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White ship sailed. Pasha spread the familiar beach cover. And quite unexpectedly, he began to tear Bella’s clothes.

– Pasha, I will take off my clothes. I’m in a swimsuit.

– And I did not sunbathe you called! I don’t need your swimsuit!

Pasha took off his clothes, standing in front of Bella in nudist clothes. She saw a naked man for the first time in her life. She was terrified. And he tried to rip off her swimsuit. Bella began to fight a slippery and nasty man!

– Pasha, do not! Do not, Pasha!! I am begging you!!! Bella shouted, holding onto her swimsuit, protecting her body from the man’s arrogant hands.

– Enough of your virginity for me alone. I will not let you go! Bella, you are mine! And I will be your first man! All my life I wanted to be the first! Can you imagine what a pleasure it is! There has never been such happiness in my life! – shouted Pasha.

She wriggled with all her strength, trying to strike the man with her fists. He twisted her hands, closed his lips with a kiss, trying with his whole body to make movements unfamiliar to her. This last movement for a long time he could not. She began to beat him with her free hand. He was angry, lifted her shoulders. She twisted! He got angry and threw the girl on a rocky beach. She went limp with her whole body and was silent from the unreality of what was happening with her eyes closed from resentment and pain.

– Bella, I love you! I want you so much! Wake up, love! Shouted a sober man on a lonely, deserted beach.

And in response to silence. Pasha got dressed. He was bored and scared. He thought, “What if Bella died?” I looked at the girl’s body. He wanted to run away from the body prostrated in the sand. He looked around: on the one side the sea, on the other steppe.

– Pasha, where are we? Bella asked quietly, regaining consciousness.

“You and I are on a wild beach, and I am a real savage,” said Pasha, with vexation and self-loathing. – Adrenaline defeated alcohol.

– What happened with me? We were sunbathing? – Bella babbled.

– Yes, love, we sunbathed. You had a sunstroke. Everything is already fine, “Pasha whispered, not believing in his happiness that Bella was alive.

“Pasha, lie down next to you, I need your strength, I have a strange weakness,” Bella said, experiencing complete weakness, pain, and an unfamiliar feeling for this man.

Pasha went to bed. Bella hugged him, leaned against him with her whole body.

“Pasha, I love you,” she said, merging with him with her whole being, without a single sound thought in her head. She wrapped around him like a real Bella around a strong tree.

The shocked man was silent from complete surprise. Wine from it weathered completely. He kissed her gently. Fully coming to his senses, he rounded his big eyes in surprise and exclaimed:

– Bella, I’m scared of you! Honestly, I’m afraid.

Fear passed in Bella, the spirit of a voluptuous woman moved into her. She did not understand herself. And, like an opened bottle of champagne, she could not extinguish all the beautiful sparks of new feelings that filled her to the brim. Feelings began to spill from the depths of her being. She wanted this first her man. She was exhausted from feeling for him and felt it with every waking cell in her body.

Not long Pasha resisted unexpected happiness after a short misfortune. He responded to the happy bubbles of champagne in the form of the first female feelings. He drank the first love of a woman with undisguised delight. How long the love orgy lasted on the bedspread covering the small pebbles of the wild beach, they did not know, but at some point both stopped. They sat down, got up, got dressed.

A light wind of love blowing from the sea ruffled matted hair. Bella lifted her head: a stork spun over them and soon disappeared, probably flying to its nest on the power line pole.

A white ship appeared on the horizon. No one on it met the couple in love. Alla and Yura were nowhere to be found: they were not on the upper deck, they were not on the lower deck. Nobody was going to search for a couple on the boat.

Bella and Pasha returned to shore. He stopped the car and drove it home, and he went to the boarding house. She washed herself under cold streams of water and went to bed, but could not sleep for a long time. It seemed to her that if Pasha had not cut pearl beads from her neck, then fights and love on a wild beach among the rocks would never have happened. She tried to find the beads, but they seemed to evaporate – they were not anywhere. Then she reached for the peacock feathers, but they, too, recoiled from her.

