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Dragoon Deniskin stories to read. Victor Dragunsky

Dragoon Deniskin stories to read. Victor Dragunsky

03.03.2019

Hello. Today I want to tell you a truly strange and exciting story from my life.

a love story that didn't end well.

a story about life in which the Internet occupied the most significant and high place for about 4 years.

I will remain anonymous in names, dates and ages as I am just trying to write anything at all.

today was a wonderful day. day of change. changes in appearance, clothing and worldview. I changed my wardrobe, before that I thought about what is important and necessary in this life.

and my thought began with a guy. Oddly enough, it was with him that I generally started the whole conversation with myself. we broke up a long time ago and the only thing that gives memories is the Internet. yes, he was far away from me, but this made our love no less weak than that of someone real.

it all started with a banal hello, continued friendship, and then went interesting story ordinary girl from small town who was given the whole world.

communication for days on end, care, jealousy and

tenderness.

everything was great until now. until the moment when I myself decided to confess my feelings to him. after that message, I felt an endless fire in my chest and shaking hands. it was so strange and new. After all, how can a person from the Internet hook? and like this. usually. it's so simple. almost every girl has gone through sympathy / love on the Internet, and these feelings cannot be described in words.

two month. for 61 days I waited for his response. he hesitated and rushed about, did not understand what to do and how to deal with the girls who like him. yes, now I understand that it was stupid to wait for something, but then the feelings turned my head and I waited. maybe not feelings, but I just knew that he was in love with me too.

and that's how our story began. a story full of sadness and pain, tears and sorrow, separation and torment, as well as joy and laughter.

there was a lot. I do not want to describe everything because it will be interesting only to me. but I would like to tell you how

jealous of me a little boy to every pillar and not a pillar;

missed me if I didn't go online for more than two hours;

he sent off all the girls and forgot his friends with an exclamation that he had a beloved;

How did he call me his? yours, you know?

I was his and this incomparable feeling of victory over the world, over distance, over everything.

but not everything was so smooth. every jealousy was followed by a quarrel. and behind each "I miss" was kept "where were you and with whom?".

I myself was jealous, even more often than he was. stronger. burning. because I know how much the girls liked him and how they longed to communicate with him.

I was jealous, not listening to the fact that he loves me, and this ruined me.

I didn’t notice how I overdid it and our relationship ended in a quarrel and began with a quarrel from MY jealousy.

terrible sense of loss now. the loss was because of me.

So much time has already passed, and I remember our quarrel to the smallest detail: cause, effect, action, and everything.

because of one line, I destroyed all the happiness that I had.

for half a year. for half a year we suffered for each other, and all because of my bad temper. a few words and nothing. at all.

six months later we were reconciled by a mutual friend. yes, he saw how we both tried clumsily to forget each other and just pushed to what we did not dare ourselves. written off - yes, that's how it was We Both Missed You.

it seems that, well, everything is reconciled and everything is fine, what else do you need? but after a while without communication, we lost all topics for conversation, and there was nothing to talk about except for "missed". imagine, just recently you could blow up a conversation from an elephant out of any fly, but now there’s nothing. just nothing.

parted again so as not to meet, but loved as best they could.

for a while we were again far from each other. he lived his own life, tried to arrange a personal one, but I didn’t make an attempt and knew that I wouldn’t get away from him anywhere.

here he has new girl, but I feel bad - I want to drink. and I go to drink, to wash down my grief about him.

and you know what happened? I wrote to him. Yes, I wrote about how I miss him, how bad I feel without him.

either he is a fool, or I am a fool - but each time all the girls walked far away and we again talked for days on end. beautiful days, months.

it always doesn't last long. maybe a couple of days, maybe a month and we are again trying to forget each other.

yeah, like this. nothing like unusual, ordinary internet, but so many emotions.

and now we have reconciled and he is there while I write all this.

only he does not suspect that I am writing. especially about him.

he has a new girlfriend and i'm trying to make a try with a real life boy.

we try to show that we are happy with them, but I can see how what he keeps inside breaks out through him.

and it hurts so much because

I'm holding on too.

The text is large so it is divided into pages.

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About my dad

When I was little, I had a dad. Viktor Dragunsky. Famous children's writer. Only no one believed me that he was my dad. And I screamed: “This is my dad, dad, dad!!!” And she started to fight. Everyone thought he was my grandfather. Because he was no longer very young. I am a late child. Junior. I have two older brothers - Lenya and Denis. They are smart, scholarly, and quite bald. But they know a lot more stories about dad than I do. But since it wasn’t them who became children’s writers, but I, then they usually ask me to write something about dad.

