I took his head in his hands, dropped the spoon, with the ringing of a fallen on the table, and began to twirl your hair, grabbing their fingers and trying to hurt yourself, to somehow Wake up from just this quiet horror, that happens to me, that perhaps I can finally see which side there's light, and, maybe, my guiding star to rise above the horizon in a sky full of strangers, indifferent to me the stars. And that's when suddenly I understand that my life has any meaning and purpose in this world, and not a single grain of sand I, carried from one side to the force of the wind of destiny, and the man who could withstand his head.
-You have no purpose, " I said to myself, and just made a discovery.
Outside the window rekindled green glow.
Chapter 21.
Talk with Maxim was useless to this I already knew. But the one thing to act unceremoniously and arrogance. In the end, I was stronger than him, and that he threatened me, only instigated me to use violence to the presumptuous youngster.
I walked up to him:
-Well, thank you. And now went...
I wanted to remove his hand, загораживавшую me the way into the corridor, but barely managed to evade the torch, which teenager tried to hit me on the head. His outspoken ruthlessness finally untied my hands and persuaded to some strict measures. In two installments, I rolled mounted Cossack, dropping on the floor and bent knee to the floor. Torch dropped from his hands, and now, треща and shooting blue sparks, lying somewhere.
-Oh, you shket! You who wanted to scare?! I'm with you later, youngster!
Let go, " придушенный boy.
I'll let you go, — and my anger broke out, and I heartily Nabil give his face, then lifted up and kicking, dragged down, illuminating the way for the collapsed stairs selected torch.
Maxim was hanging back, stumbled, whined and cursing to himself, several times fell, but I picked him merciless blows and again dragged him after them.
Already at the exit door, at the door I met returning to his lair tramps. First came blond Eugene, his hands in his pockets on the elbow, fingers extended pants and whistling a song. When he saw me he stopped in confusion and stopped whistling.
Without waiting for his visit solution of the task in the current situation, I made a lunge and with amazing, surprising even to himself composure pointed his torch in his face, hit someone else from a number of standing and rushed away, trailing became hang back with a vengeance Maxim. Behind heard the screams and shouts. Teenagers and they were after me in pursuit. I kicked several times Maxim , waved in the face of the torch, implying that joke does not intend to, and, driven by fear, not feeling feet, rushed further. The rare passers-by found on these deaf streets, scared, ahead of time drifting away and staring in horror округлившиеся eyes blazing in my hand fire, the former for my only weapon. The flames were buzzing against my ear from the wind, like a jet engine. Turn another.
We jumped on a busy street. The torch had to run into the ballot box. I turned. Bouncing shadows catch up with me бродяжек were already very close, fifteen meters. From the alley, from which they had fled, was rushing war. I rushed to the sidewalk, but Maxim leaned heavily deviating ago, and I had to let him go, why teen flew head over heels on the pavement.
Already at the station on the way I met a patrol police car was moving slowly towards along the sidewalk. I rushed out, waving their arms and attracting as he could, to the attention of sitting in it. I have noticed and stopped. The door opened and out seemed привставший seat policeman.
-Rescue! Help! The money was confiscated, documents, kill want! Won catching up!..
After two hours in the police composed a Protocol of detention. Detained ten people, but among them Польда and men aged twenty-eight, thirty-two were not. Documents together with wallet were Zhenya, blond Chub which burnt, forming a stinging bald spot above the forehead. His face also was badly burned.
I returned the wallet. Documents, expired train ticket and even letters of credit, fortunately, ended up here.
After all the procedures they let me go.
-And what will happen to them? I inquired.
"Don't worry, " replied the officer on duty, who conducted me to the door of the office. — Get to the fullest: aggravated disorderly conduct, vagrancy, robbery, attempted murder, — bouquet that is necessary. This company ten years no one would see.
-And two remained, — I was really worried these thoughts. — They?
"Don't worry, they are looking for. See where, just tell us or by any policeman, who will meet...
Night at the station was restless. It seemed that the two are still at large, watch me and only on guard moment to somewhere in the dark place throw me in retaliation.
I had no money, I tried to buy a ticket for a letter of credit, but the cashier, making the round eyes, replied that he could not accept it, because in hand there is no such amounts on surrender, and it is not necessary. Only had to wait till morning, until open savings Bank, and the night passed in the struggle with sleep, and fear.
