Come to me right now,” her father shouted excitedly into the phone. My father had recently become very moody and demanded increased attention.
-“Your work will wait. I have news – he insisted.
The girl, knowing that she had to leave, asked doomedly: – Good or bad?
He assured: – Great. Let’s hurry up.
Last time he called her only to wash a small kitten he found in the trash. They gave him the wrong change in the pharmacy. His mother spoiled him. She took care of all household chores. And dad lived like in paradise. She just did not feed him with a spoon. She died two years ago and all her responsibilities fell on the shoulders of her daughter.
Opening the door with her key, she immediately noticed fashionable shoes in the corridor. Voices were heard from the room. The girl changed her shoes and went to the voices. And then she noticed a pretty girl sitting in a chair.
Her father stood up and solemnly said: – Meet your sister.
She got down from the chair and hugged the girl: “Oh, I’m so glad. All my life I dreamed of an older sister. But my mother said, if not from my beloved, then never, – and turned to my father.
My father burst into tears: “How faithful she is, although I never promised her anything.
Then the girl could not stand it anymore, she shouted: “But in the end, someone will explain what is going on here? What sister? Where did she come from?
Dad sat her down on the sofa and put the glass in her hands: – Drink, daughter, calm down
She put it back with a knock and asked more calmly: “Explain at last why she is my sister? And where are her parents?
It’s simple. My mother told me everything before she passed away. That the man, whom I called my father, was not my relative. But your father is. Love between them was in the sanatorium. Thanks to that, I was born.
Lisa still did not understand: “Do you have proof? And where are you from?
The stranger took out two photos: “Look. My mom and dad are together. See how they look at each other? It is immediately obvious that there is love between them.
The girl twisted the photos in her hands: “This is not evidence – and turning to her father, she said reproachfully, – And you just believed it? Suddenly she is an African? Stab her in the neck.
My father was angry. Moreover, I had an affair on the side, though not for long. See how much she looks like me? Nose like mine, even ears like mine. And if you don’t like it, go to your work and don’t interfere.
The girl was offended and slammed the door.
Two days later I got another call, father: bring my card. We need money.
She sighed: – Why? I buy everything for you myself. Food and medicine.
The father said: – And you need to count and divide my money.
A couple was stumbling near my father’s entrance.
– Girl, can you help me in? – the woman asked, vaguely resembling someone.
-Please – the girl answered and dialed the code.
Together they went into the elevator.
– What floor do you want?
– a gloomy man answered.
The girl was still surprised who they were going to. She seemed to know everyone. But she kept silent. But when they simultaneously approached her father’s apartment, she could not stand it:
– Who are you here to see?
The woman sobbed: – Our daughter has disappeared. We think she is here.
Have you seen her?
Lisa smiled: – Sure – and opened the door – Well, come in, we will deal with it now.
The girl, when she saw her parents, backed up. And then pulled herself together. She came up to her father and whispered: “Daddy, don’t believe them. It was my stepfather and his partner who came. They need my apartment. Protect me – and hid behind his back.
The woman exclaimed: “My daughter, what are you doing? I went to someone unknown and left a note, I’m going to my father. What father? Here is your father, he felt bad when he read this nonsense of yours. Get your things and let’s go home. Don’t bother people’s brains and nerves.
But the girl gloomily looked at the woman.
The father finally pulled himself together, before that he had been looking at the woman for a long time. But she said that you are not there.
Daughter, have you already sent me to the other world? Yes, that’s me. And this is my husband. And don’t believe what our daughter tells you. I’m probably to blame for everything. I was looking at the album with a friend and I remembered you. She said he was a good man, polite. She said you had an affair with him. And this one heard it and drew her own conclusions. We’re sorry. We’ll leave right away. Get ready. And next time, think with your head, not where you’re sitting.
When the door closed behind them, the girl handed her father a card: – Here, you asked for it, right?
The father sat down heavily and waved his hand: “No need. Let you have it.
The girl sat down next to him: “Dad, do you miss me if you believed the first impostor? Or am I a bad daughter?
He patted her head: “I don’t know. Like some kind of eclipse covered. You are far from me, you come rarely, and only when I call.
Everything is fine, Dad. I will come more often.
Dad rarely calls now. He has so many things to do on the Internet. And last week he said that his childhood friend was coming to visit him and he needed to buy some groceries.
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