My dad was born a long time ago. In 2013, on the first of December, he would have turned one hundred years old. And not somewhere there he was born, but in New York. This is how it happened - his mom and dad were very young, got married and left the Belarusian city of Gomel for America, for happiness and wealth. I don’t know about happiness, but they didn’t work out with wealth at all. They ate exclusively bananas, and in the house where they lived, hefty rats ran. And they returned back to Gomel, and after a while they moved to Moscow, to Pokrovka. There my dad did not study well at school, but he liked to read books. Then he worked at a factory, studied to be an actor and worked in the Theater of Satire, and also as a clown in a circus and wore a red wig. Maybe that's why I have red hair. And as a child, I also wanted to be a clown.

Dear readers!!! People often ask me how my dad is doing, and they ask me to ask him to write something else - bigger and funnier. I don’t want to upset you, but my dad died a long time ago when I was only six years old, that is, more than thirty years ago, it turns out. Therefore, I remember very few cases about him.

One such case. My dad was very fond of dogs. He always dreamed of getting a dog, only his mother did not allow him, but finally, when I was five and a half years old, a spaniel puppy named Toto appeared in our house. So wonderful. Eared, spotted and with thick paws. He had to be fed six times a day, like baby, which made mom a little angry ... And then one day dad and I come from somewhere or just sit at home alone, and we want to eat something. We go to the kitchen and find a saucepan with semolina, but with such a tasty one (I generally can’t stand semolina) that we immediately eat it. And then it turns out that this is Totoshina porridge, which my mother specially cooked in advance to mix it with some vitamins, as it should be for puppies. Mom was offended, of course.

Outrageous is a children's writer, an adult, and ate puppy porridge.

They say that in his youth my dad was terribly cheerful, he was always thinking up something, he was always surrounded by the coolest and witty people Moscow, and at home we have always been noisy, fun, laughter, a holiday, a feast and solid celebrities. Unfortunately, I don’t remember this anymore - when I was born and grew up a little, dad was very ill with hypertension, high pressure and there was no noise in the house. My friends, who are now quite adult aunts, still remember that I had to walk on tiptoe so as not to disturb my dad. Somehow they didn’t even let me in to see him very much, so that I wouldn’t disturb him. But I still penetrated to him, and we played - I was a frog, and dad was a respected and kind lion.

My dad and I also went to eat bagels on Chekhov Street, there was such a bakery with bagels and a milkshake. We were also in the circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, we were sitting very close, and when the clown Yuri Nikulin saw my dad (and they worked together in the circus before the war), he was very happy, took a microphone from the ringmaster and sang “The Song about Hares” especially for us .

My dad also collected bells, we have a whole collection at home, and now I continue to replenish it.

If you read "Deniska's Stories" attentively, you will understand how sad they are. Not all, of course, but some - just very much. I won't name now which ones. You yourself read and feel. And then - let's check. Some people are surprised, they say, how did an adult manage to penetrate the soul of a child, speak on his behalf, just as if the child himself had told it? .. And it’s very simple - dad remained a little boy all his life. Exactly! A person does not have time to grow up at all - life is too short. A person only manages to learn how to eat without getting dirty, walk without falling, do something there, smoke, lie, shoot from a machine gun, or vice versa - treat, teach ... All people are children. Well, at least almost everything. Only they don't know about it.

I don't remember much about my dad. But I can compose all sorts of stories - funny, strange and sad. I have this from him.

And my son Tema is very similar to my dad. Well, spilled! In the house in Karetny Ryad, where we live in Moscow, the elderly live variety artists who remember my dad when he was young. And they call Theme just that - "Dragoon offspring." And we, along with Tema, love dogs. We have a lot of dogs at the dacha, and those that are not ours just come to us for lunch. Once a striped dog came, we treated her to a cake, and she liked it so much that she ate and barked with joy with her mouth full.

Xenia Dragunskaya

"He's alive and glowing..."

One evening I was sitting in the yard, near the sand, and waiting for my mother. She probably lingered at the institute, or at the store, or, perhaps, stood at the bus stop for a long time. Don't know. Only all the parents of our yard had already come, and all the guys went home with them and probably already drank tea with bagels and cheese, but my mother was still not there ...

And now the lights in the windows began to light up, and the radio began to play music, and dark clouds moved in the sky - they looked like bearded old men ...

And I wanted to eat, but my mother was still not there, and I thought that if I knew that my mother was hungry and was waiting for me somewhere at the end of the world, I would immediately run to her, and would not be late and would not made her sit on the sand and get bored.

And at that moment Mishka came out into the yard. He said:

- Great!

And I said

- Great!

Mishka sat down with me and picked up a dump truck.

- Wow! Mishka said. - Where did you get it? Does he pick up the sand himself? Not by myself? Does he dump himself? Yes? And the pen? What is she for? Can it be rotated? Yes? A? Wow! Will you give it to me home?

I said:

- No I will not give. Present. Dad gave before leaving.

