Everything's gonna be alright (English)✅

Chapter 32

Marshall and I are preparing something to eat. After all, we also eat and I go into the shower quickly at 10 o'clock. Man, how far I've come... From Germany with good conditions, to Detroit on 8Mile Road, in a trailer park, in the middle of nothing...with someone I haven't known for so long...if you see it that way, this is something without a future...

Then I dry myself and get dressed. I'm going back to Lily and Marshall. They are sitting on the sofa. Marshall is messing around on his note again and Lily is painting something. I sit down and watch Lily paint.

Jo: "When do you have your meeting at the studio?"

Ma:"Uhm at 2pm..."

Jo: "Should I stay with Lily?"

Ma:"Nah, I'll drop her at the kindergarden and you'll come with me..."

Jo:"Okay...and when do we have to leave?"

Ma:"Well...we could go now... Lily, com'on, time for kindergrden..."

So we get ready and then leave the house...as always, we take the bus and leave Lily at the kindergarten.

Ma:"Well...it's 11:30am, we could go to a restaurant..."

Jo: "Do you have any money on you?"

Ma: "Just 5 dollars...you?"

Jo:"only one dollar..."

Ma:"Well...we could buy fries..."

Jo: "Yeah sure, where?"

Ma: "There's a Burger king down this street..."

We walk down the street and each order a fries... actually we don't have enough money to get a fries, in general we are quite short of cash...

Ma:"So, we have to take the bus at 13:30 and arrive at 13:55...an hour left..."

Jo:"Yeah...when have we been the last time in school?"

Ma:"Prolly two weeks ago..."

Jo:"I actually never was that type of kid...when I was sick, it didn't matter to me, I went to school, even if I couldn't walk straight anymore..."

Ma:"well...school wasn't that big part of my life... I went when I want...but I often didn't care..."

Jo: "I wasn't that bad in school... I had a best friend, my grades were ok, and the subjects too...but right now, I feel like I've just hit the rock bottom..."

Ma:"The rock bottom?"

Jo:"Instead of living a normal way, I chose the other one...which is kinda different..."

Ma: "Yeah..."

Jo: "I mean, we just don't have enough money to pay food, right?"

Ma:"unfortunately yes..."

Jo: "Don't you want to change something too?"

Ma:"I try my best, try to prove everyone wrong who never believed in me...that's how I try to handle it..."

Jo: "I believe in you, look how far you made it till this point!"

Ma: "Not far enough..."

Jo: "Com'on, you just started..."

He laughs nzr lightly and stares desperately at the table...I've never seen him so thoughtfully...a completely different side that the man gets to know there...

After half an hour, we finally make our way to the bus stop and take the bus. I still can't figure out how I live now, why I'm looked at so pejoratively by other people, or what my goal is in general. We didn't even have enough money to buy ketchup or mayo with the fries, let alone a drink... There wouldn't even have been any water in it. You think it was just the money we had with us, no, it's all the money we had to eat...

We paid the rest of our money for the demo, the cost of the release and the advertising...all just in the hope of a turn... Finally, the bus stops and we get off.

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623 words, 05.02.23, 23:15

Here's a new part, hope you like it... A question, are you more Team McDonald's or Team Burger King? Me, Burger King :)

Btw, please comment on your favorite song :) Especially from Eminem... Joa, that's it...

~L.S.