Bella felt stuffy in the room, although the necklaces did not crush the necklace, but she felt them around her neck, although she couldn’t find them. It became terrible. She looked for the butterfly. The butterfly sat on the peacock’s feathers and swung its little head either from the wind, or it was the living queen of white butterflies. The butterfly nodded to the girl, and she fell asleep, as if she had fallen into the abyss, from which the butterfly flew out…

The morning was playing with sunshine through the curtains. Bella woke up. Alla was not in her place. Pasha woke up, but did not find Jura. Bella and Pasha met on the beach, the touches of their hands became more outspoken, they noticed attentive and judgmental eyes of those around them. The two of them were good, but conscience told me that we should remember about the absent.

– Bella, I will call Ilya and say that there is no Yura and Alla, that they have disappeared from the ship and have not returned yet.

“Call me, love, call me,” Bella said sweetly, slightly embracing the first man’s own body.

Pasha dialed the phone number of the detective on his phone:

– Ilya, Pasha is worried about you, we have Yura and Alla gone.

– Oh, does it bother you all, why is Alla a girl? The guide called me and said that Yura and Alla remained in the Peacock Palace. Today they will come.

“Thank you,” said Pasha, thanking Pasha, and turned to Bella: “Bella, they will definitely come today, they will have a tour with a sequel in the Peacock Palace.”

Now they were lying in the sun with a clear conscience.

– Pasha, and what will happen to us? Bella asked, running her fingers through his hair.

– We get married. I told you about this, – Pasha answered in disbelief.

“And I decided that you were joking,” clinging to Paul with a quivering doe, Bella muttered.

– We will apply for registration of marriage in a week.

– I just have a week left before departure. Oh how good! – exclaimed Bella and stretched out next to Paul in the sand.

– Bella, will we lose the whole week? Not. Come to my room.

They got up, collected things from the sand. Soon went to the boarding house. Pasha went to dinner, brought food for Bella. She ate. They closed the door to the room. Bella behaved much calmer: without much passion, but without too much coldness. With Pasha, things were not going very well with Pasha, but now everything was no better than ever! Pasha and Bella were disturbed by a knock at the door.

– Sony, open up! – the familiar voices of Alla and Yura were heard.

Pasha opened the door.

– Why shout? – Pasha asked, but when he saw a couple, he stopped.

Before him stood Yura and Alla in new outfits.

– Pasha, do not be surprised, – said Alla, – understand, we got into the palace of Peacock. It is not quite a museum, people live in it, but once a week they are allowed to visit them. True, they have harsh laws. The first night of an intact girl is given to a count with the strange name Peacock. Yura gave him to me. And I do not cry. Count Peacock rewarded me with money, and Yura and I bought new things.

Yura stood and was dejectedly silent with an absent look.

“In the morning I was given to Jura under the gaze of Count Pavlin, but I am not crying,” Alla sobbed. – We drank a glass of wine and were very calm, not even indignant. Count Peacock collects only those with whom you can sleep for the first time, and he learned from somewhere that I am a girl. I was met on the beach on the carpet with flowers. Near the path stood stern men with tridents, we could not run away, everything was prepared.

“Everything was according to the tax,” Yura said thoughtfully.

Bella came out of the bedroom and, looking at Alla, said:

– Alla, we go home, we need to rest with you.

– Let’s go home, – Alla responded as an echo. – I think men will not object. Goodbye, boys!

Dear friends exchanged the latest news and impressions that hit their heads, or rather their young bodies.

– Alla, what should I do with Pasha? I remember very well that he hit me on a rocky beach so that I lost my feelings. He told me that I had a sunstroke. I pretend to believe him and imitate passionate love. Actually, I’m afraid of him!!! – breathed out a passionate tirade of words Bella.

– Bella, got you! Keep on portraying love, and I got so angry at Count Pavlin and Yura! I was ready to kill them, but then I depicted complete obedience, even happiness. There is such a guard! I do not know: to revenge or forget everything?

– Alla, smart people told us that we did not go alone, and we went for sea nuts.

– I took the pills on time, because I carried them in my bag with me on the advice of my older friends. But such sadness and longing in the soul! I saw the palace of Peacock, it is ancient from the outside, but inside it is fashionable. And Count Peacock! Oh my God! Cool man.

