You never know how your life will turn out, but you always hope for the best. Fedor and Masha have been legally married for five years, during which time their son Misha was born. He recently turned three years old. Masha was pregnant again. Fedor understood that it was necessary to change something, since with the appearance of another child, there would be catastrophically not enough money.
Fedor found a new job and began to go to work. The salary was more than decent, and Fedor was very happy about it. There was a little more than a month left before the birth of the next child, and Fyodor had to leave. Masha was angry. But Fyodor replied: «We need money and I will leave.»
He returned a month later. There was no one at home. The husband called the neighbor on the site. An elderly woman lived there. Petrovna opened the door and saw a neighbor. «Thank God you came. I’m already an old woman with children to sit.» «In what sense,» Fyodor asked. «Yours has slipped away, she left Misha for me.» «Is Masha in the hospital? «» Not anymore, I gave birth to twins and gave up on them. There’s a note left for you at the hospital.» Fyodor, not understanding anything, went to the hospital. He was invited to the chief physician’s office. The doctor calmly told the whole story, how they had asked his wife not to abandon the children, etc., and that she had left a note for him. The note was short. «I’m sorry, I didn’t hire to be a mother with many children, three boys, it’s too much.
Fedor was shocked by everything that had happened. By hook or by crook, he was able to take the children from the hospital. He called the boys Kolya and Tolya. But I couldn’t imagine what to do with them now. I went to Petrovna for advice. «Son, I understand everything, I will help as much as I can, but I can’t babysit the kids. We have a girl with a pedagogical education on the first floor, now she is looking for a job. Try to talk to her.» Fedor decided to take a chance, there was no choice anyway. Since he took the children, something needs to be solved. The door was opened to him by a girl about 8 years younger; he said hello, saying that the neighbor was upstairs. «Yes, I know you, come on in.» Fedor came in, the apartment was in perfect order.
The food smelled delicious. Natasha offered him tea – and he gladly agreed. «I came to you on business. You’ve probably already heard that I was left alone with three children. I want to offer you a job. I will pay well, but the care of newborns and another boy will fall on your shoulders.» Natasha was afraid of such an offer, but the salary was attractive. After much persuasion, she agreed. She came early in the morning and went late at night. Very tired. It’s time to go to the next watch. And Natasha was left alone. Petrovna helped her as much as she could, giving Natasha at least a little time to rest and the opportunity to run to the store and to the market. And one day, not noticeably, Natasha became attached to the boys.
Fedor arrived with gifts, tried to help with the children and give Natasha at least a week off. But two days later she came back. The girl simply could not do without the kids. Misha began to call her mom more and more often. Fedor left again, Natasha had been living in their apartment almost all the time, at one time there was not enough, but the kids were growing up and she was already doing everything out of habit. During one of his visits, Fedor offered Natalia to marry him and legally take custody of the children. Natasha agreed. She considered these wonderful boys her own and could not even imagine that they could be taken away from her. They lived for five years, Fedor gave very little money, began to disappear all the time. After the next arrival, he informed Natalia that he had fallen in love with another and was leaving. Natalia threw herself at his feet: «Don’t take the children, I’ll be lost without them.»
«So I wasn’t going to, why do I need them, you are their mother legally. I’m leaving you the apartment as a dowry. But promise that you will tell your sons that they have a good father.» Natalia thought about it and said, «I promise. But you also promise that you will never show up, and the children will not know who their parents are.» To protect herself and her sons, Natalia sold her and Fedor’s apartment and bought a house in another area. And their happy days flowed. The children grew up, helped their mother in everything. Natalia raised them worthy people. The eldest got married and has already given her grandchildren. How happy was Natalia that God gave her such children? It was the weekend, and everyone was at home. The guys were busy in the garden, putting things in order there. And she and her daughter-in-law were cooking dinner. The grandchildren were running around noisily.
Natalia noticed through the window that someone had entered the courtyard. When she went outside, she saw a rather elderly man. Looking closely at him, she was horrified: «What are you doing here, you promised? «And I changed my mind, I need money, or rather full financing.» «The sons came up from behind; Natalia’s heart was beating madly.» «Mom, who is this? «My little sons, you won’t know, it’s me, your dad.» The guys exchanged glances. «What do you mean, Dad? » Literally, you are my sons and I have not been to any distant country. I had another family, and now I’m left alone and have no money at all, I have the right to your maintenance, I found out everything.»
«Mom, what does this man say, what kind of dad, and where has he been all this time? What luck, did you find who called you here? » «I came myself, and she is not your mother, your own mother abandoned you. I was left alone with you, and here she was bypassing you.» Natasha slowly began to sink to the ground. Everything was spinning in her head. The eldest son picked her up in his arms and pressed her to him. He carefully carried her into the house. He put her on the sofa and began to kiss her hands. Five minutes later, the twins entered the house. The woman was lying and crying.
«Forgive me, yes, I did not give birth to you, he is your father, and I do not know where your mother is. But I have no one more expensive and more dear. You are my whole life.» She sat down on the sofa and sobbed. Raising her head, she saw that all three of her handsome men were kneeling in front of her, and behind them was her daughter-in-law holding two hooligans. «Mommy, you are the dearest, the only one and we don’t need anyone. And we accompanied this father to the gate. Promise us you’ll never cry again. We will never let you offend anyone.» All three of them tried to hug her. She hugged them to her, kissing each of them. The grandchildren came running and started making noise. «Grandma, kiss us too. Everyone laughed together. The whole room was filled with the love of a big mother’s heart.
