Jasur never says no.
He always carries the water bottles up to the third floor. He usually stays after the lesson and cleans the blackboard. He often lends his pen, and sometimes he lends two.
He is always the first pupil in the room, and he is never late.
"Do you ever say no?" Afsona asks him.
"I rarely think about it," Jasur says.
On Thursday the teacher needs one pupil for the school concert. Twenty hands go up. Jasur's hand stays down.
"You never say no," the teacher says. "Why now?"
"Because Dilnoza always sings at home and nobody hears her," Jasur says. "Today she needs the answer, not me."
Dilnoza sings at the concert. Jasur usually sits in the last row, and that evening he sits there too. He claps the loudest.