Treasure of the tower

Misha hesitated for a while to answer. Then a moment later he looked at the call screen. Sasha called. Masha accepted the call and saw Sasha’s laughing face on the screen.

– Oh, hi! – he said, – Why can not I see you? You, what’s in the castle, or something, in the basement with a skeleton, or what’s so dark, you can not be seen?

“How do you know where I am?”

– Yes, I’m joking. What do you think, I did not see how you put in your pants when you draped from the basement, eh? Sasha’s mocking laugh rang out.

“See for yourself what I’ll show you!” – Misha became a flashlight Smartphone to illuminate the remains of the skeleton, passing the image to Sasha. The friend was silent, without making a sound…

Sasha’s Smartphone lay on the kitchen table, behind which he sat, waiting for Mom to fill the plate with soup and put it on the table. When the bowl of soup set in front of Sasha, at this very time Misha began to broadcast the shooting of the basement remains of the skeleton of the castle. Sasha’s mom, seeing human bones on the image, grabbed the Smartphone in horror, and heard:

– Well, which of us is a coward, and Sashka?! – Misha’s voice shook Sasha’s mother to the depth of consciousness.

Misha continued to shoot a terrible picture, and, marveling at the silence of his friend, said:

– What, you there the boy, it is not terrible, and?!

“No, Misha, Sasha is not scared,” Natasha’s aunt’s voice drove Misha into a stop. He turned off the smart phone, and resolutely rushed to the exit from this eerie place. Misha knew for sure that Aunt Natasha would immediately call her mother, and Mom would immediately rush home, forget about work, and forget about everything and only to make sure that nothing happened to him. Misha, in the blink of an eye, found himself near the doorway of the tower, when suddenly a warning thought flashed through the depths of the subconscious: “We must close the basement so that there are no unnecessary questions.” And he ran down to the green ring, which had turned green from the old times, to install the torch. He grabbed the ring and struggled as best as he could, yanked. The cellar door creaked wildly with a wild screech. But Misha did not see this anymore, the terrible creaking and grinding of the sliding door, drove the boy away without looking back. A few minutes later, when Misha ran through the wasteland home, Mom called the Smartphone.

– Yes mom!

– You, what do you allow yourself, ah?! My sister calls me and says that you are now in the former prison for convicts, who were kept there for construction work, when Demidov rebuilt and started his plant. And if the wall collapsed?! A brick on his head would have fallen?! And in the basement would be overwhelmed? What do you think, woe is you mine?! – The mother’s voice rang in the phone.

– Mom, I’m already approaching the house, nothing happened to me.

– Wait for it! I’ll get home!

From these words, Misha was not so offended as for Sasha’s betrayal. Sasha passed it to his mother and now the friendship is over. A new call rang. A call from Sasha is indicated on the screen. Misha, with vexation, dialed several buttons, removing Sasha’s phone from the Smartphone database. Now he has neither a friend nor a cousin of a traitor. I did not want to go home, but pity for my mother took over and unwillingly, overcoming the inevitability of punishment, he wandered the weeds of the wasteland home…

Half an hour later, from the moment Misha entered the apartment, my mother came. The woman did not have a face. She, without taking off her shoes, rushed to her son:

“You know,” she turned to her son, breathless, “if it was not for Sasha, I would have poured you over the very outset.”

– And what did he tell you? Misha asked insinuatingly, putting off the textbook on Russian literature.

– He said that you promised him to show a horror movie that you could download from the Internet. And that you did not go anywhere. Natasha, too, then I apologized. Sashka said that in this horror film shootings were conducted in places similar to our ruins jail and that you walked looked at the similarity, when Sasha and his mother came to us.

From these words, Misha eased from the heart, and the mother in the meantime continued: “I did not believe a single word of it until I came home. You really did not go anywhere?!

– Of course not, Mom! – Misha answered smugly and confidently. About Sashka, he thought that what a cunning, how cleverly held our sisters, will go far right. And I thought about my sneakers that I was lying in the bathroom. Mother just washed there and, finding dirty shoes, left the bathroom, holding sneakers in her hand.

– And what’s that?! – looking with alarm at his son’s eyes, she asked anxiously, feeling that she was being led by the nose.

– There’s dirt since last time. – Without losing, coolness and, lazily, as if the evidence here is nothing to do with, in the mother’s investigative file on the concealed son with all her strength to sally…

“Is there fresh mud here?” – Mother did not give up.

