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🙂 A former fan suddenly showed up and … changed my life!
As usual, our friends got together on the weekend. I was busy in the kitchen: I was cutting vegetables into a salad and making sure that my signature pizza did not burn.
– I bet none of you have met such a beauty as my wife! – heard the cheerful voice of her husband. – Imagine she still gets marriage proposals!
– Roman, – I shouted irritably, not looking up from cooking, – you promised that you would not tell anyone!
I grabbed the plates and went into the living room, where our company was having fun with might and main.
– Why didn’t you tell us about it? – Katya snapped, my old friend, with whom we never had secrets from each other.
– So, really, someone declared their love to you? – asked Grigory, Katya’s husband.
“Sort of,” I replied evasively.
– Marinka, tell me humanly! How much can I ask you? Lena shouted impatiently.
I looked at the guys in confusion: I didn’t want to talk about it at all, let alone translate everything into a joke.
– Then I’ll tell you! – said the husband. – I’ll start right now. Imagine, I come back from work a few days ago and feel: something is wrong. It seems like dinner is on the table, and the child is cheerful, and outwardly everything is ok.
But you know, as if the sixth sense haunts. And in a minute I understand what the matter is. Too quiet. Marina is unusually silent, and when I ask her about something, she answers reluctantly. After all, it is known that usually her mouth does not close!
– Well, you know … – I was indignant.
– Quiet, Marinka, don’t interrupt! Arkady, Lenka’s husband, poked at me. Romka continued.
– After dinner, as always, I sit down at the computer to watch the news and all that, then I look into the mail and suddenly I see an unknown addressee!
– Your wife has an affair on the Internet ?! Wow? Arkady blurted out. – Sorry, guy.
– Listen further! I start reading this letter and what do I see? Declaration of love! Some kind of Andrey is explaining to my wife!
Former love
I realized that I urgently needed to intervene. And why did Romka decide to entertain the guests with this not at all funny story ?! After all, he promised to be silent!
– Oh, this is my former admirer, still college … – I tried to explain. – We met for about a year, but the guy was very shy and decent. Even too much! – I looked at my husband defiantly. – Therefore, nothing like that happened between us.
After graduation, I returned home, and he stayed in Moscow – he entered graduate school. He believed that he should offer a woman either everything or nothing. A graduate student from a dormitory with odd jobs is not an option.
– And what do you guys say to that? This is a reason for divorce! – the merry husband interrupted me.
– Listen, old man, it all depends on what the little wife answered him. If you told me to come on a white horse, then your song has been sung! And if not, then all is not lost! – Arkady said with conviction, looking at me with a grin.
– This is the whole problem … – the husband sighed, rolling his eyes.
“Roman is angry because I haven’t answered yet,” I said irritably.
All this circus made me uneasy. And Grisha patted Roman on the shoulder and, cunning, winked at me:
– Well, man, your affairs are bad! It looks like your Marishka is still pondering the answer …
– Honestly, I don’t know what to write to him … I have a very good attitude to this person and I don’t want to offend him. He does not know that I am married, that I already have a child … And he will feel like an idiot with his belated confession.
– This, girlfriend, is not your problem at all! – concluded Katerina.
– Knowing Andrei well, I can imagine what efforts this declaration of love cost him! But I was sure that at least someone told him that I got married. I didn’t tell him myself … And I couldn’t even imagine that he still thinks about me.
– I wonder how he could find out your address? Katka said thoughtfully, looking out the window.
When friends are around
– It’s simple, – it dawned on me. – Even before the decree, I needed some information on work, and I asked to find it out for me. The correspondence was purely business-like – he did not even ask about life, and I did not tell him anything about myself. And then suddenly …
– Marinka, you have to tell him the truth, that is: “Fuck off, guy! I have a wonderful husband, son … ”- Roman insisted. – Why rub glasses to a man and leave a reason for something to hope?
– I fully support it! – exclaimed Grisha. – Roma, turn on the computer, and now together we will answer him this way …
– Listen … – I was perplexedly standing in the middle of the room. – Maybe you shouldn’t get involved in this business? I’ll figure it out myself somehow …
– For almost a week you have been understanding! If this man is not indifferent to you, then do not torture him, – the spouse frowned.
– Now we will compose a good answer for him! – Grishka jumped up and went to the computer.
– Only without ridicule … more delicately … worried, I asked. –
– Romchik, write: “Your proposal was a real shock for me. I immediately remembered our delightful walks, kisses … “
– Like this?! Marina, after all, said that there was nothing serious between him! – Roman mumbled.
– Quiet, don’t bother! And do not fool your head. Innocent kisses are not serious yet … – Grigory dismissed him. – “I understand that I will upset you, but I cannot and do not want to deceive. Andrey, I will not marry you, because I gave my heart to someone else.
I love him as I once loved you. I really hope that you will understand me. I will always remember you. Marina”.
Grisha fell silent, and we all looked at him in surprise.
– Blimey! – I was just shocked. – Itself would never write like that! Such a letter can indeed be sent.
And she sent it away. Of course, the company couldn’t talk about anything else. Every minute someone ran to the computer and checked for an answer. There was no answer. I decided that Andrei would never respond after such a message. But she was wrong.
“That’s why the pike is in the river so that the crucian carp doesn’t doze”
The letter arrived the next day. The guy asked if it was possible to change something, because if I had not yet married, then … I read these lines several times, but could not understand why Andrey could write like that.
She replied that nothing can be changed. And I drew the attention of the fan to the fact that for three years he had not reminded of himself, so now let him not be offended that I had arranged my life without him. I sent a letter. An hour later I received an answer.
Andrei tried to convince me that I should not make a fatal mistake, which I will later regret all my life. That only he can make me happy … I was terribly angry with this arrogance of his! Probably, after all, Roman was right when he said that you need to immediately write the truth.
Now I did it! And she didn’t even really care about the style of writing, about the delicacy of the wording – she wrote both about marriage and about her son …
Obviously, the message about the husband and the child affected Andrey like a bucket of cold water, because he no longer responded. And to be honest, it made me happy. I still lacked family problems. A former fan is already the past, where you should not return.
PS
But this story had, perhaps, one very serious benefit: Romka again began to look at me with loving eyes, make compliments and even … give flowers! Just like that, for no reason!
And also my husband began to periodically call from work and wonder how my son and I are doing, whether we should buy something on the way home … It’s fantastic!
– Perhaps men need to have rivals! After all, the spirit of competition … – Katya remarked philosophically when we were walking with the kids in the park.
– I’m thinking: I also have a former fan. Maybe invite him over to make Grishka a little jealous? And then he became kind of boring. As the saying goes, “that’s why the pike is in the river, so that the crucian carp doesn’t doze” …
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