– So, forget everything and do not take revenge?

– Bella, what are you talking about? What revenge? I have a feeling of fear left!

Ivanovna sat thoughtfully on the porch of the house, but when she saw the girls, she delightedly spoke:

– Girls! Are back! I’m waiting for you, waiting.

“Thank you for participating,” Bella said. – Everything is normal with us.

The girls went into the house, went to their room.

– How things have changed! – Alla exclaimed. – Eternity has passed!

“Exactly,” Bella replied, “Pasha promised to marry me.”

– And you believe? Nobody promised me to marry…

Cars sounded at the gate. I heard the helpful voice of Ivanovna. A handsome, imposing gentleman in a white suit entered the room to the girls.

– Alla, I came for you! I don’t want to be a female collector anymore! I want to marry you! Now! Get up! Dress will bring you. We are waiting for registration of marriage!

Two large men in suits brought into the room huge bags that had a dress, veil, shoes, and underwear.

“Sorry for giving you Yura, but otherwise you wouldn’t forget him, but now you will forget him,” said Count Peacock calmly, “Alla, we are waiting for you.” Take your girlfriend, will be your witness.

– Alla, here is happiness, then you fell down! Bella exclaimed, gazing with admiration at the gifts of Count Peacock.

“Bella, he’s so extraordinary!” Here are the results, – Alla showed on the packages.

She went to the summer shower, but quickly returned.

– Cool water! – Alla pounded her teeth.

Bella changed her clothes and began to help Alla to dress, then her friends went out into the yard. Ivanovna threw up her hands at the sight of Alla in a magnificent outfit.

The gates opened wide. The doors in the three cars opened. People quickly disappeared into the cars. Cars at the same time drove away from the house. At the registry office, the doors opened. Marriage register opened. The registration form has been filled out. Everything was written. It remains for Count Pavlin and Alla to sign. They put their signatures on the application form. Received a marriage registration certificate.

– Can I not go with you? I can not go with you!!! I feel bad! – Bella unexpectedly for all was indignant and began to settle on the floor.

Bella was picked up by the arms, put in one of the cars, taken to a small house. The girl was dropped out of the car in front of Ivanovna’s surprised eyes. The car quickly drove away from the house and soon joined the rest of the cars that drove towards the Peacock Palace.

Alla was riding in luxurious clothes, in a chic car, with an impressive man. She was surprised by what had happened to her, but she held herself in her hands and responded favorably to the attention of Count Peacock.

Bella lay in a poor little room and felt abandoned by all. Tears stood in the corners of the eyes. She looked at a small TV, recently issued by the hostess. On the screen, the humorists laughed, and she cried. The girl was sad. I had a nape ache.

The hostess entered the room:

– Bella, your friend with chic taken away! Why not go with her?

– Oh! How many new things have happened, and my head hurts, Bella cried.

– Yes, you, girl, overheated in the sun, look at yourself in the mirror, how you got tanned. Lie down today, rest, tomorrow everything will be fine. Where is your boyfriend? He’s a good man.

“They are good when they are strangers,” Bella replied with a pain in her voice.

At that moment a white butterfly flew off the peacock feather, she sat down in Bella’s palm. The girl stroked her gently with one finger.

“Bella, I found scattered pearl beads and gathered them on a thin line,” Ivanovna said, and handed her the beads.

Soon knocked at the gate. Ivanovna went to open.

– Easy you guys, at the mine. Bella is crying. Go calm down.

– Thank you, I feel that she is bad.

Pasha entered the room.

– Bella, why are you crying? I love you! We will be fine, “said the young man, carefully examining Bella and Alla’s belongings scattered around the room.

– Pasha, will you love now or will you give me a rest? Bella asked tiredly.

– I’m not a villain. Rest. Where is Alla? He asked, still looking around the room.

– Married married Count Pavlin. She was taken to the Peacock Palace. I did not go with them.

– Fairy tale. Is it true? – Pasha asked, sitting down on the bed of Alla.

“Not a joke,” Bella replied, putting on a pearl necklace.

– Bella, forgive me. I do not drink wine, but here I was exchanged. I have never thrown women before, I’m painfully ashamed of myself.

