Chapter 1 Everything will be fine.

Alexander called Ivan every day in Switzerland and they talked for a long time. It turned out that in the Swiss clinic they conducted their examination, which lasted the whole week, then they appointed the day of the operation. And then another week of anxious waiting, because after the operation, Ivan fell into a coma. Hope almost gone.

Sasha walked into the water lowered. Neither ate nor slept. At work, did everything on the full machine. And he coped with his duties only because the whole process was well organized. If some extraordinary situation had happened, he would hardly have solved the problem. Svetlana could not look at him without tears. And soon she simply could not stand it and suggested:

- Sasha, fly to him. I know that Ivan Nikolaevich is in a coma, but they say that you can talk with him, that he hears everything. Fly to him, talk to him ...

- What about the firm? He entrusted it to me, he hoped for me.

- And you just fly for two days. On the weekend. Nothing will happen here, and you can see it.

Svetlana gave a great idea. Now Sasha could build some plans, he had a specific goal to be achieved. She gave work to his muscles in the same way as he did a month ago, having walked many kilometers on a hard frost.

And Alexander is already in the hospital. Rita lost weight, hung over these few weeks. Her eyes were red with tears. Seeing Sasha, she fell on his chest and began to cry again.

- Sasha, he is more than a week in a coma. Doctors can not do anything ...

- Calm down, Rita, everything will be fine. He will wake up, he is strong, - Alexander was stroking her on the shoulder, and at the very heart was breaking from fear and pain. - You can go to him?

- Let's go.

Although Sasha knew that Ivan was sick and now had to lie in bed, but what he saw shocked him. A healthy strong man, above average height, strong build, which friend Alexander remembered, turned into a thin doll wrapped in bandages, with some kind of pipes. Around the food, they clicked and hissed some instruments and mechanisms. He just froze on the threshold of the chamber and could not believe that everything that he now sees is actually happening, and not some kind of creepy dream.

“This was my husband,” Sasha heard Rita sobbing. It brought him to his senses. What did Sveta say there? Ivan hears everything? Can you talk to him?

- Rita, can you leave me alone with him? - he asked.

“Okay,” she moved her shoulder. - I'll wait for you in the hallway.

Sasha did not know where to start. He came closer, took Ivan by the hand, as if greeting him. She was as still, only that which was not cold.

“Well, hello, Vanya,” Sasha tried to say at least something, and even started at his voice. He sounded like thunder in this quiet room. - I came to visit you ... I wanted to say that things are going well at the company, I transferred money to your account ... You need not worry, they will be enough for your treatment and for a normal life for your wife and children ...

In response, Sasha heard only monotonous clacking and hissing of devices. The very fact that Ivan, his best friend, who always supported him, taught, loved, now cannot even say hello, was out of tread, but Sasha continued.

- Saw today Ruslana and Alice. They say that they are already a little used here, even friends began to appear. True, you are bored, especially Alice ...

Sasha did not notice how tears began to roll down his cheeks. With every minute of hope in his soul there was less and less, and its place was filled with the fear of losing a friend forever. Now he really realized this, because he no longer restrained his feelings.

- Vanya, you promised me that you would get better! Do you hear? You promised me! Why don't you keep the words? We can not live without you! We all need you! And Rita, and children ... I need you! Do you hear? - Sasha pressed his friend's hand to his chest, but he, as before, did not react at all.

And suddenly something happened. Some device squeaked. Sasha was frightened, he thought that this was all. As shown in the films - the device squealed, which means that the heart stopped beating. He rushed from the ward, started calling for help. Doctors came running, they pushed him out the door.

Everything was spinning like on a carousel. Rita grabbed his sleeve and screamed, asking what he had done. While he, that is, Sasha was not, then everything was fine, but he came, and problems began. And Sasha did not understand anything. A hundred sirens were buzzing in his head, it seemed like a little more, and he himself would faint.

These five minutes lasted the longest in Sasha’s life, they seemed like an eternity that separated a moment of despair and hopelessness when he heard that terrible squeak from a moment of joy when he and Rita saw the doctor’s smiling face.

“He came out with a coma,” he said in English. - Now asleep.

- Can I go to him? - asked Rita.

- Not worth it. We gave him painkillers and sleeping pills. He will sleep for ten or twelve hours. And no need to wake him up now. A dream for him medicine.

- Why did he wake up right now? - Could not ask Sasha. - Not earlier, not later, namely, when I was with him.

“We don't know that,” the doctor replied. - A man comes out of a coma as unexpectedly as he falls into it. Sorry, I have to go. And you, Rita, need to rest. Come tomorrow. Now he will be all right.

Alexander flew in from Switzerland with great hope. Ivan finally came out of the coma and now his recovery is just a matter of time. Now everything will be fine! But hope is hope, but confidence was not there anyway. He saw a friend in such a state that he could hardly believe that the mummy, entangled in wires, tubes and instruments, could again become a healthy strong man.

The next day, Alexander called Rita, Ivan's wife, asked how are you. She replied that doctors talk about positive dynamics, but he, as before, is completely on painkillers and sleeping pills.

The next day the same information.

Doubts again began to torment Sasha's soul. He was losing hope again. Sveta could not calmly look at all this. She was ready to sell her soul, if only to alleviate his suffering, but she could not help.

True, a miracle happened once. Rita herself called. Sasha was frightened at first, he thought that there was bad news again, but he heard a male voice in the receiver. Very weak and quiet, in which it was almost impossible to recognize Ivan’s voice, but it was he.

- Hello my friend! “I fulfilled my promise,” said Ivan.

- Vania! You are alive! - exclaimed joyfully Sasha. Sveta was in another room and even scared of his cry. - You recovered!

“Well, I’m still far from complete recovery, but yes, I’m alive,” said a friend. - And now you can not get rid of me for a long time.

- My friend, my dear, how glad I am! - continued exclaim Sasha. He could not sit still, rushed about the room, ran.

- Sorry, Sasha, the doctor came. We will call you back tomorrow - Rita has already picked up the phone from Ivan.

- OK, see you tomorrow! - Sasha turned off the phone. - Sveta! I just talked to him. He will live!

Tears rolled down Alexander's cheeks. Sveta first saw him crying. Sasha so courageously kept all this time, even when there was no hope anymore, did not cry, and now suddenly tears. She also could not resist. How did he suffer!

- Now everything will be fine! - she hugged Sasha.

- My God! He laughed, wiping away tears. - I am crying for the first time from happiness. I did not even believe that it was true. I thought it was a female fiction. They cry for any reason, but to justify themselves, they say that from happiness. But now I know that tears of happiness exist. And happiness exists! What a joy it is to feel the solid ground under your feet again!

- What do you mean? - asked Light.She saw that emotions simply overwhelmed Sasha, that he absolutely needed to speak out, therefore she asked questions.

“From the day I found out about Ivan’s illness, I lost confidence.” I seemed to be in a flimsy little ship ...