sebastian, when her voice called out:

- Helga? - turning around, the girl saw Maru, still a girl, who looked at Helga and Sebastian with eyes full of surprise.

- Mar ... Mara? - answered the girl with surprise and dismay. Well, how, how could it happen, that it cost her to find a “temporary” boyfriend, how does her “boyfriend” catch them together ?! - What are you doing here?

“Insomnia, I decided to take a walk here,” the Alchibian replied. “But what are you doing here?” And with whom?

“Hey,” Sebastian replied to Helga before, smiling unsuspectingly at Mare. - Is it your girlfriend? He asked Helga. - to introduce?

“Well, I’m like her boyfriend,” the “girlfriend” replied. “My name is Mara,” and she smiled wryly.

- Eh? - surprised Sebastian. - How is it, man?

“I'm an Alchibian,” Mara simply explained. “Helga, if you want to meet other guys, when I'm a girl, you could even warn about it.”

Helga stared at the alchibian, trying to figure out if she was making fun — but Mara was looking at her without any sarcasm.

- Well, what do I do when you turn into a girl? Can I meet other guys at this time ?!

Mara carefully looked at Helga, and suddenly she smiled, quite grimly.

“If you don't mind me meeting other guys and girls,” the Alchibian answered cheerfully, with laughing eyes.

Helga gasped with indignation. Her "boyfriend" told her that he was going to change her? How dare he! That the words of Mary were absolutely logical, only made the girl even more angry. But in the end, who is a normal person, and who is an alien ?! The last remnants of prudence kept Helga from expressing this “racist” argument out loud.

It seems that all these thoughts were reflected on Helga's face, because Mara stopped smiling and her face became alien. Having put her hands in the pockets of the jumpsuit, the alchibian woman said:

- Okay. I will not bother you. Have fun, as much as you like - and she turned and walked away.

Helga looked back at Sebastian, but the guy stepped back from the girl, and his face was also a stranger.

“Looks like I'm too much here,” the guy said. - If you want, you can catch up with her and ask for forgiveness. I'd better go, - and he turned, intending to leave.

- Stop! - with a prayer in her voice shouted Helga, trying to keep Sebastian, but the guy recoiled from her with some, as it seemed to Helga, squeamish facial expression.

- You did not tell me that you have a boyfriend! Maybe you will get a third, and you will not tell me too!

And Helga was left alone in the middle of the park: Sebastian almost ran away from her, and Mara also disappeared in the evening twilight of the park. For a while, the girl stood still, unable to recover from the shock, and then suddenly screamed in the night, where Mara had gone:

- This is all because of you !!! - because of the sudden change in the sex of Mary, she had to look for another guy, and then, when Helga found herself a guy for a while, when Mara appeared and scared this guy off, Helga thought.

***

The next day, Helga came to the academic building in a foul mood. But besides being angry at the hopelessly spoiled yesterday, one thought didn’t give her peace: in the audience she would meet with Mara, and she would have to do something with their relationship. Will Mara apologize to her for a spoiled evening? No, most likely not - Helga decided - guys, they are all like that! Apologize to her? Helga did not feel any guilt ... however, it was possible to pretend to be guilty in order to save the relationship.Mara, in fact, seems to have hinted that in general she does not mind if Helga meets with other guys, if she warns her at the same time - perhaps you can agree on this? Although ... Mara probably wants to meet other guys or girls herself, and this could not be allowed! Not that Helga considered herself such a proprietor - she simply feared that if Mara met some more liberated or liberated, or even a bisexual guy or girl, then this guy or girl would lead her boyfriend. How to solve this problem, Helga could not think of ...

The girl entered the audience of one of the last, and not having time to properly figure out what to do next. However, having looked with Mar’s eyes, she saw, next to the Alchibian, their common student Anna, the one who asked Helga yesterday about Mar’s transformation, and what Helga is going to do next, and now she was talking about something to Mara. All the plans immediately flew out of my head at Helga: for certain Mara was now telling Anna about what happened yesterday, and maybe Anna had already laid eyes on her, Helga, boyfriend! Anna was a curly brunette with semi-European, semi-Asian facial features and a dark tan characteristic of Venusians, and the emancipatory nature of Venusians and their tendency to bisexuality were known to the entire Solar System - so Helga almost did not doubt that Anna was trying to lead her boyfriend. Once again feeling a surge of anger, the girl quickly went to the alchibian and Venusian who talked.

“Ta-ak,” she said loudly. - It was enough for us to quarrel once, and I already see you with another girl!

Mara turned to Helga, staring at her with genuine surprise, but before the Alchibian had time to say something, Anna answered first:

“But when Mare changed her sex once, she already saw you with another guy,” she mocked Helga.

- Oh, so you are discussing our relationship with other girls as well ?! - Helga broke out.

Mara finally managed to cope with herself and respond (in the meantime, Helga noticed with displeasure that the students sitting next to her watched with interest as they spoke):

“I think you already found another guy yesterday.” If you think you owe me nothing, then I don’t owe you anything.

Helga burned the Alchibian with an angry look, but then exhaled and gloomily replied:

- We had nothing with this guy. He immediately ran away as he saw you. So ... come on, we just pretend that there was nothing? Good? - she looked at Mara pleadingly: she had the last chance to fix everything, and she was ready to overpower her anger, just not to miss this chance.

Mara hesitated for a second - Anna looked at the alchibian with dismay, and Helga had already hoped that Mara would agree and forgive everything when she shook her head and replied:

- You know ... when you offered me to meet, I thought for a second: is it worth it? Then all this time I thought it was worth it ... but now I see that I doubted not in vain.

Shock and indignation simultaneously paralyzed Helga for a second, and then she, gasping, cried out:

- Oh, you ... alien freak! Yes scram you to hell! - and turning abruptly, walked away.

Flopping on the seat away from Mara, she glanced in her direction - the Alchibian again talked about something with a Venusian woman who — Helga clearly saw this — soothingly held Maru by the arm, moving close to her. The girl wanted to bury her face in the desk and cry, and kept her only what her gloating classmates would see. Her relationship, with such difficulty built with the guy she found only thanks to rare luck, crumbled into dust. This world was clearly unjust to her.