Gennady was sitting. One. Houses. Well, that is, here - absolutely one.
It's just that the school turned out to be much less interesting than he expected.
Almost half a year they wrote sticks. Then - the same sticks, just attached hooks to them. And everyone stuck out their tongues with effort. Gennady at first, too, of course, poked out. Then he somehow looked around, saw what everyone around was obedient and the same. And each with himself, with his chopsticks and hooks. And for others, there is nothing to do. And immediately disappointed in people.
On this day, he came home and told his mother that he did not want to study anymore. Mom was even scared at first. And then she began to explain that ignoramuses could not survive in the modern world, that this was only uninteresting at first. Here it is, for example. She graduated from high school, went to college. And she also graduated. Now it works.
Gennady interrupted and asked:
- Interesting at your work? ..
Mom was confused again. Then she began to answer, dimly and confusedly:
“Well, yes ... A lot in my life depends on my work.” Now, if I do not make a balance, then even a whole plant that works in the Far East can stop ...
“Have you been to this factory?” What is he doing? - asked the son.
Mom was a little embarrassed, but began to answer:
“They make ... polymers that ... they send to the plant in the Voronezh region.” And there already of these polymers ...
- And I do not want to make polymers. I want to be a traveler. To travel everywhere and take pictures of everything, and then show large photos to everyone. And in these photographs there will be sea, sun and birds in the sky. And under this sky I will sit in the sand, you, mom, to my right, and our dad to the left.
Then Genka thought for a while and asked his mother:
- Mom! Why don’t I have a dad? Almost everyone has ...
“Well, right there!” - exclaimed mom. - Tanya doesn’t, Seryozha doesn’t have your friend either ... But you and I have a grandmother. And she’s worth two dads! .. Here you and I will soon go to her ...
“I don’t need two.” I would have just one thing, ”said Gennady reasonably.
- Stop talking nonsense, Gene! Better have dinner, ”said Mom, again leaving the conversation.
Genka then thought that his mother was just very shy, and decided to find his own dad, and his husband's mom.
When the holidays began, Gennady began to act. There was a shop on the ground floor of their house, and Genka walked to the entrance. There he stood aside and examined all the uncles who went in and out of the store. This one was very old. One has a bald spot. And this one has a big nose.
Once, one came out of the store, which Genke immediately liked very much. He was so tall, with curly hair and jeans. Gennady immediately approached him and directly asked if he wanted to be his dad.
The uncle squatted down in front of Genka and somehow was embarrassed all over, wrinkled his forehead and answered:
- You see, boy, I already have a wife and a daughter. And if I become your dad, then who will be the dad for my daughter? It’s not fair to be with the girl, is it really so? ..
Gennady considered the uncle's arguments convincing, extended his hand to shake and answered:
- Goodbye then ...
Uncle shook Genke’s hand and left. And yesterday, Genka went to the garbage containers that stood in the back of the yard, and behind them he saw an uncle who was sitting right on the ground and laying out something in bags. Gennady stopped and began to look at the uncle. At first he did not pay attention to him, and then raised his blue-and-blue eyes to the boy, looked at him for a long, long time, and then asked:
- Lonely to you? Lonely, I see it myself. Here, to me, brother, lonely. Absolutely. I don’t know why I’m still here, and not there ...
And at first he spread his arms around, and then he raised his eyes to the sky.
- And you come to my mother with me. And there will be three of us, - Genka answered him. “And three are no longer loneliness, but family.”
“I'm afraid your mom won't like this idea, my friend,” the uncle replies. “But you ask her, just in case.” I would not mind.
Genka was so delighted that he cried out loud directly:
“I'll call her at work now and ask!” And while you sit here! Just don’t go anywhere! ..
And the boy rushed headlong to the porch. There, without even taking off his shoes, he ran into the room and called his mother for work. He quickly and inconsistently told her that he had finally found a dad, and to her husband’s mom, “... he still has a mustache and blue eyes ...”
Mom was so frightened that she screamed directly into the telephone so that Gennady immediately closed the door with a key from the inside and didn’t let anyone in, and she was coming.
And she arrived. True, very fast.
Kissed Genka and cried, and pressed to herself. And then she locked it with a key and left for work again.
So now Gennady is sitting at home under the castle. And sad to him. Alone. And the uncle there, probably, is waiting ...