Waking up and seeing himself through the mirror in the chair of a Korean hairdresser, unkind, Zhenya asks and how much he slept here.

“Forty minutes, forty-five,” he answers.

“Why didn't you wake me up?”

- The old Japanese school: you can not wake the client, if he crap.

- And sleeping can not shave?

- It is impossible.

- Do you take money while you sleep?

- And how, and considerable.

- Well, then finish your work.

As a result of all these delays in the park, he appears far after noon. But there is no one at the appointed place. I went back and forth several times, asked some of my acquaintances. I decided to climb higher in the gorge, where there was a reservoir with a water intake. He had to hear from Alla that sometimes she and her friends got there, so that there you can get into the sun without any hindrances, if you don’t bathe, so you can get there by train of the children's railway. I bought a ticket, waited until the train came up with three carriages and went to one of them. Having overtaken him, two kids run up to the steps - a boy and a girl of four and seven years old.

“Wait a minute, children,” a voice behind someone says. - Now I will come to you, and together we will rise ...

Marrying stops and looks back at this voice. Its owner is a pretty tall lady of gorgeous forms, with a beautiful face, framed by black hair and black hair. Having caught up with him, she tells him:

“Would you be so kind as to help them?”

- I consider it an honor! - he answers.

He lifts the boy to the lower step and helps him climb onto the carriage platform. Then he does the same with the girl. After that gives the lady a hand:

- Please, and you.

And then he jumps up himself.

- You took the same trip? - asks the lady.

- Yes, as a child I didn’t have to, I decided to catch up now ...

- Well, then join us, sit down with us ... How long will this journey take? Do not know?

- Fifteen minutes.

- Very well. See the children in the window, and we will chat with a young man.

- I will be glad. But, unfortunately, I will have only half of this time. At the top stop, I'll get off.

“Going somewhere?” On the mountain, probably?

- No, I want to get to the reservoir to sunbathe and buy there.

- Sunbathe and swim, speak? Don't you take us with you?

- I'll take it if you are not afraid to be with me in the restricted area.

- In the forbidden? I love to break all the forbidden! ...

- I have never been there and I know only the direction in which to go.

- Nothing ... Take it?

- Let's try ...

It was not long to go. A forest path leads them to a barbed wire fence.

- But how to get there? - asks the lady.

- Somewhere around here there should be a hole ... Let's go a little further ... Well, what did I tell you?

- And we climb through?

- With God and my help, I think so.

He himself and the children in his arms overcome this obstacle without any particular difficulties, but their mother barely only tries to lift and stick her foot into the hole between the two rows of wire, puts it back:

- I'm afraid not to tear the skirt. What to do?

“Yes, it would be a pity to spoil such a gorgeous thing,” Zhenya agrees. - It is too wide and long. So what to do? Remove it, and only. Anyway, this will have to be done sooner or later ...

- Why?

- You are not going to sit at the edge of the water in it?

- I didn't think about it somehow. But now I understand that I should not have done this.

- Why?

“Why, yes, head off! ... Go ahead, leave me here alone ... I'll take off this damn skirt now, climb over, put it on again and catch up with you.” Take only this bag. There you will find a blanket.

The reservoir was very close. True, there was already some kind of company there: young and not very people, men and women, sunbathing at the very edge of the water.

- And where will we sit down? - asks the boy.

“Now your mother will come and tell us where to sit,” Zhenya replies. “But it seems to me that it’s best to go where the sun shines and the grass is green and clear.” Let's get a blanket spread ...

- No, wait for mom ...

“And here I am,” she says, emerging from the thicket. - Oh, how wonderful it is! Thank you, young man, that gave us such pleasure ...

They chose a place, spread out a rug and sat down on it.

- Maybe the kids should undress to get a little tan? - Eugene offers.

“I don’t even know,” replies the lady. - We somehow didn’t pay attention to this and didn’t take anything necessary with us ... And you can break up ... Do not hesitate ... By the way, what is your name? It's time to meet you too.

Zhenya called himself.

- And my name is Ninel. My husband and I are here recently. He was transferred here to the district headquarters from Cape Pogibi. This is where the death is real: tundra, midges, and around the icy sea. And here the grace, the sun as it is hot ...

“So why don't you sunbathe?”

- Another time, when ... Now I'm not ready ...

- C'mon you feel shy! ... Is it possible that you have such an ugly bra and such horrible panties that you are afraid that I might be horrified to see them?

- No, thank God, with this, I have everything in order ... And yet ...

- Well, in order not to embarrass you, I will step out for those bushes and lie down there. And here you can afford anything ...

Taking with him the jacket and trousers that he had already taken off, Boris moves ten meters to the nearest bush, removes his head and shirt from there, makes some sort of litter from all of this, then throws off his shoes, tightens his socks and, remaining in some sports whether shorts, or swimming trunks, takes a horizontal position.

- And you will not spy from there? - he hears a voice

- Well, who will give you such a promise? Another thing is that I can see from here ... While absolutely nothing ... So be calm ... tell me something else about yourself ... What do you do besides family, for example ...

- I have a musical education, and since September I will go to teaching at the music college ...

- What will you teach? ..

He no longer heard the answer, for he instantly fell into oblivion.

And he again dreamed of Poronaysk ... And the chief calls him from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and asks him to hurry back from a business trip, since he himself urgently needed to leave, but there was no one left in the department. Zhenya runs through the combine heads, signs the necessary acts and other papers, then goes to buy a train ticket. I went to the installers and said goodbye to Ivan and Slava. Looked to Murchenkov. When she learned that he was leaving tonight, she said that she had prepared some of the local delicacies and ran home at lunchtime and brought him to him.

- Thank. Tanya ... But is it worth worrying for this?

- No no! I will definitely do it. After work, I will not be up to this, so wait for me at home, do not go anywhere.

At the end of the lunch break, she actually appears in one of the premises of the technical library, set aside for him to work during his business trip, breathless and flushed ...