Ruby Chef. Prose in English. Natalia Patratskaya
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could get bored with the procedure on the very first day with unrestrained words. She succeeded in speaking, and Alex needed a more silent fairy.
From this point of view, Alex was attracted to Rimma. He was not an agent, he did not follow anyone, but was forced, at the request of his elders, to intervene in the life of others within the television company. He did not carry a pistol with him, knew the techniques of hand-to-hand combat and could evade an accidental strike.
The secret agents and testers of the corporation were the recognized Liliputians Senya and Venia. Nikolay Nikitich, once having been at their concert, came to the conclusion that the uniqueness of little people is poorly used. He selected a dozen Lilliputians, whom he gave out to all as gnomes: they wore caps on their heads for greater persuasiveness.
For them, courses were created broad profile. The gnomes, realizing the importance of their purpose, learned seriously and with inspiration. For greater importance, they were called agents, although two zeros in front of their number did not indicate their danger to people.
And here a strange, unexpected thing happened: Nadia, a young girl, fell in love with the gnome Senya. He was a permanent leader among his gnomes, his authority was not subject to verification. Maybe it was that she got used to them. The combination of high and low people did not shock her. Senya did not take their relationship seriously, she was so tall for him! He led small talk with her.
The views of Nadia and Cenis were warmer when they met, their voices trembled. The gnomes surrounding them only smiled. In order for Nadia to come out of this love, Nikolay Nikitich found Alex for her and with all his strength took care of him, encouraged him and promoted him. He got them married. At Alex’s and Nadi’s wedding, Nikolai Nikitich, with good intentions, introduced Rimma to the famous inventor Shchepkin. As if she didn’t know him!
Rimma, with surprise, opened her eyes wide: in front of her a triple-screen type screen appeared on the table. One flat screen of the monitor was in front of it, and on both sides it was surrounded by two equally large screens. Besides the screens she saw nothing. It became stuffy. The fan was behind the screens.
A confident young man appeared on three screens, his eyes looking derisively into her eyes:
– Are you jealous? Be jealous I don’t need you anymore, I don’t want you!
The image returned and disappeared, and the screen went dark.
“Who would have doubted this,” Rima thought, gulping airless air. The screens lit up, a young man appeared on them himself in three forms: a front and two profiles. Rimma shuddered in surprise.
– Rima, we are checking the settings of the new generation of computer screens, how do you see me? How do you hear?
“Good, but too unexpected.”
– Before you are screens for the development of the internal design of fighter cockpits for one pilot. Order from the director of the film Shchepkina. Everything in the film should be really, apparently, convenient! Do not rush to conclusions. The task is more serious than it can be assumed. The fighter is designed for space maneuvers. It will lift into orbit in a capsule with a thermal coating, and in space it will fly between space stations. So consider yourself flying in the sky.
– Cool. I hope I’m not alone will be engaged in the design of the fighter?
– You will be three, you know nothing about each other, your developments must be independent of each other. All that you come up with, snapping up and dragging away from the screen through their books and inventions. How many times has this already happened!
“Where are the cosmic forces of the fighter?” This is a small plane.
– It will fly along the energy carrier channels between the space links.
– So if he will fly along a certain route, then why does he need three control panels?
– You are thinking, reduced to a minimum the number of buttons of all kinds and purposes.
“Then why do I need three screens?”
“To be there,” the young man said and disappeared from the screens.
Rima turned off the side screens, bent them in a straight line with the main screen, sent a stream of air to herself.
Alex Rimma met in the winter. That he was on the screens of computers. Where winter is, the New Year always happens. How could she captivate a young man? An absolute coincidence that is more common on New Year’s Eve. Do not believe?
At the end of the year, there is a general emotional upheaval in anticipation of the unknown. Everyone is waiting for something, and this expectation has supersaturated the air of parties of all levels. And one more important moment: on New Year’s Eve drink champagne. Shock drink! The mind becomes cheerful and allows you to fall in love with half a word.
Often it is not recommended to use it – it will lose the magical properties necessary for dating. The party fit in the banquet room. Alex came in black trousers with a belt, in a black shirt, and even in a black and gold tie. The belt is great. The figure – Rimma’s heart sank, squeaked and melted with surprise. She could not take her eyes off him. He felt her attraction and sat down beside him. For two, he put one bottle of champagne.
The audience at the table quickly switched to spirits, began to shake the bottles over the table, fill their glasses. Rima and Alex drank bubbles of champagne, these magic bubbles brought them together with incredible speed. A thought flashed through her mind: would she invite him to her house? But how beautiful is it to do?
She called him a long number and then asked:
“Alex, did you remember what I said?”
– Remember. Repeat?
– If you remember, then you can come to me, this is the code of the electronic lock.
They danced in a common crowd. His body springing down to Rimma, he was filled with desires, like a glass of champagne. She felt it… Desires must be realized. But for every “necessary” is Nadia.
Summer. Heat. For a moment she closed her eyes, and when she opened, all three screens in one straight line depicted the control panel of a space fighter…
The clouds, the wind, the cold.
Rimma came to work in the office of the company. The first frosts were accompanied by a gentle, pinkish-bluish sky. At other times of the year she did not observe such a miracle in the sky. Only the second time in her life she had seen such beauty, and only a few minutes in the morning, and even from a certain height. As if feminine and masculine melted in the sky and shone with the glow of love.
Office life reassured. Rimma left the playgrounds. Eternal her friend and rival Olga took the courses of accountants and began to work in the office.
Foreign life subsided. Olga and Shchepkin passed sexual age. Tender relations they had rarely and lasted a few minutes.
Rimma also wanted to keep his moments of happiness, but they melted into life as quickly as the pinkish color of the sky disappeared. The ghost of happiness attracted its human warmth of relationships, but quickly dissolved in everyday life.
Rimma entered the office, tapping the key of the electronic lock.
Andrei Georgievich Shchepkin was sitting at a table with a computer, next to him was a bench machine. Their eyes met – that’s all the greetings of congenial people.
– Andrei Georgievich, how are you doing with the new product?
– There are not enough two chips in the product. Rimma, there is a new task, sit at the table, discuss.
The guest table stood apart from the chef’s table, it was possible to sit on both sides, spreading out all the drawings of the new product. Rimma sketched a new device. She understood the task and decided to discuss