The bear pouted and moved away from me. It got even darker outside.

I looked at the gate so as not to miss when my mother comes. But she didn't go. Apparently, I met Aunt Rosa, and they stand and talk and do not even think about me. I lay down on the sand.

Mishka says:

- Can you give me a dump truck?

- Get off, Mishka.

Then Mishka says:

“I can give you one Guatemala and two Barbados for him!”

I speak:

- Compared Barbados with a dump truck ...

- Well, do you want me to give you a swim ring?

I speak:

- He's screwed on you.

- You'll glue it!

I even got angry.

- Where can I swim? In the bathroom? On Tuesdays?

And Mishka pouted again. And then he says:

- Well, it wasn't! Know my kindness! On the!

And he handed me a box of matches. I took her in hand.

- You open it, - said Mishka, - then you will see!

I opened the box and at first I didn’t see anything, and then I saw a small light green light, as if a tiny star was burning somewhere far, far away from me, and at the same time I myself was holding it in my hands now.

“What is it, Mishka,” I said in a whisper, “what is it?

“It’s a firefly,” said Mishka. - What, good? He's alive, don't worry.

“Mishka,” I said, “take my dump truck, do you want to?” Take forever, forever! And give me this star, I'll take it home ...

And Mishka grabbed my dump truck and ran home. And I stayed with my firefly, looked at it, looked and could not get enough of it: how green it is, as if in a fairy tale, and how close it is, in the palm of your hand, but it shines, as if from afar ... And I could not breathe evenly, and I could hear my heart beating and my nose pricked a little, as if I wanted to cry.

And I sat like that for a long time, a very long time. And there was no one around. And I forgot about everyone in the world.

But then my mother came, and I was very happy, and we went home. And when they began to drink tea with bagels and cheese, my mother asked:

- Well, how is your dump truck?

And I said:

- I, mother, changed it.

Mom said:

- Interesting! And for what?

I answered:

- To the firefly! Here he is in a box. Turn off the light!

And my mother turned off the light, and the room became dark, and the two of us began to look at the pale green star.

Then mom turned on the light.

“Yes,” she said, “it’s magic!” But still, how did you decide to give such valuable thing like a dump truck, for that worm?

“I've been waiting for you for so long,” I said, “and I was so bored, and this firefly, it turned out to be better than any dump truck in the world.

Mom looked at me intently and asked:

- And what, exactly, is it better?

I said:

- How can you not understand? After all, he is alive! And it glows!

The secret becomes clear

I heard my mother say to someone in the hallway:

- ... The secret always becomes clear.

And when she entered the room, I asked:

- What does it mean, mother: "The secret becomes clear"?

“And this means that if someone acts dishonestly, they will find out about him anyway, and he will be ashamed, and he will be punished,” my mother said. – Understood?.. Go to bed!

I brushed my teeth, went to bed, but did not sleep, but all the time I thought: how is it that the secret becomes clear? And I didn’t sleep for a long time, and when I woke up, it was morning, dad was already at work, and my mom and I were alone. I brushed my teeth again and started eating breakfast.

First I ate an egg. This is still tolerable, because I ate one yolk, and shredded the protein with the shell so that it was not visible. But then my mother brought a whole bowl of semolina.

– Eat! Mom said. - No talking!

I said:

- I can’t see semolina!

But my mother screamed:

“Look who you look like!” Poured Koschey! Eat. You must get better.

I said:

- I'm crushing on her!

Then my mother sat down next to me, put her arm around my shoulders and asked kindly:

- Do you want to go with you to the Kremlin?

Well, still ... I do not know anything more beautiful than the Kremlin. I was there in the Palace of Facets and in the Armory, I stood near the Tsar Cannon and I know where Ivan the Terrible was sitting. And there is still a lot of interesting things. So I quickly answered my mother:

- Of course, I want to go to the Kremlin! Even more!

Then mom smiled.

- Well, eat all the porridge, and let's go. And I'll wash the dishes. Just remember - you have to eat everything to the bottom!

And my mother went to the kitchen.

And I was left alone with the porridge. I spanked her with a spoon. Then he salted it. I tried it - well, it's impossible to eat! Then I thought that maybe there is not enough sugar? He sprinkled sand, tried it ... It got even worse. I don't like porridge, I tell you.

And she was also very thick. If it was liquid, then another thing, I would close my eyes and drink it. Then I took and poured boiling water into the porridge. It was still slippery, sticky and disgusting. The main thing is that when I swallow, my throat contracts itself and pushes this porridge back. Terribly embarrassing! After all, you want to go to the Kremlin! And then I remembered that we have horseradish. With horseradish, it seems that almost everything can be eaten! I took the whole jar and poured it into the porridge, and when I tried it a little, my eyes immediately popped into my forehead and my breathing stopped, and I must have lost consciousness, because I took the plate, quickly ran to the window and threw the porridge out into the street. Then he immediately returned and sat down at the table.