“Well, we survived, we will live,” Bella replied, holding in her hands the three peacock feathers and hiding their barked eyes in them.

– Bella, do you want me to buy tickets to your city for the two of us?

– Here you are almost right. Tomorrow we will buy tickets. I still have money for the tickets. Today I will not go anywhere. Alla will not go with us.

Knocked at the gate. Ivanovna opened the door. Before her stood Alla, barely alive, in a torn bridesmaid dress.

– They are so joking! Everything was a joke! – Alla shouted with tears.

– Get some sleep. There one already cries, – grumbled Ivanovna.

Alla went into the room. Pasha habitually jumped up from her bed. Alla lay down on the bed and turned away from the wall. She shuddered with sobs with her whole being. Pasha went out and called Yura:

– Yura, come here again problems. Both girls cry.

– I’m already on my way. It was necessary to immediately go with you, but they called me and said that Alla was taken away to register a marriage with Count Pavlin, so I did not go with you.

Pasha returned to the room:

“You girls cannot be left alone.” We can pay for you for a week in a boarding house, you will live next to us, under our supervision.

– Is it possible? – Alla turned her tear-stained face to him.

– For money, everything is possible. It’s all dachshund.

Yura entered the room.

– Girls, in our building, next to our number, a double room was freed. There is a proposal to change your habitat. In the pension all the amenities, it is fed, there is a beach with a bed.

– If no joke, then we agree to move to a boarding house, and here all the amenities in the courtyard, – said Alla, raising tear-stained eyes.

– Alla, you do not understand men! They speak seriously, but they will surely demand payment, “Bella put in her thought, habitually touching the pearls around her neck, as if seeking their protection from forthcoming troubles.

– Bella and I only have money for living in this house, even for the common beach and for tickets to the house. And a little food. That’s all, – Alla said, and she looked at that doomed.

“We don’t ask for money from you,” answered Pasha.

“Alla, they’ll take it in kind,” Bella snapped, she was no longer surprised that there was a pearl butterfly among the pearls.

– I did not get that. What kind? – Alla asked.

– They will take love. Do you understand? – clarified the situation of Bella.

– Why so cynical? – asked Yura.

– In this regard, we have already lost everything, we have nothing more to lose, it is possible with love. Who am I with? With you, Yura? – Alla asked.

– Well, girls, you grow. Alla with me. Bella with Pasha.

– I am not against love with Yura, – Alla put an end to the conversation.

“I don’t know,” Bella said honestly, touching the peacock feathers with one hand and touching the pearls around her neck with one hand, “I don’t want to go into debt.”

– Decide! The car is waiting at the gate. We will take you and your things, – suggested the solution to all the problems of Yura.

Alla got up, took her dress, asked the men to wait in the yard of the house. Bella did not move.

– Alla, I will not go to the boarding house! I almost got killed for the tour.

“Bella, you have nothing more to lose.” Where is the guarantee that Count Peacock won’t get to you? Count Peacock is not a man.

– Alla, but debts… I am afraid of debts.

“Bold, Bella, you won’t become richer without risk!” – Alla said, collecting things.

Bella waved a hand in desperation, took her bag, but sat down again:

– What do you want, but I will not go!

– As you wish, you did not go with me, but they loved me…

– Alla, I can not! I can’t keep up with you!

Alla waved her hand and with the things went out into the yard.

– Where is Bella? – Pasha asked Alla.

“She remains in the house without amenities,” Alla said and went to the car.

Pasha came into the room to Bella.

– Bella, what’s up? Am I so disgusted?

“Not anymore, but I can’t leave like this,” the girl said, and wrapped her hand around her mouth.

– Understand, silly, there I will be with you alone, and here I will not save you from the people of Count Peacock! They went on your trail, now they will not leave you alone. Think: Am I alone or are people of Count Pavlin?! Where are your things? Get up fast! I say – fast!

Bella got up, threw things into her bag, then took the peacock feathers, from which two mother-of-pearl butterflies rolled: a bluish and white. She wrapped them in a clean handkerchief, then put them in the inside pocket of a large bag with things. Pasha took the bag. They went out into the yard.

