Iqhwa leqhwa, njengeentsiba ezingenamsebenzi, zijikeleze emoyeni, ngokukhawuleza, njengokungathi zithemba, zehla emhlabathini. Nangona iqhwa elincinci, ngokuhlwa abantu bahamba epakini, ebusweni bethu besiyazi ixesha elide. Njalo kusihlwa, ukuba imozulu ivumelekile, senze i-promenade epakini yendawo. Amantombazana ethu abalekela ngaphambili, kwaye uLenuska kunye nam, samkhokela, bekhokela incoko engcolileyo. Isihloko sencoko yayimnandi - iingxaki zeNtsha zoNyaka kunye nayo yonke into ehambelana nayo: amamenyu, iimpahla zokugqoka zeentombi, ukuthenga izipho kwiintsapho kunye nabahlobo.
"Umama-mkhwe wandibiza kuEva wakhe omtsha," umhlobo wam osenyongweni wagubha. "Siza kuhamba ..."
"Akunasabe, siya kuhlangana kunye nosuku lokuqala kwaye siqaphele ukuba kufuneka ukuba njani," Ndamqinisekisa uLena kwaye wamangaliswa kukuba i-joker kunye nokuhleka kwethu kwadabuka ngokugqithiseleyo intambo kwaye yaphantse ikhala.
- uLenok, uya kuchitha ubusuku obumangalisayo, udlula ngo-Eva onguNyaka omtsha, kunye nomkhwekazi wakho oyintanda! - ndihleka. - Ewe, bangaphi balobo busuku ... Akazange abonakale ephulaphule kwaye wayecinga ngento ethile, kwaye emva kweminye kamva wema waza wabuza, ngokuqinisekileyo wambulala ngombuzo wakhe:
- Ngaba ucinga, uNastyusha, kubi kakhulu - ukuxelela umhlobo ukuba umyeni wakhe uhlala eshintsha?
Ndiyingozi, "ndaphendula. - Kutheni uphazamise ubomi bentsapho yomnye umntu? Emva koko, umhlobo akanakho ukwazi ngeveli yomyeni wakhe, loo mcimbi uya kuphelisa ngokwawo. Kodwa ukuba umnqweno onokuzikhethela ubonisa, ubomi bentsapho buza kunika ikhefu.
Ndikholelwe, ndithandwa!
"Kucacile," uLususka waphefumlelwa. "Ulungile, ndicinga ukuba." Ndiyabonga.
Ukwazi i-intombi yam kwiklasi yesibini, ndaziphulaphula iindlebe zam. Ukunyaniseka kwakhe nokucamangca kwam
-Ukuphi na ngokukhawuleza ukwabelana ngokungcatsha kwamadoda angenalucalulo kunye nabafazi bawo abahluphekileyo? Ngandlela-thile ngandlela-thile!
- Ewe kunjalo ... ndandicela nje, Nastush. - ULenka ngesizathu esithile wakhawuleza isinyathelo.
"Kulungile, linda umzuzu!" Siye saba ngabahlobo kwiminyaka engaphezu kwemashumi amabini, sifana noodadewethu, kwaye ukuba ungayithuli nto oyaziyo, ndiya kukujonga njengento yokuhlambalaza, ukuthuka ubuhlobo bethu ... Ndathi igama lam intombi!
Ngengqondo kaLenkinoi, ndaqonda ukuba andiyikumba. Wayekhangela ngelinye iqela, umlomo wakhe wawunomsindo.
"U-Anton uza kundibulala xa efumanisa oko ndakuxelele ngako oko."
"Akayi kubulala, kuba engazi." - Ndaqala ukucaphuka. - Woza, sele uqalile.
- Uhlala ethenga iintyatyambo, iirase ezimhlophe, ekhoneni elikufutshane neentloko zezinwele, ezikufutshane neklinikhi yamazinyo. Kwaye ke ngezo ntyatyambo zingena kwizinwele, kwikamelo labesifazane, ucinga? Uhlala apho kude kube ngehora lesibini, yonke ikhefu lekhefu, aze ahambe kwindawo yakhe yokusebenzela, - uLenka wazama nzima ukuba angandibukeli.
"Ngaba uzibona wena, Lena?" Wabuza ngokubuhlungu.
