31 Her Unconditional Love

This is how her bond with Rafał Brylski began, which has lasted for seventeen years.

About that day, Rafał appeared in her life and stayed there. Mr. and Mrs. Janiszek made sure to be the foster parents of an eight-year-old. For formal reasons, the boy was not subject to adoption, but after a month of efforts, it was possible to make him live in the same house as Anita, creating a foster family with her. Therefore, they grew up like real siblings.

But they were not related by blood. They were never a family formally either. Rafał, on the other hand, grew up to be a very handsome young man and the teenage Anita naturally developed a slightly different kind of love towards him. Rafał, however, was completely blind and deaf to her emotions and suggestions, or even more direct suggestions.

Then Anita understood why this was happening and cried all night in despair. In the morning she wiped her eyes and said that she loves Rafał even more, but now she doesn't want anything from him except for him to be happy. His smile was her smile, his tears were her tears. From that day on, Anita was ready to let her arm be cut off so that this dear sweet boy - no, already a young man - would experience the happiness of normal people in his life.

This state of affairs has continued until now. Maybe it even got worse, because despite the passage of time, Rafał remained the same. In Anita, anger grew towards the whole world, which first took something very valuable from Rafał, and now refused to give it back to him. To make matters worse in her older brother's life, there were more people who wanted to hurt him. Like a furious mama bear defending her baby, Anita Janiszek was ready to defend Brylski even with the use of force. No matter how powerful the person who wants to hurt him is.

At this point, director Różycki was number one on her list. It was because of him that Rafał almost lost his life. Anita, however, could console herself with the hope that perhaps Radosz's appearance on stage would change the director's unfair behavior. After all, when someone looks at Różycki's hands while keeping an eye on his business, he may be a bit more composed and will be less challenging on Brylski.

Anita noticed that Damian Radosz liked Rafal. Rafał also liked him. Such liking, however, is nothing more than a simple positive relationship between two colleagues, and that is what the relationship between these two men should be. Anita Janiszek really hoped that Radosz would one day not decide to use his good relations with Rafał solely for his own earning purposes. This hope, however, had a difficult fight against the experience so far.

Rafał was just too nice, and such people are the first to be devoured by the wolves of the human world.

The young woman checked to see if her friend had taken his medication and shook her head. It is true that these were not real drugs, although prescribed by a doctor, only supplements to strengthen him, but in his current state, Rafał had to take them, otherwise he would not regain strength and his health would worsen. Anita will have to scold him healthily and make sure that he swallows his pills politely. She was already planning how to do this when someone knocked on the door.

Not foreseeing anything suspicious, she went to open it.

"Good morning," said a slim, almost bald man with a few days of stubble on his face. “We are from the police. I am Commissioner Beskidzki, and this is Deputy Commissioner Klewczuk” the men showed her their IDs. “We'd like to talk to Mr. Brylski.”

Anita gripped the doorframe tighter. She was not expecting a visit from the police.

“And what's going on?” She asked hesitantly, but determined to defend the entrance if it was something serious and they didn't have an arrest warrant.

The policemen looked at each other.

“There was an accident on the set with the participation of Mr. Brylski” explained Beskidzki with an understanding smile. “We would like to hear his version of the events as a victim and as a witness.”

"Ah, yes," Anita clearly hesitated. She glanced at the bathroom, which clearly heard the sound of a shower. “I don't know, can I let you in without Rafał's consent... Can you wait?”

The policemen politely nodded. After all, they were not dealing with a suspect, but with a victim. There was nothing to do with anything. Many people, completely innocent, are afraid of contact with the police because they always associate the police with a crime or an accident.

“Rafał, the gentlemen from the police want to talk to you!” Anita called quietly standing at the bathroom door. “Dress quickly.”

“Then give me some clothes! Wait, are they already in my room?”

“Not yet. I told them to wait outside.”

Anita ran to the wardrobe and took out a casual set of clothes. Rafał was just coming out of the bathroom wiping his hair and having another towel wrapped around his hips. He reached for his clothes and began to put on a T-shirt.

“And the shorts?” he admonished, already having trousers in hand and looking for underwear.

“I forgot” Janiszek immediately ran to the drawer and took out his clean underwear.

“Thanks.”

Rafał was already fastening his pants and Anita was just bringing towels to the bathroom. The whole action lasted no more than a minute.

“I'm sorry you had to wait” Rafał opened the door. “I just got up and took my morning shower. Please, gentlemen, come in.”

The policemen repeated the act of identifying themselves. Brylski invited them inside.

“Please, gentlemen, sit down ...” Rafał asked and scratched his head with embarrassment when he realized that there was only one chair and an unmade bed in the room and four people. “Sorry, but I can't propose better terms.”

“No problem” Beskidzki smiled as he took a chair. “My friend is young. Will stand. Please.”

Rafał scooped up the hotel bedding in a pile and squatted on the edge of the bed.

“It's about an accident on set, isn't it?” He asked.

“Yes” Commissioner Beskidzki confirmed. “It was an accident at the workplace and it ended in a life-threatening situation, so we need to investigate.”

Rafał sighed heavily.

"I don't remember much," he admitted, "so I don't know if I can really help, but ask."

“Why don't you remember much?” Beskidzki asked softly, but Rafał was not surprised that the policeman spoke so gently. Almost all the policemen with whom he spoke so far referred to him in this way.

“The doctor said it was the sun. The stroke disturbed my perception. It is difficult to say exactly when this happened.”

"Then what is the last thing you remember?"

“I remember that I was hot. I looked up at the sky, then at the people below, and thought I'd like to get off that sun.”

“Have you told anyone?”

“No. The shooting was about to begin, but someone knocked the lamp over. Then I closed my eyes and thought I needed a little more patience.”

“What happened next?”

"I don't remember," Rafał shook his head helplessly.

“And before?” asked Beskidzki.

“Earlier ... Earlier I went to the roof with my colleague from F / X. Mr. Mońka checked my harness on the ground and gave me the green light that I could get on the roof. We got on the roof, Mr. Mońka and the guys put me in the right position, made sure that I knew how to move and Mr. Mońka checked the harness and all fasteners once again. The crane guy had some trouble, so Mr. Monka went to check. Everything was okay so he signaled the director that he could start…”