– The teacher was taken away today by the ambulance!
Tear ran from her eye and slowly rolled down the cheek.
– Please understand that we all shall die at one day. There is no reason for tears, we need to live further, help each other, no matter how hard it is. – Maxim had to close eyes again – weakness overwhelmed him.
– Can she die? She is so young!
– Unfortunately there is a possibility but you need to take it easy, understand??
– I shall try, but it is hard.
After some time, she calmed down.
– Everything in life is difficult. When you do something you say that it was very easy and wonder why you did not do it before. Am I right?
The door bell rang and she rushed to open the door for the father.
– Where is mom? – He was surprised.
– At the neighbor’s place. They made arrangements last night.
– So she hasn’t seen Maxim yet?
– Not yet. She will be here soon it is ten pm now.
They were sitting on the couch in the living room near Maxim and talked lively, waiting for mom to get home. Father even managed to make sister laugh and lift her spirits. Occupied by conversation, they did not notice how mother came in. She froze and silently looked at the lying son. Maxim felt her stare and realized that it was her. Father and sister ceased talking and waited for the reaction.
– Hmmm seems like we will have unusual New Year celebration! Great! Dear, tell me how did that happened?!
Maxim understood that mom was in a good mood and did not know what to say.
– Fell down the stair steps, – it was everything he could say.
– Does your head hurt?
– No!
– No problem then! – She replied and left to the kitchen:
– Let’s have some tea. I brought a cake.
– I shall pass, – Max said and returned to rest. After some time, he heard jingling of the tea pot, clinks of tea cups and happy voices of the relatives. Not having time to think of anything, Max fell asleep immediately.
Leaving the canteen, Sveta saw her husband who was pale and lost a lot of weight. He was dressed like her in all white and had a facial expression of the person who lost something in life. Hugging him, she thought: «I probably look like he does; I have not seen myself in the mirror for a week».
– Darling! How are you feeling?
Not giving her a time to answer, Vadim asked another question:
– Do you blame me for what happened?
– No, don’t think so! How can it be your fault? That all happened because of me: I could not start a conversation with you for so long and finally chose a wrong moment… Forgive me love! I really did not meant for it to be like that…
– I know, there is no need to apologize. Don’t worry about Nikita, I called him up and told to close the apartment and move to grandmother. He should stay there for another week and he likes it there.
– Vadim, how is your health?
– I am okay, I got away with a couple of bruisers and concussion. And you?
– My spleen was ruptured and also some bruisers and contusions.
– So we are doing very well, it could be a lot worse.
– No, we are not doing well at all!
– What do you mean by that?
Vadim realized that his wife has been hiding something.
– I went through examination and I was told that weather I would be able to get pregnant or not depends only on me. From the physiological point of view, I am healthy, from psychological one – I am not.
Sveta started to cry. Vadim gave her a hug:
– How can that be?
