- Mom, look, Rex is coming with us again! He met us! You see how good he is! - Alyoshka did not stop. - Son, there is no dog there, stop inventing, - once again, looking where her son was pointing, and not seeing anyone, said Alina. Lyosha grew up a dreamer.
A few months ago, the child invented a huge shaggy dog as a friend, and immediately told his mother about it. Calling him Rex, after the shepherd dog from the show, the boy often played and talked with a fictional friend. I even had to keep the door ajar so that the invented dog would enter the house in the evening.
In the morning he remained to wait for Lyosha near the gates of the kindergarten (after all, dogs cannot go there, the teacher will swear), meeting him on the way home.
At least that's what her son told her.
At first, Alya was even scared. She read something about psychological disorders when people saw something that did not exist.
Her friend, a child psychologist, explained the appearance of her son's “friend” as an ordinary fantasy. The boy really wanted a puppy, but without getting it, he came up with it.
Indeed, the kid has been asking for a dog for a long time, but who will deal with it?
Alya leads Lyoshka to the kindergarten in the morning, she ran to work, in the evening, barely moving her legs and, taking her son from the garden, again running, home. You need to cook, wash, lay, wash, fall, disconnect. In the morning, when the alarm rings, jump up, quickly bungle breakfast, feed, dress, and again everything in a circle. The husband can be ignored at all, he has frequent business trips …
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Where is the place for a dog in this hectic life?
And now they were walking to the bus stop to get on their bus, get to the store, go for groceries and go home, cook dinner.
- And there is a grandmother who always waves her hand to me, - yelled, looking back, the son.
Waving his arms, he enthusiastically greeted the elderly woman whom they met daily at this time.
The woman waved back to Alyosha.
She walked slowly, unhurriedly, carefully rearranging her legs and being afraid to slip.
The weather made the sidewalk almost a skating rink.
“Probably, she works nearby, or sits with her grandchildren until her parents arrive, that's why we meet at the same time,” thought Alina, stopping to get a card to pay for the fare and, looking back, also nodded in greeting, receiving a light bow in return.
At this time, the son continued to walk to the bench under the awning. Walking importantly and pretending to be an adult, he climbed onto her every evening, looking around and talking to his "friend", waiting for his mother there.
Alya, standing nearby, managed to call her husband and ask if he was at home or not. If Denis was at home, then he met them with his son, and they entered the store together, and then walked together, because the child needs fresh air.
Suddenly, Lyoshka, who almost walked to "his" bench, was thrown aside from the stop right under his mother's feet. As if pushed away by someone. So she would have thought if there were at least one person there. But there was not a soul there.
Barely staying on her feet from a strong blow from Alyosha's head, Alina tried to figure out what had happened.
At this time, wildly screeching with brakes, a taxi flew right onto the sidewalk and crashed into the very bench on which her son could sit. The driver was literally cut in half by a metal pillar that had broken in half, which served as one of the supports for the roof of the stop.
Alya covered the baby's eyes with her hand so that he would not see what had happened, and as quickly as possible, she stepped aside to call an ambulance and the police.
The son buried himself in the hem of her coat and cried bitterly.
- Mom, mom, is Rex dead? He died, right? His car ran over, right? He asked incessantly, sobbing.
The mother took the boy in her arms and, comforting, went to the tram stop, hugging the sobbing child to her.
Alyoshkina's familiar “grandmother” also went there, holding her heart with one hand and crossing herself with the other, crossing herself from the horror she saw. She also didn’t stay to wait for the bus next to the deceased.
They got on the same tram.
Approaching her stop, the woman could not resist and went to console the boy.
She stroked Lyosha on the head.
- Do not Cry. All the dogs follow the rainbow to the sky. There they play with other dogs. They have fun there.
Lyoshka wiped away his tears and asked:
- True?
The woman nodded.
“You had a good dog, a devoted one,” she suddenly said to Alina, “if he hadn't pushed the boy away, he would have been cut off like a reed by that machine. Sorry for the driver, the poor fellow skidded on the ice.
She sighed and crossed herself.
- What dog? - Alya asked in surprise, not believing her ears.
"Wasn't that big shaggy dog yours?"
Now her interlocutor was surprised.
- Ours! - interrupted the conversation, sniffling Lyoshka. - Rex was my friend!
Their fellow traveler, deciding that the child's mother had not yet recovered from the shock, said goodbye and got out at the bus stop.
And Alina thought about it.
Indeed, in fact, someone seemed to pushed the baby right under her feet …
She thought about it for many days, but she could not believe in a miracle.
Lana Lantz