- Nastya will lie down in the hall, and I will spend the night in the bath. - I said.

“I don’t mind,” said Roma, “you can figure it out.”

- We will understand, - shook a head "my" girlfriend.

“My meat is ready,” said Vitaly, “let's go outside.”

We headed for the exit. And Tatiana held Vitali by the elbow. Already at the door he called me:

- Stas, follow the meat, we'll be there in five minutes.

- Good.

The meat turned out right - juicy, fragrant, tender.

At the expense of beer went, warm brought from home, and in the cold with hot meat ... wow! Even girls drank a glass.

Yana and Nastya vividly praised the kebab and asked the recipe when the door opened. And on the threshold appeared Tatiana with Vitaly.

Roma dropped his piece of kebab in beer and splashed it on the snow. I just froze with my mouth open.

On the threshold stood the “partisan” “Vasya”, and next to him was Tanya, yes, yes, Tanya in a worn gray jacket, felt boots, and a knitted hat, almost without makeup.

- Hello! She said, smiling sweetly.

We nodded together.

- Pinch me, Stas, - Nastya for some reason told Roma in her ear.

I guessed it only when the novel repeated this phrase in my ear. From the stupor all led the same Tanya.

- Ay-y, we pour? Or is the service over?

“The moment,” Nekrof recalled. - Wine, beer?

- And you can vodka? - smiled Madame.

And they all laughed.

And the mood somehow immediately improved.

I picked up a bottle standing next to it in the snow. Poured into a glass, standing on a tray. Tanya came up, took a tray, a glass, a stalk of green onions, and a piece of bacon, knocked vodka into her mouth, dug in onions, and sent it along with bacon to her mouth. Then she picked up a piece of kebab with two fingers, and also ate it.

- Now it is good! - she squeezed out of herself and lit a cigarette, but this time the usual thin “Winston”.

Gradually, some conversation began at first about anything, about the weather, about music. Romka hunted jokes.

I quietly broke away from the team and went to see what was going on in the bath, the steam room warmed up, the temperature was kept around fifty degrees. I splashed water on the stones, it did not hiss, but it evaporated quickly. He tossed logs into the firebox, opened the blower so that they would inflame faster, and went out into the street.

- As there? - All asked in chorus.

- Hamam is ready, in half an hour and the bath will be ready.

- And in Vladik it is already a new year. - Looking at the phone screen, said Yana.

- Hooray! - Tatiana shouted.

They brought me a glass of beer. I took it, sipped it, grabbed the penultimate slice of shish kebab from the plate, ate it.

- charge another batch? - I asked.

- Yes, and let's go to the house. - Said Nastya.

Roma and Vitalik undertook to string meat on skewers, I joined them. Then he remembered that there was a hunting rocket launcher in the car, and ran after it.

- Let's make a little salute?

- What is it like? - Interested asked Yana.

“You'll see now,” I screwed up the red rocket, hoisted the mechanism and released the brace.

Slammed shot and red light soared into the sky.

There were claps of palms from all sides, shouts of "Hurray", Vitalka whistled. I reloaded the blue one, shot it, then the green one.

- Everything else for the new year.

The girls went to the house, we lit up with the guys.

- It's okay guys? - suddenly asked Vasya. - And then Tanya says ...

“Everything is fine, man,” I interrupted him.

- New Year is coming, guys! - Finished my thought Roma.

They took the meat and went into the house. On the table were already salads, pickles, sandwiches.

While everyone sat down at the table, I went, put another firewood on the stove and a couple of logs in the stove in the house.

“The bath is ready,” I said knowingly.

“Then we will try the first fleet on ourselves,” said Roman, “the peasants are no strangers, and then the girls.”

Everyone agreed.

They ate a little, but they remembered the first new year at this dacha, Acne then was with us too. Tanya told about herself.

Then Vitya woke up with Milena, Yana took up children. Nastya got closer to Tatiana, and the guys and I went to the bathhouse.

The first call was short for only five minutes, then went into the waiting room, wrapped in sheets and sat, drank beer. On the second, Romka caught up with steam, steamed up brooms, whipped each other in turns, after about twenty minutes they knocked on the door.

- How are you boys there? - Jana's voice rang out.

- Go away! - shouted Necrof, - well, what in a snowdrift?

- Yeah! - In one voice, we said Vitalvas.

- Run!

Romka opened the door and flew out into the street, we followed him. And only having collapsed a big fluffy snowdrift, I realized that all three of them - in what mother gave birth. Swimming trunks remained in the dressing room along with sheets.

- Good! - Screamed, floundering somewhere near Acne.

- For a second, bask in the steam room and place the girls.

Hiding behind our hands, we ran back to the bathhouse, grabbed the sheets, flew into the steam room.

We warmed up, turned and proudly went into the waiting room, where the ladies were waiting for us. They all smiled mysteriously.

- We probably will not, girls! - Said Tanya.

- Yes, in neglige, perhaps, not worth it, the boys will not stand, but I dive into a snowdrift. - Said Nastya.

“And I,” said Yana, “by the way, why is there no hole in this year?”

“We will do it tomorrow,” I put my hand to my chest, “I solemnly swear.”

- We are in the house, and you have fun, you birch brooms steamed in a gang. - Said Romka.

Throwing on top of the jacket, we went to warm up.

Girls appeared half an hour before the new year. Pink, funny, satisfied with life.

While they were dressed, we prepared a third batch of kebabs.

Vladimir Vladimirovich told us about how the outgoing year was and what the next year should be. Under the chiming clock, we opened champagne and jumped into the new year. Then there was a table and noise, and hum, and toasts were raised. They danced till you drop, especially the ladies. Played forfeits. Romka from somewhere pulled out a guitar, remembered marching songs, Nastya, it turns out, also played.

At about three o'clock Yana could not stand it, after saying goodbye to everyone, she went to bed. Half an hour later, having kissed everyone, Vitalik and Tanya left. Nastya kept to the last. Romka and I took the remains of two salads, a guitar, and a bottle of brandy, and went to the bathhouse. At half past five he began to yawn. They went their separate ways, he went to his wife, I went to the steam room, which was still very warm.

He laid one sheet on the shelf, undressed, lay down, covered the second. The dream did not go. I sipped brandy, straight, out of my throat. I do not know how much time has passed, but not much. I did not have time to get drunk or fall asleep when the door of the waiting room creaked softly. Then someone knocked on the steam room door.

- Stas, are you sleeping?

- No, Nastya, come in.

The door opened, in the light of the moon, falling into the waiting room through a small window, a small shadow slipped into the steam room.

- Turn on the light to the right of the door in the dressing room.

There was a click in the darkness, a dull twenty-five wadded bulb lit up above my head.

- Can I come to you?

I silently moved to the edge of a wide regiment, and threw back the sheets. Nastya took off her jacket, threw it into the waiting room, closed the door, and deftly jumped over me, lay down beside her.

- I can not sleep. You, as they left, I lay down, and so it turned all the time.

I just grinned a little.

- Thoughts, bad in my head climb. - She put her head on my shoulder.

- And I have the same thing. The former wife did not even send a text message and did not pick up the phone. I am so, but just a shame. Cognac will you? Snack-zapivki no.

- I'll eat you. - Nastya extended her hand.

I handed her the bottle.

- Pancake! The swimsuit is wet.

“Sorry,” she took a sip, returned the bottle to me.

I sat down, turned my back.

- Untie it.

I pulled the rope. She threw her bra on the top shelf, took off her panties and put them there too. Held me on the stomach down.

- And you?

I also took off the panties and sent ...