An irish Lovestory - the summer of Life

Truth or Dare

But since no one needs six hours to get dressed up a bit, they go to explore the area around the farm again. When they arrive back at around six, they settle into the little house and all take another shower before getting ready. At nine o'clock sharp they are ready and go into the big main house, where the dining room and the kitchen are. From far away they can hear the music and the laughter of some of their classmates. Cautiously, the girls enter the room and quickly find themselves among some already quite drunk boys. When everyone from the class is there, Charlie suggests playing truth or dare. He too is already slightly drunk. But nobody objects and soon everyone is sitting next to each other in a circle on the floor and spinning a bottle.

Soon the bottle points to Luke and he chooses duty. "Okay Luke, you have to kiss a girl who isn't Carlotta!" says Jonas. He knows Anastasia won't find that funny, but he doesn't care right now. Luke looks at Carlotta for a moment, but she nods. He leans over to Helen for a moment and gives her a kiss, which she doesn't return. Then he leans back and takes Carlotta's hand again. Luke looks at her questioningly for a moment and she nods. She knows he would never cheat on her with Helen and she would tell her straight away. So Luke turns the bottle, which a short time later points to Charlie, who chooses Truth. "If you had to be with one girl in our class, who would it be?"
Charlie doesn't think twice and says, "Definitely our Irish Wildcat!" All the colour drains from Luke's face, as does Helen and Carlotta. Faster than the girls could stop him, Luke jumps up and lunges at Charlie. Everyone watches, paralysed, until Mr Folks and Mrs Niebeck, attracted by the noise, come into the room. "What's going on here?!" screams Mrs Niebeck. Luke and Charlie are still hanging together in a ball and don't notice the teachers. The teachers stand by in shock, because actually Luke and Charlie get on reasonably well and have never been guilty of anything.
After the initial shock, Carlotta stands up and tries to break the two boys up. She shouts: "Leave each other alone for once! That's what worked in Ireland!" But that doesn't help either.

Some of her classmates look at Carlotta in amazement. Normally she rarely says anything in class and then usually so quietly that she is not well understood. But now she is standing here between the two squabblers and shouting.
When the two start to completely tear each other apart, Carlotta decisively intervenes and pulls them apart. But they don't really notice and she gets a kick in the pit of her stomach and then a punch in the nose. She staggers backwards a little, but then quickly catches herself and turns Luke's hands behind her back while she focuses Charlie's eyes on her. She whispers in Luke's ear to please step outside the door for a moment and she'll be right behind, but has a quick bone to pick with Charlie. Reluctantly, he leaves the room. The others are sent out by the teachers.
She touches her nose briefly and sees the blood on her hands. Helen has meanwhile fetched some ice cream from the kitchen and gives it to her and her brother. She has already given Luke some ice cream outside the door. In the meantime, Mrs Niebeck has already joined Luke outside the door and Mr Folks tries to talk to Charlie and Carlotta. But Carlotta doesn't exactly make it easier for him, as she talks quite hard at Charlie and doesn't let him get a word in edgewise. "Carlotta, I don't understand a word, but could you please go to your room first. Later, one of us will come and tell you how it's going to go now!" says Mr Folks, visibly annoyed that the class trip is already escalating on the first evening.
Carlotta leaves the room, slightly hunched over, and walks across the courtyard to her cottage. Anastasia is already waiting for her.

When the nosebleeds stop half an hour later, Carlotta lies down on the bed and falls asleep. Mrs Niebeck comes by again to talk to her, but since Carlotta is already asleep, the teacher postpones the conversation until the next morning and leaves the girls alone. Of course she doesn't know that Luke has only been waiting for the teacher to finally leave. He quietly sneaks across the courtyard to the girls' house and slips through the window. Helen gets the shock of her life when he suddenly appears in front of her, but then carefully wakes Carlotta and leaves the room, because Charlie is sitting in the living room and actually wanted to apologise to Carlotta. But Charlie of all people should not know that Luke is with her.
Luke talks quietly to Carlotta. "Do I hear jealousy in your voice?" Carlotta asks him. He answers: "Maybe a little. But Charlie just drives me crazy. I know you like him and I know you would never leave me for him, but I just can't control my jealousy sometimes!"

Carlotta sits down, takes him by the hand and pulls him into the living room. Charlie immediately jumps up from the couch and hides behind Helen. Carlotta holds Luke behind her and stops him from going after Charlie. "You're going to talk it out and make up now!" hisses Helen and the other girls nod as if in confirmation. Carlotta and Helen sit the two of them down on the sofa opposite each other and stand behind them, just in case. The two boys glare angrily at each other, but Luke tries to be the more sensible of the two and says, "I'm sorry for going off on you like that, but with Carlotta I might get a little... too. jealous." Charlie still scowls at him, a little afraid, but he nods and says, "You're right, but it was my fault too. I should be careful next time whether I provoke you or rather someone else. And I should also watch out if Carlotta is around, because we already got her pretty badly!" Luke turns to his girlfriend again. Now in the light, her nose still looks pretty bad and has turned slightly blue. He pulls her to him on the sofa and elicits a low moan from her. She curls up a little and tries not to let on, but Luke notices immediately that something is wrong. "We caught you somewhere else, didn't we?" he asks her, to which she shakes her head. But Luke is not shaken off that easily and pulls her top up a little. Shocked, he tears his eyes open. "Fuck Carlotta, that can be life-threatening! If you have any internal bleeding, you can bleed to death without anyone noticing!" Car-lotta nods in pain and Luke adds, "You also need to eat more again! We had that six months ago, didn't we!" She closes her eyes and bites her lip. Luke pulls up the sleeves of her thin jacket to take her pulse and finds several bruises. Before he can say anything, Carlotta, stubborn as she is, pulls the sleeves back down and says, "I bumped myself!" Luke doesn't believe her, but says nothing more about it. He picks her up and puts her back in the bed.
"You stay here now, keep cooling your nose and I'll see how we're going to explain to Mrs Niebeck that you have such bruises on your stomach." He takes her hand and squeezes it briefly. Then he leaves the room, leaves the door open and goes to the others.

"This definitely needs to be looked at by a doctor, not just a GP!" Helen nods and runs out of her house to Mr Folk's room. As a sports teacher, he must know a bit about what to do.
He immediately runs to the cottage and looks at the spot on Carlotta's tummy. "You have to let me know if something is wrong! In any case, a doctor has to take a look at it, and he has to do it tonight. Otherwise you'll soon have another near-death experience on your CV!" Carlotta shakes her head, but it's no use, her teacher has already pulled out her mobile phone and is dialling the emergency number.
Fifteen minutes later, when an ambulance pulls up to the courtyard and stops in front of the little house, Vera is looking out of the window on the other side of the courtyard, amused. The paramedics go to Carlotta and ask her a few questions as they examine her. "We'll have to look at that at the hospital, we can't diagnose it here yet, but it looks very much like internal bleeding." She looks at them with wide eyes; She is panic-stricken about the hospital, especially after what happened six months ago. But it's no use, one of them already fetches a stretcher and a short time later she is placed on it and pushed into the ambulance. "Mr Folks, would it perhaps be possible for me to come with you?", Luke asks the teacher, who nods. The girls would have liked to come too, but it is enough if two students are in the hospital.