Chapter 5 And friendship grew stronger ...

Ivan really wanted to return to the family. But the wife was offended due to the fact that her husband left home, and therefore rested for a long time. Alexander even met with her and begged her to let her husband back. Rita at first did not want to listen. Like, you obboy pobye - rented an apartment and arrange Sabantui with prostitutes.

- Yes, with some prostitutes! - began to protect a friend Alexander. - Do you know that when you met Oleg Trokhimov in a restaurant, he barely moved the horses? He did not go to work, but kicked some plumber with the plumber.

- I say that you can only, that drink, yes to walk! - the woman did not give up, and when she realized what the words of Alexander really mean, she became silent and thoughtful. “Is he really that bad?”

Alexander thought that in vain, he probably told her all this. If Ivan wanted Rita to feel sorry for him, he himself would have told. And now it turns out that he betrayed a friend's secret

- Already a little let go. And I will say that he was not going to be poisoned or something like that. I was just very offended when I saw you and Oleg and got drunk. He poisoned himself because he was unlucky with his drinking companion.

“Well, that’s good that he’s fine,” Ivan’s wife again put on her pride and inaccessibility mask.

- Rita, I'm not going to climb into your relationship, - Alexander made the last attempt. - You are adults and you will understand each other. I just want you to know that Ivan loves you very much and misses children. And he had no mistress, and no. He distributes all his time between you and work. And all the problems that arise between you are due to misunderstandings. He does not know how to make you happy. And you both suffer from it. Tell him right what your husband does not suit you, voice your desires. And also try to listen to him, understand and compromise.

- You think I did not try? How many times have I tried to say that it is hard for me to be alone with the children all the time, that I am also a person and want to relax with friends. He promises, and then forgets about his promises! Tell me how can I not be angry if we agreed to go to visit, and he declares to me ten minutes before the release that he will not be able to come because he has a meeting with a client! Was she just scheduled with him? He did not know that it was necessary to postpone the meeting with the client, because he and his wife have other plans?

- Maybe he did not have time and could not move it? - Alexander suggested.

- That could call me earlier that I canceled our meeting with friends, and not to face the fact when nothing can be changed. And I, like a lonely divorcee, trudge to visit, where everyone came in pairs. I lie, that my husband is delayed, will come in ten minutes, and leave in half an hour, because everyone is mocking me, they say, and she has no husband, otherwise he would have come a long time ago.

Rita almost cried. Alexander could not say anything, because he did not think that the claims against Ivan could be justified. He has already made a plan in his head how to open a friend's eyes to his family problems, to indicate what is wrong with that. But what to say to Rita?

“Here is another proof that the alien family is a dark forest.” I did not know the details of your conflicts. Ivan never told me anything, yes, to be honest, I didn’t really want to stick my nose in the affairs of others. I decided to talk to you about Ivan, because I see that he suffers and wants to return home. And I say that sincerely. Well, the decision to take only you. If you also love him, that you have a chance to find mutual understanding.

- I loved him very much once, - confessed Rita.“But these constant misunderstandings, this constant neglect of me, just squeezed all my feelings out of me.” I feel like a lemon from which all the juice was squeezed. And I no longer want to fight for it. If he can understand me, understand all my claims to him and change, then maybe I will allow him to return. And now I’ll probably go. Tell him ... No, you do not need to pass.

Alexander met with Ivan a little later and passed the entire conversation.

“It turns out that it’s not only you who are so unhappy,” he said sarcastically at the end. - Your stigma is also in the gun!

- You know how I hate all these parties, when women brag about new decorations to each other, and men walk like peacocks with a loose tail, showing off their women. I can not stand this concourse! - Ivan did not even think that he was guilty.

- Oh, how gentle we are! And the wife could not say about it? If you don't want to go to that party, then invite it to some other place that is interesting for both of you, and not humiliate it with your ignoring.

Ivan had to admit his mistakes in relations with his wife, but he was in no hurry to change so that his wife would allow her to return home. He took some steps towards, but reconciliation dragged on for a whole year. Then everything is fine with them, then some kind of conflict arose again and Ivan ran away to his apartment in order to forget himself in Alexander's society.

Now, when two years have passed, Alexander understood why Ivan behaved like this. It was just that he was so comfortable. Why not? And there is a wife, and children love, and there is a favorite work. And also a devoted friend who, in fact, is a different family. In one, some misunderstandings - it does not matter - the other will accept without explanation and additional conditions. Alexander did not mind, after all, also had the benefit of this state of affairs. There was no need to look for a girl, no need to bind yourself with any obligations. Live yourself in your pleasure, do what you love, communicate with a faithful friend, and when nature asks you, your friend will help with this.

The most amazing thing is that neither Ivan nor Alexander even thought that their relationship was actually not just friendship, but something more. Maybe because they were not jealous of each other for women? Alexander sincerely wanted Ivan to improve relations with his wife, and Ivan often pushed Alexander into meeting pretty girls. True, Sasha only agreed to have sex with girls, but he didn’t even want to hear about building any kind of relationship with them. In fact, both of them were completely satisfied with this state of affairs, and no one wanted to change anything.

Yes, only life itself is changing, and does not stand still. Ivan spent more and more time with Rita and the children, and Alexander increasingly remained himself. And when his mother reminded him that he was no longer a boy and it was time to take on the mind, I realized that it was so. Where will he find peace and comfort in ten years, in twenty? In the family of Ivan? And what does Ivan have to do with it? He is a real man, he created his own company, created a family, had children! And what did he, Alexander, do in his life? There was a bride, and he got rid of her because he was afraid of responsibility. He made a career, but what is it worth if Ivan suddenly wants to sell his business? We'll have to start again from scratch. It got to the point that he had already forgotten how to communicate with girls. How many tried to get to know someone, and they shy away, as if from the plague. A two-year friendship with Ivan yielded results, because Sasha behaved with girls the same way as with Ivan. He said directly what he wants from them. What did he want? To start a family? But what girl would believe a guy that he wants to marry her if they met a couple of hours ago?

I had to remember that girls are different from males, that once he knew this difference and she did not prevent him from finding a common language with them. And Sasha began work on himself. I looked at the girls, looking for features that he liked. Celebration of the New Year was a turning point. He invited the girls to dance, returned to his soul the joy of communicating with a woman.And I realized that not everything is lost, that not only the body, but also the heart reacts, which means that it has a chance to arrange its life.

A candidate for a future wife, Alexander began to choose among his employees. Perhaps you did not need to set yourself such a specific goal, it was enough just to spin the love affair, and then see what happens with this. But he ...