Therapist friend

Chapter 1

Friday, 2:07pm
Luca was just about to work on some stuff he was planning to do for a long time, when he got a notification.
It was from Micheal: „Hey dude, I'm not feeling too well, can we talk?"
Of course he called Michael immediately, saying that he will do the things he planned afterwards. Little did he know he was actually lying to himself. He always thought his friends were more important than anything else. So he wanted his friends to be happy. He always helped them no matter what he planned to do, no matter if he was busy... it didn't even matter if he wasn't feeling too well himself, because his friends were more important than anything. Even more important than his own well being.
When Michael ended the call it was already 5pm. Luca was tired but happy that he was able to help his friend. He was relieved, knowing that Michael is smiling and isn't that sad anymore. He was about to close discord, but instead of doing the things he planned to do, he got another message.
It was from Ryan this time: „Hey man, remember what we talked about Monday? It's kinda all coming back and it would be nice to talk to someone..."
Tommy felt a little bit guilty. Has he not helped him enough? Did he say the wrong things? Is he a bad friend? Stopping himself from his overthinking he called him Ryan. He was listening him talking for three hours. Ryan was about to end the call as Luca got a phone call from his best friend Max. He quickly said goodbye to Ryan, already feeling bad for cutting him off, and answered the phone:
„Is everything fine? Do you need help with someth-"
He got cut off by Max chuckling and greeting him.
„Thanks for asking, I'm doing great. Thanks to you actually. You helped me a lot in the past weeks and I really appreciate it. I don't say it often, but I am really thankful you're here for me and I don't know what I would do without you."
„Aww thanks. I'm really happy to hear that I was able to help you and you're feeling better again."
They talked about what was going on in their lives for a while until Max asked him a question:
„What do you think of visiting me for a while? I don't know maybe a month or something. We haven't seen each other for a while now and I'm starting to miss you."
Luca's first thought was obviously saying yes but then he remembered his friends.
„I don't know Max, like I'd really like to but some friends have been needing some help recently and I have to be available to call them and stuff."
Max stayed silent for some seconds until he started talking again:
„Luca, I don't think you should focus your whole lifeboat on helping others. You don't always have to be available. You're allowed to have fun and live your life!"
„I know but-"
„Not buts! I really want you to be happy and see you again! You want me to be happy, right? You can make me really happy by visiting me! So please come."
To that Luca couldn't say anything more. He just agreed silently, already worrying about how to help his friends while being at Max's.
They agreed to Luca visiting him next Monday. After they ended the call, Luca quickly wrote a message to all of his friends saying he's visiting Max for a month and will be pretty busy because of that.