Natalia Patratskaya - Pearly woman. Prose in English

– So, forget everything and do not take revenge?

– Bella, what are you talking about? What revenge? I have a feeling of fear left!

Ivanovna sat thoughtfully on the porch of the house, but when she saw the girls, she delightedly spoke:

– Girls! Are back! I’m waiting for you, waiting.

“Thank you for participating,” Bella said. – Everything is normal with us.

The girls went into the house, went to their room.

– How things have changed! – Alla exclaimed. – Eternity has passed!

“Exactly,” Bella replied, “Pasha promised to marry me.”

– And you believe? Nobody promised me to marry…

Cars sounded at the gate. I heard the helpful voice of Ivanovna. A handsome, imposing gentleman in a white suit entered the room to the girls.

– Alla, I came for you! I don’t want to be a female collector anymore! I want to marry you! Now! Get up! Dress will bring you. We are waiting for registration of marriage!

Two large men in suits brought into the room huge bags that had a dress, veil, shoes, and underwear.

“Sorry for giving you Yura, but otherwise you wouldn’t forget him, but now you will forget him,” said Count Peacock calmly, “Alla, we are waiting for you.” Take your girlfriend, will be your witness.

– Alla, here is happiness, then you fell down! Bella exclaimed, gazing with admiration at the gifts of Count Peacock.

“Bella, he’s so extraordinary!” Here are the results, – Alla showed on the packages.

She went to the summer shower, but quickly returned.

– Cool water! – Alla pounded her teeth.

Bella changed her clothes and began to help Alla to dress, then her friends went out into the yard. Ivanovna threw up her hands at the sight of Alla in a magnificent outfit.

The gates opened wide. The doors in the three cars opened. People quickly disappeared into the cars. Cars at the same time drove away from the house. At the registry office, the doors opened. Marriage register opened. The registration form has been filled out. Everything was written. It remains for Count Pavlin and Alla to sign. They put their signatures on the application form. Received a marriage registration certificate.

– Can I not go with you? I can not go with you!!! I feel bad! – Bella unexpectedly for all was indignant and began to settle on the floor.

Bella was picked up by the arms, put in one of the cars, taken to a small house. The girl was dropped out of the car in front of Ivanovna’s surprised eyes. The car quickly drove away from the house and soon joined the rest of the cars that drove towards the Peacock Palace.

Alla was riding in luxurious clothes, in a chic car, with an impressive man. She was surprised by what had happened to her, but she held herself in her hands and responded favorably to the attention of Count Peacock.

Bella lay in a poor little room and felt abandoned by all. Tears stood in the corners of the eyes. She looked at a small TV, recently issued by the hostess. On the screen, the humorists laughed, and she cried. The girl was sad. I had a nape ache.

The hostess entered the room:

– Bella, your friend with chic taken away! Why not go with her?

– Oh! How many new things have happened, and my head hurts, Bella cried.

– Yes, you, girl, overheated in the sun, look at yourself in the mirror, how you got tanned. Lie down today, rest, tomorrow everything will be fine. Where is your boyfriend? He’s a good man.

“They are good when they are strangers,” Bella replied with a pain in her voice.

At that moment a white butterfly flew off the peacock feather, she sat down in Bella’s palm. The girl stroked her gently with one finger.

“Bella, I found scattered pearl beads and gathered them on a thin line,” Ivanovna said, and handed her the beads.

Soon knocked at the gate. Ivanovna went to open.

– Easy you guys, at the mine. Bella is crying. Go calm down.

– Thank you, I feel that she is bad.

Pasha entered the room.

– Bella, why are you crying? I love you! We will be fine, “said the young man, carefully examining Bella and Alla’s belongings scattered around the room.

– Pasha, will you love now or will you give me a rest? Bella asked tiredly.

– I’m not a villain. Rest. Where is Alla? He asked, still looking around the room.

– Married married Count Pavlin. She was taken to the Peacock Palace. I did not go with them.

– Fairy tale. Is it true? – Pasha asked, sitting down on the bed of Alla.

“Not a joke,” Bella replied, putting on a pearl necklace.

– Bella, forgive me. I do not drink wine, but here I was exchanged. I have never thrown women before, I’m painfully ashamed of myself.

“Well, we survived, we will live,” Bella replied, holding in her hands the three peacock feathers and hiding their barked eyes in them.

– Bella, do you want me to buy tickets to your city for the two of us?

– Here you are almost right. Tomorrow we will buy tickets. I still have money for the tickets. Today I will not go anywhere. Alla will not go with us.

Knocked at the gate. Ivanovna opened the door. Before her stood Alla, barely alive, in a torn bridesmaid dress.

– They are so joking! Everything was a joke! – Alla shouted with tears.

– Get some sleep. There one already cries, – grumbled Ivanovna.

Alla went into the room. Pasha habitually jumped up from her bed. Alla lay down on the bed and turned away from the wall. She shuddered with sobs with her whole being. Pasha went out and called Yura:

– Yura, come here again problems. Both girls cry.

– I’m already on my way. It was necessary to immediately go with you, but they called me and said that Alla was taken away to register a marriage with Count Pavlin, so I did not go with you.

Pasha returned to the room:

“You girls cannot be left alone.” We can pay for you for a week in a boarding house, you will live next to us, under our supervision.

– Is it possible? – Alla turned her tear-stained face to him.

– For money, everything is possible. It’s all dachshund.

Yura entered the room.

– Girls, in our building, next to our number, a double room was freed. There is a proposal to change your habitat. In the pension all the amenities, it is fed, there is a beach with a bed.

– If no joke, then we agree to move to a boarding house, and here all the amenities in the courtyard, – said Alla, raising tear-stained eyes.

– Alla, you do not understand men! They speak seriously, but they will surely demand payment, “Bella put in her thought, habitually touching the pearls around her neck, as if seeking their protection from forthcoming troubles.

– Bella and I only have money for living in this house, even for the common beach and for tickets to the house. And a little food. That’s all, – Alla said, and she looked at that doomed.

“We don’t ask for money from you,” answered Pasha.

“Alla, they’ll take it in kind,” Bella snapped, she was no longer surprised that there was a pearl butterfly among the pearls.

– I did not get that. What kind? – Alla asked.

– They will take love. Do you understand? – clarified the situation of Bella.

– Why so cynical? – asked Yura.

– In this regard, we have already lost everything, we have nothing more to lose, it is possible with love. Who am I with? With you, Yura? – Alla asked.

– Well, girls, you grow. Alla with me. Bella with Pasha.

– I am not against love with Yura, – Alla put an end to the conversation.

“I don’t know,” Bella said honestly, touching the peacock feathers with one hand and touching the pearls around her neck with one hand, “I don’t want to go into debt.”