At this time, my mother entered. She looked at the plate and was delighted:

- Well, what a Deniska, what a good fellow! Ate all the porridge to the bottom! Well, get up, get dressed, working people, let's go for a walk in the Kremlin! And she kissed me.

At the same moment the door opened and a policeman entered the room. He said:

- Hello! – and went to the window and looked down. - And also an intelligent person.

- What you need? Mom asked sternly.

- What a shame! - The policeman even stood at attention. - The state provides you with new housing, with all the amenities and, by the way, with a garbage chute, and you pour various muck out the window!

- Do not slander. I don't spill anything!

- Oh, you don't spill it?! The policeman laughed sarcastically. And, opening the door to the corridor, he shouted: - The victim!

And some uncle came to us.

As I looked at him, I immediately realized that I would not go to the Kremlin.

This guy had a hat on his head. And on the hat is our porridge. She lay almost in the middle of the hat, in the dimple, and a little along the edges, where the ribbon is, and a little behind the collar, and on the shoulders, and on the left trouser leg. As soon as he entered, he immediately began to stutter:

– The main thing is that I’m going to be photographed… And suddenly such a story… Porridge… mm… semolina… Hot, by the way, through the hat and then… it burns… How can I send my… ff… photo when I’m covered in porridge?!

Then mother looked at me, and her eyes turned green, like gooseberries, and this is a sure sign that mother was terribly angry.

“Excuse me, please,” she said quietly, “permit me, I’ll clean you up, come here!”

And all three of them went out into the corridor.

And when my mother returned, I was even afraid to look at her. But I overcame myself, went up to her and said:

Yes, Mom, you said it right yesterday. The secret always becomes clear!

Mom looked into my eyes. She looked for a long time and then asked:

Did you remember this for the rest of your life?

And I answered:

Don't bang, don't bang!

When I was a preschooler, I was terribly compassionate. I couldn't hear anything pathetic at all. And if someone ate someone, or threw him into the fire, or imprisoned him, I immediately began to cry. For example, the wolves ate a goat, and horns and legs remained of him. I roar. Or Babarikha put the queen and the prince in a barrel and threw this barrel into the sea. I'm crying again. But how! Tears run from me in thick streams straight to the floor and even merge into whole puddles.

The main thing is that when I listened to fairy tales, I was already in advance, even before that scary place ready to cry. My lips twisted and broke, and my voice began to tremble, as if someone was shaking me by the scruff of the neck. And my mother simply didn’t know what to do, because I always asked her to read me or tell me fairy tales, and a little it came to the terrible, as I immediately understood this and began to shorten the fairy tale on the go. For some two or three seconds before disaster strikes, I was already beginning to ask in a trembling voice: “Skip this place!”

Mom, of course, skipped, jumped from fifth to tenth, and I listened further, but only quite a bit, because in fairy tales something happens every minute, and as soon as it became clear that some kind of misfortune was about to happen again , I again began to yell and beg: “And skip this!”

Mom again missed some bloody crime, and I calmed down for a while. And so, with excitement, stops and quick contractions, my mother and I eventually got to a happy ending.

Of course, I still realized that the tales from all this became somehow not very interesting: firstly, they were very short, and secondly, there were almost no adventures in them at all. But on the other hand, I could listen to them calmly, not shed tears, and then, after such tales, I could sleep at night, and not wallow with open eyes and be afraid until the morning. And that's why I really liked such abbreviated fairy tales. They were so calm. Like cool sweet tea anyway. For example, there is such a fairy tale about Little Red Riding Hood. Mom and I missed so much in her that she became the most a short fairy tale in the world and the happiest. Her mother used to say this:

“Once upon a time there was Little Red Riding Hood. Once she baked pies and went to visit her grandmother. And they began to live, live and make good.

And I was glad that everything turned out so well for them. But, unfortunately, that was not all. I especially experienced another fairy tale, about a hare. This is such a short fairy tale, like a counting rhyme, everyone in the world knows it:

One two three four five,
The bunny went out for a walk
Suddenly the hunter runs out...

And here I was already beginning to tingle in my nose and my lips parted into different sides, top right, bottom left, and the fairy tale continued at that time ... The hunter, it means, suddenly runs out and ...

Shoots straight at the bunny!

This is where my heart skipped a beat. I couldn't understand how it works. Why is this ferocious hunter shooting directly at the bunny? What did the bunny do to him? What did he start first, or what? After all, no! After all, he wasn't pissed off, was he? He just went out for a walk! And this one, without further ado:

Bang Bang!

From your heavy shotgun! And then tears began to flow from me, like from a faucet. Because the bunny wounded in the stomach screamed:

Oh oh oh!

