The girl gave birth when she was 16 years old. The father of the child was also 16. Let’s skip all the details of the scandal, but after the birth of the child, the schoolboys split up very quickly. When the girl realized that the boy did not need her or her son, she immediately lost any interest in the child. The son was brought up by his grandparents, her parents.
At 18, the girl left with a new young man in a nearby town, did not call or write. Her parents did not look for meetings with their daughter. There was resentment, incomprehension, how could they abandon their child? And shame. It is a shame and pain that we brought up such a cuckoo.
My grandfather went to sea, my grandmother raised my grandson. The boy still considers them his parents. And he is insanely grateful for his childhood, for a good education, for everything.
When the boy was 18, his grandmother’s niece was getting married. All the relatives attended the wedding, and his biological mother was also present. By that time she was married for the third time and had her second daughter.
The eldest was ten, the youngest was a year and a half. The boy was very excited, wanted to socialize, talk, get to know his sisters. And, of course, to ask “Mom, why did you leave me?”
As good and wonderful as his grandparents were, he missed and remembered his mother. And he even kept her only surviving picture. Grandpa had burned everything. The woman chatted with her relative, telling her what wonderful daughters she had.
– And me, what about me, mother? – he asked.
– You? And you are a mistake of youth. Your father was right, you should have had an abortion, – the woman said indifferently and turned away.
… Seven years later, when the guy was already living in his comfortable two-room apartment with his wife and son (thanks to the old people and the wife’s parents), the phone rang, the number was unfamiliar.
– Son, hi, my uncle gave me your number. It’s your mother. Listen, I know that you live alone. And it’s not far from the institute your sister went to. Can she stay with you for a while? She’s still family. She does not like the dormitory, and it is expensive to rent, my husband left me, it’s hard for me, one daughter – a student, the second – a schoolgirl, the third is about to go to kindergarten, – she said.
– You have the wrong number, – he answered and hung up.
He walked up to his son, took him in his arms and said:
– Well, let’s get ready, let’s go to meet mom, and then all together to grandma and grandpa to visit?
– And at the weekend we’ll all go to the cottage together, right? – the little son asked.
– Of course, family traditions must not be broken!
… Some of the relatives condemned the boy’s action, saying that he could have helped his sister, it was hard for a mother to bring up her three daughters alone. But he believes that he should only help his grandmother and grandfather, not the unknown woman for whom he is a mistake.
