Book-7. Edem, novella. V. Speys

to wash your hair well, and so sitting here stuffed overseas. There’s a bathroom you will find on the shelf shampoo.

      Anna sighed with relief. She got up and already had calmed down, went to the bathroom.

      – That’s what misfortune! – Looking into her trail, expressed regret to Anna.

      Krazimova slept that night in the room with Dima in his adult bed, which I bought and installed Leonid when Dima exactly a year. Krazimov believed that men have become boys in childhood, accustomed from infancy to adulthood. Leonid foresight was justified, and by the fact that when Dima was sick, that Anya could always be with him, warming the affected child a mother’s warmth.

      Chapter 2

      Dima was still asleep when Anna jumped up from the bed, as if stung. It was six in the morning. She dreamed a nightmare that she did not remember, and apparently inspired by the past a nervous day. She tried to remember the dream yet, but I could not. It was still early, and she decided to no longer go to bed. Crept back into the bathroom. Washed her face and brushed her teeth. Suddenly saw myself in the mirror, which is alienated and tired. Light faint wrinkles at the edge of the eye lids fan identified at the temples. Her green eyes are still kept alive luster of youth and beauty, which did not affect the hardships of everyday problems. But the shine has become tougher. Taking a deep breath, she broke away from the mirror and went into the kitchen. There, she found Anna. Sobinova by prudently took to make coffee. Women were silent, trying not to talk to each other and do not look at each other. Anna was ashamed of the past. Ana was embarrassing for the men’s morals girlfriend. In the end, they sat silently drinking coffee, eating cookies “croquet.” Anna first to break the silence:

      – You know, I was thinking, maybe I’ll take Dimochka in kindergarten, and you Congresses in the mail?

      – I also thought about it. You know, come on! But I’ll wear it, and the three of us get out of the apartment.

      – Go. – Agreed Sobinova. It has again become self- confident and gained a calm expression, which was used to seeing in front of Anne.

      At eight o’clock all were assembled. Dima cheerful and sociable was dressed in overalls and a warm winter jacket with a hood. A little old woman in his coat and feather scarves. Anna could not stand it, and said:

      As rural- grandmother.

      On the other hand, warm and cozy. – Responded to a replica of Anne. All three of them have fun out in the March changeable weather.

      Anya had to get on the subway. In front of the main post office, lined up a taxi rank. Taxi drivers were at their cars, calling passengers hoping to ride one on the Kiev railway station, one in Sheremetyevo, to lust, waiting for her.

      – The girl and the girl went. I’ll take not expensive!

      – No, thank you. – Anya answered them.

      – We’ll wait for you! – Spoke drivers.

      Meanwhile, Anna entered the spacious foyer. Opposite the input of massive doors at the end of a long hall, sat at her window manager main post office. Anya went straight to it:

      – I came to see if you can get a letter of demand three years ago?

      Administrator, full blond woman in years, severely eyeing Anya look cold gray eyes on top of his glasses, said sternly:

      – What are you, my love, laugh? – Making a waiting pause, she asked, – Or, How?

      – I seriously?

      – Well, you know, my dear, unclaimed letters three to four months, are sent back to the recipient.

      – Well, if they do not return address, then what?

      Well, these being shelved.

      – From there, you can get them?

      That’s not possible.

      Yeah, why the hell? – Anya she was scared of her voice, but it was too late.

      – You do not be rude to me here, honey! – With metal tone of voice, the receptionist said. Anya’s eyes welled up in tears:

      – Sorry. – Deaf voice, she said. – I did not want this letter to me is very important.

      The administrator took pity on the poor woman, and has a warmer voice replied:

      – They are packed in bags and stored for about five years, and then burned.

      A glimmer of hope flickered in the eyes of Ani:

      – So, then, it is still possible to find a letter there?

      – And who will you look for it there, among hundreds of thousands of letters in these bags?

      Well, I cannot.

      – No. You do not have access. Only the employee can search mail, he is entitled.

      – Tell me, how did it do?

      – It is necessary to pay for the work of the employee, as a rule, this is his one working day. A day or two, he will find it. Again, you pay only for one day. How much will it cost, say, after the letter will be found.

      – And that this is necessary?

      – Here, take the application form. Please fill in his position, ie from whom and to whom. Or if there is no return address, to whom it was intended. And remember, we issued a letter of demand to the destination only to whom it is intended. Ie everything exactly on your passport.

      Anya trembling hands took the form. Began to fill. Filling, returned form.

      – Wait a minute, I’ll knock on a computer database. – The administrator has to click the mouse a computer, rummaging in the database. Then replied:

      – You know, this letter does not appear. It seems that we did not receive, nor three years ago, no four.

      – It cannot be?

      – Computer center is not lying, it is a guarantee! We have this iron discipline.

      Anya at a loss out of the building and the central post office in a dream, almost automatically down dale, on the subway reached to the house. She met Anna. The apartment smelled delicious fried potatoes and fried eggs with ham.

      Well, that’s where the letter? – With undisguised curiosity, looking Ana’s eyes, asked her Anna.

      Not that, letters, and there was never even a trace.

      – These are the times, strange it all. – Deaf Anna said. Then, recollecting himself, added:

      Let’s quickly take off your clothes, and at the table. Eat, as it should.

      Anya minute later was sitting at the table and was eating with gusto fried potatoes with ham and eggs, washed down with a hot strong coffee. Anna kept up with the girlfriend. Having finished breakfast, the women stayed in the kitchen. Were working there, trying to take myself, washing dishes, cleaning the kitchen then. In this tinkering around the house, the day passed. For Dima Anya went alone. Anna began to prepare dinner at all.

      Snow middling’s drumming on the face, cheeks tingling. Kindergarten, which drove the baby Anya was a few blocks walk along the embankment of the Moscow river. It was not comfortable in rainy days and very nice in good weather. Now, shrinking from evil wind gusts hewer, Anne dejectedly trudged toward the kindergarten. From the head did not come out painful thoughts, inspired by the letter of Elsa Eduardovna. Anya knew how Aunt Elsa; she could not write the truth. There, somewhere in the subconscious mind flickered saving idea that all that is written in the letter, though. But behind this hides a mystery. Maybe Aunt Elsa could not write here so openly about big money. And all of a sudden got a letter in the hands of either her Anya, what then? Anna began to think by putting yourself in the place of Elsa Eduardovna, wondering how she would do, being in her place? Of course, Anya would have resorted to allegorical,