He shouted:

- Oh oh oh! Goodbye everyone! Farewell, bunnies and bunnies! Goodbye my merry easy life! Farewell, scarlet carrots and crispy cabbage! Farewell forever, my clearing, and flowers, and dew, and the whole forest, where under every bush both a table and a house were ready!

I saw with my own eyes how a gray bunny lies down under a thin birch tree and dies ... I burst into three streams with burning tears and spoiled everyone's mood, because I had to be calmed, and I only roared and roared ...

And then one night, when everyone had gone to bed, I lay for a long time on my cot and remembered the poor bunny and kept thinking how good it would be if this did not happen to him. How really good it would be if all this hadn't happened. And I thought about it for so long that suddenly, imperceptibly for myself, I rewrote the whole story:

One two three four five,
The bunny went out for a walk
Suddenly the hunter runs out...
Right in the bunny...
Doesn't shoot!!!
Don't bang! Not puff!
Don't oh-oh-oh!
My bunny is not dying!!!

Wow! I even laughed! How difficult it all turned out! It was the real miracle. Don't bang! Not puff! I put only one short "no", and the hunter, as if nothing had happened, stomped past the bunny in his hemmed boots. And he stayed alive! He will again play in the mornings in the dewy clearing, he will jump and jump and beat with his paws on the old one, rotten stump. Such a funny, glorious drummer!

And so I lay in the dark and smiled and wanted to tell my mother about this miracle, but I was afraid to wake her up. And eventually fell asleep. And when I woke up, I already knew forever that I would no longer roar in pitiful places, because now I can intervene at any moment in all these terrible injustices, I can intervene and turn everything around in my own way, and everything will be fine. It is only necessary to say in time: “Don’t bang, don’t bang!”

That I love

I really like to lie on my stomach on my father's knee, lower my arms and legs and hang on my knee like that, like linen on a fence. I also really like to play checkers, chess and dominoes, just to be sure to win. If you don't win, then don't.

I love listening to the beetle dig into the box. And I like to get into bed with my dad in the morning to talk with him about the dog: how we will live more spaciously, and buy a dog, and we will work with it, and we will feed it, and how funny and smart it will be, and how she will steal sugar, and I will wipe the puddles after her, and she will follow me like a faithful dog.

I also like to watch TV: it doesn't matter what they show, even if it's only tables.

I love to breathe through my nose into my mother's ear. I especially love to sing and always sing very loudly.

I terribly love stories about red cavalrymen, and that they always win.

I like to stand in front of the mirror and make faces like I'm Petrushka from puppet theater. I love sprats too.

I like to read fairy tales about Kanchil. This is such a small, smart and mischievous doe. She has merry eyes, and little horns, and pink polished hooves. When we live more spaciously, we will buy Kanchil, he will live in the bathroom. I also like to swim where it is shallow so that I can hold my hands on the sandy bottom.

I love to wave red flags and blow "go away!" at demonstrations.

I love making phone calls.

I love planing, sawing, I know how to sculpt the heads of ancient warriors and bison, and I blinded a capercaillie and a tsar cannon. All this I love to give.

When I read, I like to nibble on crackers or something.

I love guests.

I also love snakes, lizards and frogs. They are so dexterous. I carry them in my pockets. I like to have the snake lying on the table when I have lunch. I love it when my grandmother screams about the frog: “Remove this muck!” and runs out of the room.

I love to laugh... Sometimes I don't feel like laughing at all, but I force myself, squeeze out laughter - look, after five minutes it really becomes funny.

When I have good mood I love to jump. One day my dad and I went to the zoo, and I was jumping around him in the street, and he asked:

- What are you jumping?

And I said:

- I jump that you are my dad!

He understood!

I love going to the zoo! There are wonderful elephants. And there is one elephant. When we live more spaciously, we will buy a baby elephant. I'll build him a garage.

I really like to stand behind the car when it snorts and sniff the gas.

I like to go to cafes - eat ice cream and drink it with sparkling water. Her nose hurts and tears come to her eyes.

When I run down the hallway, I like to stomp my feet with all my might.

I love horses very much, they have such beautiful and kind faces.

One evening I was sitting in the yard, near the sand, and waiting for my mother. She probably lingered at the institute, or at the store, or, perhaps, stood at the bus stop for a long time. Don't know. Only all the parents of our yard had already arrived, and all the guys went home with them and, probably, already drank tea with bagels and cheese, but my mother was still not there ...

And now the lights in the windows began to light up, and the radio began to play music, and dark clouds moved in the sky - they looked like bearded old men ...

And at that moment Mishka came out into the yard. He said:

- Great!

And I said

- Great!

Mishka sat down with me and picked up a dump truck.

