- Marinka? !! You? Tanya exclaimed in surprise, opening the door of her apartment in front of me. - What are your destinies? I have not seen you for a hundred years! Are you on a visit or maybe for good?
"On a visit ... I rushed because I was sick," I sighed. "But you have no idea what I should have come here for." What if he's meeting him? "Have not you forgotten?" I thought time would heal, "the girl said sympathetically.
"Apparently, not much time has passed." And hardly ever will I forget ... In Kiev, at least I know that I will not stumble upon it in the nearest store. There nobody cares about me, no one knows what happened in my city ...
"And what if you are known here?" Tanya shrugged her shoulders.
"I do not want to be shown with a finger."
- Why suddenly? This Romke let him be ashamed that he was given such a love, and he, the dog ... A week before the wedding, God knows who to contact! It's with the beautiful bride! .. You know, it's good that you found out everything before the registry office, and not after. Here red tape would be with a divorce ... Yes, you'll find a groom a hundred times better! "Maybe you're right ..." I said.
It's scary even for a moment to remember the past, because in it lives my pain, resentment, humiliation and shame for what happened ...
"And why leave?" Here are relatives, friends ... And there's a strange city. At you here and work was normal, and housing ...
- Yes, is this the most important thing?
"Of course not, but you escaped like a leper." And Romka calmly walks the streets, spits on all, sits in bars, and squanders money. Let him go himself. He's to blame, not you! Order tired of such conversations, I found an excuse to say goodbye to an old friend and ran to the pharmacy for a medicine for my mother. Having bought everything she needed, she returned home with back streets, not wanting to meet people from the past. But there it was ... Directly met me was the former director and was stretching out her arms for embrace.
- It is a pity that not for good. I would love to take you back to work! We did get along fine ... Then we exchanged a few phrases, and I ran to my mother. "Oh, and I stayed, sweated!" - Started to gnaw on the way home. But the mood was wonderful. Bringing my mother a medicine, I casually caught a smile in the mirror, how do I still meet old friends in my hometown.
And, of course you want to sit on your favorite benches, take a walk in such familiar alleys ...
Yes, and with my mother you can stay close . The days dragged on slowly, my mother was getting better. Romka for all the time I have never met. Disappeared - and, thank God! I was thinking how to return to Kiev for the next weekend. Before leaving, I went to the supermarket again: I had to fill the refrigerator with my mother. In the store the aisles are narrow, and from time to time we met with some girl with carts.
"It's good that they are not cars!" - the darling brunette joked.
- Yeah! We have so far only a shop accident, "I winked back at her. And then the girl behind me heard a man's voice so familiar to me:
"Anya, I'm always looking for you, and you ..." Seeing me, the boy fell silent. And my legs were wadded ... It was Romka! We stared at each other in surprise.
- Do you know each other? The girl asked. When I woke up, I shook my head and rushed to the cashier with a bullet. As I ran home, I do not remember myself - my heart was beating like mad. All the forgotten feelings were pouring down the wave: pain, resentment, shame, loneliness ... Mom immediately understood what was happening in my soul, and tenderly embraced, saying: "Nothing will be forgotten ..." After the memories I experienced, I firmly resolved not to leave home before departure. But to avoid another meeting with Roma still did not succeed ...
He came himself - insolently, without invitation. Persistently rang the doorbell and, as soon as I opened it, literally dragged me into the porch.
"Why the hell did you come back?" He hissed angrily. - A little old scandal, so now you decided to hang Anya into your intrigues?
- In what intrigue? Which Anya?
- My Anya! We have a wedding with her soon! And here you are pestering! Get off us! Or decided to reckon with the past?
I stood there, shocked by his rudeness and unfounded accusations.
"You have not existed in my life for a long time!" - With hatred squeezed out of myself, at last. "You do not exist, do you understand?"
"So I believed you!" Only a couple of days in the city, and already sniffed, where my girlfriend to meet! What did you tell her?
- Go to hell! - I abruptly wriggled out of the grasping hands of the former bridegroom and closed the door right in front of his nose.
At night I could not sleep: "Tomorrow to leave, but here the dream does not go - the heart longing." I wanted to cut this sick knot once and for all, to live in peace, to breathe calmly. Not somewhere, but in my own city ... Standing up, no light, no dawn, I went ... straight to Romka. He could not understand the way I dared to come.
"You have not left yet?" Or did you want to say goodbye to me?
- And I'm not going anywhere! I do not need and no one to run away from. In my past, there is nothing shameful. But in your ...
- Threatened to threaten? Just try to break my wedding. I'll be damned all over the district. I can do it, you know!
- Yes, I know, but Anne ... It is unlikely that she will approve of your former "feats." And do not you dare intimidate me. I will not leave this city any more, just because you live here. This is my city!!! Do you understand? Having given everything in one breath, I left. Then a few hours wandered through familiar streets: not because she wanted to calm down, on the contrary - after what happened on the soul was easy and free!