Here the mistress of the house joined:

“Ladies, I won’t refund your money for the rest of the week!”

“This is for your concern,” said Pasha and led Bella to the car.

A car with two young couples drove up to the fifth building of the boarding house. Everyone was silent. Yura went to pay for a room for girls for a week. Bella and Alla entered our room, where they felt themselves to be an order of magnitude higher, they didn’t want to talk. Soon, clean hair adorned the girls’ heads.

There was a knock at the door. A pleasant female voice asked to open the door. An interesting blonde with a familiar face entered the room.

– Girls, I am a singer Victoria Lvovna. Today I came to the boarding house. My room is near your room. I saw you in the lobby. I really liked you. Girls, could you help me a little?

– How can we help you? – Alla asked, combing her hair.

– Everything is very simple: in three days I have concerts in Abrikosovka and in the neighboring city of Cypress, and one concert will take place in a boarding house. I need two girls for the background. You have the same height. Clothes, I’ll give you. Stand behind me, pretend singing girls. Can you sing?

“Alla and I sang at an art school,” Bella replied.

– Well! Tonight I’m waiting for you after dinner.

– We will come, – naturally, Alla said the last word.

Victoria Lvovna left.

Yura and Pasha came.

– settled? After lunch we go on a boat ride, – said Pasha.

“And we were invited to sing, today is a rehearsal,” Bella told him.

– What other singing? What story have you already got? – he asked.

– In the local history. Singer Victoria L. lives in the next room.

– Have you got a job? Do you go by boat with us? There are no big waves here, – Yura suggested with a slight irritation.

– Do not be angry, Yura, rehearsal after dinner, – Alla gently addressed him.

– Oh, you are already a sweet fox playing!

“Victoria Lvovna just came out, tell her,” Alla said dejectedly.

Pasha carefully examined the clothes on the girls and said:

– We’ll forget for clarity. We came on another occasion. Bella, I will give you money for clothes, they sell her before entering the dining room. We are going to lunch now, and you see something interesting for yourself. Yura will give money to Allah. Here, take the money, we’ll meet in the dining room. We have one table for four.

The men are out.

– Bella, golden rain! I’ve never had anything like this in my life! – Alla exclaimed with feigned cheerfulness in her voice.

– Alla, we have life here like on a volcano. Let’s go look for new things.

Bright summer clothes hung and lay on the shelves. They chose a pair of fashionable rags and quietly entered the dining room. At the end of the hall sat Pasha and Yura.

– Girls, and all the men are looking at you! As you walked through the dining room, they turned their necks! Sit at the table, put the birds in the menu as your wishes the next day, “said the courteous Pasha.

Yura sat gloomy and dissatisfied, the stories with Alla pleased him a little. It began to seem to him that someone would take her away from these concerts and rehearsals.

After lunch, the four went to the bank of the estuary. At the boat station, boats were issued for money, on bail. Friends took two boats, sailed one by one on the estuary. Pasha and Bella were just talking. Alla and Yura were deafeningly silent.

The wind was blowing weak. The sun was shining behind the clouds. The day reigned with cloudiness. The same mood reigned in the people in the boats. Bella enjoyed life and another adventure. Alla tried to improve the mood of the Jura:

– Yura, this night I will sleep in your room, and Pasha is in ours. Does it comfort you a little?

– Alla, I am afraid that men will run up to you, and I will stand in a queue.

– Who can reach me faster than you? – Alla tried to make him laugh.

I heard the noise of a motorboat. The motorboat made a circle around the boat with Alla. Boats got close. Strong male hands dragged Alla from the stern of the usual boat and transplanted into the motor boat. The engine roared. The motorboat quickly disappeared over the horizon.

Pasha sent his boat to the Jura boat. Everything was clear. People Count Pavlin found Alla. Yura was right: Alla had to stand in line, which did not reach him. The boys rode a little more and returned to the boat station.

“Bella, I’ll go to the rehearsal with you,” suggested the agitated Pasha.

– Why should I go to the rehearsal alone? The singer needs both of us for the scenery behind her back. And what if the people of Count Pavlin return Alla by the evening?

Yura was silent and frowned.

