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I am five years old.

One morning my grandmother said:

– You have not been in kindergarten for a long time. Get ready, today we’ll go!

– And Where’s Mama? I rubbed my eyes with my fists.

– She’s at a meeting in Kiev.

So the grandmother called the conference of collective farmers, where my mother was sent. Oh, how I did not like to go to this kindergarten, God only knows. In the kindergarten, children often teased me with the nickname «deputy», as the son of the mother of a former deputy of the Supreme Council of Ukraine, and now a deputy of the village council of Shpitki village. It hurt and displeased me. For this, sometimes, I was even angry with my mother for her deputyship. At all mother, as mother, and at me any not similar on all. She always has business. Everywhere she needs to have time, to visit both at work, and at gatherings and at a farm, and at an exhibition. Well, it’s not a man, it’s a matter. Of course, I did not understand the mother’s conscientiousness, which had long earned her respect. She was loved by workers of the state farm, fellow- villagers. But their children almost hated her son. I rarely saw my mother. But, there were moments when she appeared at home and hurried to listen not to her son, but to his cousin Nyushu. My sister often speculated about her situation in the family and complained about my innocent pranks. And instead of kissing the long- awaited mother, often got a slap. I felt hurt at my mother, at my evil sister, at the children who teased me with the insulting word «deputy», and, finally, for the whole world, for being so handsome and affable, admits the existence of insults. Once, having received a dose of hysterical attacks from the mother’s side greasy spiced with a rod, I could not restrain Nyska’s snide laughs from undeserved insults, ran out into the street. At these moments, I firmly decided to leave home and never return. The road went to the center of the village, where there were shops and a pharmacy. After walking about twenty meters, towards the center, I began to ponder, and that if you go to the pharmacy and ask for a medicine, whatever be, so as not to take so much pain and resentment. This thought struck me ever more aggressively and prompted me to act when I got to the pharmacy. Not daring to go inside, I passed by. Then he returned and resolutely entered the spacious corridor with a wide window. After standing for a minute, he pushed the door firmly and entered. The chemist stood behind the counter. He saw the boy who had come in, and asked: – What, Valik, what happened to Mamma? – he looked carefully at my tear- stained face, waiting for an answer. Tears crushed me, I could not answer. The apothecary came out from behind the counter and came up to me.

– You know; you tell me everything in order. I can give you medicine, what you need, I’ll give you something, and then I’ll bring the money. Good?

I nodded, in agreement, saying:

Do you have a cure for evil? – And looked inquiringly at the apothecary.

He did not understand at first that I asked. Then he jumped to his feet, turning away from me, obviously hiding a smile, quickly became behind the counter of the pharmacy, pretending that he was looking for a cure for evil. A little later, he lifted his head from the glass shelf with medicines, said: «And what’s the matter with you that you came for medicines against evil?» – And gave me a paper napkin, so I wiped away my tears and blew my nose. Wiping myself with a napkin, I answered:

«Yes, all evil, mother, Nyuska. And even my grandmother cannot protect me. Mother as mad, and her Nyuska always barks like shook on a chain, against me, like that bitch, from and all. – Slosh again ran from my eyes, breathing sweated. The apothecary, in order to hide the tears that had fallen on his eyes, quickly turned away towards the back room, and said in a dull voice:

– Wait, I’ll bring the medicine from evil soon. – And the utility room disappeared behind the door. After a while he returned, holding in his hand two round packets of pills.

– This is a pill from evil. We will take it after meals three times a day.

I was delighted and accepted the medicine with gratitude. In my heart I felt warm and happy that my escape from the house was so easily solved, and there is no longer any desire to escape anywhere, I jumped out of the pharmacy. Lenya Ochkolyas passed by. At twenty meters he fell behind his mother, who was ahead.

– And are you a Valik?

– Do not you see that it’s me? I answered him.

– What did you do in the pharmacy?

– Thus I bought a cure for evil.

– There is no such medicine. – Authoritatively stated Ochkolyas.

– You look! – I solemnly showed him two packages.

It’s glucose. – Without batting an eyelid, answered Lenya.

I did not know yet what glucose is. But there was no escape, and I asked:

– And what is it? Glue, glucose?

– And let me show you.

– On. – I gave Lena a bag. He busily unfolded it, took out one large pill and put it in his mouth. Then he took out another one. Stretching to me, he said:

– Take it, try it. They are sweet and very tasty.

«Lyonya,» her mother called to Lenya. «How long will I wait for you?» Well, ka runs to me. I’ll take you on a bum.

Ochkolyas with a half- eaten packet rushed to his mother, forgetting to return it to me. But I already did not care. Again deception and disappointment. The pharmacist gave ordinary glucose for the medicine. But where can I understand the trick of the pharmacist, because this glucose, as a cure for evil, helped me to recover from the grievances and get myself back to normal. I gave a new impetus to training self- control in stressful situations in the future and helped me to realize that we need to weigh our actions and actions in order to keep calm and self- control…

– I would take him to us. Very sorry for the boy.

– No. Why do I always have to bring you back to our field of vibrations?

– I remember our tasks here. I remember that there will not be one, there will not be you, the same will happen to me.

– Remember we are not alone on Earth and we, like this defenseless boy, have many enemies here.

– And where is it to CHDCU (Coalition of Highly Developed Civilizations of the Universe) look, ah, commander? – The voice sounds ironic.