Cold beer, bulging out of disposable glasses with lush frothy caps, pleased the look. Although not for long. Because it has become to please the language with its taste, throat with its coolness, and the body with hops.

When the meat reached the point of being ready, Max removed a vodka bottle that had become fogged from the bag and poured it into glasses.

The place is quiet, the people here appear extremely rarely, usually on weekends, not by large companies like ours, to drink, to eat, to talk for life. Today we were completely alone.

Therefore, for jokes and conversations on production topics and about the authorities, they did not notice how two female persons approached us.

- Zdrasst boys, do not share the spark. - I asked one.

Max so enthusiastically told the story about how they made repairs in their workshop that we didn’t even get distracted. I took a lighter out of my pocket, and handed it somewhere in the air. She was taken, struck a couple of times and returned to my hand.

- Come on, you are driving, - announced Dima, taking another sip of beer.

- No, no, I myself was with him today and ohrenel. And this ... still in his vestibule, on the doors are two signs "Hell" and "Paradise".

- Hare Fuck. - Dimka did not believe and started.

- Che pizdit ... come in at lunch - you will see.

- Boys ... - we were hailed again, - Well, the Pug is a married man, he is understandable with him, he is no longer looking at the girls, and you?

We both threw up and looked at the guests.

- Tatiana, - said Dima, - Solodovnikova, Tanka.

- Yeah. - We added to the voice of Maxim.

During the hanging pause, the girls sat down next to us, on the log.

- For what reason Sabantuy? - Tanya asked.

- This is a warm-up before tomorrow ... - I said.

“What about you tomorrow?”

- Not “you”, but “us”. You do not know?

- Not.

- Dima are laying ...

- Five years of release, like we are going to all. - Entered Dimka.

- All is who?

- This is ... a group, a stream, xs ... the headman just called me the day before yesterday and said.

- And we learned today. - Said Moiseenko.

- I arrived on time. - Thoughtfully said Tatiana. - Meet my school friend Sveta. She and her husband here, on Gagarin, bought an apartment. Here we walk, we study sights.

- And we are working on the "Kirovsky", after the labor feat - relax ...

- Wine open will not help? - Sveta inquired about removing a bottle of “Massandra” from her bag

Max took out a multi-knife and uncorked the bottle in several movements.

I served two glasses, which were filled with burgundy soft drink.

- For the meeting! - Girls as if on team have risen from their seats, we also rose.

Clinked drunk.

- This is lucky for you, we rarely see each other lately, mainly at the planning meetings.

“Yes ...” Max gasped thoughtfully. - earlier you will leave from work and on a beer, with men. And on weekends, fishing, hunting, mushrooming ... getting old ...

“Enough to arrogate Grandpa,” I distracted him from sad thoughts. “The meat will burn now.”

- Yes, men. Last time we went to Rosinka for my birthday. - Said Dima.

- Well, we with Max on the "Victory Day" to his mother-in-law went to the bath.

“You guys are lucky,” Tanya entered into the conversation, “but for the last year I have not seen anything except the Moscow Ring Road and the office that was filled with cars.

- But first throne ... - I said.

- Why are you her? She is also beautiful in her own way. - Max was surprised

- You will not understand children living in apartments, students, Jews, the beauty of the real world, where only peasants walk with us ...

“Where a helicopter looks like ... a snowflake flies over a fire - like a huge gray-haired helicopter.” Kortnev is yes. - Having finished the last lines for me, Sveta said.

- What is our knowledge? - Several picturesquely surprised Max.

“I’m sick of this city of“ GEMORROY ”Moscow, here is calm, quiet ...” Tanya muttered thoughtfully, looking at the river.

For jokes and conversations on the shore, Mother Volga, surrounded by nature, we spent at least two hours. The sun inexorably drooped, hiding behind a huge plant.

At that moment, when Max poured vodka remains into glasses, and Dimka poked a match in an uncertain hand, into the last piece of “herring in oil”, taking it out of the jar. Sveta rang the phone.

- Yes, love ... how? I told you that Tanya is coming today ... well, where is she going? ... I understand - mother ... Maybe she will stay with her sister ...

Further conversation we missed by the ears, by the fact that Tatiana began to hastily get ready. And when Svetlana finished the conversation, she was ready, to run somewhere.

- Where are you going? - Dima asked.

- joking? Hotel search.

- Tan, I'm sorry, my mother-in-law arrived without warning ...

- All is well.

- Do you have a house?

- I'm from the region, from Pokrovka.

- Stop the car! I have been living alone for half a year in a “two-room”. And this is not a sentence this order.

- Is it convenient?

- I speak one, and the big sofa, a separate room, a bathroom, and a tasty breakfast is completely free of charge - that is for nothing. It is convenient or inconvenient - you decide.

- I still need to take things from Svetka.

- We have time. Only brazier and garbage for a collect.

****

After half an hour, not even gait, with loud laughter, our wonderful company approached the panel five-story building.

“We are now,” said Sveta.

- No problem. - I said. - I'll call a taxi.

- My Dima - will take you - Said the Light.

- Do not! Do not give you up at the mercy of mother in law.

- Well, you, she's kind, it's not mother-in-law.

- Still not necessary. - I repeated with pressure.

When the girls disappeared into the stairwell, I looked around the yard. I saw a small store with a sign "Products".

- Who is like, and I offer more beer. Head wind and vile thoughts.

- For example? - Max asked me.

- I haven't had a woman for about three months.

- And ...

- Yes, how could I not gasp in our heat of the moment Tania ...

- Well, you're cool - Pikaper. - Dima giggled.

I kept silent and went to the store. The guys followed me.

I took three bottles of beer and went outside. The guys stood at the bench and carefully watched me.

He approached, put the bottles in, took out the lighter, opened the beer, handed it to Moska, opened the second - gave it to Dima. To myself, according to student habit, he opened his teeth.

"I have not lost my skill yet." - I thought about it.

The bottles slammed against each other with a heavy tinkle. I took a sip.

... “Yes, ten years have passed, and the statuette that Tatiana gave me for Valentine's Day in the first year is still alive.

So it stands in the locker, next to the awards and dishes behind the glass. They are not so many things that are memorable. Two institute certificates for scientific activities, a badge of a participant in the victory parade on Red Square, and a Tankin statuette - a gypsum boy in shorts, on whose foot a disproportionately large cat rubs.

She bought it in a shop near the institute. I then saw this for sure. And there were also lighters, key holders, cigarette cases, and a lot of things donated by different girls.

But only her statuette was preserved, and the postcard was a piece of paper the size of a matchbox, folded in half, of some kind of “Pink” pink in color with a puppy. I forgot about this note (it was pressed against a statuette and was found later). "

- Here is Tanyuha with some guy. - Pug said, tearing off a series of my memories. - drove?

In one sip I finished my beer, threw the bottle into the urn, and turned to the sound of the slammed iron door of the entrance.

The figure of the guy seemed to me something familiar.

- Come on, - said Dima.

Coming closer, I recognized the guy. What is the name, kill me, I do not remember, it seems, an occupational safety engineer, at meetings always sits in a far corner by the window in a chair.

But Dimka knew the guy well, they greeted him warmly, ... Read more →