A year | Mats Hummels

II. White halls

Soon after Mats returned devastated from Berlin, he received a call in the middle of the hot, summer night. He was not sleeping, he couldn't. Season ended, Klopp is leaving, is he supposed to leave too? Where to?

As soon as his eyes adjusted to a bright phone screen, he was completely awoken from his night- thinks.

It was his brother who had a heavy pregnant girlfriend, Lisa. First thought that came to his mind was that he will welcome another member in his family. But the problem was that Lisa was eight, not nine months pregnant.

'can you come to the hospital? schnell'

'what happened? Is the baby okay? Is Lisa okay?'

'i don't know, just hurry up. We are in emergency room'

'ja. I'm on my way'

Mats quickly threw on his football shorts and plain white tee. He thought a moment about Cathy- he did not want to wake her up, but he knew that if she woke up and saw empty bed that she will go crazy, so he left a note. In that rush, note was written with messy handwriting and with a few grammatical mistakes.

He urgently made his way to Sankt-Johannes-Hospital, breaking speed limits.

When he entered the emergency room, his eyes searched for his best friend and brother, Jonas, who had red eyes, sitting on a orange plastic chair in a white hall which had a coffee machine in its right corner.

'Hi' he muttered trying to get Jonas' attention.

'She threw up blood two hours ago, they don't know what is happening' he said with his deep voice.

'Mann' was all that Mats was able to say as he hugged him.

They were inseparable since they were kids; Mats remembers how his parents told little three years old Mats that he is about to become a brother. He was so hyper about the incoming member of his family that he even re-named his fish into brother.

His heart really did break watching his little brother crying.

'It is going to be okay' he tried to comfort him, but Jonas looked at him simply asking him how he knew that it will be alright. He didn't know how to answer him.

The younger brother was a pessimist, while the older brother was an optimistic one.

They kept silent for next twenty minutes, with an occasional sigh from Jonas. There weren't many people in there; expect them there were sitting two women- each on the other side of the hall, four men sitting and one was pacing around.

Suddenly the glass doors opened.

An older woman was holding a younger one, who was barely awake. The older one had problems with holding the girl, so Mats, being the gentleman he is, stood up and ran to the woman, and right before the dark haired woman almost dropped also dark haired girl, he caught the younger one and prevented her fall.

'oh god, thank you' the older one said as he took the girl in his arms. She was light, and when he saw her face he realized that the woman was girl's mother. Mats, couldn't deny, the light, dark haired girl was beautiful.

When Jonas saw the scene, he quickly made his way to the woman who looked like she was in her forties.

Two doctors rushed in 'Frau Bešen, what happened?' asked one of the doctors on which she just said, 'the usual', on which Mats and Jonas looked at each other. They putted her in the wheelchair and quickly disappeared from their views.

'What happened to her?' Jonas quietly asked her, trying not to disturb anyone.

'She's sick' was the only thing that frau Bešen said with a blank face.She seemed like she knew what wold happen to her daughter.

Right after frau Bešen answered Jonas' question, a female doctor stepped into the white hall, loudly saying Lisa's last name. The brothers rushed to a doctor who said to them without eye contact staring at her papers 'she will be fine, the baby is fine. She can go home today at noon, her room number is 78' still staring at her papers.

Jonas who was laughing like a mad man, hugged Mats who had a bright smile on his face.

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idk what did i just write, i'm too tired to think

dedicated to @xgoetzex bc she is a bae