Hardly the time has come to nine in the morning, I was already at the savings Bank and receiving money immediately bought a ticket, and two o'clock already I sat in the train, and when entered into the carriage, it seemed to me that on the platform there are the two whom I caught up to the police, although I saw very little and poorly remembered them both. But fear has big eyes, and these two were persecuted my imagination at every step.
However, nothing happened, and, having left Moscow with half an hour, I sighed a sigh of relief.
The train gathered speed, and little by little my soul has found calm and even carelessness. The mood of the road changed the tension of waiting, when it seemed that something else can stop me to leave. But I didn't want any adventures. I'm sick of them. I has suffered a great deal of fear, and now hoped that further will be well.
Wheel cars перестукивали on the joints. Bad whether. Whether well. But there was four days, in which you can relax and think about nothing, don't worry, doing only what to eat, sleep, Yes while away an hour or two for a chat with neighbors in the compartment.
There's three of them. Among them stood a young man about my age, and I was pleasantly surprised to learn that he, too, has just graduated from school. And now he is going to serve in Transbaikalia. We were fellow-sufferers: service in the region have traditionally been considered a punishment, and could easily assume that he, too, was not an angel during the study at the school. His name was Anton, and we somehow got in touch with him, after talking for half an hour and found a lot of common interests.
In the compartment apart from us was another man. Youthful, but with a black beard , he looked thirty-five years, participate in our lively conversation had not participated and only glaring at us it is unclear. Third neighbor was a girl. Her face was not beautiful, besides the glasses. The skin on her cheeks, coarse and rough, was covered оспинами, and only out of respect, apparently, Anton offered her lower berth, but she refused, managed to climb up and more showed no signs of life and wasn't paying attention.
After suffering a situation quite suited me. Everything seemed cute and almost comfortable. We started with a game of cards, closer to the dinner we went to the dining car to eat while back into the compartment, found there a lively campaign.
The girl still lying on the top bunk, staring at the window, at the bottom of the bench stood one empty and the other half осушенная bottle of vodka, was decomposed good snack: bread, pink fat large chunks, garlic, green onions, several вспоротых canned. Around, armed with spoons and puffing сигаретками, sat lively men gathered, as seen from the neighboring compartment. Before each was a glass, and they splashed swaying with the aftershocks of the train, vodka.
Men have already taken a dose of alcohol. Their eyes посоловели and gleamed. Seeing us, they were greeted by our appearance and pulled into their circle. We sat down on the edges of the shelves, being the most extreme of all.
-Go, conductors cups still ask appealed to me one sitting.
Sit around, I'm coming down, raised up Anton.
Soon he returned with utensils, and poured us too. The guy who sent me deeply, exhaled, сморщившись and squinting his eyes, released cigarette smoke, and then said:
-Well, what, guys, for that drink?
His drunken enthusiasm was passed to me, and suddenly wanted to drink before the hedgehogs and even make effort to get a bottle, a can, and not one.
-Conductor-it is nothing, " remarked who sent me away (he was probably here for заводилу and organizer of this binge-drinking), — I to Vladivostok necessarily will get. You saw how it moves, wagging ass!
'Hush you! — Pushed him in the shoulder our bearded neighbour. Here the girl driving, and you with such talk climb.
-And I have no one I haven't. I'm just saying, share thoughts... just Think — girl! Yes I have this breed is thoroughly studied, tea, no way, he was married three times.
It seemed to me that whatever our shipmate, patient, timid and shy, but now she would resent the whole situation. However it still was lying on the upper shelf and looked at the window, breathing together with the rest of tobacco smoke.
-Is that true? "Someone from the company.
-And why I lie? I полполучки alimony surrender. And now, maybe by the end of the trip for the fourth time to get married. The conductor.
At this moment it looked in the coupe, pushing open the door. In the corridor of the car dove-colored threads rushed past her cigarette smoke.
-So, comrades, something coupe very sternly sliding eyebrows together, " she said. In appearance she was twenty. But the youth had not yet left her face.
"Oh, Madame! — Развязано reached for her from the window thata talkative многоженец. — We about You just talked about, Madame!
-And you, comrade, I warn particularly, is still severely replied the girl. — will vandalize, I line them by the time you rent.