– Well, I went out into the yard. – Lied Misha. – He hit the ball a couple of times, then returned, only the shoes got dirty. And when you called me, I was just approaching the house from the playground; I told you that I’m coming to the house.

“I have to cleanse myself; otherwise I will not be able to buy such expensive shoes so often.”

Having said this, she disappeared into the bathroom with sneakers. Misha felt more heartbroken again, and the treacherous thought that lying, nevertheless, is unpleasant, and how simple and easy it is to always tell the truth, sat in his brain, a thorny splinter. He decided that he would always tell the truth and never say an unpleasant lie. Mom washed the sneakers and carefully put them in the hallway to dry…

Chapter – 4.

From the worries experienced by the reaction of Misha’s mother, Misha concealed his secret of visiting abandoned ruins. And in this he helped Sasha. Now associated with one secret brothers tried not to mention this adventure at their rare meetings. They played football, watched video films, competed in computer video games, and, in general, tried hard to be obedient sons of their mothers.

Unexpectedly not fortune-telling mom Sasha married. Sasha had a stepfather who dragged the boy to a sports club, ran with him in the morning and became his stepfather and friend. Sasha finally forgot his cousin, every time Misha called him, inviting him to visit, he found thousands of reasons to refuse, referring to his employment. Misha’s mother began to envy the sister’s marriage, often set an example for Sasha, admiring his behavior, while rebuking Misha in disobedience, or for minor leprosy. Then, you’re doing bad lessons, then again moved to the top three, then for the teacher’s teacher called and asked to hold her son…

How it all got to Misha. Sometimes he could not even hear that he had such an ideal cousin. Nevertheless, time passed. Misha studied at an ordinary school in Nevyansk. Sasha attended a paid college with in-depth study of English and in the ninth grade he could speak fluent English. Misha, while studying at an ordinary school, received three in English lessons and was glad of it. Sacha paid his studies at a paid college for his stepfather. Sasha dressed in all the canons of fashion, like a teenager from a rich family. Misha went about what ordinary boys from not wealthy families go to. Mama Misha had something to envy her sister, who did just that, with rare meetings, that brought a bunch of photos and bragged about another overseas resort and tropical sunburn. After such meetings, Misha’s mother locked herself in her room, and Misha heard the muffled sobs of his mother through the locked door. Once he could not stand it, and when Mom came out with tear-stained eyes to the kitchen, where he liked to do his homework, he said:

– Did Aunt Natasha show you photos from the sauna, where Sasha and her stepfather were bathing with naked schoolgirls from Sasha’s college? – Mom froze in place, not knowing what to say. Misha meanwhile continued, – Sashka threw me pictures on my Smartphone, I can show you, you want?!

Mother, like a stung roe, jumped to her son and slapped Misha over the whole flight.

Misha suddenly had sparkles in his eyes closed eyes, and in his right ear rang, and his cheek burned like fire. Misha, to be a man, courageously suffered a biting slap in the face. Mother sniffing, and not looking at her son, put on the stove to brew coffee in a Turk.

– Mom, forgive me, but I hate your sister, who torments you with her wealth, but on the very fact that she does not need her husband. I sometimes even feel sorry for her. It is a pity, not as a relative, but as an unhappy man. Still, you, like sisters, look like her, even though you and she are from different husbands of our grandmother. You are from the first marriage, and she from the second. Grandfather Anton loved you as well as his daughter, you told me that yourself, remember?

Mother, suddenly turned sharply, approached Misha, embraced and pressed her head to her breast. Misha heard the mother’s whisper through her sobs:

“You’re already quite grown up, my boy.” Thank you. And forgive me.

On the stove, hissed, spilling, coffee, filling the kitchen with its spicy smell of good and fragrant Arabica variety. Mother rushed to the stove, turned off the hotplate, extinguished with a splashed drink. I removed the Turk from the stove with the boiled coffee boiled off at half…

Misha finished the ninth grade and, having passed the exams, was successfully transferred to the tenth. He had two years left before the graduation school ball. Ahead of the holidays. With his cousin Sasha, Misha had friendly relations. And on occasion, Sasha often invited Misha to stay with him for the winter holidays. And two friends had fun these days, hanging out on closed youth clubs, having fun there, and often happened so that they appeared in the morning. Aunt Natasha scolded her son for these nocturnal festivities, to which Sasha replied: “Mom is not the time that you had with Aunt Olya.”

