– Valentina, you're right! I need to call my mother immediately.

But then, Nina's eyes filled with tears.

– What about pregnancy? What am I going to tell Mom? She'll kick me out of the house! I am a disgrace to my family and school. I'd rather go and die under the fence.

Valya climbed onto a stool and took out a huge shoe box from under women's boots. There were so many medicines in it that it was easy to cure several villages in Africa at once. Pregnancy tests were here too. Nina looked questioningly at Valya, who nodded.

– Yes, mom's patients also feel bad sometimes, mom has different methods of treating mental and psychological diseases. The reaction to the test sometimes shows the essence hidden deep inside. Mom, of course, does not apply this technique to everyone, but it helped a couple of times.

Here's a jar of mayonnaise, take it and go to the toilet. Of course not here, bring the can of urine here, just be quiet, otherwise my mother, a psychologist, will cure you quickly.

Nina stared blankly at the test. One strip. What nonsense.

Valya was sitting with the face of a man who showed Columbus in which direction America was.

– Nina, you were cheated like the last sucker. You realize that you couldn't get pregnant and the test would instantly show a positive result. It's impossible. It should take time for the body to understand itself, to receive a signal about pregnancy. In general, you will learn more on anatomy. Listen, and you are this.... Ilya didn't rape you by any chance? Do you have any burning, itching, blood, stains on your underwear?

Nina shook her head in fright.

– Valyusha, no, I'm fine, physically, I mean. I think Ilya was squeamish, I smelled so much vomit.

And Valya thought to herself: "Your bastard Ilya was afraid to go to prison for rape and child molestation, this is a terrible sentence, article and term. It's not like you're trying to get money out of a stupid girl."

Nina reached into her backpack in search of her cherished phone.

– Do you have a charger? – she said in a barely audible voice, – because my phone is dead.

– Now. Wait a minute.

Valya silently retreated out the door.

The phone greeted the negligent hostess affably and showed the main screen. Nina dialed her mother's number several times.. At first there were long beeps, and then the phone stopped answering at all. The plastic tube insisted that the subscriber was out of reach.

– Maybe it's discharged? Nina said awkwardly, looking at Valya?

– Get a sister! Valya commanded.

– Uh, well, I don't seem to communicate with her…

– Nina, I'm going to punch you! Dial your sister immediately! Are you crazy? Do you even know what you've done?

– Natasha, hi, don't yell into the phone. What about Mom? I can't reach her.

The girl's tense face showed that the news were sad. She tried to justify herself, began to sob excitedly, Nina began a form of hysteria.

Valya did not hear the conversation, but she realized that something very terrible had happened. Nina hung up and said:

– Mom's in the hospital. She has a suspected heart attack.

Chapter 8

– Mom, Mom… My dear. Please, God, make Mom get better. Please, Lord, I will never leave her again, I will never worry, please, You are the Almighty. Please help Mom, please heal her. Please, please, please.

Nina muttered a prayer to herself and out loud, kissed her cross, washed her face with tears, while Valya in the front seat pointed out to the taxi driver where it was better to park near the hospital.

Natasha, wearing a white robe, was already waiting for the girls on the first floor. When Natasha saw Valya, she looked at her with such gratitude and love, with which she did not look at her own sister.

– Valentina, thank you for coming and… Natasha awkwardly thanked Valya, but her eyes were – instead of a thousand words, full of tears, pity and sadness.

Valya quickly put her hand on Natasha's shoulder:

– Natalie, what are you doing? Calm down! How is Tatiana Sergeevna? How is her health? What do the doctors say?

– They say that this is an acute coronary syndrome, a pre-infarction condition. It is necessary to undergo treatment now, then complete rest and rest. No nerves, you know. I came home from work in the evening, my mother is nervous, she says, go look for Nina. I tell her, Ma, she's sitting somewhere with her friends or she's stuck in a food court at the mall. After 22:00, the guards will expel them all, don't worry.