– You hear, Natashka! Said the neighbor Marina that day through the fence. – Where my Basil has recently disappeared. Sometimes you haven’t you gone to yourself? – If I wanted to be nominated by Vasily, I would take him away from you, – Natalia was gripped calmly. – And the old man – I do not need it now, I have the same. So neighbors have talked to each other often for more than one year. Because in his youth Natalia met with Vasily, but got together with others. Basil – with Zosina neighbor Marina, and Natalia married Basil’s friend Maxim.

This is how their families have lived in their soul for over 40 years. The children went to school so much. The wedding was made and remained in old age themselves. Now their grandchildren are playing together as they come to their grandparents on vacations. More than once, working in their small garden, they occupy the old people on the border and remember their such difficult youth. One such summer day, Marina suddenly said: – You know, Natalko, jokes, but as I have not come before Vasily, then look after him, please. Because he will not put a bowl on the table in front of him, he will not take … …

I taught him so on my head. – No one knows who used to go for someone, – Natalia said philosophically. – But we will hold piles, help each other, no matter how it is, at least as our lives, who knows it, how it will be… And in the fall, Marina still lay down. She anticipated that winter was the last one. So it happened. He hid Basil his arranka Dr. Drum and began to count the days of the week. He lived from Saturday to Saturday, because on the weekend, one of the children or grandchildren came, then in the hut became a little more fun, the children laughed, ran the yard. They were preparing to eat, worried about the farm. For two days, the house became fun, and then, when the children returned home, it turned into a wasteland again.

I did not even want to go there, only cm tugged from each corner. Natalia, as promised to her neighbor, carefully took care of Basil. And Maxim was spent long winter evenings with a friend. “Don’t take it, Natalia,” he asked. – We are two, and he is one, sorry to him. I will still be with you. But somehow Maxim came to Basil Sad, conceived. “Apparently,” he said, “I will have to go to your Marina.” She dreamed to me that night and says, “I will take you soon to myself, because the poor Natalie is hard with two boys, let him cope with one already.”

And I: then take your Basil. “No,” he says. “He’s not mine, he is Natalin.” And I woke up. Apparently, Vasily, she will take me very soon … Men talked to each other, thought soon will be forgotten and conversation, and Natalka did not say anything that time. But in two months Marina really took Maxim to herself. There was no man suddenly. And Natalia became lonely like that finger. Then Vasyl Maximov told her, which he dreamed that night. And she remembered how she asked for Marina to take care of Basil after her no. And by the year Vasily and Natasha really came together.

The children insisted because they wanted their parents only good. It is scary, they say, we will live ourselves to the sick people, and so it will be in the soul of children. – The father of this rtse min, can become a night, and no one even to give, – said Aunt Natasha Vasilyev son Oleg. – And you have the pressure “jumps”, yet it is calmer when someone is nearby. Live together and be happy. – And what do we say to your mom and my aroma, how do we meet them there? Aunt said her gaze. – Or maybe they are sitting now on the celestial border and laughing at us, as they see? – Even before that meeting, a lot of time will pass, something you come up with, – Oleg’s winning sincerely, and made it seriously: – But I am sure that they themselves have put everything to give you happiness…