Meeting Angelica
When Alexei met Angelica, he was struck by her fragile and gentle beauty, and he was immensely happy that she had agreed to marry him. At the beginning of his family life, he wore it in his arms, called it "my angel" and presented it with dresses and jewels. About two months later, he began to gradually open his eyes to the "angel" and their lives together. It wasn't even that she was amazingly lazy and did nothing in the house - Alexei was wealthy enough to have a servant.
But her way of life did not suit him resolutely: before lunch she slept, then if she did not go shopping, she talked for hours with her friends, lying on the bed and almost every night "lit up" in nightclubs. On weekdays, they hardly even saw each other - in the morning, when he left for work, she was sleeping; in the evening, when he arrived, she was already having fun in one of the many nightclubs. When he started talking carefully about the children, she was surprised:
- Do you want me to ruin my figure, and then, diapers, vests, sleepless nights are not for me. Leak darling (she called him Lelik), then I will stop being your angel.
But like a fool, he tried to persuade her for some time, painting pictures of their family life, as he always dreamed. Summer midday, warm floor of their country house veranda, appetizing ringing of dishes and the smell of pies from the kitchen, rushing through the garden, dangling with the warmth and smell of grass, their big dog. And the daughter and son, climbing to his knees, ask: "Dad, are we going to the zoo today? Leekie was only bewildered and laughed at his reasoning. And then he realized that behind her angelic appearance there was an empty soul and a cold heart. Her family credo was, "A husband should earn money and carry it in his arms, and she should spend it and have fun. Love was out of the question. He finally realized that she never loved him, she just got married. And Alexei filed for divorce.
Also, he had one problem, not even a problem, but one that disturbed his dream. About six months before his divorce papers were filed, when he had already decided that he wouldn't live with Angelica, he started having the same dream from time to time. He had never dreamed before, and he was so tired at work that, barely touching the pillow's head, he fell asleep and slept through the night without any dreams. One night, for some reason, he woke up, looked at the clock - it was five in the morning. Lika was breathing quietly next door. I fell asleep almost immediately. And I had a dream:
He's dream
A girl walked through the blossoming summer meadow, smiling so brightly and joyfully that he realized she was coming to him. A gentle wind moved her fluffy, loose hair, her dress hem, and she was holding a bouquet of chamomiles in her hands.
She didn't say anything, but for some reason, Alexei knew that she loved him and was very happy to meet him. The dream was so bright and real that he saw a blade of grass stuck to her sandals and every crease on her white, blue peas, dress. Probably, the dream lasted for some moments, but when Alexey woke up, he was thoughtful and scattered all day. The girl did not get out of his mind.
Gradually, when some time passed, the impressions of sleep faded and went to the far corner of memory. A month passed, and Alexey saw the same dream again. And for the last six months, he had already had this dream three times. The dream was not static: for the second time the girl bent over and took off another chamomile, in the third dream she gave him a bouquet. But one thing was invariably, the girl was happy to meet him, and such love for him that each time Alexey woke up with a feeling of happiness.
He understood that he loved this girl from his dreams and was scared. Did he go mad and fall in love with some kind of phantom? Somehow he went to a psychoanalyst and told him everything. Having listened to Alexei, who is known in his field, the specialist began to think intelligently about the gyrus of subconsciousness, unconscious sexual fantasies, abundantly pouring his speech with special terms. Alexei understood that, regardless of his "subconscious curves", something is not quite right with the brain gyrus of a psychoanalyst, he mentally spat and rehearsed from the office of this "well, very famous specialist". Since then, he has not told anyone else about his dream, hiding deep in his heart the image that so impressed him, the girl. Except he wanted to meet his stranger in reality, and now he was looking very carefully at all the girls he'd met, sometimes causing their bewildered looks.
His thoughts were interrupted by some noise in the waiting room, and a second later a trio of drivers, guards, and a strange girl in a white Lika coat came into his office. A blue-black finger was pouring under the driver's eye, and the guard was limping slightly.
A meeting.
- Alexei Nikolayevich, it's some kind of wild tiger. You said to deliver care. It did not work carefully, at least, from our side. We tried to hold her hands. But with her boots, she drank all my legs, and now I guess the bruises won't go away for a long time. And Sasha shone so under her eyes! As soon as you lived with her, the guard said outrageously.
- Who did you bring? This is not my wife. - Alexei couldn't come to his senses from amazement.
- Of course, I am not your wife! And your wife has probably been with her parents for a long time. Yes, stop holding me! - The girl escaped from the men holding her.
Alexei looked closely at the stranger. Her eyes were burning with indignation and if they could burn, he would probably be smoking.
Her hair broke, and her hair fell on the hood of her coat with a heavy wave. And yet, despite all her slightly frayed and belligerent appearance, he recognized his girlfriend-sleep.
Even though her eyes were not shining with joy and love as in his dream, it was undoubtedly her. He couldn't find a better way to ask, "Do you have a white dress, in blue peas? A stranger even suffocated in amazement and couldn't say anything for a few seconds.
- Are you an idiot or something? Your muzzles were taking me here across town so you could ask me about my dresses. "The Mordovoroths were hurt.
- I'm sorry, I'll explain everything to you now - Alexei came out of the table, came up to Dinka and took her by the hand. It was as if all the air had been blown out of her as soon as her hand was in Alexei's hand.
Yes, she'd never seen the man's face out of her dreams, but that's how the stranger held her hand. She would have recognized this hand, from a thousand, from a million hands.
Epilogue
A week later, on December 31.
Alexey and Dina enthusiastically dressed up the tree in the yard of Alexey's country house, Lisa and Sasha helped them, but, perhaps, interfered more.
When they were serving toys, they kept asking, "What's this? Oleksiy suggested to them: "Guys, go for a ride on the slide. Rejoicing at the new entertainment, the kids ran to the hill.
Alexei, looking at Dinka, imitating the heartfelt voice of Arthur Gray in the movie "Scarlet Sails" said: "Far, far away from here I saw you in a wonderful dream and... - He ordered his bodyguards to shove me in the car to bring me back to his house," Dina continued laughing.
- Hey, wait, you didn't let me tell you, there's still "and the stars will come down from heaven to congratulate us," Alexei continued enthusiastically.
- You just can't see," Dink looked him in the eye, whispering gently, "they've already come down and congratulated us.