– No, Alla is not for me! I can not stand her disappearances! I can not with Count Pavlin and his people. They can return it, and then they will take it again! And who am I in this story? – suffered Yura.

– Yura, swim! It will be easier, – Pasha addressed him.

“I’m coming with you,” Bella almost whispered.

Water cooled the passion of youth. Three stretched on white plastic couch. The sun was shining and warming through the clouds.

“I’ll come home, go to study at a driving school, buy a car,” said Yura dreamily.

– Well done, Jura. I’ll go to study with you, I want to get a driver’s license, otherwise we didn’t have rights, and without rights we don’t have rights. While the army. While studying. Now we will have our rights in the first place, “Pasha concluded his dreams.

– Forgot me? I’m with you! My father has a car. I know how to drive it, I only have the right to get it! – Bella shouted loudly, lifting her hair.

– Bella, do you have a voice! – exclaimed Pasha. – We’ll go listen to you.

Having cheered up, all three of them went to their corps, for dinner they had to change clothes.

Tortured Alla sat in a small chair. She did not move.

– Bella, don’t ask. Fiends: neither myself nor the people.

Bella went into the shower, unable to immediately talk to Alla, and when she came to her friend, clean and calm, she was already asleep. The exhausted expression did not leave Alla in a dream. Bella decided that she had to tell detective Ilya about everything. She remembered his phone number by heart.

– Ilya, you are worried about Bella, we have Alla tormented by people of the count.

– Bella, I’m coming to you.

Ilya really did come soon. He looked at Alla and said:

– I have long heard about Count Pavlin and his antics, but I have not seen him. Alla was again reprimanded. Put a guard near her? Hard case.

“They take Alla, then they return,” Bella said.

“Bella, let me know right away when they will take her.” They can not take her to their castle and wear down completely. Can she go home?

– We still have a week left. Today we have a rehearsal with the singer Victoria Lvovna.

– Today, they will not come anymore, but tomorrow may well be. The kidnappers will find out about the rehearsal tomorrow, and today I have nothing more to say.

Alla woke up in the evening. Her shower refreshed. She came to herself and came to the dining room. Men looked at her in surprise, as on the phenomenon from the dead. Alla said nothing about what was happening to her outside the perimeter of the boarding house.

All four came to the rehearsal. The singer liked the four young people very much. She decided to use them for extras behind her back. Not only were the girls of the same height, but the men were of the same height, and they were also quite beautiful. We had to check their voices. They claimed that they knew the repertoire of the singer. Their job is to pull up the choruses. The girls sounded altogether with one voice, apparently, they sang together a lot earlier, the men were fiercely apart, but with a pleasant timbre.

Resting people entered the doors of the concert hall of the boarding house and slowly filled the back rows.

When Victoria Lvovna started singing, the hall was half full. Expel the public was simply impossible. The people climbed into the door for rehearsal, like a concert. People recognized Alla, their boys from the boarding house, Pasha and Yura, and applauded them to exhaustion. I must say that in the boarding house the requirement for concerts is naturally reduced, here any copper goes for gold.

The singer was surprised by the popularity of the guys. After the rehearsal, we agreed on who and in what will be singing at the next, final dress rehearsal. The bitter experience with local champagne stopped buddies from drinking alcohol in honor of their first success. The musicians, and there were five of them, looked at each other fairly, they liked the new four. The artists calmly dispersed according to their numbers.

Alla went to the room to the men, but Yura did not let her go there. He wanted her, and was afraid, and loved, and despised, and through such a set of feelings, love did not attract him. She returned to her room, closed the door and fell asleep.

Bella looked at her friend and realized that they would not be disturbed today. Sighing, she fell asleep, but immediately woke up: she remembered that there were two butterflies in the bag – the queen and the king of white butterflies. A nervous shiver appeared in her hands, she took out a suitcase, looked into her pocket, a handkerchief lay there, but there were no butterflies in it! She involuntarily began to look around the room: butterflies were sitting on peacock feathers that were standing by the window. She waved to them. They shook their wings in response. Bella fell into a dream. She dreamed of an island with palm trees, and her pearl beads hung on a palm tree, and Pasha stood next to them and grinned.