The Seventh

Chapter 7

"yeah,,, OK,, so, what do we say?" Richard asked with his voice filled with stress. He and Till were driving to Emma's school to see the counselor.
"we wait to see what she has to say then we talk, Reesh for God's sake stop cracking your fingers, you're making me nervous" Till raised his voice.
"I've never done mundane shit like this before, I don't know what to do" he stopped cracking his fingers.
"What? and I have? It's no big deal"
"you can act chill, you've had years of practice you anti social asshole" he huffed a nervous laugh.
Till couldn't help but grin. "just do me a favor and don't make any implication that makes her think we're a couple"
"God you're such a fuckin Homophobe" Richard teased him.
Till looked at him with disbelief "you want me to fuck you right on the spot and prove you wrong?" he teased back. "I've seen how you look at Schneider when you're too drunk to walk" he teased Richard further.
"you haven't seen shit, shut your mouth" Richard shot at him.
"ooh come on it's been 20 years, you think I don't know your horny face?" Till smirked at him.
"maybe a decade ago I had a thing for him, but not now, seriously I'm straight" he tried to explain himself.
Till parked the car in front of the school. "Sure" He smirked again. Richard punched him in his shoulder and said a quiet "fuck you"

They entered the office and the woman made them a hand gesture that invited them to sit down. "Thank you for coming, Mr lindemann, Mr kruspe. I'm Mrs grey" she nodded. They nodded back and greeted her and sat down.
"you wanted to see us?" Till asked.
"yes, I told Emma that I wanted to see her parents a week ago but apparently she didn't tell you two"
"She did, we were very busy with our jobs" Richard lied in a cold tone.
"I see, and what is your job exactly Mr kruspe?" she asked.
"um... We're musicians" Richard blinked.
"What kind of music if I may ask?" she was interested. Richard looked at Till, he seemed unsure.
"Industrial Metal" Till answered.
"What do you call yourselves?" Her eyes snapped.
"Rammstein" Richard rose an eyebrow and couldn't control the snobbery in his voice.
"I see," She sounded judgmental. "must be difficult having your spouse in your... workplace" She said with a hint of an odd smile.
"Mrs Grey, we're not a couple, you've had the wrong impression" Richard said and rolled his eyes.
"Then why are you listed as a parent here? Besides Emma told me you were her father as well" she was surprised.
"I am, well I'm her god father to be accurate, but we did raise her together" he sounded very proud. Till couldn't control his kind smile at him.
"Mr lindemann where is Emma's mother? She didn't say anything to me" she asked Till.
"Because she doesn't know her and honestly that's not a topic that I'm comfortable talking about" He was deathly cold now. She sensed it and didn't ask more about it.
"Emma has never been in a school, why is that?" She changed the subject.
"We were always on tour in different parts of the world or we were recording albums some where in the middle of nowhere so sending her to school was almost impossible until we came here in San Francisco to record our upcoming album, we will probably stay here for about 10 month and I thought she needed to be around people her own age for once and here she is, besides she's had a complete education, we were never negligent about that" Till explained.
"I'm sure you weren't, she might be an odd kid, very odd actually but she's also very intelligent, all her teachers say that"
"What do you mean odd kid?" Richard was offended.
"She's silent, all the time, no one hears her talk, usually kids like this get bullied but I've never seen anyone trying to bully her, she actually doesn't answer people when they talk to her, she either doodles somethin or stares at an unknown distance, hasn't it ever concerned you?"
"No because she's never like that at home, we actually have to ask her to be quiet sometimes" Richard smiled trying to be polite.
"What does she usually do at home?" She asked.
"She plays with us a lot, she's a very talented musician, she reads a lot and plays games with the others at home" Till answered.
"how many of you are there?"
"six" Richard said.
"so she lives with six musicians? That explains it then" She said with the same judgy look. "Explains what?" Till asked.
She cleared her voice trying to find the right words then said "About two weeks ago one of the teachers caught her in the maintenance closet having sex"
Their eyes snapped, they gasped in surprise. "WHAT?" Till almost shouted. "tell me they were protected" he stood up knowing this would happen one day but he wasn't ready for it this soon besides he couldn't believe that Emma didn't tell them something like this. She's always told them every single thing that happened to her.
"Oh... They didn't need to Mr lindemann, two girls having sex doesn't really require any protection" She said calmly.
"She was with a girl,?" Richard's expression turned into something between relief and happiness, Till's as well.
"Yes Mr kruspe,,, now,,, we don't have any problems with homosexuality but we definitely have a problem with students having sex in the maintenance closet specially when the said students have no relationship with each other what so ever, no one has ever seen them together and suddenly we caught them like that, this type of behavior is not acceptable. I hope we're on the same page here" her tone was cold. After they assured her that they were on the same page and promised it would not happen again and she blabbed more and more, they finally got out of the school and sat in the car.
"I knew it, I told you that years ago" Richard shouted with excitement.
"Why didn't she tell us tho?" he added.
"yeah we knew she was gay Reesh, stop being happy about it" Till smirked and said "I don't know why she didn't say anything, maybe she wasn't sure?" he assumed.
"and then she goes and fucks some one in the maintenance closet, that's my girl" Richard was so proud it made Till laugh.
"OK shut up now, how are we gonna talk to her about this?" Till asked.
"I don't know Man, I just wanna know why she didn't tell us"

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"yep, I knew" Paul said when they told the others about what happened, everyone but Paul was surprised.
"what do you mean you knew?" Till asked him.
"I picked her up from school the day it happened, she came out of the school all flushed and messy. I knew something had happened the second I saw her. Remember I called you and told you we're gonna go for an ice cream? She told me about it in the funniest words possible, poor kid flushed harder with every word." Paul smiled.
"Why didn't you tell us then?" Richard was annoyed.
"She made me promise not to, said she'd tell you herself. I mean come on,,, we knew she was gay since forever, the kid's entire aura screams lesbian"
"Remember when she was six and asked that girl at the after show party to let her touch her boobs?" Schneider  laughed. Others were laughing too.
"and she let her, oh my god she's such a little weirdo," Richard was practically crying with laughter. "remember my wedding day with Caron? She made a ring out of a wire or something and asked khira to marry her" They were bursting in laughter.
"So we talk to her or we wait for her to tell us?" Schneider asked after minutes of laughing.
"We said we'd talk to her, we should at least tell her not to do it in the maintenance closet, besides I've got a lot to teach her" Richard grinned.
"Dude,,, she's fifteen and she could get someone to sleep with her in a damn maintenance closet without having to be in a relationship with her, I think she should be schooling you" Paul said.
"OK I see your point" Richard grinned. 
"so we talk to her today? I'll go pick her up" Till said and they agreed.