- But what's that? What are you getting at? - Grandma's tears came out.
Anya stuck her eyes bluntly into the hill of the calendar standing on the table. She barely breathed with fear. "Is this forever?! - She was carried away in her head.
- I need to talk to Ana alone. Will you let me? - The doctor stood up to personally escort Tatiana Alexandrovna to the door.
- Should I get out, or what?
- Please.
My grandmother looked at Anya with anxiety. Anya nodded boldly. When my grandmother came out, Zhanna Sergeyevna sat down in her own way next to Anna in the visitor's chair. Her face no longer looked friendly. The doctor leaned over to Ana and spoke quietly:
- Aren't you ashamed?
- What do you mean? - Not quite understanding yet, Anya reacted.
- I think you're pretending.
It was as if Anya had been hit. And as it happens in such cases in the first seconds she did not feel pain, only anger.
- An adult cow, 18 years old. You don't have to go to school, you don't have to do anything, the dust blows off her... Do you think she lied to everyone? I have seen such people. What do you clap your eyes with? Grandma would have regretted it!
A security alarm went off in someone's car outside. Inside, Anja's shouting also grew.
Zhanna Sergeyevna got up:
- Get up!
- I can't, - Anya oohripped.
- I can't hear you!
- I can't!
The doctor grabbed Anya by the hand and pulled on herself.
- Get up!
- Don't touch me! - Anya escaped.
- Then get up and get out of here so I don't see you here again! - Zhanna Sergeyevna made a sizzle.
After breaking up with Sasha, Anya felt... Or rather, she stopped feeling herself, only lost and went to the damn swing, knowing that they were broken and dangerous... After the fall, she was in a very great pain, but it became easier. And now... Anya found out this condition and did not think anymore, forbade herself. She lowered her feet off the step, pulled up on her arms and, not holding on to her disobedient legs and a couple of seconds, collapsed on the floor. Anya managed to set her hands in motion, but still... She hit her head. Face.
- Aah! - Anna yelled in pain.
- Are you sick, or what?! - The doctor did not expect such a development of events. - What have you done?!
- Anya! Anna! - Grandma ran in.
Anya waited, but it did not become easier for her.
Anna had sick hands and a bump on her forehead. All the way on the bus she sat there, half-closed her eyes. Usually she liked looking out the window very much, but now she was in pain. She felt meaningless and empty, and everything seemed the same to her.
- Will you have pancakes? - Grandma asked.
- No, she didn't.
- I'll open the raspberry jam...
- I don't want to.
- What are you gonna eat?
- Nothing.
- Let's give the pill to the ladies, what are you worried about?
- I told you. Don't.
Passengers helped Tatyana Alexandrovna take the chair with Anna out of the bus, and there was only nothing left to go home, when suddenly her grandmother stopped.
- Grandma? - Anya opened her eyes.
Aunt Lyuba, a neighbor from the top floor, saw Tatyana Alexandrovna from afar. It was already impossible to avoid meeting her. Grandmother sighed heavily and was doomed to move towards fate.
Aunt Luba's husband drowned when their son Sasha went to first grade. She was scared. She drank. It got to the point where Tatiana Alexandrovna threatened to complain to the guardianship authorities. It was not easy for Sasha. Aunt Luba was going to... Drinking became quiet... I learned to hide... But my grandmother, of course, knew.
- Oh, Tatiana Alexandrovna! Hello, Anka! - Aunt Luba flew up to them both in winter and summer wearing sunglasses. - You come to us today. Soplyak, Sashka, is here. I will bake a pie.
Anya froze. She talked to him in her mind every day, she called him at night. That she and Sasha were friends, knew everything, and the rest... No. That's why Anya was sitting now, trying to play, remembering how it was - when nothing happened...
- Yeah, we, uh... - Grandma started by looking carefully at her granddaughter. She was clearly nervous. - I don't know...
They had a playground in their yard, several parking spaces and benches, all the mothers and old people on which, as if on command, turned to Luba Tatyana Alexandrovna talking to her aunt. Words, views, gestures - they greedily absorbed everything to discuss later.
- Come, come, come. Do you know what he became like for me? I will show you, - Aunt Luba was shining and even raised her voice so that everyone could hear exactly: - I passed the summer session to all the A's!
- What a good job," said Grandma.
- Yes... - Aunt Luba paused to cope with her emotions, and then changed the subject: - How is Svetka doing? The dog is a forest! She does not call and does not call...
- Yeah, I think it's okay.
- Is she thinking of coming?
- It is not clear yet - Tatiana Alexandrovna looked at the clock. Aunt Luba ignored the hint.
- Anka looks even more like her father... Now it's just a copy... Well, the pig was never a handsome man, but the charm is the sea, the soul of any company! - Aunt Luba stroked Anya over her head like that six. - Does she visit at least?
- No," said Anya.
- Luba... - My grandmother could not stand it.
- Okay, okay, I won't say anything. And it's time for me already. I just for a couple of minutes, to the store and back jumped out. Come today, I'm waiting for you! Svetke hi!
And ran away, leaving behind a whirlwind of thoughts. Grandma stood in this whirlwind like an earthman who had just been returned from space by the aliens. Anja's mother, Sveta, wasn't really friends with anyone. As a child, she decided not to stay in her hometown and spent all her free time studying. Marriage delayed her for ten years, but then ... Tatiana Alexandrovna saw it ... As soon as her marriage fell apart, Sveta left easily, embodying a long dream. She sent the money every month, sometimes called, but did not come. For five years now, Anya has been growing up with her mother's voice on the phone. Where did Luba look? Why didn't you notice the obvious?
To be continued on the next part