Plaything of destiny

They met in May, a beautiful tiny Gypsy girl and Ukrainian bumpkin. She had a silver thin voice, the big black eyes, a swarthy skin and fire like temper. He was high, broad shouldered, blue-eyed, simple, naïve and phlegmatic. In June she found out that she is pregnant. Her Gypsy parents came to his Ukrainian parents and asked them to marry their son to avoid a shame for a daughter. The Ukrainian family council decided to marry couple and take responsibility for the future children, although newly-weds both were only 16, and the boy resisted that marriage as much as he was able. When a head of gypsy family, old respectable man saw a groom at the first time, he said: ”This guy will not be a good husband for our Galka, he should beat her twice a day, in the morning and specially hard in the evening, and keep her under his thumb, but he is weak-willed…they have no future, just a bad fate…”
From the beginning marriage couple has lived with the groom’s family, but it was rather one non-stopping scandal instead of a life. Then parents exchanged their big flat and let children to live separately. In the winter were born Dima and Vova, gorgeous male twins. Calka adored her sons and cherished them every moment, when she wasn’t drunk, what unfortunately has happened not too often. The young father preferred to spend time in a circle of friends with a guitar and joyful drinks, than with unwanted load. All expenses for keeping Dima and Vova covered their grand parents.
Drunken brawls hadn’t stopped in an unhappy house, and neighbors started to complain of young family behavior. Once, the man next door caught Galka and abused her for a worthless way of life. She went home after that conversation and took a knife then came to that man’s flat, hiding a knife behind her back. When he opened a door, she stabbed him in a heart and after all coolly returned home.
Fortunately the wound wasn’t deep, an ambulance arrived very quickly and man survived. Galka was arrested and put into prison until the court decision. Her gypsy parents bribed the judge and turned everything like the man was guilty, the fact of having two little kids helped also to constitute justification. Galka returned from prison less then several days. It was her last trick, which gave an occasion to divorce with a husband. He wanted freedom and joy with no mad women or crying kids. She tried to return him into family, but it changed nothing.
Young father forgot about his sons’ existence right after he signed divorce documents, he finally enjoyed his freedom. Galka was a very beautiful woman; she hadn’t suffered from loneliness, but all her men for some reason started to drink with her and shortly after used to escape. She lived for a present, never asking herself what will be tomorrow.
Twins have grown up in atmosphere of scandals, depravity and drunkenness. Grandparents from the father side have tried to take boys from a mother, but all what they achieved was a permission to have them each summer for school holidays.
Dima and Vova inherited amazing mother’s face beauty and father’s strong build. Since very early age they were under special female attention, additional charm they have got from participation of the local gangs. Their very first money boys got from selling drugs. Another their business was serving rich mature sexually-hungry women. Life has seemed not that difficult until a police caught them with the big party of poppy straws. They went to a prison together on the same term, not too long, as their minority was taken into consideration. In prison they connected with thieves, which involved them into a new “cars” business. When police caught twins next time, a term was much longer. In prison they used to write long touching letters, sodden by sorrow, regrets for ruined life. They never blamed parents. Quite the contrary, they worried in each letter, how are there those poor drunkers, if they have something to eat and where to sleep. Prison became for Dima and Vova a permanent home. They used to return there right after discharge. All relatives gave up with situation and stopped visiting and sending dispatching and mailing. Nobody waits them back, the only rare chanson songs, accidentally heard in a restaurant or taxi remind of their sad fate.