- This is my son, he died in the war...
This first phrase immediately attracted the girl to the woman sitting opposite, in which there was nothing special or mysterious at all. The fear disappeared somewhere. The old woman took cards in her hands, asked: take off this and that, laid them out on the table and began to speak...
She spoke a lot, but in some tricky, unusual language, so that Martha understood little and did not remember anything. Collecting the cards from the table, grandma Tanya said, just summing up:
- Well, cards... What cards? They lie a lot. I don't really believe them. Here's a hand. The hand is, daughter, the plan of life. The hand will not deceive. Have you ever ask something from someone? Gypsy? No, daughter, do not guess from gypsies and from women with black hair - they take away your happiness. And in general, my advice to you: guess less or it won't take long to miscalculate your fate. Put your right hand here.
Martha held out her right hand, palm up. Grandma Tanya looked and touch.
- Why did you come early? I don’t guess until eighteen, well, okay, since you’ve already arrived... this long way...
She pressed it near the thumb and, looking closely, said:
- You will have children. What for are you guessing? You need to study! You are a smart girl, you study well, but not all A's, B's also come across. A bit capricious but just for now, your character will change later on. It is imperative that you study further... Are your parents real, aren't you've been adopted?
- No, they are my own.
- Both?
- Yes, both.
- Something I do not understand here. Well, there is a sister, she is much older.
“Yeah,” Martha confirmed, surprised.
- Now you have two guys, you can be friends with both, you can date, but these guys are not yours. You will meet yours unexpectedly, you have never seen him before, he will come from afar. As if after the army, I don't know. You will meet him at the age of nineteen or about this...
- So early?
- Well, one can't say for sure - nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, somewhere in these years. If he proposes to you, be sure to agree. Do not be afraid! This will be a very good person. If you marry him, you will live very well, better than your parents. Just remember, my daughter, this will not be a simple proposal, but a sign of serious changes in your life. Remember, daughter, the first proposal and you should accept. If you do not marry him, then you will not marry for a very long time. Then there will be another proposal, and also good, but not as good as the first one.
Grandma Tanya had light blue eyes, and some strange smell came from her - like herbs or roots, and when she leaned towards the girl, she sniffed, trying to guess what it smelled like, and passed some words deafening. Yet there was something unsettling about those “ifs” and persistent advice.
- It's a leap year. In a leap year, you have to be careful. Trust no one, don't go out late. You have a good hand and your life will be surprised.
With this "surprised" Martha went out into the street.
- Well, now, well, what? What did she tell you? - her friends pounced on her.
- That my life will be surprised.
- What? How surprised?
- Well, wonderful, amazing, - Olga explained. She was the one who, even without any guessing, never doubt it.
from novel WANDERER
beginning: http://proza.ru/2021/01/09/2189
íà ðóññêîì: http://proza.ru/2017/03/16/1142