"Yena ngokwakhe," wayethehlisa amehlo akhe.
- Uyazi njani ukuba njalo?
- Ndandiphawule amazinyo am. Ukuxhatshaza kwakufuneka kuthathe ikhefu, le nto ke ndaya kwidokotela wamazinyo ekhefu lokutya kwamalanga. Ndinayo ukusuka kwisiqingatha esidlulileyo ukuya kwesigxina esedlule. Ndandihleli apho nomlomo wam evulekile kwaye ndibukele uAntosha ekubukele. Phantse yonke imihla, uNastush.
"Kutheni ungatsho nje ukuba ndifumene enye?" Ndandiphazamiseka.
Iingcamango zazivuthwa entloko yam. Njengoko inhlanhla ingaba nayo, yonke into enye enye: ayifuni ukuya kwidlo sasemini, ithi inkathazo, kubaluleke kakhulu ukuba isebenze. Emva kokuba ibhanki ivaliwe, ilixa lilibazisekile ezintlanganisweni ezintathu, ngoko lihlola, ngoko iikhompyutheni zigcinwe. Ndiyintoni na isicenge? Ngaba awuboni ukuba waqala ukungiphatha ngokuhlukileyo? Sidla ngaphandle kwakhe, siya kuhamba ngeeveki, naye, ngaphandle kobawo. Kwaye i roses emhlophe ... andiyikhumbuli na xa bandinika iintyatyambo. Kwaye ndalibala ngokupheleleyo ngentombi yam.
Ngokuqhelekileyo, iimpawu zokungcatsha ziyabonakala ... Ngokuhlwa kwakusondele, kwaye kwaba nzima. Ndathatha umoya ophefumulayo waza ndawugubungela ubuso bam ngezandla zam. ULenka wangamkela waza wambetha ngentloko yam intloko.
- Khala, kuya kuba lula. Ekuqaleni andifuni ukuthetha, kodwa ke ndazibeka endaweni yakho. Ihlazo: ucinga ukuba ungumntu ongeyonto, ucinga ukuba loo nto, enye, iintyatyambo zinokugqithisa, kwaye unxiba iisokisi, i-cutlets kunye ne-lettuce abapheki ... Musa ukunyaniseka nawe, unina nomfazi wengane yakhe, , wamnceda yonke le minyaka ...
Yiyo le nto. Kuyithakazelisa ixesha elide abanalo? Mhlawumbi akunjalo, ukuba iintyatyambo zigugile yonke imihla. Nangona owaziyo ...
"Akukho nto, akukho nto," watsho uLenuska. - Ngaba iza perebesitsya kwaye libale, oku kwenzeka njalo. Njengoko bethetha, awuyena owokuqala, awunayo yokugqibela.
"Andiyena owokuqala, ulungile." Kutheni yena kuthi kuthi? Ngeentyatyambo zefife yakhe kukho imali, kwaye uLenochka ulindele ibhayisekile ezintandathu ezintandathu, malunga nokukhala, ihlwempu.
Ndacaphukisa ukuba uAnton wamanga. Njengokuba akukho nto yenzeke, wafika ekhaya, waya kulala kunye nami waza walala, wabuya. Kodwa ndabhala yonke into ngenxa yentlekele!
- Nawe, kwaye, ungacasuli, unina! ULenka wayelindele ukuba omnye umntu asabele kwiindaba ezimbi kwaye wayevuyiswa kakhulu nokuzola kwam. Yisiphi isono esifihlayo, kuba ukususela kwidala elidala akukho nto. Sasiphakamise intombi, sasinohlobo oluqhelekileyo lwabahlobo, luya elwandle ehlobo, kodwa into yatshintshile.
Sayeka ukuchitha ixesha kunye. Ngaba ukhathele? Ngokuhlwa wayeziphatha, njengokungathi akukho nto yenzekayo: wayepheka isidlo esiphunga, esitya ngokuhlambalaza, wahlambulula. U-Anton wabonakala emva kwelishumi kwaye, njengokuba njalo: "Nastia, ndisekhaya!" Ndaphuma ngekamelo lokulala ngengubo epholileyo. Igumbi lokuzibhokoxa Ndiya kutyelela yonke imihla, ukuze amantombazana am ndibe nomona! Nazi izibilini ... Ngamafutshane, akukho nto. ULenuska wayidla ngendlela engokoqobo yegama - ndamncedisa, de kube yiminyaka emibini. Ngaba okwesibini, kwaye ngoku i ...
