– Oh, nice apartment, nice. I’m thinking of buying one for my son too. And how much will you pay per month?” – my uncle asked, looking at our recent purchase with my husband. We expect to pay it off sooner, – I answered. – You live well, you are rich, if you can pay such money, – my uncle said enviously. – No, we are not rich, you are mistaken. We are poor, – I laughed. Having seen off my uncle, already the sixth relative for the last week, I tiredly sat down in the chair. When we rented it, there was no such pilgrimage, – my husband said. – I didn’t say, it’s my mother, – I sighed. In the evening, our doorbell rang again. – Hello, Sister! Meet the tenants!” – my sister rushed into the apartment, holding the child in one hand and pulling a suitcase with the other hand. “I need to register my son for kindergarten. And I need registration to get a normal job. Don’t worry – we won’t be here for long!
A year or two, until I get back on my feet! Here, hold this! – she handed me my nephew. – And why didn’t you even call? – I asked stunned. – Ha, I know you! You would have found three hundred excuses not to come! Where can we stay? The man came out, looked at my sister, focusing on her suitcase, and went back into the room, sighing heavily. “Yes, don’t go to work tomorrow – stay with the child, I want to see the city. And it would not hurt to throw some money, because we have not a penny – we came to you on the last money. When my mother said that you bought an apartment in the city, I immediately understood – here it is, my chance for a normal life! I’ll meet a man at the apartment. My son will live with you, if necessary. I will not scare you right away, because the gentleman can run away from the registry office, and after the wedding he will not go anywhere, – my sister laughed, flashing rotten teeth. I tried to explain to my sister my attitude to the events: “Doesn’t it bother you that we don’t have a place? And in general, such things need to be agreed in advance. We work, we have no time to babysit you.
So we want to live together, we have been wandering around rented rooms for several years, all with strangers, – I tried to explain to my sister my attitude to the events. And we are not strangers! – my sister was happy, climbing into the refrigerator. – Son, will you have yogurt? And what do we have here? Mmm, sausage! By the way, – she said, taking a bite of sausage right from the stick, – You say there is no room. We’ll fit in one room just fine. I’ll sleep with you, you can buy your son a sofa. Everything will be fine! – Listen to me! You and your son will not live with us! Thanks for coming, I’m really glad to see you. But we want to live together! – You admitted it, didn’t you? You bought an apartment and that’s it? Don’t family ties mean anything to you? – my sister began to be indignant.
– Look, I can tell your husband everything, how you walked around the village with men, when you come to your mother without him! – Are you crazy or what? – My sister’s statement almost made me speechless. – Hey, man, come here! Your wife’s a tramp! Better marry me! I’ll be faithful! Come on, let her get ready and go! The man came into the kitchen, took my sister in an armful, carried her into the corridor and pushed her out of the apartment. Then he took out a suitcase, handed the child to her and closed the door. My sister yelled in the stairwell until late in the evening, and then left. And in the morning my mother called me and said that I was ungrateful and that I no longer had a family. That’s how we bought an apartment and lost our relatives.
