24.
Wah! Familiar faces!
Somewhere in the station crowd, Zhora the photographer flashed arm in arm with Tolik-Gutalin. Martha remembered the story of how Tolik got his next nickname: somehow during the filming, being constantly at the camera, Tolik managed to get drunk with some nasty thing.
- Tolik, what is it from you so... smells delicious? - The operator asked.
- What-what ... Gutalin (shoe polish)! - The mechanic answered cheerfully.
So this ‘shoe polish’ (Gutalin) stuck to him tightly.
Martha was met by Marina, Edik and Yura in a car. Yura was waiting for the "creators", but they did not come, so he took Martha and the company.
- Well, Martha, hold on! - Edik warned.
- What is it?
- G-da arrived by train, which was earlier, they found out that you were not here. Tatiana tears and flies.
- Why is she… if there was no filming?
- You’ll tell that to her.
- Well, I'll tell, of course, - Martha declared bravely, but she felt uneasy beforehand.
In fact, it turned out to be even worse than she expected. Tanya was just in a deranged state. Saying something, trying to answer her was pointless.
- How could you?! Take advantage of our grief! I don't know what kind of world I am! - Tanya almost cried, her hands were shaking, her voice broke. And only noticing that Martha was about to burst into tears, she quickly sent her out of the room.
But everything was forgotten - she was forgiven – quickly and absolutely, only Lena Panchenko the next morning, when most of the group had already gathered on the bus, sarcastically said:
- Wow! What a passionate love... for the city of Kiev!
She herself did not understand how right she was!
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