One of my acquaintances, unmarried, just over thirty, was taken on vacation to the other end of the city. Where it rarely happens. And here Nadia sits on a bench next to a small bowl and eats ice cream with strawberries. Suddenly I watched something happening near her. The company of boys mocked over their peers, pushed him to the ground, calls. Of course, she did not resist, dropped the under-eaten ice cream, intervened, dispersed the hooligans. Someone even got a bag on the back. A boy of ten or eleven wiped his broken nose with a stretched cloth and thanked him.
and thanks.
Not for what. How to find your parents? Can I call my mom?
Nadia really called, but her mother was strange - she said she could only come in an hour or a half. Well, what to do, my acquaintance didn't give up, took me to the cafe for lunch. Sitting cracked cakes with peaches, a salad with crab sticks, and moms are not. The boy, whose name was Vitaly, called her back, but the parent asked to give Nadia a telephone and told her to take her son to the center of the city if possible, and there he will wait for her. Not a small. Nadia agreed, but from the conversation immediately understood that Mom would not be soon. And the guy got something at all, rattled.
It was a pity for him, so my friend took and for some reason pulled the upset child into the park. This park she could not tolerate, because she walked there all the time alone, and people around the opposite with someone. Hope liked it this time. Riding a carousel, feeding a duck and swallow, bought Vitaly sugar cotton and chips. In return, he told me a lot of interesting things. With jokes, they reached the center. They sat on the bench, laughed, talked with their feet and suddenly the boy shouted:
Aunt Nadia, Daddy, Daddy is coming!
Nadia turns her head in the indicated direction and dies like a thunderstorm. Why is? Because she saw her colleague on the former job, in which she was in love, but was afraid that she would not find a common language with his son from his first marriage, because she did not know how to communicate with children (there was no experience), so she did not respond to his steps. It turns out, the boy's mother could not ask from work and called his ex-husband, who after this incident a couple of years later became Nadine husband.