I said:

- No I will not give. Present. Dad gave before leaving.

The bear pouted and moved away from me. It got even darker outside.

I looked at the gate so as not to miss when my mother comes. But she didn't go. Apparently, I met Aunt Rosa, and they stand and talk and don’t even think about me. I lay down on the sand.

Mishka says:

- Can you give me a dump truck?

- Get off, Mishka.

Then Mishka says:

“I can give you one Guatemala and two Barbados for him!”

I speak:

- Compared Barbados with a dump truck ...

- Well, do you want me to give you a swim ring?

I speak:

- He's screwed on you.

- You'll glue it!

I even got angry.

- Where can I swim? In the bathroom? On Tuesdays?

And Mishka pouted again. And then he says:

- Well, it wasn't! Know my kindness! On the!

And he handed me a box of matches. I took it in my hands.

- You open it, - said Mishka, - then you will see!

“What is it, Mishka,” I said in a whisper, “what is it?”

“It’s a firefly,” said Mishka. - What, good? He's alive, don't worry.

“Mishka,” I said, “take my dump truck, do you want to?” Take forever, forever! And give me this star, I'll take it home ...

And I sat like that for a long time, a very long time. And there was no one around. And I forgot about everyone in the world.

But then my mother came, and I was very happy, and we went home. And when they began to drink tea with bagels and cheese, my mother asked:

- Well, how is your dump truck?

And I said:

- I, mother, changed it.

Mom said:

- Interesting! And for what?

I answered:

- To the firefly! Here he is in a box. Turn off the light!

And my mother turned off the light, and the room became dark, and the two of us began to look at the pale green star.

Then mom turned on the light.

“Yes,” she said, “it’s magic!” But still, how did you decide to give such a valuable thing as a dump truck for this worm?

“I've been waiting for you for so long,” I said, “and I was so bored, and this firefly, it turned out to be better than any dump truck in the world.

Mom looked at me intently and asked:

- And what, exactly, is it better?

I said:

- How can you not understand? After all, he is alive! And it glows!

Glory to Ivan Kozlovsky

I have only fives in the report card. Only a four in calligraphy. Because of the blot. I don't really know what to do! I always have blots coming off my pen. I already dip only the very tip of the pen into the ink, but the blots still come off. Just some miracles! Once I wrote a whole page cleanly, it's a pleasure to look at - a real five-page page. In the morning I showed it to Raisa Ivanovna, and there, in the very middle of the blot! Where did she come from? She wasn't there yesterday! Maybe it leaked from some other page? Don't know…

And so I have one five. Only singing triple. This is how it happened. We had a singing lesson. At first, we all sang in unison, "There was a birch tree in the field." It turned out very beautifully, but Boris Sergeevich frowned all the time and shouted:

- Pull the vowels, friends, pull the vowels! ..

Then we began to draw vowels, but Boris Sergeevich clapped his hands and said:

- A real cat concert! Let's deal with each one individually.

This means with each one separately.

And Boris Sergeevich called Mishka.

Mishka went up to the piano and whispered something to Boris Sergeevich.

Then Boris Sergeevich began to play, and Mishka sang softly:

Like thin ice

White snow fell...

Well, Mishka squeaked funny! This is how our kitten Murzik squeaks. Is that how they sing! Almost nothing is heard. I just couldn't help it and laughed.

Then Boris Sergeevich gave Mishka a five and looked at me.

He said:

- Come on, gull, come out!

I quickly ran to the piano.

"Well, what are you going to do?" asked Boris Sergeevich politely.

I said:

- Song civil war"Lead, Budyonny, bolder us into battle."

Boris Sergeevich shook his head and began to play, but I immediately stopped him.

Viktor Dragunsky.

Denis' stories.

"He's alive and glowing..."

And now the lights in the windows began to light up, and the radio began to play music, and dark clouds moved in the sky - they looked like bearded old men ...

And at that moment Mishka came out into the yard. He said:

- Great!

And I said

- Great!

Mishka sat down with me and picked up a dump truck.

I said:

- No I will not give. Present. Dad gave before leaving.

The bear pouted and moved away from me. It got even darker outside.

I looked at the gate so as not to miss when my mother comes. But she didn't go. Apparently, I met Aunt Rosa, and they stand and talk and do not even think about me. I lay down on the sand.

Mishka says:

- Can you give me a dump truck?

- Get off, Mishka.

Then Mishka says:

“I can give you one Guatemala and two Barbados for him!”

I speak:

- Compared Barbados with a dump truck ...

- Well, do you want me to give you a swim ring?

I speak:

- He's screwed on you.

- You'll glue it!

I even got angry.

- Where can I swim? In the bathroom? On Tuesdays?

And Mishka pouted again. And then he says:

- Well, it wasn't! Know my kindness! On the!

