Everything's gonna be alright (English)✅

Chapter 14

My forehead is full of blood, which has already spread over my cheek...my mouth is already completely blood-stained, but what worries me most right now is my arm... it doesn't bleed, it just hurts like hell...

I feel dizzy and broken, Marshall is getting slower and slower, I think because he can't carry me anymore...

"How much longer?"

"Huh...?"

"Yeah sorry-"

"Wait I'll try...still five minutes?"

He says with a somewhat strange-sounding English, but well, he tried, I only smile briefly, he does too, then I just say:

"Thank you" and it goes on.

We would have to be on the road for 10 minutes at the moment...so not for long...boar, I feel so broken...I think I actually fell asleep...

P.O.V. Marshall:

Ah shit I feel so bad for her I mean her blood is running down my shoulder and seeping through my hoodie... I'm hurrying as much as I can but she's getting really heavy... I know , it won't be long now, but I don't know how much longer she can hold out like this...

Her head lolls onto my shoulder, shit, she's unconscious... I'm running as fast as I can to get her to safety. She lost way too much blood, shit...

"Hey, hey, you can do it, it's not far anymore..."

We're already at the trailer park settlement, turn again and we've made it... I'm going extra fast. I stagger up the steps, kick in the door and once inside, I set it straight onto the sofa.

I look at her, shit, she doesn't look very good, I'll clean up the blood first...so I get a wet washcloth, dab the blood off her face with it and rummage around for a first aid kit.

I quickly take care of her and brush her hair out of her face. Damn, she looks pretty pretty, but what does that mean...? She's just the only person I talk to, but well, friends? I don't know, I think there's more...more than just one person I can talk to, no, not a just a friend or anything... I think it goes in a completely different direction...

P.O.V. Josie:

I wake up on a sofa, I'm totally dizzy and I have no idea where I am...my head hurts like hell and I could fall over dead now...I look around and see that Marshall is frantically coming towards me.

"Josie...how do ya' feel?"

"I'm dizzy...and my arm hurts..."

"Your arm? Look at your face?!"

"But it fells more worse than my head..."

"Let me take a look"

I hold my arm to him and he rolls up my sweater. I look at my arm, full of hematomas...it really hurts...

"Shit..."

I only hear Marshall say...

"I'll go and get ya' some water..."

"Yeah..."

He goes away briefly and comes back with a glass of water. He looks up to me under his cap and looks quite tense... he hands me the water and takes off his hoodie, from which he still has a white T-shirt on, a red blood stain pulls over his shoulder to his chest.

"I'm sorry..."

"Why?"

"My blood... I ruined your hoodie and your shirt..."

"Don't worry, I have enough of 'em"

"Oh-okay"

I smile at him and he smiles, it looks kind of pretty cute, then suddenly a small, blonde-haired girl comes in, she is still quite small, estimated to be 2 or 3 years old...

"Hey baby, Lily... what ya' doin' here?"

He then says with one voice, with one you talk to small children...that's kind of cute... Marshall spreads his arms and the girl, Lily, taps into his arms. He hugs her very much and he then lifts her onto his lap. She leans against him and he looks at her.

"I'm hungry"

Says Lily then...

"Yeah, give me just a minute, we have a guest tonight..."

"Marshall..."

So Lily is hungry, well, I honestly also a bit...it's already late in the afternoon...

Then Marshall turns back to me and looks me into my eyes with a very special smile on his face.

"Do you want to eat somethin'?"

"Well, I wouldn't say no..."

"Okay, I'll make some...pasta?"

"With tomato sauce!"

Call Lily in between...joa, I'd probably like it too...

But what I still wonder is, who is Lily? But not...his daughter, right?

So I look at Marshall a little questioningly, then look at Lily and then again at him.

"Is she, your... Daughter?"

I'll ask him in German so that it doesn't come across so stupid in front of her...

"Nah...my lil' sister...but what?! I'm just 19!? She's 3?!"

"Well, I don't know..."

"Yeah sure, I'm sorry..."

He then says a little sad and scratches his neck. I stand up and sit upright on the sofa, then I put my legs on the floor.

"What's with your mom?"

I then ask him, shortly after I thought about how to say it...

"Lily, go play baby..."

Says Marshall to Lily and Lily quickly taps back through a door.

"She-... She's not more living with us...after I've won the guardianship of Lily, our mum went into rehab, she was addicted to alcohol..."

He looks slightly bent...maybe it was somehow an inappropriate question...?

"Oh Shit...uhmm... I'm sorry, I don't know 'bout that..."

"Hey, it's fine...that's not your fault..."

"Thank you'..."

I smile at him and he pulls up a corner of his mouth... luckily he doesn't take it so badly...

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940 words, 11.11.22, 21:15

So, wasn't it carnival today?

A slightly longer chapter...

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