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Kira did not hear him, she saw only the nasty faces turned to her. She mechanically turned away and headed for the exit.
“Can’t you even say hello properly?” – came in the wake.
Kira did not hear this either, she reached Sasha’s apartment on autopilot and rang the doorbell.
Smiling Alexandra froze in the doorway, struck by the sight of her friend.
-You’re so pale! Come in, – she grabbed Kira’s bag and escorted her into the hall.
“Hi, Kira,” Sasha’s mother, Anna, called out to
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her. – Why did you hang your nose? Something happened?
Kira plopped down on the sofa and looked at them with such a lost look that they didn’t have a shadow of a doubt – it happened.
June 25, 2015
08:00
“Aunt Mash, the loaders will arrive at eleven,” Kirill instructed the housekeeper. “By this time,
all her belongings should be packed.
The woman threw up her hands.
“How can I find out which things are yours and which are your girlfriend’s?”
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– Very simple: my men’s, her women’s. Get it right. Yes, there is a box on the table in the living room, also for her. Make sure you don’t drop it. That’s it, I left.
Kirill nodded to the two maids who stood modestly at the door of the living room, whom Aunt Masha had invited to help, and left the apartment. The jeep gave a joyful peep, meeting the owner with a wink of headlights. Cyril climbed into the salon and took out his phone. He hypnotized a photo of Kira in a bathing suit for several long minutes. In the picture, a laughing girl splashed in the water. How he loves every feature of her tender body! How bitter it is to say goodbye to her, how you don’t
want to …
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But it is necessary. You need to make a point.
Kirill stroked the photo with his finger.
“Enough, having taken off your head, you don’t cry over your hair,” he said to himself and dialed the number of his beloved.
“Hello,” an unfamiliar female voice replied.
Kirill checked in surprise to see if he had dialed the correct number, then asked:
– Who is it? Why do you have Kira’s phone?
– This is Anna, the mother of Kira’s friend Alexandra. Kira is still sleeping,” the woman replied.
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– Understandably. Wake me up,” Kirill asked in his usual demanding tone.
– You don’t understand, Kira is resting!‘ There was an outraged note in the speaker’s voice.
“No, you don’t understand, wake me up, I need to say a few words to her,” he demanded more sharply. Usually, after such a tone, everyone rushed together to follow his instructions. But Anna was personally unfamiliar with him, and she absolutely did not care what he needed.
“Young man, no need to be rude. Pass what you want through me. If not, sorry.
Her haughty tone had no effect on Cyril. Desperately wanted to hear the gentle voice of Kira. Even torture with a red–hot iron, but he
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must talk to her. Of course, it was possible to call later, but Kirill mustered all the courage to call now. He simply cannot endure the hours of waiting. Startle at every call, pray that it was her, and be afraid to see her number on the phone screen – no, this is beyond his strength, and he will no longer have reasons to call after delivering Kira’s things.
Cyril began to act in the usual ways:
– Dear, if you do not want me to come to visit you right now, immediately wake up Kira and give her the phone.
– I won’t let you in. Will you break the door?
–
If necessary, I will drive the bulldozer! And I will raze your entire five–story building to the
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ground. Fast, I said!
“God, how did she only meet with such an impudent one,” came from afar.
Then steps were heard, and soon Cyril heard gentle words:
– Kirochka, bunny, wake up. Then a persistent young man calls you. Talk to him, okay?
Then receding footsteps were heard.
“Hello, little one,” he said, hearing her sleepy hello, and slapped his forehead. Why did he call her affectionately? But it was too late.
Cyril, have you changed your mind? so much hope was evident in her voice that he was ready
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to bite off his tongue for a short and seemingly ordinary word.
– No, Cyrus. I won’t change my mind,” he said as firmly as he could.
Why are you calling then?
Break his thunder if he knows the answer to this question. More precisely, there were several reasons. But nothing that cannot be reported by SMS.
“There is an unresolved matter,” he replied after a pause. “About noon, your things will be delivered to your house. Be there. Don’t go to work today. I warned you that you were sick. Looks like I didn’t forget anything.
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“Bye,” she replied in a low, hoarse voice.
Is that all she’ll tell me? Short for now? Exactly what I expected…”
Kirill gripped the steering wheel in such a way that traces of his fingers remained on the leather cover.
