Bella was walking along the waterfront when she heard the songs of street musicians. She approached. The soloist was a guy about thirty years old with merry eyes. After singing the song, the guy took off his hat and walked in a circle, collecting money from the audience. When he approached Bella, the woman fussed and hastily pulled out the biggest bill from her wallet. She put it in the hat.
The guy bowed ceremoniously and kissed her hand. Bella, slightly in body, looked like a forty-year-old woman, mother of two sons, the eldest of whom is already a student. But she was not worried about her age or excess weight. Her husband and sons loved her the way she was. The music of street performers lifted the woman’s mood. She walked and smiled at the world.
– Why did you leave so quickly? You took my heart and disappeared, – she heard. It was the soloist.
– My name is Scott, – he introduced himself.
– Bella, – she said and blushed like a girl.
They walked together until late in the evening. They chatted and laughed. Bella felt like a schoolgirl on a first date. From that day on, she regularly disappeared with her young lover. She lost weight, became younger, changed her image. Now she was wearing a T-shirt and torn jeans. She deceived her family that she was engaged in sports and volunteered in various charities…
Scott came from a small, peripheral town to study at university. He was expelled for truancy. Now he lived on casual earnings, one of which is street concerts. Bella, at the expense of her husband, rented an apartment for her lover, where they met…
Bella got pregnant. When she, carried away by her Scott, realized about it, it was too late to do anything. She packed her things and ran away from her husband and sons to her beloved. She did not think about the pain she caused her husband and sons…
The woman gave birth to a girl with genomic pathology. Scott, having learned about it, said that he did not need her or her daughter. Like, they will prevent him from developing creatively. Bella realizes that only her husband can help her. She sits in the ward, rocking the girl and does not dare to call her husband and apologize.
