The girl was sitting on a bench near the house. She did not need to hurry to cook dinner, wash or iron the laundry, or teach lessons with her children, because she did not have children, and she could do everything else at her own will, whenever she wanted.
She even started to fall asleep, she was so relaxed and startled when her neighbor called her:
-Hello. Why are you not in a hurry to go home?” And the neighbor also sat down on the bench and put two full bags of groceries next to her.
-Why should I hurry? – the girl replied smiling.
– Oh, and I can’t even rest, I don’t have enough time. I look at you, neighbor, and think: where do men look? You are so good and kind, and you are alone.
I wanted to answer the girl so much: “They are looking at me.
But the girl’s life was not so cloudless. She was brought up in an orphanage and never saw or knew her parents. She enjoyed life in all its manifestations, the hardships of her former life could not break a small, fragile girl, but sometimes she had dreams about life in the orphanage, full of despair, resentment.
The girl worked at a garment factory and loved her job, and loved the people she worked with, and they responded to her with kindness, warmth and sincerity.
But her personal life somehow did not work out. In the women’s team she had no experience of communication with men and had no trust in the strong half of humanity. The orphanage taught her to be careful.
But there was a rumor in the entrance of the house where the girl lived that she had a gentleman and none other than the son of a neighbor. Everyone was talking behind the girl’s back that she got involved with a boy who is ten years younger than her, but her mother was not aware of these events.
-Mom, Dad, I want to tell you that we decided to get married.
The woman asked with a change of face:
-With what girl?
– Well, with our neighbor.
The woman sat in a stupor for five minutes, then she screamed:
-“Are you crazy!? She’s old, she’s thirty-two years old, maybe you don’t know?! This is how she looks, small, thin! What a way to wrap a guy up! Well, I’ll go to her now, I’ll arrange it, they decided to get married, what a bride they found.
-Mom, you’re not going anywhere, I know very well how old she is and no one has ever cheated on me. I love her and she loves me. Do not be dramatic and do all sorts of stupid things that you will regret later and you will be ashamed.
-You’ll teach me later!
-What’s all the noise?” shouted my sister, who came home from school.
-Your brother’s getting married!
-Brother, how dare you tell them, you would have lived in ignorance for half a year. Get married, brother, and don’t listen to anyone.
-I feel sick. Give me some drops.
The daughter dripped drops and tried to calm her mother:
-Mum, why do you have to be so hard on yourself? You yourself said: poor girl, so pretty, so nice, but lonely, pity the girl”. What has changed now?
-She is not his match, they are ten years apart.
The woman drank the drops, began to calm down and after waiting for his wife’s cries, the man appeared from his hiding place:
-Why, there are advantages if she becomes our daughter-in-law: first, she will live near us, we will see our grandchildren every day. Others do not see their grandchildren for years. Then, she has no relatives, there will be no competition with us. And I like her too. Get married, or I’ll have the courage to marry her myself.
-What are you talking about?! No, to support me, and he’s talking nonsense.
-Mom, three are for it, you’re the only one against it, and we’re going to have a baby in seven months.
-What?! A baby? Why didn’t you say so right away, – and the woman cried, don’t be afraid, I’m crying with happiness that I’ll soon be taking care of the child.
Woman smiled through her tears and on the way out of the apartment, she shouted.
-“Buy flowers, the groom also for me, because your dad does not pamper me with flowers. Don’t learn from him, give flowers to your wife more often. She is an orphan, she has no one but us.
