“Andryusha, get up,” said Olga Ivanovna, and shook her son by the shoulder.

- And what? - there was a displeased grumble.

- Get up, you have to get on the train, we're going to grandma today.

“Oh, right ...” Andrei said hopelessly, tearing his eyes.

A few days ago, at the family council, it was decided that in mid-July he would go with his mother to her grandmother. Andrei was not very happy with this situation: he had to spend three weeks in a small town, where even the normal Internet was not available. His mother, Olga Ivanovna, usually went to her grandmother herself, and several times a year. But last year she was very busy and could not go.

- What will I do there? - Andrei tightened again, although he knew that nothing could be changed.

“Helping grandma,” replied Olga Ivanovna, checking the prepared bags. “She said her roof was leaking.”

“As if I had them at least once repaired,” said Andrew skeptically.

“So you’ll just see you with your grandmother,” Mom said.

- Hmm ... - Andrew did not continue the meaningless conversation and dragged into the bathroom.

The train took the road almost the whole day. It is good that in the compartment they fell for normal companions - a young married couple. Later in the evening, they talked into order, especially Olga Ivanovna. Gradually, Andrew began to notice that his mother was too attentive to the young guy. Her look, gestures and a special style of communication clearly indicated an interest that had already crossed the threshold of simple polite communication. To even more surprise Andrew, the guy also reciprocated.

Of course, Olga Ivanovna was a beautiful woman: tall, with lush brown hair to the very shoulders, large green eyes and pleasant body shapes. But she was already in her forties: the figure was rather stout, and her belly was noticeably well-sized.

The girl sitting next to her seemed to notice the unusual behavior of her husband, but did not attach much importance to this. And Olga Ivanovna and the guy were already so enthusiastic about each other that at some point they even stopped paying attention to their companions. Having looked at his merry mummy, Andrei jokingly began to make eyes at the girl sitting opposite him. She took the hint and quietly poured into the cam. Obviously, she also found this situation amusing and did not intend to be jealous of her husband at the occasional aunt, who already has an adult son.

When the guy was returning from the toilet, Olga Ivanovna rose from her seat and at the same time squeezed through the doorway of the compartment. At that moment she smiled and pressed tightly against the guy with her whole body. Andrei barely had eyes on his forehead in astonishment; he could not understand that this had suddenly found his mother.

“It is interesting that Dad would think about it if he saw it,” Andrew reflected.

About ten o'clock in the evening, when it was almost dark, Andrei made his way along the corridor of the car. Suddenly, he felt that the composition began to slow down smoothly.

“What is it, is it still far to the station?” He thought, clutching at the railing.

When the train stopped completely, Andrei looked out of the window, trying to understand what had happened. In the gathering twilight, only a solid wall of pine forest was visible. Some passengers also got out of their compartments, twisting their heads in surprise. After a couple of minutes, a mechanic with a lantern passed silently past the car. Andrei stood at the window for some time until he noticed an owl sitting on a nearby tree, which seemed to him to be somehow wrong. He did not really understand ornithology, but this one seemed too large, and its plumage was cast in a strange greenish tinge.

- Andrei, what happened there? - his mom looked out of the compartment.

- I do not know, mom, nobody says anything.

He returned to the compartment, and after five minutes the train started off again.It looked like some kind of malfunction, but the passengers were never explained anything.

The next morning, the train arrived at a railway station in the city called Big Owls. Despite Andrew’s complaints that it’s a “natural backwater”, the Big Owls were not so small. Of course, a significant part of it were private houses still old buildings, but there were many new ones, including high-rise ones.

His grandmother, Maria Fedorovna, lived in her house on the outskirts of the city. It was the oldest part of the city, just a kilometer away from which the forest had already begun. Only one feature of this place, Andrew found remarkable, and even suspicious: most of the houses were built in Soviet times, but they were completely different from those typical boxes with a triangular roof. The design was quite diverse, and some had two floors. When Andrei was small, he did not pay attention to it, but now he understood that ordinary people could not allow such liberties. He asked Mom about this, but she didn’t really know anything and only assumed that it was connected with someone from the party elite or something like that.

The grandmother was unusually happy to see her grandson and daughter, in high spirits she often gave out rather obscene jokes. Andrew is very merry, but my mother was outraged and asked her grandmother to hold on a little more decently in the presence of her grandson. Despite her age, Maria Fedorovna was still quite mobile and cheerful. She was a little shorter than her daughter, but clearly outnumbered. Hairstyle - short with dyed black hair. In general, mother and grandmother looked like each other.

- Well, how did you get? - Maria Feodorovna asked. - Did you get any good fellow travelers?

“Yes, everything was fine, grandmother,” answered Andrei. - A young couple rode with us.

- Oh, hehe, I hope your mother did not try to do something with someone else's husband?

- Mama! - Olga Ivanovna exclaimed with displeasure.

“Andryusha, you would look after your mother: otherwise, as she feels free, she immediately looks for someone to ride,” Maria Fedorovna would not let up, as if she knew from somewhere about the behavior of her daughter on the train.

For a few days, nothing particularly happened: Andrei helped his grandmother with minor repairs and thought about where to get online. But one day something completely extraordinary happened. First of all, he woke abruptly in the middle of the night, feeling very thirsty. Rubbing his eyes, he got out of bed and walked quietly to the kitchen. But when I came back, I suddenly felt that something was wrong in the house. The sudden anxiety quickly intensified, and Andrew turned his head around. The first thing he understood: the usual snort and snoring did not come from the grandmother’s bedroom. He tiptoed to the doorway and peered inside. The dim light of the moon from the half-open window made it possible to more or less examine the situation in the room — the bed was empty.

“Hmm, where is she?” Andrew thought in surprise and scratched his chest.

Their toilet was right in the house, and Andrey just returned from there. Once again, he quickly looked around in the bedroom and went to look for his grandmother in other rooms. Glancing over to his mom, he was even more surprised to find that she was not in bed either. Wandering around the house a little perplexed, he pulled on his shorts and headed for the front door - which, as it should be, was locked.

“Fuck, maybe what happened? - Andrew mentally argued. “But why didn't they wake me up then?”

He quickly pulled on his sneakers and got out of the house. Outside there was a deep night. From the cool breeze through the body of Andrew ran goosebumps, he shivered and began to go down the porch. The silence of the night was broken only by the singing of crickets, occasionally bats flew by, flapping their leathery wings. After a couple of minutes of searching, it became clear that there was no one in the yard, but the gate was locked.Even their damn cat was nowhere to be seen! It was here that Andrei was already starting to shiver in earnest: he simply did not understand what was going on here and where his mother and grandmother could have gone in the middle of the night.

Gathered finally ...