- No, I didn’t even think about it, - Petrova’s attack amused me with a tear, well, like a schoolgirl interrogates, honestly. Of course, I’m not fifteen years old, but Katrina has more experience than me, don’t even go to a fortune teller.

- That's good, but what does he do, this unfamiliar driver of a luxury car.

“Here,” I handed Bodrov’s business card to the curious Katya, “can you imagine, we only ate ice cream and went to the embankment, that’s all. And today Kursky invited me to his birthday, but of course I won’t go, I think he understands this too.

Here impudent, not whining, so skating. And with this one of yours, - having uttered the last word, Kat pointedly shot her eyes at the business card, - will you meet again or is that all, hold on to the handle and that's enough? Although what am I talking about, since the flowers, so everything is in order. Yes?

-Yeah, just meet my parents and that's it, I'm free. If you want, come to us for dinner, I’ll cook borscht, ”I invited my friend, because I knew for sure that she, like my father, loves him very much and that would be with pork ribs. Katya usually cannot do without an additive, and where everything just fits into her, there is a solid harmony with decent curves exactly where it is needed.

- Uh-huh, I'll try. But Sevka is calling to her parents, but I'm reluctant. I love them, even very much, but at a distance morality is not very readable. And then right away about the grandchildren, who "they won't wait for in their lifetime" will start a song. Brother what, he immediately takes care of business with his father, and I listen to about worthless diapers, undershirts, which have long been stored up.

-Yeah, I understand. But at least mine stopped praising Kursky. And then at first MA did not have a soul in him, even after the divorce. She kept repeating about the mistake, until she told her that she had not learned about him from other people's words, but she personally saw him walking around our apartment in shorts. Since then, he has fallen out of favor, but oh well.

- Oh, and you are patient, Vasilyeva, I would have banged something on both of them, honestly, if there was a gun in my hands at least unloaded, as if at least with a butt, but I would have hit them.

- I willingly believe. Well, are you coming tomorrow?

Parents simply adore Katrina, considering her a punchy and generally reasonable girl, unlike me, not so independent and generally not always acting correctly in their authoritative opinion. I understand that for them a child will remain a child at forty, one word parents.

***

Denis Bodrov, head of a successful company selling cellular, landline phones, computer equipment, photo and video equipment, and most importantly, spy things that are now fashionable and in special demand, always bought products for himself, because he liked this process. Busy all day at work with installation issues, he took a basket from the checkout with pleasure every day and slowly walked around the supermarket, allowing his brain to relax and generally think about something else, periodically pulling products from the shelf and putting them back or sending them to the basket.

And today, in one elite house under construction, the painstaking work of installing CCTV cameras was completed, which he personally supervised. His responsibilities have always included the distribution of employees across facilities, solving any technically difficult issues, planning costs directly on the spot and checking the work performed, and Bodrov approached this very responsibly.

Passing by a row with sausage and cold cuts, without which Dan simply could not do, his eyes fell on a fair-haired girl with huge sunglasses on top of her head, who rushed between the rows like a helicopter, grabbing first one product, then another, not reading them carefully. labels and generally in the composition, which was unreasonable. After following her, he came to the conclusion that she probably did it after some system, because in the end the product was not bad, because the serverat in his basket was exactly the same. Five minutes later, this very rocket squeezed between him and the cash register, and then the handles of her bag, stuffed to the eyeballs, broke off, unable to withstand the weight of the products that she so unreasonably stuffed there.

What prompted him to come up and get acquainted, and besides, to offer his help, Bodrov himself did not understand. Probably astonished - confused look of a girl who did not expect that her bricks could not withstand a strong-looking film, or maybe she herself, quite pretty in appearance. In addition, Dan could not stand women who tried to look like flat hangers or a towel in profile. Look for such a vobla later on the bed with a rake and a lantern. And this one is nothing, figured. And at first she bent beautifully at the groceries, without bending her knees, but then she realized that there could also be buyers behind her and not all of them were women, or men looking at a purely trifle in their pocket, so she sat down and began to collect what was so unsuccessful crumbled.

And then he got carried away. Dan, unexpectedly for himself, offered to help, and then invited a new acquaintance to take a walk, go to a cafe, where he himself had not been since his student days. Either the weather had an effect, or a well-executed and well-paid big job, which even the chef himself suggested to celebrate at his dacha, but communication with Angelica (what a cool name) seemed interesting to Bodrov. Her ex-husband unsuccessfully wedged in, but nevertheless, in the evening, the acquaintance continued, and Dan wrote down in his notebook to check whether she was really married, because he did not forgive jokes and lies towards himself and broke with those people right away. By the time of the meeting, he knew for sure that the girl was divorced, there were no children, which means that a pleasant acquaintance could be continued. A big plus, it turns out, is that the girl is also from an intelligent family, and he has never had such a girlfriend. Collecting information about her was not particularly difficult. If you do such things, communicate with different people, then over time you acquire a specific circle of acquaintances who, upon request, can quickly get the necessary unclassified information.