And he handed me a box of matches. I took her in hand.

- You open it, - said Mishka, - then you will see!

“What is it, Mishka,” I said in a whisper, “what is it?

“It’s a firefly,” said Mishka. - What, good? He's alive, don't worry.

“Mishka,” I said, “take my dump truck, do you want to?” Take forever, forever! And give me this star, I'll take it home ...

And I sat like that for a long time, a very long time. And there was no one around. And I forgot about everyone in the world.

But then my mother came, and I was very happy, and we went home. And when they began to drink tea with bagels and cheese, my mother asked:

- Well, how is your dump truck?

And I said:

- I, mother, changed it.

Mom said:

- Interesting! And for what?

I answered:

- To the firefly! Here he is in a box. Turn off the light!

And my mother turned off the light, and the room became dark, and the two of us began to look at the pale green star.

Then mom turned on the light.

“Yes,” she said, “it’s magic!” But still, how did you decide to give such a valuable thing as a dump truck for this worm?

“I've been waiting for you for so long,” I said, “and I was so bored, and this firefly, it turned out to be better than any dump truck in the world.

Mom looked at me intently and asked:

- And what, exactly, is it better?

I said:

- How can you not understand? After all, he is alive! And it glows!

Gotta have a sense of humor

Once Mishka and I were doing homework. We put notebooks in front of us and copied. And at that time I was telling Mishka about lemurs, what they have big eyes, like glass saucers, and that I saw a photograph of a lemur, how he holds on to a fountain pen, he himself is small, small and terribly cute.

Then Mishka says:

- Did you write?

I speak:

- You check my notebook, - says Mishka, - and I check yours.

And we exchanged notebooks.

And as soon as I saw that Mishka had written, I immediately began to laugh.

I look, and Mishka is also rolling, he’s turned blue.

I speak:

- What are you, Mishka, rolling?

- I'm rolling, what did you write off wrong! What are you?

I speak:

- And I'm the same, only about you. Look, you wrote: "Moses have come." Who are these “moses”?

The bear blushed.

- Moses are probably frosts. And you wrote: "Natal winter." What is it?

“Yes,” I said, “not “natal,” but “arrived.” You can't write anything, you have to rewrite. It's all the lemurs' fault.

And we started rewriting. And when they rewrote, I said:

Let's set tasks!

“Come on,” Mishka said.

At this time, dad came. He said:

Hello fellow students...

And sat down at the table.

I said:

- Here, dad, listen to what task I will set for Mishka: here I have two apples, and there are three of us, how to divide them among us equally?

Mishka immediately pouted and began to think. Dad didn't pout, but he thought too. They thought for a long time.

I then said:

- Are you giving up, Mishka?

Mishka said:

- I give up!

I said:

- So that we all get equally, it is necessary to cook compote from these apples. - And he began to laugh: - It was Aunt Mila who taught me! ..

The bear pouted even more. Then dad narrowed his eyes and said:

– And since you are so cunning, Denis, let me give you a task.

“Let’s ask,” I said.

Dad walked around the room.

“Listen,” Dad said. One boy is in first grade "B". His family consists of five people. Mom gets up at seven o'clock and spends ten minutes getting dressed. But dad brushes his teeth for five minutes. Grandma goes to the store as much as mom gets dressed plus dad brushes his teeth. And grandfather reads newspapers, how much grandmother goes to the store minus what time mother gets up.

When they're all together, they start waking up this first class "B" boy. It takes time to read grandpa's papers plus grandma's grocery shopping.

When a boy from first class "B" wakes up, he stretches for as long as mom gets dressed plus dad brushes his teeth. And he washes, how many grandfather's newspapers, divided by grandmother. He's late for class by as many minutes as he stretches plus washes, minus his mother's getting up multiplied by his father's teeth.

The question is: who is this boy from the first "B" and what threatens him if this continues? All!

Then dad stopped in the middle of the room and began to look at me. And Mishka laughed at the top of his lungs and began to look at me too. They both looked at me and laughed.

I said:

– I can’t solve this problem right away, because we haven’t gone through it yet.

And I did not say another word, but left the room, because I immediately guessed that the answer to this problem would turn out to be a lazy person and that such a person would soon be expelled from school. I went out of the room into the corridor and climbed behind the hanger and began to think that if this task is about me, then this is not true, because I always get up pretty quickly and stretch for very little, just as much as necessary. And I also thought that if dad wants to invent me so much, then please, I can leave the house straight to the virgin lands. There will always be work there, people are needed there, especially young people. I will conquer nature there, and dad will come with a delegation to Altai, see me, and I will stop for a minute and say:

And he will say:

"Hi from your mom..."

And I will say:

“Thank you… How is she doing?”

And he will say:

"Nothing".

And I will say:

“She must have forgotten her only son?”

