My daughter and I are always asking Fairy questions. We even have a special card with her image. This time my daughter asked a very strange question. She asked if daddy would come to her birthday party. It would have been okay if she didn’t have one day left before her birthday.
She looked inside the card and talked merrily with the little gnome drawn inside. Then she pulled out all of our pictures and started looking at them. When she calmed down and daydreamed, she turned on the nightlight and fell asleep.
Of course, the miracle didn’t happen. But from then on Anna asked Fairy the same question every day.
– Mommy, I’m doing everything right. I forgot to specify what birthday daddy will come – she kept repeating.
And it all started very well …
My friend and I were studying at the Pedagogical Academy. We were very friendly and we trusted each other with all our girlish secrets. Amantha designed children’s publications. One day some influential American company noticed her creations and offered her a contract for three years. She went. She came back pregnant, but without a man. That’s how Anna was born.
I helped her, because she had no other relatives. While my daughter slept, she continued to make children’s sketches and took them to the printer for “thank you”. She drew her daughter as an adult. I wondered how she knew what Anna would grow up to be.
I was quietly jealous of a mother’s happiness friends. True, it did not last long. Two years later Marina died of cardiac arrest. Anna was admitted to the orphanage. It took me six months to gather all the documents and adopt the baby. Now she’s with me.
She knows what her birth mother looks like – I show her photo. It is Maria she calls Fairy. And so every night we looked at the cards Anna drew of her mom. It was our special ritual.
My adopted daughter is already 13 years old!
She’s a smart and bright girl. One day she was having a birthday party with her friends. I came home, and I wasn’t alone. Anna’s father came over. He didn’t know she existed at all, because Maria hadn’t told him she was pregnant.
He wanted to adopt the girl, but then he realized that she was already in good hands. Anna stood and cried – the Fairy heard her and granted her wish. She wanted to hug her father and tear his face from resentment at the same time. But later she managed to control her emotions. She is going to visit him. Soon she will go to America to meet her sisters.
After this meeting, we again took out our favorite postcard and began to look at the characters.
