The man offered me to move in with him, but set one condition, I felt uncomfortable.

Sitting in the cafe, where I ran in with the first drops of a sudden, as if in July, downpour, I drank a hot “Alpine meadow”, watched as the April thunderstorm spread, and recalled the weekend. Yeah, it was a good weekend. It was pleasantly surprised that adult children from another marriage of her husband came to the anniversary of Olesya’s friend. Or rather, from the first marriage.



Children from another marriage Slava was widowed when the twins were eight years old. And two years later he brought Olesya to the house, who had a first-grader daughter. And painful memories of divorce. Olesya assumed that children from another marriage Glory on the threshold of adolescence will not be delighted with the new “mother” and “sister”.



But reality exceeded expectations: an excess of salt and pepper in borsch instead of meeting with bread and salt turned out to be a flower, and the berries did not take long. Toys and things Olesina Dasha suddenly broke, somewhere disappeared, then were spoiled, and Olesya Roman and Ruslan tried their best to substitute in the eyes of their father. He got rude, too. Glory somehow almost broke, but Olesya convinced her beloved that endurance would help.



Peels Guys understood that stepmother never complained to his father about them, felt confusedEvery time Olesya was waiting for another surprise from the twins, they were answered with delicacies for breakfast, allegedly an inadvertent clue to the solution of a difficult task, ideas of joint forays into nature, trips to interesting places... The rule of "you are a stone, and you are a flower in return" gradually began to work. And Dasha was not crying at all, did not cringe - shared tables, could give back and never snitched... I don’t know how many children and mothers would be together. But, as they say, there would be no happiness, but misfortune helped.

That year, they made a lot of cherries. And Glory brought the family to the dacha to their parents. While he and his father were engaged in the laying of the oven (they decided to arrange a real stove with a lounge in the summer kitchen), Marta Alekseevna, Olesya and Dasha were preparing lunch and dinner, and the twins were engaged in collecting cherries. And they had a contest over the top: who would be more adept at reaching the berries on the thin tips of the branches.

... Everyone ran into the garden to scream and crackle. Rusik lay unconscious under the tree. And Roma was groaning in pain, his leg swollen in front of his eyes. Displacement fracture.



While one came to himself after a concussion, and the other after the operation, Olesya did not leave them. When the boys felt good, they told their stepmother that they would never call her "you" and say "this" about her again. They asked Olesya to forgive them and allow them to address by name and to “you”, because they remember their mother well. There were no more insulting antics in the family. This is the story the brothers told when they gave their father and Olesa a tour of the Mediterranean. What a friend! You didn't say a word!

The story of the friends ... the rain did not subside. Covered with bags and laughing, a group of pretty wet girls ran into the cafe. From the gagging and laughter that came from their table, I realized that they were friends. After ordering hot broth, and then coffee with cognac and cakes, the girls spoke louder. They were the ones who were the most serious and thoughtful.



- Veronica, what's wrong? Gleb didn't come? Or a fight?
- No way. And you came and you didn't fight. I just don’t know what to do... When we first met, I said I was divorced and I was raising my daughter. He did not mind, and willingly continued to meet. I have never asked you to meet Irina... And yesterday he offered to move in with him.
- Oh! Cool! So it's all real... Congratulations!



- Not much, said Veronica. Gleb made a condition: I have to move alone. Let Irisha stay with my parents or with Pasha, they say, I told myself that he takes care of my daughter. He said, I don't need it. children of another marriage. I want to have children with you...

Children from another marriage: what do you think? The mood of the friends changed dramatically.

- Wow! Wow! What an ambush! So to live with him, you have to abandon the child? And then what? Then he will distance himself from his parents, from his friends. He's an abuser, Nika! the loudest of the girls gestured indignantly. She was supported by another:
- If I really loved you, I’d love you too. Get him out! The conditions have accelerated to put what audacious...



Peels - Oh, girls, I don't know what to do. I've been so happy all these weeks of dating. And rich, successful. How much longer to live with your parents?
- This Gleb is a dark horse. Leaving a child for a man? Irochka, by the way, is human. She feels, she feels. And the fact that her mother leaves her can cripple the girl's fate.



- Come to your senses, Tanya! - almost crying, Veronica shouted. - I haven't decided anything yet. The fool that shared with you! threw the bill on the table and jumped out in the rain. The girls were quiet, each uploaded messages on the phone.

And I sat stunned by what had happened. How will Veronica decide not only her own fate? Do you have to agree to a man’s terms if you want to live with him? What do you think?