The feeling of homecoming

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I get out of the train with the expectation to know the place where I am now but I don't know anything here. The train starts to drive away behind me and I stand there like all my hopes got blown away. And I ask me again: " What am I supposed to do now?" I decide to sit down at a bench and take my legs near to my body so I can hug them. I feel so bad like I never ever did before. My father doesn't like me anymore, I'm unbelieveable far away from my home and my friends and on top of that I am somewhere where I've never been before.

Eventhough I am frustrated I decide to go to the center of the city and look where I am now. Maybe I will find a way to get something to eat. I take my suitcase and start to walk. The city I landed in seems to be very small. The houses look a little old and in front of everyhouse there is a little garden. It looks very nice here, I think.

When I walk across a bus station I feel like thunder and lightning come over me. I remember this place. I often took the bus here when I had to go to the doctor or something like that together with my mother. So I have to be at the right place. This thought makes me so happy, I just have to throw my suitcase away, jump in the air and clap my hands. I think I looked very stupid doing this. But that doesn't interest me at the moment.

I turn around to find a way I can remember and decide to go the way that leads along the street. Every house seems to be so familiar, at the right is the old school and directly next to the kindergarden where I went when I lived here. With every step I take I feel stronger. I nearly think, I can remember the smell. I walk until I reach a sign which has the name of the street on it where I used to live. The second house left it must be.

When I enter the garden I get very nervous. I would meet my mother soon. But there was no going back. With the last confidence I have I press the bell.  At the little sign under it stands the name of my mother. Yes she still lives here. I feel happines growing inside of me. I can hear someone walking down the stairs and the door opens.