– You look, what clever men have grown. Hurry up, this vacation is over. I’m worried about you.

– Aunt Natasha, yes we are almost adults and we are not in some kind of gateway, but in a serious, and even closed club, where Uncle Sergei bought us two tickets.

– You know, Misha, your mom called me yesterday. And she said that now she will not let you on her summer vacation on a trip to Spain with Sasha and Uncle Sergey, but will be glad that Sasha came to you and lived with you.

– Listen to Misha, and it’s cool. Come to you in the summer.

“Aunt Natasha, is this true?” I’m all for it! Exclaimed Misha enthusiastically.

And here’s the vacation. Aunt Natasha and Sasha arrived on the morning train. Masha Misha was left to cook dinner, to meet Sasha and her mother sent her son…

The train arrived on schedule. From the car Sasha ran first. – Hi brother! – Joyfully, he ran to Misha. The brothers embraced, patting each other on the back. Aunt Natasha pulled out a heavy suitcase into the car’s vestibule and shouted to both boys: “Hey, you loafers!” Quickly to me! Take and take to the platform!

The guys quickly picked up a heavy suitcase stuffed with something and put it on the trolley of a rushed porter.

– Please, to the parking lot of the taxi, there is already waiting for the motor. – Misha commanded. The porter obediently dragged the cart in the direction indicated to the waiting car.

– Misha, you waved so much in the winter, you do not even know. – Aunt was surprised, – And I’ve brought you a whole suitcase of gifts, my mother will be interested to see what’s there. – Aunt Natasha was mysterious. Misha thought that she herself would also showcase the suitcase to her mother. Again, like last time, they’ll talk all night and fall asleep in the morning, wake up for dinner, he thought.

All together followed the porter. Sasha paid the amount of money, thanking the porter, who put the suitcase in the trunk of the “Volga” and the taxi moved from the place, gently bringing passengers to the house…

When all three climbed into the apartment where Misha and Mama lived, the hallway was filled with tasty smelling food, and a table was set in Mama’s room. But the sisters had not seen each other since the wedding of Aunt Natasha and did not hurry to appear at the table, examining the suitcase there. Their voices were enthusiastically heard from there. Masha Misha especially loudly exclaimed to each gift of her sister, both laughed, as in childhood, that Misha even muttered in displeasure, looking at Sasha: – Well, a kindergarten, we do not seem to be.

– Mishka, let me show you my girlfriend. – Said Sasha, pulling out of the jeans of the latest model Smartphone.

“Wow, this is Apple, right?” Misha said in surprise.

“You know, my stepfather gave it to me for my birthday in honor of majority.” Sixteen all the same knocked. And exactly the same thing that was bought last year, well, of course, a new one, improved, and the latest model. And I brought yours to you. – With these words, Sasha jumped up and ran into the kitchen.

The picture, which presented itself to him, was surprisingly similar to two little girls who moved here to the kitchen a sandbox from the playground with all the toys there. Only with the difference that the girls were portrayed by two adult aunts, and by toys, there were things scattered all over the kitchen from the suitcase. Seeing Sasha suddenly burst into their fascinating “game,” the women quieted, staring at the boy with their naive, childish eyes, still not realizing who was in front of them, until Sasha, in apologetic tone, asked:

– Mom, I put a Smartphone in the suitcase, a gift to Misha, where did you put it?

The eyes of Misha’s mom, and Sasha’s mom, suddenly became adults, and worried wrinkles appeared on the forehead. They scattered to look around, making efforts to look for Sasha’s gift, but the boy saw a box under the kitchen table in which the Smartphone was packed.

“There he is!” – Sasha exclaimed, – I’ll get it myself, Mom! – He exclaimed when Sasha’s mother made an attempt to crawl under the table behind the box. From this scene, Misha’s mother came to herself, remembering that the table had been laid for a long time already, and that it was time to treat guests hungry from the road.

– So, Natasha. Our mother has not been with us for a long time, so listen here! – Laughing and clapping, as the teacher in the kindergarten once clapped her hands, where their mother led the sisters, summoning the children to the dining room. – Now we throw everything as is, then we’ll clean up, go to my bedroom, there is a table, everything was cooked, you will estimate. Come on.

