: A high school student falls in love for the first time in his life and worships his girlfriend. But soon she marries another. Years pass, and the guy still remembers the delight of first love.

The narration is conducted in the first person, the narrator is the young man Alyosha.

"Lily," she says in a deep, chesty voice. Alyosha gets acquainted with a girl. They are standing on the street: “How many windows are in this square courtyard: there are blue windows, and green, and pink, and just white.” Jazz music pours from a blue window.

With friends they go to the cinema. But Alyosha does not know what to talk with the girl about and is very embarrassed. “Lily looks at me with shining gray eyes. How beautiful she is! However, she is not at all beautiful, she just has sparkling eyes and pink strong cheeks. When she smiles, dimples appear on her cheeks ... ”After the movie, he escorts Lily home and offers to meet tomorrow.

"The next day I come to her before dawn." Lily is visiting a friend. They go for a walk together, but a friend soon says goodbye and leaves them. On Tversky Boulevard, they see many lovers. Lily and Alyosha walk until dawn. “Now we are walking close by. Her hand sometimes touches mine. ” Alyosha again escorts Lily. At home, he reads the book Brody Castle, which the girl gave him, and thinks about it.

For a month Alyosha leaves for the North. He walks in completely wild forests, hunts. When he returns to Moscow, he goes straight from the station to Lila. He is weaned from the capital: she stuns him with noise, lights, smell, crowding. Lilya calls Alyosha for a walk and for the first time tells him “you”. They fall in the rain, and Alyosha at the request of Lily sings romances and arias in her porch with her bass.

“To be young is very bad. Life goes fast, you are already seventeen or eighteen years old, and you haven’t done anything yet ... What can be done so that life is not wasted, so that every day is a day of struggle and victory! ”

“We have been in school for a long time: she is in the ninth, I am in the tenth. I decided to go swimming and become the champion of the USSR, and then the world. " “All my free time I spend with Lily. I love her even more. ”

December Sunday morning, Alyosha needs to go to the aunt for a shawl in the village, but he goes from Lily to the rink, and then to the Tretyakov Gallery. It starts to get dark, and Alyosha remembers a scarf. Together they go to the aunt. Already at night, through the field, Alyosha and Lilya go to the station to return to Moscow. For the first time, they kiss on the platform: "the whole world begins to spin silently."

In the spring, Alyosha feels something new. He thinks that the girl for him is the only one: “only her voice touches you to tears, only you are afraid to even kiss her hands ... But you are horrified to notice that her eyes are indifferent ... she’s all gone you so far away, where you can’t get it anymore ... "

Alesha was presented one hundred rubles for the May holidays, and he invites Lilya for a walk. The first day she can’t - she says, her uncle is sick. The second comes on a date with a handsome guy's arm. “... I only dared to take her arm by the second month,” Alyosha thinks. He escorts them to the Bolshoi Theater. Leaving, Lily does not look back.

“A year has passed. The world has not collapsed, life has not stopped. ” Alyosha tried not to think about Lila. He receives a letter from an "old, old acquaintance." She leaves with her husband to the North and ask to see her off. Alyosha comes to the station. Something left her beautiful face, he became a stranger. “Her family and her husband are the same guy.” She says goodbye to Alyosha.

“Well, I'm glad for her ..! Only for some reason my heart hurts. ”

Alyosha graduates. Now he is a grown man. Soon he will go to the North. “I completely forgot Lily, because so many years have passed! It would be very difficult to live if nothing was forgotten. ” Now he falls in love with other girls, and they are in him.

“But sometimes I dream of Lily ... as if I am still seventeen years old and I love for the first time in my life ... Unsolicited dreams! ... Oh dear, I don’t want dreams!”