And he will say:

“What are you talking about, she lost thirty-seven kilos! That's how bored!"

- Oh, there he is! What are those eyes you have? Have you taken this task personally?

He picked up his coat and hung it up in its place, and went on to say:

“I made it all up. There is no such boy in the world, not like in your class!

And dad took my hands and pulled me out from behind the hanger.

Then he looked at me intently again and smiled:

“You need to have a sense of humor,” he told me, and his eyes became cheerful, cheerful. “But it’s a funny task, isn’t it?” Well! Laugh!

And I laughed.

And he too.

And we went to the room.

Glory to Ivan Kozlovsky

I have only fives in the report card. Only four in calligraphy. Because of the blot. I don't really know what to do! I always have blots coming off my pen. I already dip only the very tip of the pen into the ink, but the blots still come off. Just some miracles! Once I wrote a whole page cleanly, it's a pleasure to look at - a real five page. In the morning I showed it to Raisa Ivanovna, and there, in the very middle, was a blot! Where did she come from? She wasn't there yesterday! Maybe it leaked from some other page? Don't know…

"He's alive and glowing..."

And now the lights in the windows began to light up, and the radio began to play music, and dark clouds moved in the sky - they looked like bearded old men ...

And at that moment Mishka came out into the yard. He said:

Great!

And I said

Great!

Mishka sat down with me and picked up a dump truck.

Wow! Mishka said. - Where did you get it? Does he pick up the sand himself? Not by myself? Does he dump himself? Yes? And the pen? What is she for? Can it be rotated? Yes? A? Wow! Will you give it to me home?

I said:

No I will not give. Present. Dad gave before leaving.

The bear pouted and moved away from me. It got even darker outside.

I looked at the gate so as not to miss when my mother comes. But she didn't go. Apparently, I met Aunt Rosa, and they stand and talk and do not even think about me. I lay down on the sand.

Mishka says:

Can't you give me a dump truck?

Get off, Mishka.

Then Mishka says:

I can give you one Guatemala and two Barbados for him!

I speak:

Compared Barbados with a dump truck ...

Well, do you want me to give you a swim ring?

I speak:

He's screwed on you.

You will glue it!

I even got angry.

Where to swim? In the bathroom? On Tuesdays?

And Mishka pouted again. And then he says:

Well, it wasn't! Know my kindness! On the!

And he handed me a box of matches. I took her in hand.

You open it, - said Mishka, - then you will see!

What is it, Mishka, - I said in a whisper, - what is it?

This is a firefly, - said Mishka. - What, good? He's alive, don't worry.

Bear, - I said, - take my dump truck, do you want to? Take forever, forever! And give me this star, I'll take it home ...

And I sat like that for a long time, a very long time. And there was no one around. And I forgot about everyone in the world.

But then my mother came, and I was very happy, and we went home. And when they began to drink tea with bagels and cheese, my mother asked:

Well, how's your dump truck?

And I said:

I, my mother, changed it.

Mom said:

Interesting! And for what?

I answered:

To the firefly! Here he is in a box. Turn off the light!

And my mother turned off the light, and the room became dark, and the two of us began to look at the pale green star.

Then mom turned on the light.

Yes, she said, it's magic! But still, how did you decide to give such a valuable thing as a dump truck for this worm?

I've been waiting for you for so long, - I said, - and I was so bored, and this firefly, it turned out to be better than any dump truck in the world.

Mom looked at me intently and asked:

And why, what exactly is it better for?

I said:

How can you not understand?! After all, he is alive! And it glows!

The secret becomes clear

I heard my mother say to someone in the hallway:

- ... The secret always becomes clear.

And when she entered the room, I asked:

What does it mean, mother: "The secret becomes clear"?

And this means that if someone acts dishonestly, they will still find out about him, and he will be ashamed, and he will be punished, - said my mother. - Got it?.. Go to sleep!

First I ate an egg. This is still tolerable, because I ate one yolk, and shredded the protein with the shell so that it was not visible. But then my mother brought a whole bowl of semolina.

Eat! Mom said. - No talking!

I said:

I can't see semolina!

But my mother screamed:

Look who you've become! Poured Koschey! Eat. You must get better.

I said:

I'm crushing on her!

Then my mother sat down next to me, put her arm around my shoulders and asked kindly:

Do you want to go with you to the Kremlin?

Of course I want to go to the Kremlin! Even more!

Then mom smiled.

Well, eat all the porridge, and let's go. And I'll wash the dishes. Just remember - you have to eat everything to the bottom!

And my mother went to the kitchen.

At this time, my mother entered. She looked at the plate and was delighted:

Well, what a Deniska, what a great guy! Ate all the porridge to the bottom! Well, get up, get dressed, working people, let's go for a walk in the Kremlin! And she kissed me.