They lived opposite each other. Over the years they developed their own special signs. When they saw each other through the window, the woman put her hands to the glass, so they greeted each other. The man had a wife and two children and the woman had a family. They worked at the same factory, and there they began to meet, and they could not part anymore. They met either in a hotel or at the woman’s friend’s place. The woman was the soul of the company in her youth. She was friends with two unmarried girlfriends who always gathered in bars or restaurants.
Such gatherings were bad without her, so she was always with them. The man was quiet and calm, he could not say a word across to his wife. “He is a spineless creature,” the woman once described her husband to her friends. He never expressed his complaints to his wife, kept everything inside. He had long guessed that his wife was cheating on him with a neighbor. He even hinted her about it. – Who is that man in the window? Whenever I look, he stares. He notices me and leaves. He’s not your lover by any chance. – Don’t be ridiculous. I love you, – she lied to her husband.
They had been dating another man for 27 years. He cheated on his wife. Although she guessed, she kept silent. The wife was afraid to lose her husband. To meet with her lover, the woman came up with various excuses. Girlfriends saved her. But the man was smart, he guessed long ago and figured out all the gestures in the window. He even suspected that the daughter was not his daughter. He was right. – She was out for a walk. He lay down on the couch and the man’s heart stopped from grief.
The woman became a widow, but it did not upset her. She met her lover and asked him to move in with her. – No. We drove your husband to the grave. I can’t do that to my wife, even though I cheated on her, but I always loved her. Your husband caught us. He knew everything, and the pain ate him up inside. – Don’t talk nonsense. He didn’t know anything and it’s not our fault. The man got up from the bench and went home to his wife. That was the end of their relationship. He felt guilty, and the woman continued to go to bars with her friends.
