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Ариша Галич
UNIT 1
THE PASSION OF THE PREGNANT WOMAN
It wasn’t so long ago. The main heroes of those events are still wandering among us, and this story can do harm to their reputation. So, may the reader forgive me for the understatement, however, God is our judge. So, it wasdrizzling, covering the pavement with sad streams. Here and there leaves were resting on branches, but the most part of them had been burned by janitors. The park was almost deserted; the autumn had entered the rights long time ago. Cyclists were passing by only occasionally, and an old woman was walking her little pug at the dog park. Alyona wanted to pass quietly, but the pug smelt her and began to bark angrily.
“You’re a naughty girl!” the old woman grumbled, and it was unclear whether she grumbled at her disobedient dog or at Alyona.
Alyona even smiled. The idea, that she was naughty, amused her a little and even more: she suddenly got the feeling that she really enjoyed being such a thing. That feeling was almost hidden, but madly obsessive. On the one hand, she was ashamed to face her mother, who had been nursing her disabled husband heroically all her life, and, in spite of this difficult situation, she remained an example of courage and self-devotion. Alyona loved her mother very much and tried to resemble her in all matters. But, on the other hand, the wish to feel like a slutty woman fevered our heroine and made her look for trouble even then, when she was expecting a baby. Apparently, Alyona was different, not like her mother, she was of different paste. She wasn’t prepared to tolerate cold, almost indifferent attitude of her husband. Resentment was gnawing at her all the time, and the feeling of disappointment was driving her mad.
She had been dreaming erotic dreamsin recent times, in which there was no place for decency. Her female nature was burning like a volcano. She spent hours in the bathroom; she became engrossed in reading cheap love stories, she watched erotic films by Tinto Brass secretly, and she even flirted under the guise of a mysterious woman with strangers in social media. She was very interested in talks about cheating. At first, she harshly rebuked cheaters, but then she pitied them, found an excuse, and deep down she even envied them.
Life so stuck her, that she perceived any touch of her husband like something disgusting and nasty. In special moments of depression she even admitted to herself, that she had fallen out of love with him. But what kind of divorce could be discussed if she was carrying his child? In addition, they were living in the apartment, belonging to her mother-in-law, who was a loutish female, a tough cookie. And the thought of her financial insolvencyfurther depressed Alyona.
It couldn’t be said that she hadn’t made overtures to get the relationship back on track, far from it. Sometimes she appreciated positive traits of her husband. It kept her calmfor a while. For example, she was enjoying the fact, that her husband was able to fix any thing in the house and redecorate their flat on his own. She was also sure, that her husband didn’t cheat her, and he even really loved her. His love was expressed in joint shopping expedition at weekends. She looked back at others and found out, that most of the people lived together by force of habit. She felt herself more mother than wife in this familiar love, and this feeling depressed her, especially in bed. This bed had cooled down after five years of marriage. That’s why they still hoped, that the birth of the child would raise their feelings. And until then, in the rare cases, when the couple had intimacy, Alyona tried to break some uniformity of sex, but all her attempts turned into something horrible and disgusting. Though her curious mind still deterred the poor woman from the unreasonable step, the instinct for self-preservation