“Kir,” he began, but stopped in indecision.
– What?
–
How are you? he finally squeezed out the question.
“Fine,” she replied, and hung up.
“It’s okay, it’s good,” he muttered under his
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breath as he led the jeep into a neat line of cars. “Normal–it’s almost great. I wish I could feel normal too.
June 25, 2015
12:20
Kira watched in confusion as the movers brought the remnants of her life with Kirill into the apartment. Boxes with books, CDs, clothes and shoes have already migrated upstairs. Soon the drafting table he had bought appeared in the doorway.
– Where to put, mistress? the polite man asked.
“Take it to that room,” Kira pointed to her bedroom with her hand. – May I ask you to pull
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out the old table first?
“Of course,” the loader nodded to his partner. A minute later, the old table was pulled out. – Where is it?
You can leave here…
“Maybe he should be scrapped?” the porter suggested.
“Yes, that would be best,” she said thoughtfully.
A few minutes later, the last things were lifted into the apartment, and Kira was left alone, surveying the utter destruction in the living room. Everywhere you look, boxes are everywhere. Kira methodically peered into each.
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What am I going to do with all this? she sighed.
Kira began to slowly disassemble the property. There were more than fifteen pairs of shoes alone. Gradually, the hands reached the white box left in the hallway. Kira took the find to the bedroom, sat on the bed and began to cut the adhesive tape.
To her surprise, the package contained a brand new silver MacBook. Kira mechanically stroked the emblem depicted on the lid, opened the
handsome man and found a card inside:
“Bought for your birthday. Use it.”
There was a palpable tingle in my chest. More precisely, there had not stopped pricking since yesterday, but the last push of the wounded
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heart turned out to be unbearably heavy. Kira pushed the parting gift away, hugged the pillow and curled up.
Salty drops trickled from her eyes again. She, naive, thought that after yesterday she had cried for the coming years to come, but no, the reserves of girlish tears are innumerable.
After crying for fifteen minutes, Kira thought.
“So he remembered my birthday, although it was still ten days away. Or bought a gift in advance? But since I bought it in advance, it means that I was not going to leave me, because they don’t buy gifts if they are going to break off relations… I couldn’t become
unnecessary to him in one day. What happened
anyway?
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Continuing to sob, Kira went to look for the phone. The brat collapsed behind the sofa cushions in the living room. Puffing from the effort, she barely managed to get it out of the bowels of the old sofa, climbed onto the sofa with her feet and began to gather her courage.
Intellectually, Kira understood that it was not worth calling. You need to keep some remnants of pride. Only now she has no need for pride, Kira is simply obliged to find out what is the matter, otherwise she will simply fly off the
coils.
For several minutes she hypnotized Kirill’s photo on her phone, stroked his smiling face, then quickly, without giving herself a chance to change her mind, pressed the call button.
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The horns seemed to ring endlessly.
– Yes?
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I wanted to hang up, but scolded myself for being childish. After all, what else could happen
to her? You have to be brave.
Kirill, I wanted to ask you something…
“Ask.” His tone was harsh, but not too harsh.
Why did you give me a laptop? Especially so
expensive.
Her heart skipped a beat, waiting for an answer.
“I bought it for you a month ago,” he replied
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quickly.
You could have returned it to the store!
“Kir, I don’t return gifts to stores,” he was indignant.
– I do not need it! she said offendedly.
“So throw it away,” he snapped. – It’s all?
– No, not everything… Explain, please, what happened?
In spite of her will, her voice sounded so
plaintively that it could melt any, even the most callous heart.
Kirill coughed, swallowed, and finally answered:
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I went back to my ex girlfriend.
“I would have said so right away,” Kira answered in a dead voice and hung up.
She threw the phone away and roared again. Now in voice.
As time went. Kira didn’t want her stepfather to admire the things scattered around the living room – she didn’t need an extra reason for a scandal, they would be enough without that. According to her estimates, Arkady should
return around six. There are only four hours left, and there is so much more to do.
Hands reached out to the unsorted boxes. Kira
acted like a robot. Picked up, put away,
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put away. Thoughts revolved around the last telephone conversation. The more she thought about him, the more angry she got. After a while, she no longer folded, but threw things on the shelves.
By four o’clock in the afternoon, Kira had
reached the boiling point.
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