"Yaye yintoni eyanuka kumnandi, uNastya?"
- njani? Ukutya isidlo ekhitshini elinde wena, - ungakhangeli u-Antoshka, ndaphendula, ndidibanisa i-cursty my curls. "Ulambile, mhlawumbi?"
"Ndilambile." ULenochka ulele kakade?
Wayekhwelisa ihembe lakhe kwaye wamomotheka.
"Le Nastenka ivakala kangaka ... Yiza kunye nam eshahleni ..." Wathabatha isandla sam, ezama ukukhokela kwindlu yokuhlambela. Ndandihamba ngenyameko.
"Intloko yam iya." Kwaye wena, khangela, unenwele? Akukho nto, kungenxa yakho.
- Ewe, wagxotha endleleni eya ebhankini ...
"Yaye uyintombazana ehlakaniphile, u-Antoshenka. Kwaye umkhweli wamkhonza, kwaye umfazi wakhe wayenamandla. Hamba kakuhle! "Ndazicingela kum.
- Unesidlo, ubuyisele amandla, - sms. - Ndiza-ndilale! Kusasa kakhulu ukuvuka ekuseni kusasa. Akazange athethe nantoni na, wandijonga ngokumangalisayo. Ngentsasa ndaya emsebenzini kwaye ndacela uncedo kubaphathi, ndithembisa ukwenza yonke into kusihlwa. Kwibala eliqaqambileyo, elibanzi, amantombazana amahlanu asebenza. Ndahamba nge-shop bar bar empty. Kwaye nantsi iziqulatho! Kule tafile kufuphi nesibuko esikhulu sasiyijelo ezintathu-litre kunye neentyantyambo ezimhlophe. Ndayeka, ndakhangela ndaza ndabetha iintyatyambo.
- Ekuseni. Yintoni endiyenzela yona? - Ilizwi elithambileyo, elizolileyo lalivale kakhulu. "Hlala phantsi," intombazana ibhekisele kwisihlalo.
- Ndiyabonga. - Ndahlala ndijongene nesibuko, emva komva wam, ngigweba ngebheji, ndimi inkosikazi egama linguTatiana.
- Tatiana, ndithintela iiphelo kunye neengqungquthela zincinci ...
"Konke oku?" - Ngesizathu esithile wamangaliswa.
- Mhlawumbi, ewe. Ndicinga ukuba kusasa kakhulu ukupenda, ndathi.
Ngelixa uTatiana ekhonjiswe ngaphezu kweenwele zam, ndafumana ithuba lokuzibona kuzo zonke iindawo.
I-Slender njenge-birch , kubonakala kwiminyaka engamashumi amabini, i square square kunye ne-cosmetics. I-Grey, amehlo amakhulu ayebukeka ngendlela engafaniyo kwaye ekhwankqisayo. Into ehlekisayo kukuba wayengenayo ibele.
"Ngaba wanike umyeni?"
- Ewe, intanda yam isile. Iipongi ezimnyama ezibubhakabhaka ebusweni abubonakalwanga ngokukhawuleza.
- Mhle. Ngaba uza kutshata ngokukhawuleza?
"Andizi," waphendula ngokubuhlungu. I-Tatiana yakhawuleza imelana nokupheliswa kwam, kwaye ngosuku olulandelayo ndaphinda ndayeka ukwenza i-manicure kwaye ngexesha elifanayo ncokola noTanya. Kuzwakala kungamangalisa, kodwa ndandiyilungile intombazana enomtsalane onomyeni othandekayo uAnton. Ekugqibeleni ndaqiniseka ukuba ukhetho lukaTanyushkin lwendoda yam xa ndabona iifoto zabo ezihlangeneyo ... elwandle! Wabazisa ngokukhethekileyo ukusuka ekhaya ukuze ndibonise.
"Akayena mhle kakhulu?" - Ndiyayithanda imifanekiso yeTanyusha.
