There was a cold winter evening in mid -January. Snowflakes were circling in the city park, covering the grass and a fluffy blanket. The branches of trees were also in the snow, as well as benches on bent metal legs. One of them sat a young woman and looked at one point. On her face, she was reading incredible sadness, and the evening emphasized this bleak picture of sorrowful loneliness. Maxim walked the park with a hurry home in his bachelor apartment. Tonight, he intended to spend alone, giving up all the invitations of friends. Holidays and fun are sometimes tired. Moreover, the New Year’s meeting did not bring him anything good. It was that night that he parted with Victoria, taking a statement from the RAGS for a day. They were familiar for three years and finally decided to get married. The wedding was planned at the beginning of February and everything seemed to be fine. And on New Year’s Eve, she betrayed him … right at the feast. He saw everything with his own eyes.

And he did not understand … And now he gave himself a word – no women! Yes, he is already forty. He had many girlfriends in Victoria, and it was Maxim that he decided to be prudent. But it is probably not his fate. So he hurried to himself, into his lonely bachelor world. And then suddenly he saw her. The eyes are so sad that his own longing seems to him almost the top of bliss. Maxim could not go past Maxim. More precisely, I could not dare. He stopped and asked: – Did you happen? Did you lose something? The girl lifted her head and looked at him silently. – Do you need help? He asked again, slightly squeezing from such a gloomy picture. But she did not answer and here he saw that she was trembling. He sat side by side and took her hand. The gloves without gloves were icy. Then he took his second hand and began to warm them to bring it to his senses a little. In about a minute, the girl took her hands, tried to stand up, but immediately dropped on the bench without strength.

She looks about thirty, pretty, if you do not take into account this alienated look and stone face. – Can you talk? Maxim asked again, and here she wept like a baby. – Well, that’s, get up and go to me, I live here near. Warm and tell what happened. Otherwise, freeze at all. Oddly enough, she obeyed him. She got up, leaning on his hand, and walked around. At home, he helped her undress and spent the living room on the sofa. Then he got tea, poured into a ceramic mug and stretched it. – Drink, warm up. Want to eat? “No, thank you,” her weak voice was finally heard. She drank small sips, closing her eyes a little. And Maxim sat in his chair and waited for she to finally talk. The story was simple and familiar with pain … Today, Nina, as the girl’s name, has left work earlier. She was a little weakened, and she was released home. Nina went into the shop near the house, bought fresh bread and went into her pad.

She suddenly frozen at the apartment. Some voices were heard behind the door … – What is my olezhik at home? Nina thought. – TV looks apparently… Nina opened the door with her key, went into the corridor and hoarse. From their bedroom heard the voice of her beloved Oleg and a female laughter! Nina, without a break, opened the door to the room. She so frozen on the threshold without believing her eyes. In her bed with her husband was her best girlfriend Larisa, who had to become a friend at their wedding. Nina looked at them and could not understand how possible?! What was later, she remembered badly. She came only when he, Maxim, warmed her hands … – What do you intend to do now? He asked, perfectly understanding her condition. – Do you have where to go? She shook her head. She lived in her Oleg for a year. They were going to get married. What she didn’t know now. – In the hotel at first, and I will decide there, – she said quietly. Maxim did not think for a long time. His three -bedroom apartment allowed her to give shelter to an unfortunate woman.

– I can not insist, but I want to offer – you can spend the night, or even live, the room is free, and then decide on a fresh head. And Nina suddenly agreed. On the weekend she went down, took her things. The former begged not to do nonsense, well, who does not happen to, they say? Nina listened calmly, looked at him with disgusting and replied: – But to me, to you, to be honest. And here it, this Larisa … How does her land wear? Okay, love for health. Two boots pair … He no longer detained her. She can see her tone and look. Nina returned to Maxim. And she lived in him a week. With his permission, she brought order everywhere, in the evenings, after work, she prepared delicious dinners. Then they talked under a glass of sparkling for a long time and diverged in their bedrooms. Both were simply not ready for any relationship. And they did not want. It was very difficult for everyone, they were not easy for betrayal. They had to be survived.

A week later, Nina found an apartment and moved. Of course, they exchanged phones. But strangely enough, they were rarely called each other. And there were nothing. Bored questions, standard answers. Gradually communication came to naught. And Nini began to annoy the former. She changed the phone number and disappeared at all, silent about the most important thing … It was two years old. During this time, Maxim and Nina have never met. They lived in different ends of the city, and he mostly traveled. Maxim recently noted his forty -year -old in a circle of closest friends. Friends, of course, for your own – where is your girlfriend when you get married? Maxim joked, saying that he was not included in his plans for the coming years. And a day he met her, Nina! She was waiting for a shuttle bus at the city center, and he passed by. He recognized her right away! He stopped nearby, left the car and came.

Her eyes were surprised and joyfully looked at him. She looked well, and her little boy sat on her hands. “Let’s go, I’ll take you,” Maxim said. – You can not park there, – and led them behind. They went silently, Nina spoke gently in the back seat with a baby, who was no more than a year and a half. And Maxim still asked: – Your son? – Yes, it’s Denis. From that poor Oleg … – And he is in the course? – I don’t know. I didn’t speak, but maybe someone made a lot. We haven’t seen you since then. And some feelings or pity or sympathy were taken by Maxim. He liked this woman. No, not only externally, he did not take it at all. But her manner of conversation and a calm tone of voice. He even noticed it when she lived with him.

And Nina thought: – What a pleasant man he is. Sustained, balanced. One pleasure to be near him. And she smiled at him, catching his careful look in the mirror. Maxim took them home where Nina rented the home and suggested: – Maybe we will meet on the weekend in the same park where we met? Is there a desire? Nina looked at him happily and said: – With pleasure. I dream of so often the bench … So it was born, and more precisely strengthened, gained real outlines is a sense of mutual sympathy that gradually grew into love. Mature, real. Sometimes not everything goes into your hands. Yes, it is probably needed. But she combines hearts when they are ready for mutual love and true family happiness …