On the stone road. Venia Mishin

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СКАЧАТЬ was in the evening when the remaining people of the Silent Valley were running together to the cafe.

      – Is Noah here? – Eric asked Mrs. Holm, watching as she was going to wipe the dust where it wasn’t.

      – Noah is going to come later. Maybe I’ll bring you anything? – She asked, hardly have said the previous sentence. Looking at the woman Eric could see her bursting desire to occupy herself with something useful.

      – Pancakes – on reflection said Eric.

      In fact, he even didn’t want to eat; he ordered pancakes only out of politeness to Mrs. Holm. Also, out of politeness, he became to push it into his mouth.

      The meal was delicious, as always, but he didn’t want to eat at all.

      In anticipation Eric watched through the panoramic window of the cafe as overcast sky gradually fills with frightening blackness. The street was dark, as if the night falls, although till the sunset was almost seven hours.

      Ahead of heavy rain for a few seconds, Eric Noah came in empty restaurant. He was wound up and upset by something. Eric immediately guessed that the reason was Alice. In Eric’s point of view she was a local beautiful girl, and no more. He didn’t understand his peers, playing the game “I love you.” Eric is sure that this feeling they simply can’t experience, and those cutting the ear sweet words were a manifestation of childhood from which they so vehemently were trying to repudiate.

      As it turned out later, Noah broke up with Alice. She left him, for the sake of a guy named William.

      – What a foolish name! – Noah muttered resentfully. When he is angry, he becomes even funnier. – Who is now generally calls the child this name?

      – Actually, no one! – assented Eric, just to calm down his friend.

      – What have I done wrong? – Ruefully asked Holm.

      – You did it! – Eric continued.

      – Yes! I did everything right!

      – Yes!

      – She is bad!

      – She is!

      – Not me.

      – Not you!

      – Enough to you! – Noah cried out in exasperation at his friend.

      – What? I just say what you want to hear – Eric stopped to act up, and began to behave yourself more seriously.

      – I want to hear what you really mean to tell me – more calmly, said Noah.

      – Come on. I have already said, but you didn’t listen to me.

      His friend didn’t say anything. He lowered his head and ran his fingers through his hair, the same brown-colored, like his mother had.

      – Unpleasant? – Eric asked, blaming his insensitivity, looking at each other.

      – Not half…

      Rain, with accompaniment of deafening clap of thunder, was so much beating on the windows, which began to seem as if they are about to be torn apart. Flown at Silent Valley wet night every moment was getting madder and more frightening.

      – I’ll be back – Noah rose from his chair and walked to the fridge for a soda. – Would you like anything?

      The phone call didn’t give Eric to answer.

      – What happened? – Noah asked curiously, noticing the change in the face of his friend.

      – It’s my father.

      Holm immediately understood everything. He knew his friend was “lucky” with his father.

      Eric was upset and he didn’t want to answer the call, but he knew that he must do that. Carl Lanter got furious when he was ignored by cellular. Most likely, he couldn’t phone Mrs. Lanter: it was not surprising: her old cell phone repeatedly hinted at the need for recycling. Perhaps Mr. Lanter has intended call her to inquire – whether it really is in the office, rather than in an institution encouraging adultery, in the company of a man generously treated her with cocktails. If Mrs. Lanter doesn’t answer the call – she certainly fondle in the alley with a scoundrel. From accusation to accusation the financial position and social status of a non-existent lover always varies. If the wife doesn’t answer the call, he should call her son in order to be convinced of her infidelity – it was turn-based strategy of “big mind” of Charles Lanter.

      – I Listen, – said Eric, reluctantly holding the phone to the ear.

      – Where are you, why so long … – immediately sounded annoyed howl on the other side of the line. Eric immediately left the phone away from his ear, and rolled his eyes upward. His friend Noah gave no sign that he heard the cries of Mr. Lanter.

      – Why doesn’t your mother pick up the phone?! – Still angry, he continued to shout in a rude way.

      As he had expected – his mother couldn’t answer the bell for some reason, and his father suddenly decided to ask him: – “Why?”.

      – You seriously think I know it? – Eric said, almost screaming.

      After the heinous insults, the beeps cracked. Angry parent hung up, didn’t telling a word any more.

      Eric was so ashamed that such a disgusting person directly participated in his birth.

      – I hate him – he admitted in a drooping voice.

      Noah was silent; perhaps he didn’t know what to say and how to comfort him.

      The sounds of bendable metal rang in the empty hall of a cafe. It became very hot around; Eric’s hands began to shake.

      – Eric! – called him Noah in discouragement.

      The guy didn’t take his eyes from the melting phone in the hand of his friend.

      Glass screen pieces spilled from a solid body, which began to look like crumpled clay. Because of the panic the mobile device fell out of the hands of the owner. Another terrible abnormality messed frustrated teen from a place, and ran away in the storm.

      Holm didn’t understand anything; he remained standing under the blinking fluorescent lights. Coming to himself, he couldn’t find his friend. Eric was far away.

      The streets of the Silent Valley were deserted, its residents hid in their little houses, frightened of the lightning storm. Running through the sinking town, through the thin walls of water, Eric was trying to understand what was happening to him. His body was overpowered by anger and fear. Thoughts become darker as the clouds, filling an entire sky.

      His mood has deteriorated immediately. His hands were clenching and twitching with anger. Eric wanted to run away from the bad things that happened in his life. He could no longer stand it.

      Throughout his life, СКАЧАТЬ