-My friend is getting married, – the woman shared the news from the doorway.
-“I’m happy for your friend,” the man said, not looking up from the computer monitor.
-Are you not happy for me? We’ve been together for 15 years, our son is growing up, and you haven’t even given me a handkerchief, let alone a nice dress.
-“You will get a dress,” the husband said conciliatorily and hugged his wife.
Returning home from work the next day, the woman was surprised to see an empty computer chair. Where is her husband? She picked up her cell phone, dialed his number, and breathed a sigh of relief when she heard her own voice. But what the husband said stunned the woman.
It turned out that he went to the capital to work for a month at the construction site. A friend had long been inviting him. When he gets his salary, he will come back and buy her a beautiful dress to show off at the wedding ceremony of his friend.
The woman scolded herself for what the world is worth. Why had she thrown a tantrum and pulled her beloved out of his place? But there was nothing to do. She started waiting for her husband with a gift.
At first, the man called every night, giving a report on what he was building, where, and even dictated the address of the hostel where he was spending the night. Then the calls began to sound less and less and finally stopped altogether.
The woman could not find a place for herself. She was worried that something had happened to her husband. Of course, she did not go to any wedding, so as not to scare the audience with red eyes from tears.
And then she could not stand it, packed a bag and went in search of her husband. She ordered her son to behave well and went to the train station. She found the dormitory, where her husband was supposed to be. But they just shrugged their shoulders. Some people arrive, others leave. No records were kept. Maybe there was a man there, but no one remembered him. So I returned home with nothing.
A few months passed, and suddenly the phone rang:
-Darling, I’ve been bewitched! Take me away from here… – a man’s voice said and dictated the address.
While the woman was writing down the data, the man hung up, and his number was out of reach.
She arrived, found the right house, started ringing the doorbell, but no one answered. The upset woman began to beat the door with all her might.
-“Why are you making so much noise?” – the grandmother looked out of the door opposite.
-So she and the girl went to the cinema…
The door closed, and the woman could not understand what was happening. She imagined some old woman holding her husband in her tenacious pincers. But this version did not fit the information about watching the film.
The woman decided to wait for her husband and find out everything. But when she saw those doves, she immediately noticed that the man clearly did not look exhausted. On the contrary, he was cheerful and even recovered a little.
-Darling! – the woman threw her arms around his neck, -I missed you so much…
-Hey, get away from my husband! -the blonde exclaimed angrily.
The women raised such a howl that the neighbor’s door began to open. The man pushed them both into the apartment with difficulty. After a little rest and calming down, they began to clarify the relationship.
It turned out that the man once went to a cafe and met its owner. The woman invited him to her home. It was much more comfortable in the warmth and coziness than in the small room of the hostel for 8 people with the smell of long unwashed socks.
So when the hostess offered to stay, he did not go anywhere. He lived at her place, singing, on everything ready-made. And the woman from joy did not know what to feed her beloved man, and in which corner to put him.
Only sometimes he remembered his past life with its pennilessness and constant problems, and his heart was anxiously pounding at the memory of his son. Several times he tried to pack his things and return home, but the girl was able to find arguments to dissuade him from such an act.
Almost until the morning, the two rivals quarreled, finding out which of them the man should stay with. And the husband was silent, not knowing whose side to take. On the one hand, the sense of duty towards the first family obliged him to be with his wife and son. On the other hand, he did not want to part with the comfortable life and care that surrounded his girlfriend. They had already bought vacation vouchers…
The women demanded that he decide once and for all with whom he would stay, but the man could not make a choice, so the degree of discussion only increased. She used the last argument. She dialed her son’s number and told him about the situation. The teenager asked to pass the phone to his father.
It is not known exactly what he said to him, but after hanging up, the man shook his head and went to pack his things. All the way home they were silent.
When they arrived, the son did not even greet his father, defiantly locking himself in his room.
Later, life returned to the old way. The woman no longer dreamed of a new dress. She was glad to have her husband by her side. And the man, playing computer games, sometimes looked away from the monitor screen and nostalgically recalled a cozy apartment in the capital and its gentle mistress