"I, хулиганю? Donkey man. -I хулиганю? I meet You I want to.
-Learn differently — tone of voice conductors got a little soft.
-My name is Kolya, and You?
-Me and Marina.
-Oh, Marinochka, glad to get acquainted...
But the girl is not дослушала his rants:
"So remember. For non-contractual penalty. Once again I'll go over and see that you smoke blame yourself. Warn on account of the noise and Матюков. You look with your woman go. Shame on you! Shame! You make it listen to your cries, sniffing cigarettes. Think it's pleasant for it?
-Marinochka, Yes its not forced. — She was...
Thata talkative again reached for her through all, aiming take hold exactly waist.
Conductor whacked him on the wrist:
-And you, Kolya, — it is a purely feminine in her indignation, lips, giving out your mental effort to resist. — You, Kolya, I warn personally. Just that, and will be explained in the police. Responsible for order in this coupe you: I personally appoint.
She closed the door.
-I'm not in that compartment food, Kolya with a friendly smile hunched his shoulders, rejoicing in this case.
'The worse for you, " someone said.
In that pause was heard again the voice of neighbor:
-So you, too, Nikolai name? Namesake, then!
Namesake, piano nodded and agreed, looking somewhere down under the table.
-And I, Nikolai, " said the bearded. — Wow! And your patronymic? Not Mikhailovich , an hour?
-No, not Mikhailovich. D..
I Nikolai Mikhailovich.
-Well, now, let's go for it, namesake, and let us drink to hand talkative reached for the bottle.
-Wait! What, are we alone shall we drink? And the guys? — Bearded looked all become silent campaign, слушавшую their conversations.
"Right, nick, and they may drink.
Vodka заклокотала, flowing in glasses.
-So, let's have a drink, invited Nikolai Dmitrievich, when all took the glasses, let's drink... for women, he raised himself up, looking over his shoulder at the top shelf. "Madame, you hear, we drink for you!
Girl pretended to not hear him, and he fell into place:
-Well, everything started!
Heard the clink of glasses, to the table, pulled the hand in search of fat, forks, cans, heard a Champ on all sides.
-Yes, something angry little sister. "Nikolai Dmitrievich, taking from his pocket a cigarette and again trying to light a cigarette. — Well, nothing, обломаем!
-Kolya, quit Smoking, " said he namesake.
-And what? — Drunk opinion if it was not found the opponent.
"She requested of you not to smoke, warned...
Well, she went...
He paused, glancing up.
However, rebelled, and others, and then took away his cigarette.
Apparently, the patience of the girls came to an end. With a determined look she descended, and it would seem that now followed by a slap — fair punishment for the offense, but the girl came out of the compartment.
-Uh, come on, faster smoke! — Turns whispered Nikolay Dmitrievich himself waved his arms, explaining. Now she is here was guiding them to lead.
And indeed, after a minute the girl returned with Marina.
-So, men. That survived the girl from my seat?!
-No it did not survive her finger... We did not touch... We conduct themselves peacefully, неча us barrel roll, " said a voice.
"Okay, one of you on the twentieth place is going?
-Well, I will, " said a man sitting near a polygamist".
-Hop over to it is a coupe, and the girl will go in your place, " the conductor, and, упредив man, with breath for perturbations added. — Not that it will be worse. I suddenly on the shelves will put down together not going to... Well, count to three......
So a man and froze in amazement with full Breasts air, not knowing what to say. Nikolai Dmitrievich pushed him in the side, making an idiotic grin overt hint:
— "What, dumpling?
-Two...
-All right, — a man grows old and waved his hand. — S'pose you do, comes back, and then turned to толкнувшему. And not dumpling I do. My name is Konstantin, if you want to talk.
-Oh, Kostya, very nice, " said дурашливо Nikolai.
That's much better — and lost suddenly serious expression on their face, ingenuously and smiled widely Marina. And remember: I see the smoke, and — just fine prepare to pay. I warn you.
-Animal-Baba — whispered in my ear, Anton. — I think we agree.
-About what? — Not I understood.
Anton drew back and looked at me with astonishment, not knowingly staring eyes:
-Like what?! You what?..
I had thought, and in a sign nodded:
"Why are you decided?
