After another crisis, the woman and her husband found themselves without work and with a mortgage. To somehow get out of this situation, the woman was forced to leave her son with her husband and go abroad. Not that the job she was offered matched her qualifications, she needed to take care of the elderly, but without this job they risked being on the street. It took the woman seven long years to pay off the debt. When she had accumulated a decent amount, she decided it was time to return home. Just in time for her son’s wedding she will arrive. Sitting at the table, the woman could not get enough of her son and daughter-in-law, how beautiful and happy they both are. And the wedding was organized in the highest class, she did her best. In the midst of the wedding, a neighbor sat down next to the woman. A scandalous, unpleasant person, but the woman was ashamed not to invite her.
– “Why are you sitting there, chicken? The woman was numb from such impudence. And the neighbor continued, “Do you think you were expected here? See, your husband approached a woman with a child? It’s his child. And your son didn’t tell you anything, did he? Why? They are satisfied that you send money and do not get under their feet. Realizing that the woman was not going to answer her, the neighbor left. And the woman sat and looked at the man’s daughter. She had no doubt that it was true. The child was very similar to her son in childhood. It was a terrible shame that her husband neglected her so much that he invited his mistress to his son’s wedding. Seven years is a long time. The woman felt some kind of alienation between them from the first day of her arrival, but she hoped that neither time nor distance could prevent her relatives from remaining so.
Obviously, she was wrong. The woman recalled how hard her departure was for the elderly couple she was taking care of. How they asked her not to forget them and at least to call from time to time. The elderly people were really very kind to her… Out of the corner of her ear she heard that the toastmaster gave the floor to greet her. On cotton feet, she went to the microphone, greeted the young people and added: “Son, you are already an adult and I really hope that both you and your father will be able to take care of their loved ones without my help. And since there is no more place for me in your hearts, I am going back abroad. She was leaving the hall amidst general confusion and commotion. Her son and husband shouted something, ran in, trying to stop her, but it was not important. Maybe someday she would listen to them, but not now. Now she was determined to return to those who loved her.
