Book-7. Edem, novella

– You cannot go anymore.

– Well, this is the last time. No longer will this shit in his mouth to take.

Anya had washed her warm shower. Then gave a clean towel. Anna, too, had been able to wipe themselves. Soon she came out of the bathroom in a terry- cloth robe and Anya are not paying attention to her friend, collapsed in her bed, immersed in an almost unconscious sleep. Anna took her dirty clothes. Washed in a washing machine and drying up there, she smoothed her dress and hung it on a chair at the head of a sleeping friend. And only then remembered the letter. But again, the work on the dirty clothes Sobinova Anna spent the rest of the day. The time is rapidly and irreversibly flashed like an instant. It’s time to go for a child to kindergarten. And reading the letters had to be postponed. Throwing a threadbare coat, and tying a feather head scarf, she went out into the snowy darkness of the street…

When Anna returned with Dima covered in snow dust may stick together on downy scarf and coat on his shoulders, Dima, looking at my mother exclaimed delightedly:

– Mama you look so much like Snow White Santa Claus!

– Oh, my son, my granddaughter still not enough to go?

They took off his outer clothing, and Dima did it with a serious look, “the adult” imitating men, in which he had already, learn, watching the TV. Anne, looking at his son, could not stop grinning, noting that maturity. When they coped with clothes, Anya said:

– Son, go to your room, and I need to talk to Aunt Anna!

Yes, Mom! – He obediently went to his room.

Anna was sitting at the kitchen table and drank strong coffee. Her hands were shaking like a fever. Formed under the eyes dark circles. She was bad.

– I like you, tell a friend, as you found herself under my door? – Asked her which became Anya.

– Annie, I do not remember anything! Trust me! I do not remember how to drink vodka. I do not even remember how and with whom! – Sobbing, slurring the words, justified Sobinova as the guilty schoolgirl in front of the class teacher. Sniffing, Anna wiped her tears with trembling hands clenched into fists. Behind him Ani suddenly appeared Dima. He looked at Anna, wide- open eyes: – Aunt Anna- bad? – Anna took her son’s arm: – Come on, come on, son. You, why not take off warm overalls? – Dima was taken aback by it and led to his room. It gave a little bit of time to think about the situation and decide something with the hapless girlfriend, or rather with her addiction. Anna was determined to talk and talk to her seriously about drinking and try once and for all put an end to it. But it’s only her can be very naive and insecure desire to help her friend, and wants to Sobinova, is another question. Ultimately, it is up to Anna herself. It was only when she realizes her worthless existence and will fight this habit, and the only way to overcome this illness. Stripped son, Anya went to Anna in the kitchen.

– There you are? – I met her Sobinova. She was still sitting at the table, finishing his coffee.

– I wanted to talk to you! – Immediately set to work Anya.

– What a friend we say?

– About you!

– Here’s more! Again begin disciplinary measures! You changed that, my Lenya, that’ll bring up, eh? – On her face white with anger went red staining. This does not bode well for Anya. The words flew from her unhappy Anna, like peas from the wall and only called it unreasonable anger. Anya for the first time in my life angry at her

– Do you want to walk the streets, kea resurrected zombies? You that nothing interests except this murderous booze?

– Oh, do not remind me of vodka, and so I feel sick! Yes, and now I do not want to live, you must understand!

Anya in his rush aid ran into an impenetrable armor wrapped around Sobinova to reach out and not giving up her ailing condition. And nothing could move, destroy this cocoon that has become an obstacle between them.

– Now, I’m gone! – A tambourine Anna – To prevent you from Dima.

Tears rolled down her cheeks. Ana was deeply sorry for her. But she decided it did not hold: – Go! – Suddenly, she said. – I’m not stopping!

Anna jumped up from his chair and ran sobbing into the bedroom, where hung on a chair Anna laundered her clothes. There was a fuss in the room. After a while she got dressed in the hallway. Became nervous look on his coat hanger hanging of clothing.

Well, where is it!

Anya watched from afar for its fuss:

– I washed it. It’s in the bathroom on the coil dried. – Anya replied. Anna sat down on the bellboy telephone table. Ana was, again sorry friend:

– And where will you go? – All of a sudden, tremulous voice, she had compassion Krazimova.

– What is true is true. – Anna said. She slowly got up from the table, intending to hide in the kitchen splattered tears from her eyes in two streams. Getting up, she inadvertently dropped on the floor a letter, which has had time to sit:

– Oh, what? – It automatically picked up the envelope.

– It’s me! – Anya said. He stuffed the envelope into his hand Krazimovoy, she ran to the kitchen. Soon there were heard her sobs. Anya out of it in the hands of the envelope, decided to distract her friend from a nervous breakdown. And the letter turned out quite the way. She came back with an envelope on the kitchen sobbing to a friend:

Well, do not cry. Come on, it’s better, it’s an honor. Certainly, some of the sect of the border with a proposal to join. And for sure, what be fans to warm their hands on unsuspecting citizens.

Anna stopped sobbing. She wiped her tears. Said:

– Oh, Annie, I can be, and then started to drink because of this.

Yes, we know, we know.

– Do you remember when it started with a general litigation Garinova?

Of course, I remember.

– It was then flooded with work. And then the endless raids and ambushes in our apartments. And then I could not stand it. In sect was nice and quiet at first. I regained her family the same impoverished, like myself. Yes, yes, of course. – Yeah Anna Krazimova saw that she had calmed down, and you could carry on a conversation in a peaceful way.

– Because then they disappeared all of a sudden. And we began to drag, to find out we could not cover them. Frayed nerves so much to us. – Told Sobinova, sighing on the verge of bursting into tears again. – So you’ve decided to join the cult. Sold the apartment, gave money to the so- called teacher and…

– I was on the street.

– But you probably forgot that you had and I have! – Anya said proudly. Sobinova sadly looked at her friend and a quiet voice she said: – Then here I started treated with vodka.

In order to somehow change the subject, Anna pointed to the letter and stated: – Honestly, I wanted to throw in the trash, but it was here when such passions with you come on, come on, read what there. You can always throw together laugh at these fishers of men’s souls.

– This letter has now no meaning for me. But still, let’s attempt to open Annie, look, it’s there!

Anya got out of the kitchen cabinet table knife and pierced them, envelope, opened it. Inside were neatly packed in another envelope smaller color photographs, and was attached a piece of paper covered even calligraphy. Anya took that piece of paper, said:

Handwriting- so wrote Elsa Eduardovna. Bah! Yes this is a letter from her!

– You cannot be serious! – Cried out in surprise and astonishment Sobinova.

Yes, look, here’s in the end her signature.

– What are you waiting for? Read!

Anna began to read a letter, time, and then taking his eyes from reading in utter surprise, commenting read: – How so? After Villa was founded by Nazi criminal still in nineteen sixty- first year! And there, suddenly, is general and Elsa Eduardovna!

– I, once, my Peter told me that the Nazis at the end of the war is very advanced in the development of flying saucers. And that helped them in some kind of extraterrestrial civilization.

– You probably do not in themselves a girlfriend?