The evening spent with Angelica seemed unusual to him, and he took it as a good omen, only the constant calls at work were habitually distracting. Not all the activities of Vector LLC were licensed and legal, especially in the field of installing listening devices, and therefore I had to hold back my speech, or even step aside altogether, but it seems that the new acquaintance was not very interested in this, which means she not out of the nosy, which was very good. But Margot, with her eternal habit of calling when she is not asked, wedged off topic. He, Dan and Margo sometimes met, it always proceeded exclusively in the area of \u200b\u200bthe bed, but following the Bodrov rule, this never led to any deeper and more binding relationship, because she was not at all of that level, and he was not the only client.

Early in the morning, a familiar melody began to play, and Bodrov, who had been watching his dream just five seconds ago, immediately grabbed the phone, because the boss himself called. Maxim Petrovich, it was today that he was gathering people at his dacha outside the city, but Dan knew this even without his reminder, which means that something completely different was needed and it was not slow to clear up.

- Denis, have you forgotten that everyone is gathering at my place today?

“No, of course I’ll be on time,” Bodrov answered and ruffled his rather short hair with his free hand, still wondering about the reason for such an early conversation, because the boss has a well-paid secretary to notify everyone.

- And take the girl with whom I saw you yesterday, otherwise all the families, and you are always alone, - the boss said meaningfully in such a thorough tone that does not tolerate objections, that it became clear that this is the purpose of the call. - In general, any, only normal. The main thing is not to use the washcloth that curls around you.

“It will be done,” Dan reported and heard frequent beeps on the other end of the connection.

He winced, remembering how once Margosha needed money and she showed up to him directly at work, and did not find anything better than to ask him from the boss who had just arrived at the building. Of course, it was possible to find an absolutely normal girl, but he was used to this one, and besides, she was far from the only one, although she was very skillful. It just so happened that the tipsy girl ran into Maxim Petrovich. And the constant employment at work did not contribute to the development of family relationships, even in his free time he preferred not to rest, but to study some new products in spy electronics, looked for unusual things on the Internet. And what about women, clothes, trinkets and resorts, just spend money, although Dan admitted that not all of them were like that. Only a complete moron will take a woman like Margo to a party with her boss, and Bodrov never considered himself such. And even though Margosha was still a beauty of twenty years, he firmly drew a clear line between himself and other similar ladies.

Many years ago, when Dan was still at school, he and his older friend stole someone else's motorcycle for a ride and, losing control, crashed it into a lamppost. By ourselves, there was nothing, only bruises, but they got a suspended sentence for someone else's property, not counting the fact that my father poured a belt up to the shoulder blades. Yes, but unlike a comrade, who soon repeated his attempt to ride on someone else's car, and then ended up in a juvenile colony, Bodrov wound the incident on a youthful mustache and did not allow himself this anymore. In the future, he saw a former childhood friend several more times, who caught his eye in the intervals between his terms, all the more they lived in the same entrance, but together with his parents, having moved from a communal apartment to a more prestigious house, acquaintances also changed. Another circle, another communication, and now not stolen equipment was dismantled in the yard, and some of the new comrades, even his own. The circle of young radio amateurs that was at the school also helped a lot, determining the inclinations of the young talent, who firmly wanted to go further to study, which he did after eleven classes.

Further, after graduating from the university, Bodrov, as a promising young specialist, was invited to Vector, which by that time had begun to gain momentum. Once in the right stream, Dan did not miss the opportunity to show himself at work, especially since he really loved his work, firmly remembering the event when life almost turned towards the prison bars thanks to the most ordinary boyish dream to ride with the breeze. So, moving up the career ladder, he bought an apartment, changed more than one car, but never met her, his only one. Vasilyeva was not drawn to this pedestal, but no one was going to marry her, but it was pleasant to communicate with the girl, he admitted this.

The thought will appear at a party with Lika, it seemed to him not so bad. The girl is pretty pretty, she doesn’t seem to be stupid, she won’t freeze at the wrong moment, with a decent figure, she does something in medicine, it’s more prestigious in every way than he will sort out all the familiar women in his mind right now. Which one is suitable for this role?

Bodrov brushed his teeth, the foam from the paste dripped into the sink, and he smiled contentedly, carefully working with a brush. Wow, he’s only known Vasilyeva for a day, and the all-seeing boss is already in the know, he must have caught his eye somewhere.