My youth was spent in the student dormitory, as well as many others. In my fifth year a new girl moved into my room. This girl obviously knew her worth, and she was right in this: she had a model’s appearance, she carefully watched and cared for herself. Her name was Alina.
For learning she did not particularly care, she was more interested in how to marry more successfully, so while I sat at the books to make another course, Alina was busy looking for a rich husband. Each time, after her trips to restaurants, she went into great detail about her impressions of her new suitor. And where did she find them? They were all like a selection, 10-15 years older than her, mature men, mostly rich businessmen.
And then, not so long ago, Alina began to complain about one man that he absolutely does not pay “proper” attention to her. They met by chance, in a flower store, where she was choosing a bouquet for her mother’s anniversary. They got to talking and even had a cup of coffee at a nearby cafe, but this man made no hint of continuing the relationship. It turned out that he was married and, despite having been married for eighteen years, was still faithful to his only woman.
Whether Alina’s self-esteem was hurt by this behavior, or whether she actually fell for this man, I could not understand. But she called him constantly, somehow by some miracle learned his phone number, and under different pretexts asked to meet. For a spectacular girl who was used to twisting men as she wanted, this was quite a tough nut to crack. And it was him that Alina had become an obsession.
I, of course, tried to dissuade her, I explained that he had a family, children, and do not want to ruin someone else’s life. But the girl was adamant, and got it into her head that this was the right prince for her.
Just a few months later Alina, radiant with happiness, told her that she was expecting a child from this man. She believed that now he would surely divorce his wife and marry her, but he did something completely different: he gave Alina a large sum of money to get rid of the baby and asked her never to bother him again. He even changed his phone number. He was very afraid that his wife would leave him after learning about the affair.
Alina still decided to keep the baby and bring him up herself. She must have really had deep feelings for this man. And she was happy that she got a piece of him, a pity, of course, that she did not get all of him.
In fact, it turned out that his wife knew very well that he had an affair on the side, but she did not show it, did not make a scene, but just waited in silence until her husband played with a new passion. This wise woman was sure that her husband would take a walk and come back to the family anyway.
