Alina had been eyeing Mark since high school. She didn’t care that he had a girlfriend, and when they broke up, Alina immediately put her shoulder to his shoulders. She was by my brother’s side all the time, and because of that he paid attention to her.
Mark sometimes said that he wasn’t sure he loved her, they just felt comfortable together and good. I advised him to leave right away, since he didn’t feel anything, not to mess with her or himself, but he got himself into a mess – three months into the relationship he told me and my parents at the holiday table that he was going to marry Alina. In such a hurry, it was hard not to suspect something was wrong.
– She’s expecting a child,” my brother said with a frown. – She begged me to marry her, otherwise she would not be able to show her parents. It must be fate to marry her. She loves me a lot, wants to raise a child together.
To me, such a lucky (for Alina) set of circumstances seemed a little strange, but I said nothing, as well as dissuade his brother. He is a grown man, he has the right to decide his own life. If you give him advice, then you will be the one who will be punished.
We discussed with my mother how it all happened so quickly, that they were already expecting a child, but she seemed to be happy about the new addition to the family and the daughter-in-law. She joked that she had got one son, and now I just need to get married. We were just sitting together over a cup of tea when Mark called. He was furious.
– She went to brag to her girlfriends, to celebrate the engagement, to hand out wedding invitations, and she got so drunk that her friend called me and asked me to take her home.
– What do you mean “drunk”? – My mother was astonished. – She’s not allowed!
– That’s what I thought,” Mark sighed into the phone, “I asked her friend how they let her, when she could lose the baby. And they all got mad and started laughing at me. Alina isn’t pregnant, she lied to get me to propose sooner.
I could barely contain myself from saying that I knew she was dishonest. And my mom was really upset.
– How was she going to have the baby? – she only asked in annoyance.
– After the wedding she would have said she lost the baby, or maybe she would have decided to get really pregnant, I don’t know,” Mark was nervous, you could hear it in his voice. – I don’t have to marry her now, do I?
He called us because he wanted to make sure we understood him. He’d never liked Alina enough to marry her. And he wasn’t ready for kids yet. Only for the sake of his family and Alina’s family was he ready to marry the woman he didn’t love.
– Yes, call off the wedding. Be sure to tell Alina that you know the whole truth, – I advised.
– Of course, lied in this, will lie in the other, – said my mother. – And she seemed like such a nice girl…
