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“The surprise”
Crying Abby was sitting on a wrinkled bed clasping her legs and hiding her head in the knees. Next to her there was a mangled body of what, untill recently, was her favorite doll Nancy. A damned dog violently tore it to pieces quarter of an hour ago. And once a pretty talking, singing and dancing doll was able only to emit broken sounds, jerk and twitch. What is more, a punctured forehead, nose and cheeks, detached half of the arm and torn locks of hair left no chance to Nancy for a bright future among the Abby’s toys.
And nobody wanted to get insight into her trouble, everybody was occupied by other things and mostly by her elder sister, who had recently given birth to a child, and all the household was constantly talking about her and her baby, getting ready to their soon discharge from the maternity hospital. In response to Abby’s complaints everyone only instinctively nodded and pronounced: “Not now, honey, not now”. Full of sorrow and resentment the girl had been crying for a long time before she fell asleep with her eyes being red and swollen . At night while sleeping Abby felt her mother come into the room, kiss her forehead and cover her carefully with a blanket.
Next morning Abby woke up because of the sounds of fuss, whispering and exclaiming somewhere in the house, and after a while the noise broke off. Getting up from the bed the girl caught sight of Nancy. Bitter feelings came over her again and tears welled up in her eyes. Full of intention to share her distress with the family Abby left the room. Coming along the hallway she heard someone whispering in the kitchen and she quickened her steps. The door of her sister’s room was slightly open and passing by she glimpsed something strange in it. Curiosity drew her into the sister’s room. The little cot, which was kept there for about two months was no more empty. There was something wraped in cloth in it. Coming up Abby looked into the cot and her breath was taken away in astonishment. A little human being or something with the size of a doll was quietly sniffing with a an open mouth. To make herself sure that it was real, Abby made a reach for it through one of the gaps in the cot. * Don’t do it. – softly and gently sounded her sister’s voice. – Let her sleep for a while.
But it was too late. The small wrinkled wad opend its narrow eyes and started moving its little armes and producing strange sounds. Abby being in the state of fear and delight was watching how her sister was affectionately embosoming and rocking the baby.
– Shhh, Nancy, calm down, baby, I’m with you, fall asleep, my little girl, my deer Nancy. – whispered the sister.
Abby was standing frozed not daring to say a word, only the name Nancy sounded in her head.

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