I Promise You

1 Unexpected Visitor

It was dark. I was going home from a house party at the end of our street. I was drunk. Just a little bit. Because my friends said, it helps forgetting and that was exactly what I wanted. Forget. Forget the fact that my parents weren't alive anymore. Every time I went to such a party my mom said: ,,my angel, please do not drink alcohol, you destroy your health!" And every time she said that, I didn't drink. For my mom. But then, everything had gone wrong. Never again would she make me go to bed or would she tell me not to drink and not once again she would say to me that I don't have to cry. Maybe I was drunk, because then I've got the feeling that my mom would come and grumble with me. But she wouldn't. She would never come back again and so I was shuffling along the dark streets of my home city Los Angelos. As I came home I threw my shoes in a corner and hopped on my sofa with a long blanket and drank a cup of warm tea. I stared into my cup of tea and wished my old life back. I wanted to change the past and die instead of my parents. A tear ran down my face and fell into my cup. Why had it to be my parents? Why had they to be there and why were they driving so late? I was very exhausted and so I fell into a deep, long sleep.

On the next day I was laying on the sofa and my cup of tea was standing on the table. I had headache and my breath wasn't very fresh. One second. I couldn't remember that I stood up for putting my tea on the table. Did I have hallucinations? I shook my head to wake up and went into the kitchen to search a pill and a glass of water. But I didn't have a long time to search, these things were already standing right there between the toaster and someone leaned on the combination. She looked at me and sized up my face. How I had missed this wonderful person. My aunt. The weirdest, angriest, badest Person I've met in my whole life. ,,Oh, Misses Garrington, it's great to see you'', and she said: ,,You can call me Clarice, darling." So we started a conversation and I had the feeling that it would end in a way I wouldn't like. I was so right about that feeling.

She said: ,,Romina my dear. It's a long time since we saw each other." And I thought that I was happy about this fact.  So I said carefully: ,, So, Clarice. What are you doing here?" She raised her eyebrows and looked at me with a ignorant smile. ,,Didn't you miss me?", she said arrogant and walked out of the kitchen into the living room. She shook out the cushion and sat on the sofa. I didn't want to sit next to her, so I sat on the armchair in front of her before I gave her an answer: ,,You weren't really interested in visiting me or my parents, so I wasn't interested in calling you my aunt." Indignant she said: ,,Romina Callahan! You should never say something like that to your relatives." I shrugged my shoulders and asked her: ,,So, can you tell me now, the reason of your visit?" And her answer was shocking me: ,,You will move to a residential school, not far away from here." And the only thing I could say at this moment was: ,,What?"