The guest did not say another word, rose from the floor and together they left the kitchen.

Sasha, delivering a box with a gift, rushed off to Misha’s room. There, the boys began to consider the heaped and stuffed Smartphone programs. – Of course, the one that I do not have such a modern one. Thank you, brother, that you can watch and shoot movies and movies, everything is possible.

“Yes, without any problems, you can even take home video,” Sasha complimented his gift with satisfaction, “look…” He did not finish, as Misha’s mother came into the room to the boys, saying: “Guys, Anna went to our table…

Chapter – 5.

Guests sat up until 23:00, and to send the guys to sleep their moms planned to stay to remove the dishes from the table, and of course still sit in the kitchen.

– Sasha, I made you bed in the Room, where you’ll sleep on the cot. – Mama Misha said, letting her know that the festive feast has come to an end, it’s time and honor to know.

“Thank you, Aunt Olya.” – Sasha answered. – First I run to the shower, and then I can go to bed.

– Yes, my friend, there is a pink towel is yours, Mission red.

– Good. – Sasha went into the bathroom. Misha, silently, got up from the table, and went to his room. He decided to wait for his cousin in his room. He was pleased that his brother had not forgotten him, and he wholeheartedly made an expensive gift from his heart. He was looking at the slim body of his Apple Smartphone when Sasha entered the room.

– Do you like? He said from the threshold, entering.

– Yes, now everything will be enforced in the school, especially Katya.

– Ah, this is the girl that you met while in kindergarten.

“Oh, the father is the director of the plant, and my daughter gave it to a regular school.” True, she draws a gold medal.

– Well, you know, in our time, a gold medal is also for money. “Not at all embarrassed,” said Sasha.

– I would not say that, clever is strong. A memory, oh what. I remember, asked “Eugene Onegin”, just read and tell in your own words. And, it must be the teacher of literature that causes her, like you tell her in your own words, what is it about? And Katka replies that I’m going to tell Pushkin better than that. In the classroom, everyone was quiet, like what would happen next. Katya also began to read as a souvenir. Teacher looks at her so maliciously, checks it according to the textbook, and she’s all that asked her everything by heart and laid it out.

– What, all Eugene Onegin? – Sasha was surprised.

“That’s right, Your Excellency, and never lost.” That’s it, Katya. – Misha, dreamily staring, somewhere in space, forgot that next to his cousin.

– Yes, you are a brother, in no way in love with her? – He said. Misha returned from the space and replied: “Not really. She is red and cauliflower, besides; she does not particularly like it. So, a good man.

– Misha, here’s my girlfriend from college in my phone, look. – Sasha sat down on the bed with Misha, began to show photos of a beautiful girl with a snow-white smile and plump lips. “Here we are at the seaside with the whole college.” There is my Lusya with her friends, the one to her right, Lucy, her friend.

Lucy’s friend was a thin, long-legged brunette with sky-blue sensual eyes and a sweet smile. She had a big forehead and intelligent eyes.

– Lusya said that she always wrote everything off from Sofia, and mathematics and dictation, but not English. My Lucien, a polyglot phenomenon, studied Spanish and Italian in parallel with learning English, fluent in three languages, however, like Sofia.

– You know, but it seems to me that Sophia has something like that. Well, something mysterious, which I do not see in Lucy. What do you think?

“Let me go to my bed.” Skin to you on your mobile phone all your pictures, and from there I’ll talk with you. There you have a battery loaded, and a sim card you stuck in there from your mobile? – Misha nodded his head that everything is fine, that you can throw off.

– Yes, Sasha, all OK! – Misha began to consider photos of girls, and especially he liked Sofia. He suddenly thought, what if we invite them to us with a tent and go for a couple of days, wherever you are with an overnight stay.

“Listen, Sashka, and you can invite Lusya and Sophia here.” We go for a couple of days with an overnight stay, we have great places here.

“Listen, this is an idea. The girls will be interested and, something tells me it’s nice to escape after a disgusted college on nature. I’ll dial Lucien right now.

