Don`t talk to strangers

by Yuriy Borodulin

Little Jimmy has  woke up; it was a time to go to school. And as usual mother said , before he gone : “don`t talk to strangers, my dear!”.”Ok”- kid smiled kid and run fast by the road.

The way to school crossed the crowded area. But that day not many people were here . The attention of Jimmy attracted to the small man, who had a poster with an inscription: “I will make your dreams come true”.
He came up to the stranger, but as soon as he tried to ask the question, the man said: “Are you afraid of me?”.”Yes, I am.”-said  boy.”And why you are talking to me now?”.”Sorry, Mr, I was wondering…”.”What?”.”Why people don`t ask you to make their dreams come true?I have, and that is why I now talking with you.”“Why other people don`t go to me? Because only you can see me. Listen. Your mother was completely right when she told you to be careful with strangers. I really can make your best dream come true. I am the one, who appears here, on the Earth, once a millennium, and makes a wish. But I must  watch  you some time. And, if your wish will be interesting for me, I will … ”.”Sorry, Mr, I must go”-said Jimmy and run away fast to school. He was a bit confused and frightened, and decided that it will be better to obey  mother’s words.
The time has gone. Jimmy forgot his story, that happened when he was a child. He just graduated from the college and was going with a friends to celebrate . In  the bar they had a lot of fun. And when a converse between friends was in the midst, they decided to talk about their dreams, about the future. Jimmy said : “Everybody wishes money, cars… My mother told me to enter the Law university… But I want to play music, or to be a painter…I often have a dream, that a beautiful girl waits for me somewhere…  My mother wants me to marry girl of her choice…I want an answer”.
When he went out the bar and got  into his car to go home, the small man appeared, and asked to take him up to the nearest town. On the way the man propose Jimmy to deliver a pocket to some place, for a some re-numeration. But the main condition , he said, is not to open it. The boy agreed.
On the way he picked the girl, who was hitchhiking.He understood, that it is a girl from his dream. They talked and talked a lot. In the middle of the way they decided to stay for a one day in one town they had never been in. They visited a museum with a pictures, reproductions of the great painters. Inspired by this, Jimmy painted the picture of the suburban motel, where they stayed in the evening.
In the morning they continued their trip. But on the radio the police announced that  the  murderer on a yellow car is wanted, have  a murderer had a weapon in the pocket and he was not alone, with a girl. Jimmy understood that it was some mystery. He decided to get rid of his car, took the pocket and a girl and went on food  to place where the pocket must be delivered. On their road they saw a collision of police car and yellow car, that was burning. The policeman said them that the young man, a lawyer, killed his mother and escaped in the car. Jimmy understood, that he was in the crossing of the future and the past, and decided to deliver the pocket at the nearest time.
When he reached the place of destiny, he saw the little man, from his childhood. In the pocket there was a poster with an inscription ; “I will make your wish come true”.The man said:”I promised you I will revive your dream. And it will be a ru-numeration of your job. The sense of your life is that the future is not certain; all is in your hands. So if you follow all these rules, any of your dream will come true.”
When Limmy returned home, he married a girl of his dream and entered Art university. And lived his life happily.