Natalia Patratskaya - Pearly woman. Prose in English

They went into a small cafe. Pasha ordered food for two. Have eaten.

– Bella, I would love to go to you. I do not want to go to the boarding house! I do not want! Come to me, and there Alla sleeps or Yura sits! Let’s go to your house, tell the hostess that Alla has been replaced by me.

– Pasha, do not joke like that! I am responsible for her in front of her mom, she asked me to look for my girlfriend. Her boyfriend Vasya went to the north to serve.

– Where should I go? They sleep together in a room there. For a couple of hours we will come to you, it will be easier to wait for their appearance.

– Well, for a couple of hours we will go to me, and then we will go to the beach.

They came to a little house. Ivanovna shouted after:

– Only until the evening a man can be in the house!

Pasha lay down on Alla’s bed and fell asleep. Bella lay down on her bed, peacock feathers twisted for a long time. She carefully looked at Pasha and fell asleep.

Alla woke them up:

– Sleep – and apart! And let me sleep!

Pasha rose from her bed. Alla laid down on the bed and blacked out.

Bella and Pasha went to the beach.

– Bella, an hour sunbathe, swim, and then go together in a boarding house. I don’t want to go there alone, the brake has settled in me.

– I will go with you, do not worry, but we will go into the building through the main entrance.

They passed through the central door of the boarding house building, entered the room and froze: Yura was lying on the floor in a pool of blood. He moved his fingers slightly. His head was in blood. The bottle lay nearby.

“I’ll call the doctor,” Pasha shouted, and ran to the duty corps.

Bella remembered that while they were walking into the room, she saw the doctor’s office. She called the doctor. Together they went to the room. On the way, Pasha caught up with them:

– I called an ambulance, he will come soon.

The doctor examined Jura’s head and said that everything was fine with him, although the blow was strong. Then she saw a broken vodka bottle.

– It is clear where the blood is from. He broke the bottle, hurt his hand.

“I didn’t want to go here,” said Pasha.

– Young man, help put a man on the sofa. An ambulance will not come here quickly. I’ll look at the wounded man, tie him up. He is alive. The wounds on his arm are not dangerous, but he has lost a lot of blood through them. We have a security department in the boarding house, go get a detective story. His name is Ilya. Let him examine everything in the room, “said the doctor, continuing the examination of the wounded man.

At the gates of the boarding house, one guard was on duty, and the rest of the guards were in the service room, located next to the gate. Ilya played dominoes with the guards.

– Ilya, for your soul came. Look, what a serious couple is asking you, “said the guard.

“Yes, we need Elijah,” Bella confirmed.

– I have all the attention! – quickly answered the young man.

– Problems in building number five. You need to go there with us, – intercepted the initiative Pasha.

The three of us went back. On the way, Pasha brought Illya up to date.

Ilya, having listened to the story from the words of Pasha, made his conclusions:

– From the story, I realized that you both did not participate in the bloody fight, that you have an alibi for this time. According to you, you were seen in a cafe and the hostess of the girls’ house. I should talk to Alla, – Ilya concluded his conclusions.

“She’s sleeping,” Bella said.

– Wake up, bring me. I will find in the fifth case.

Bella returned to her house, tried to wake up Alla, but she slept very strangely. It was impossible to wake her up. All efforts were in vain. She called Ivanovna.

Ivanovna got flustered:

– Guys, it is clear where Alla was all night! All are engaged in love, but they also go to work and wake up! And with her the problem is different. She does not even respond to shaking her shoulders. How did she even get home?

– I came and immediately fell asleep. Do you call the doctor? Asked Bella.

– First aid call! I did not have enough deaths in my house, and then no one would rent an apartment from me. Phone on the veranda! “Call me, man, we have one ambulance in the village,” she shouted to Pasha.

Pasha went to call an ambulance for the second time that day.

The duty officer asked:

– Man, you call an ambulance for the whole Apricot?

“No, to one couple that split into two parts in different places,” Pasha answered by phone, then he turned to Bella: “Bella, Ilya should be informed that Alla is sleeping and not waking up.”

– Pasha, Ilya gave me his business card, call yourself.

Pasha took a business card and called detective Ilya:

– Ilya, you are disturbed by Pasha. Alla does not wake up.

“Your friend sleeps well too.” The doctor bound his wounds. The ambulance did not take it, they said that there was no reason for X-rays. He is whole.

– They are not poisoned? What could happen to them?

– Good idea, check it out. When the doctor comes to you, let him enter the fifth building, take the second person with the poisoning.

Pasha decided to clarify the situation of his life in a boarding house.

“Bella, we’ve fooled you a little.” You see, there are three people living in our room. Yura and I live in a bedroom in which two beds are separate, we moved them for you, and another man lives in the living room. Therefore, I did not want to go to the room.

– Pasha, and where is the neighbor? He who? Where is he He drinks? – Bella quickly asked questions.

– To know who he is! Strange type. Then it was still not clear where the bottle of vodka came from. Yura does not drink vodka!

– Your neighbor could bring vodka. You can check the prints.

At this time, the ambulance doctor appeared and asked:

– Where is the patient? If sleeping, wake up! – in a command voice said the doctor, impatiently looking at Alla.

– I can not wake up. With Alla something happened. There is a chance that this night she had a man for the first time in her life, Bella said confidentially.

– I will examine the patient. Everyone out the door!

Five minutes later, the doctor went out into the yard of the house and said:

– Guys, I can say: the girl has no injuries, and there has never been a man. Your girlfriend is a girlfriend. We will take her to the hospital, she does not wake up.

– What?! – asked Pasha. – Why is Alla a girl?

– I can not add anything. Man, you will go with us.

An ambulance drove up to the fifth building. Ilya was sitting on a bench. The doctor turned to him:

– Ilya, is the champagne again guilty?

– Yes sir! They drank champagne. Put the girl on the second bed, let him sleep. On the first bed a man sleeps.

– Where am I to sleep? – asked Pasha.

– You better answer, where did you buy champagne? – Ilya asked with a hard intonation in his voice.

“I bought a bottle of champagne at the buffet.” And what not?

– The barmaid has already been taken to the police, a special conversation with her. Champagne local spill, it was added sleeping pills. From such a drink in the boarding house everything appeared. Paid on a fee.

“But Bella and I also drank champagne!” – exclaimed Pasha.

– You drank a little, and wanted to sleep? – asked Ilya sympathetically.

– I want to sleep now. Why is a bottle of vodka broken?

– You, man, give, you broke it. Chair thrown into the room from the street?

– I threw it, I put a chair on the windowsill, and he rolled into the room.

– So I broke a bottle of vodka, left her neighbor at the table leg.