Misha rested his elbow on the pillow, looked with curiosity at Sasha. He put a Smartphone covering the floor of his face, to his ear: – Lusya, hello, it’s me. No, I can not come, I’m not in Yekaterinburg now, I’m on a reconnaissance expedition. In short, I want to offer you and Sophia a sortie here to us. – There was a pause, Sasha began to listen to what Lusya was saying. From the Smartphone, music was heard, voices from this noise and a din with fashionable rhythms could be understood that Lusya was entertaining in a nightclub. She answered Sasha loudly, so that she could shout over this cacophony. Her voice became different, it interested Misha.

– And Sofia, hello! – Sasha started talking with Lucy’s friend. – Where, in Nevyansk. My brother lives here with his mother. “There was a pause again, Sasha began to listen carefully to what Sophia was saying.

– Sophia, this is my cousin, well, my mother’s sisters, and Mishka, like two drops of water, looks like me. – Again a pause, – What more do you need to describe? We were born at different times, but he looks like I am very young.

“Sasha, what are you modeling about me, huh?” – Outraged in jest Misha.

Sasha, covering the microphone of the Smartphone with his hand, said: “It’s a bore, he’s asking all of you about what to tell her?”

– Tell me that I was retired for a long time because of my wound in the Second World War, and I look like when I was at war, just like my brother Sashka. Both laughed.

– We are the same age. – Sasha answered

He conferred with the girls for a long time, who took turns taking the phone until they agreed when they would come. Sasha asked the girls to stock up sleeping bags for spending the night, and they do not bother with food, Misha will have everything you need…

The girls arrived by train a week after the talks. All this time was preparing for a picnic. Everything necessary was obtained, which was not enough for a romantic trip with an overnight stay, especially since such an independent outing for young tourists was for the first time in life, without accompanying elders. The whole company decided to spend the night in Misha’s room. Girls for this in advance chose a free space of the room on the parquet floor, having spread out their sleeping bags.

Sasha, however, could not resist so as not pinching Lusya: – Tell me, girl, and when you like to wake up, eh? – Sasha knew that Lusya often complained to him that he always gets up with difficulty in the morning and never gets enough sleep. On this account, Lusya always knew what to answer, and she never climbed the words into her pocket: “Do not worry, young man, when I have to, I always wake up.

In the evening they put equipment in two backpacks, and settled in the room for the night. At work, the day flashed by unnoticed, and already on the watch was at half past twelve in the morning, when Misha knocked on the door of his room: “Girls, can I come in?” Asked Sasha. The guys stood under the door in their shorts waiting for their turn. When the voice of Lucy answered that it was possible, the guys were not surprised at the jokes. Lusya settled on Sasha’s cot, and Sofia on Misha’s bed.

“Er, that’s how to understand?” Stammered, and trying to keep the presence of the spirit, Sasha asked.

– As you want, understand. – Lusya answered him. – And the sleeping bags on the floor, go there. We girls need a good and comfortable sleep. – Sofia from under the blanket watched the confused guys, and smiled with all her heart, amused by the scene of the confused guys. Sasha He said nothing more, but obediently wandered to Lucy’s sleeping bag, Misha got into Sophia’s sleeping bag…

In the morning, at nine o’clock, Misha woke up first, finding himself in a sleeping bag, which brought him back to reality. He got out of his sleeping bag. In the room the measured sniffs of sleeping friends were heard. He cautiously left the room, closing the door behind him, and ran into his mother in the corridor.

“Well, are you asleep?” She asked worriedly.

“They sleep like after hard labor.” – Misha joked.

“Nothing is their first trip, let them sleep, do not wake.” My aunt and Natasha will go to the bazaar, we’ll have to bribe the products for the evening. You go, and we, what to do, and sit together. Natasha and I have something to remember, and not all of us have visited it yet. After all, half of our class lives here.

“All right, Mom, you’re the best mom in the world.” – said Misha and ran to the bathroom. Mother from these words of emotion brushed aside a tear running down. And she went to her room, where her sister, Aunt Misha, had already woken up. When eleven women left with bags for the bazaar, Lyusya woke up first. She went out to sleep in the kitchen to drink some water, there was already Misha. He wore jeans and a green T-shirt, and he was busy with coffee near the gas stove with the Turk.

– Misha, hello, – appeared at the door of the kitchen, the girl said hello. “Make me a coffee.”

– Hi Lucy. Tell me, does Sofia drink coffee?

– And Sasha, Sophie, and I, we all drink coffee in the morning.

“Okay, I’ll give it all up.” There’s still a cake. You wake up there all and to the table. It’s time for us to go camping.