Ich Liebe Dich.

Chapter twenty nine.

Achim's Pov.

The doctor runs some tests on me, asks for a signature and I am free to go. Finally I'll get out of this hospital. I find my own car at the parking lot. Doesn't matter how much I beg, Tichalt won't let me drive. Pouting, I sit in the car while he drives. He parks my camaro in front of Chris' house. I get out of car only to be lead into the same room I was in before my suicide attempt.

"There are clothes on the bed and some makeup in the bathroom. Get dressed, I 'll wait in my room. It's next to yours, so you know."

I walk past the table only to walk back again. On the table there are scissors. I stare at those and then grab them and take them with me to the bathroom. I look at my long dark hair. I don't even feel bad when I cut it. I'm not the man I were. I am never going to be that man again. I tried to kill myself in this bathroom, so it's only fair that the monstrous Joachim Teufel is going to die in this room for real. He will never come back. He is dead for good. As I finish the cutting, I style my hair to the side, some bangs still falling in to my eyes, but he is gone. So I do my make up little bit darker than usually and get dressed.

Tilo's pov.

The man, who steps into the room, his face is the same, but his hair is shorter, make up darker.

"Achim?"

He nods to me and then smiles a small smile.

"Why did you cut your hair?"

"It was something that represented the old Achim to me, I wanted to get rid of him forever."

Now I understand, I stand up and hug him. He is maybe a head taller than I am, so his jaw rests on my head.

"Thank you for understanding."

I nod against his chest. Of course I understand him.

"Let's get some breakfast, Achim."

He lets himself to be lead to the kitchen by me. Where Meinhard is enjoying his morning tea. He sends a hateful glare to Achim and doesn't answer to his 'good morning' wish. I know that it makes Achi sad, he just doesn't show it. Wait, Achi? Since when am I giving nicknames? I shake my head to get rid of this thought and start to stand up, but I am pushed back down the same second.

"Do you still drink coffee like you used to?"

I nod, what is he planning? He talks a few whispered words with Ulrike.
He digs out two mugs and starts doing coffee. He smiles at me warmly when he sets the cup down in front of me.

"Here you go, Tichalt."

I thank him and start drinking. Somehow he always was good at making coffee and cooking.

Meinhard's Pov.

As Achim smiles at Tilo, something clicked in me. Maybe he really has changed? Looking those two interact with each other and trying to convince my own mind that abusers don't change, gets more difficult with every passing second. A strange sound wakes wakes me from my thoughts. I look up to see Achim with his head thrown back. He was laughing whole heartedly, while Tilo was smiling at him. I have heard him laugh coldly, bug never warmly like he is doing now. He is so different from what he was like few months ago. Maybe Chris is right about him not going to hurt any of us anymore like he used to do. Tilo whispers something to Achim before he raises and leaves the kitchen altogether. Achim comes and sits next to me.

"I have already apologized to you, but I would love to do so again. Please, even if you can't accept my apology, just don't hate me like you do now. I'll never hurt you again, I won't hurt Tichalt either."

I think a second about his words, before opening my mouth to answer him.

26.04.2017

687 words.