Holy Lolyan couldn’t stand and on the diabetes diagnosing private laboratory’s accounting department’s narrow sofa at 23:20 had sex with Anatoly Ayounts, director and establisher of newly opened institution, PhD on Medical Sciences…
And this on that case the guard Patcho theoretically should have been awoken, because the plaintive sounds of his favorite soap-opera were making cry along the corridor (anyway till 1:30),
In that case, that after midnight she had internet dating with his fiancé, living in Germany…
When after 1:05 the mobile was restless calling and on the screen were appearing Artashok Kyanqoul (explanation: Artashok: name, Kyanqul: Honey) (Germany, Hamgurg), then Qnar Qurik (expl: Qnar: name, Qurik: sister) (Lori region, village Vardablur), or Siranush Sister (Yerevan, 2nd district) numbers…
In that case when Anatoly Ayounts’s, considered by the wide and narrow society as philosophically and biologically indifferent to women’s, last memories about carnal love had 10 year’s remoteness…
In that case, when tomorrow after afternoon the special group of tax inspection would come to laboratory for checking and a lot of documentary was still half-done…
When the information about hidden cameras, as if replaced in all the holes of this institution, hasn’t been finally denied…
When from 9 till 11 in the morning was going in for German lessons and an exam for the embassy of Germany in a week…
In that case, when she saw the pictures of the kitchen furniture of already rented 2 two-bedroom apartment in Hamburg and said: «Isn’t red a bit much, Arty? »…
In case of conditions of her charm, which is a bit higher of middle, up to 29 years, that is up to engaging with Artashok + 3 days, had kept, her so-called virginity…
In that case when for creating a couple he – Artashes Hakobyan, middle aged, 2nd wave Armenian emigrant returned to his motherland, to whom, as to any normal European, would be satisfied even by the fact of Holy’s not being infected with A, B, C hepatitis , AIDS or pig flue, had exclaimed on her being innocence: «You are an angel…» and tears appeared in his eyes (according to psychologist – it’s because of the stress, as such things he had seen only in downloaded porn-films)…
In that case when then she Mayor’s elder son Nikoghos, who was arriving from the village to Yerevan twice a month, proudly said – NO! And didn’t take the lovely basket of apricot roses…
In that case when she overcame the difficult years of sexual ripening and pustules, with the Accounting and First Aid Courses…
In that case when after the long and suffering times of unemployment, her first employer «Gentleman Bar» owner’s son said: «I’ll steal you… I’ll cut my veins… I’ll tell everybody… I’ll tell my dad…». She: «No! No! Nooooo! » …
In that case when on her middle sister’s wedding her father said: «If only I could reach my Holy her dream, I don’t need anything else from God, then I can die calmly» and, in fact, the meaning of his life was considered half because of her sin…
In that case when she had visited any place of Armenia and Nagorno Katabakh for many programs with the volunteers of «Green Earth» NGO, far from home for days… Guys – Arman, Aram, Aren, Ara, any of them could be her, if she ever would have blinked eyes, but didn’t do…
In that case when some 3 years ago she was a chief accountant in the AC store and when about the tax hidden millions got from commodity turnover knew only Mr. Khudgaryan and she, she refused the Renault Twigo Dolce Vita, 1 room- apartment and juridical Diploma, which he had offered.
In that case that her ill mother with blood cancer 3 weeks ago before dying said “Girl, if you don’t get married, it’s your problem, but at least have flirts, you crazy, get a lover, now-days aren’t like our old times, now there is Facebook, and other… Your life has passed… Your plusing and minusing wouldn’t have end… If you take your that Antashyan… is not a bad boy »…
In that case when since November of 2001 (not including weekend and holydays ) every day she had passed through the narrow and dirty 30 meters part of the road, intended for wholesale of potatoes and «enjoyed» the 5-8 «compliments» of potato-sellers from Qyavar, Vardenis and kept her- control…
In that case when Artashok, had bribed a little Tsakhkadzor’s 4 stars hotel’s administrator Ashkhen, who was on duty, for changing the linen, and she had thought herself: «I am finally bored of your red apples*» …
On that case, when she had counted the days waiting for Artashok, like waiting for the day of discharging for the soldier’s during the whole day she had played with her engagement ring with great yellow topaz, she had drunk water mixed with honey before sleeping, carrot juice-after getting up, did the morning exercise with the first channel, and waited for the interview in the embassy…
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Right on the sofa of the accounting department, then on the table, covered with different papers, book-keeping books and office-equipments’ heaps, then on the window-sill, then… Anatoly Ayounts said: «My sweet… », and then she said… something and adds: «More, more, more…”
*Red Apple – According to Armenian tradition girls must maintain their virginity for husband and when at first marriage night virginity of girl is being established, the boy’s relatives take a red apple to the girl’s house as a symbol of her innocence. Generally the metaphor of «red apple» in Armenian tradition is associated with girl’s virginity.
2010
Translated by Vard Ghukasyan
