Isabella barely rolled the stroller out of the entrance. You bet – their five-story building without an elevator with narrow stairways was not adapted for her wide stroller. Thank God the twins did not wake up from that. Otherwise, there would have been a double scream for the whole yard.
The woman rolled the stroller into the park, as far away from the entrance as possible, namely from the old ladies who occupied the bench. Again they would ask her with sneering smiles. And then discuss behind my back. Well, the old generation does not like inferior families…
Isabella would like her family to be full, but alas… Her husband was absolutely not ready for family life, especially for children. He just could not stand them.
And when he found out that Isabella was pregnant, he began to persuade her to have an abortion. She was stubborn and did not agree. After all, it was her child to carry and bring up. The man ate her whole brain, kept persuading her to get rid of the baby. And when he found out that there were two children, he evaporated instantly. He did not even take all the things with him.
And what about Isabella? She cried for a month and calmed down. Especially since the children had already started kicking with all their might. The woman calmed down by talking to them, singing them songs, and they answered her with pushing.
Isabella, of course, deep in her heart cherished the hope that after the birth of the twins the prodigal husband would return, but it did not happen.
The woman tried to do everything herself, but there were things that fragile female hands could not cope with. In the children’s room she had a disassembled sofa, on which she was going to sleep near the crib. But she did not have enough strength to assemble it herself. She had to huddle on the cot every night.
While looking through a free newspaper, Isabella came across an ad for a “man for an hour”. It was just what she needed now. The woman took her cell phone and dialed the cherished number.
The “man” came about two hours later. A strong, polite guy. He immediately went to the children’s room and started fiddling with the sofa. The twins looked at the new man, and then burst into tears. And Isabella, as luck would have it, had milk boiling on the stove. The woman ran there, at the same time fearing the screams of the children. But they suddenly calmed down.
When the mother returned to the room, she found a touching picture. The “man for an hour” was sitting on his knees near the crib and was saying something to them in their language. The little children looked seriously at their interlocutor and answered him.
“You are good with children,” said Isabella, “You should be a teacher. “I myself have two … was …” – the man replied and turned away. “Let’s go for tea,” – the woman suggested to somehow smooth the situation.
Rolling the babies in the stroller and putting them next to her, Isabella poured the man some tea. “Forgive me for my reaction,” Arthur (as he introduced himself to Isabella) said, “a year ago I lost my wife and two sons. Maybe you heard this story that happened in the neighboring town. I could not live there. I moved here. I really love children, probably I will not get used to the fact that I am no longer a father. Although I will remain one forever…”
When he said this, Isabella had tears in her eyes. And then she, succumbing to a momentary impulse, went up and hugged Arthur. And for ten minutes they were silent and cried together.
And then the man quietly asked: “Can I come tomorrow?” Isabella nodded and smiled through her tears…
He came, he did not deceive. And soon he stayed. Each of them found in each other what they desperately needed