"Kunene," ndavuma kwaye ndacinga engqondweni yam ukuba yiziphi iindwendwe ze-Anton zasehlobo zasehlotyeni.
Emva koko ndamema uTanya kwi studio apho wayesebenza khona, kwabonakala ngathi yiminyaka eyiwaka. - Woza, siza kuthunga okuthile kuwe, kwaye umangalise intanda yakho ngengubo entsha kwi-Eva yoNyaka omtsha! Ngomso, uTanya wandiyalela ingubo kwisitala sikaNatasha Rostova. Wayehamba ngokuzikhethela, kwaye ngamanye amaxesha wayehamba nje, exoxa. Le ntombazana yayivutha nje xa yamxelela ngo-Anton ... Kwiintsuku ngaphambi ko-5 ngaphambi koNyaka omtsha, ndenza izibonda zokugqibela kwiingubo zikaTanya.
Ekugqibeleni, ingubo yayilungile , kwaye ndabiza le ntombazana. Kwakuyixesha lokuguqulela isicwangciso sakho ngokwenene: "Ingubo ikulungele! Namhlanje ndikulindele ekhaya. Yiza uthathe! Andizange samkele ukwenqaba, ndiyakucatshulwa! "Ndiyalela idilesi kwaye ndalindela isivakashi ngexesha elivunyelweneyo. Wathumela intombi yakhe kumhlobo wakhe osondeleyo nguLena. Malunga nesithandathu ndibiza uAnton waza ndafumanisa ukuba wayifake imoto egaraji kwaye wayesele esondela ekhaya.
- Umhlobo wam uza kuza kum, usihlanganise nathi? - ndandiphalaza.
"Ngaba nguwe, uLenka?"
-Ye, umhlobo wam omtsha omtsha. Awuqhelekanga. UTanya kunye nam nje ndisela iwayini xa isitshixo sitshintshile.
"Ndikhaya!" - wamemeza umyeni wakhe, njengesiqhelo. Xa engena ekhitshini, uTanya waqhaqhazela. Ukumomotheka okudidekile kwamehlo ebusweni bakhe, kwaye ukumangaliswa kwabonakala emehlweni akhe.
- Andizange ndiyiqonde into ... Yintoni oyenzayo apha? UAnton wabuza ngesifo.
"Ndiyakwazi ukukubuza into efanayo ..."
- Ngoko, uyazi, uyazi? Yeka uvuyo! Kulungile, masingalungiseleli isekisi. Tanya, ndidibane nam - nguAntosha wam. Kwaye, njengoko ndiyiqondayo, neyakho. Ukuba ulandela isicwangciso, ngaloo mzuzu kwakudingeka ukuhleka, kodwa andinako.
Kwakubuhlungu ukubheka intombazana- wahlala phantsi entloko yaqubuda waza wathi:
- andingazi, Nastya! Ndixolele, nceda ... Wabona imifanekiso, kodwa akazange athethe nantoni ... Kutheni?
"Andiyazi ukuba uthetha ntoni." Mhlawumbi ngenxa yokuba uAnton akayithandi umfazi wakhe, kutheni umkhathaze? Kunene, othandekayo?
"Nguwuphi uhlobo lweesksi ozibeke apha?"
"Makhe siye kwikorori, amahobe!" - Ndathi, ndibaxoshe ekhitshini, kwaye emva kwezwi elivakalayo kunye nenqaku lokudabuka longeze:
- Tanya! Unyaka omtsha onoyolo! Ndikunika uAnton, ujabulele impilo yakho! Ukuvula umnyango wangaphambili, ndibeka iifotukethi ngesikhwama kwizitebhisi kwaye ngenyameko ndibaphosa abathandi abathandanayo ekuphumeni.
- Yonke into! Ikhonsathi iphelile, inkwenkwezi ikhathele. Nibingelela kuSanta Claus!
Ukususela kwibhaluni kwacaca ukuba babamba iteksi. Yonke into. Ndathabatha ifowuni.
- Lesch, uze kum ngoku. Siza kuhobisa umthi weKrismesi! Kunye!
- Ewe, wam mnandi ... Yintoni oyithathayo?
Izinto zokuqala, othandekayo. Uyazi, ndifumene indlela enhle yokulahla indoda yam yentlungu ...