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– Well, doves? – Mom asked friendlyly. – When is your next meeting?

Nadya and Tolik looked at each other in bewilderment.

– Tolik! – Tatyana Dmitrievna said sternly. – Didn’t you invite Nadya on a date?

The guy looked at the potential bride in confusion, but clearly could not come up with any sensible proposal.

– Clear! – his mother sealed him. “Again, we need to take everything into our own hands.” I know the day after tomorrow there will be a ballet at the Winter Palace…

Nadya’s mother clasped her hands:

– Tickets are probably already sold out…

– Don't worry, I have friends there. I'll get the tickets.

Mom smiled dreamily:

– Ballet! It is so beautiful…

On Thursdays, Nadya worked as a volunteer at the “Trust” maternity support center. The director of the charitable foundation, which supported the center, was Nadine’s godfather Leonid Rodionovich Kazantsev, an old friend of her dad. In fact, he was almost as close to her: he communicated with her from early childhood, instructed her in the faith, gave gifts and fatherly love. Leonid Rodionovich did not have his own children because he was not married: sometimes he said that not a single woman could compare with his first love, who married someone else, but Nadya did not know whether he was serious or joking.

“Trust” had its own kindergarten, but some mothers finished work later than the group closed, and Nadya helped whenever possible, doing drawings, handicrafts with the kids, or simply playing with them. However, that evening the mother of one girl, Varya, was late – it was already ten o’clock, and Svetlana still did not come for her daughter. An employee of the center called the missing person, but the phone was turned off.

– What to do? – the elderly attendant Katerina Savelyevna, who had to close the classroom and go on rounds, clutched her head.

“Maybe we should just put her to bed?” – Nadya suggested.

Varya was already six, not so little.

– What if something happens at night? Our children are not left alone like this, it’s not supposed to be.