– Well, Olena, collect things, we put this house for sale, you are – a girl we have an adult now, you can take care of ourselves. – But where do I go, Aunt Valya? – And to your father, go, everything was hidden from you with my grandmother, and he is living in the capital, the businessman says great. Nothing here in the village to live, you will say to me yet,-my aunt smiled-and we have seven on the benches, fed, put on, put on … a woman posted a stack of faded old letters and a black and white photo on the table. On her still a young mother stood in an embrace with a beautiful tall boy. – Here they do pigeons, you served your father in the local military unit, your mother saw him so much and lost her head. – Why did they divorce? Elena asked.

– He went to the city and the parents probably did not taste like that he was going to marry the village, he did not return after Tatiana. The letters wrote everything, wrote, and then stopped… Soon you were born. – That is, Dad knows nothing about me? – Yes, Tanka was proud, we had, he was born and one pulled you. Even though she sent the news, asked for help … Elena grew with her mother and grandmother, she knew nothing about her father and was not accepted in their family. All attempts, the mother was silent. Grandmother was not five years ago. And the mother went only recently, hurt for a long time, there was no money for money for a long time, there was no help to wait … Here if Aunt Valya had previously told Helen about her father … But what to think about it now. The next day after that conversation, the girl gathered her things, took to commemorate the handkerchief of her mother and grandmother’s ring, a stack of letters with an old photo of her parents and went to the station.

The capital met the girl with cold pouring rain, the old coat did not save at all from the piercing wind. She walked past the bright showcases, beautiful signboards, around her a capital life, which she still had to get used to. Standing near one of them, Elena found that her bag had disappeared, in which there was money and personal belongings … On the advice of aunt she put the documents in a secret breast pocket, and thank you. But what to do now, she did not remember the address, and he was just in the pocket of the missing handbag … After sitting on a suitcase, the girl wept. – What about you? Do you feel sick? – she heard someone’s voice, lifted her eyes, – no, all is well, I’m just … a little tired. The voice belonged to the young man of twenty -five years. -Still, you can bring you to the house, you look not important. – I do not have a house here. I arrived a few hours ago … Lena couldn’t talk anymore, suddenly she realized that she was nowhere to go, nevertheless the girl was expecting that her father at least help her at least, naive …

Meanwhile, the man helped her climb, took a suitcase and led it to the car. – Let’s go, I live near, at least warm, you will drink tea, and there we will think about how to help you. Alexei is called, ”he smiled. – I’m Elena. Very nice. Why do you help me? I am a completely alien man. Alexei looked at her silently and then said. – You are very similar to my sister, she fired a few years ago … Already at home, Alexei drinking a girl with hot tea, she told about why she fulfilled such a long way, about the lost Sumts and her home, which will soon belong to other people. Suddenly, Elena rushed an old photo in a beautiful carved frame on a bookcase. – Who is it? She asked her husband, getting closer. – This is my stepfather. Igor Petrovich. And what? Are you familiar? – Wait! Lena rushed to the suitcase, unpaved the roll with sheets. She took an old parental photo, her father was so similar to that Igor Petrovich himself. – Here, look. – So it is! In the army.

After his father returned, he married for the first time, but a year later, their marriage broke up. And five years later, he met my mother, then I was three years old, Igor Petrovich gave me his name and raised me as his son’s son … So he is your father? – Yes, it turns out so, on the letters, too, the signature of Ivanov Igor … – That’s how … Yes, – Alex smiled – so you are my erected sister, well, it is a pleasure to meet. You drink tea, tired from the road … – Tatiana … When I saw her in a local shop for the first time, I could not take her eyes on how beautiful she was. – So you are her daughter? Lena was standing from her foot to foot, she did not sleep all night before, did everything think, how did he meet? Doesn’t hesitate. The door was opened by a tall man with a thick gray, but still looks quite young. – Father, let’s meet, it’s Lena. We have an important thing for you, ”Alexei began.

– Hello, go to the house. While Elena looked around, Alexei put a pack of letters and a photo on the table. Igor Petrovich’s hands were shaky, no one knew how expensive Tatiana was his heart, which he should break their relationship for the sake of a marriage favorable for the parental business. No one knew that he came to Tatiana several times, but she did not let him on the threshold, did not listen, and could still be changed. – Well, Hello daughter! Welcome home – he hugged Elena – I loved your mom very much, well, not crying, everything will be good, believe me, if I knew about you before … It took a few years, Olena and Alexei became friends; Igor Petrovich, departing from affairs, handed over the company to his son and daughter. And his large, empty house was filled with the stupidity of baby legs and a ringing laughter of little grandchildren.