Trapped by Emotions

Getting on Feet

Second semester of college had finally finished, it was a beautiful day, sun was shining just like most of the days when spring came. Although holidays had come, I didn't really spend them crazy like I used to do so before. Since I realized how blind I was by spending so much time being a silly teenager who only saw the fun in alcohol, long outings and coming home drunk and groggy, I wanted to change that, because I knew I had other values. I became fond of writing songs, playing the guitar more often, training at the gym and so on. Also, I spent a lot of time reading some books as usual and going out on coffees with Rosalie and my other friends. Moreover, there was a day when Ronald informed me that he was getting married next month and he had only seen his «future wife» twice in person, I wasn't really happy about it, but I congratulated him on that anyways. Unfortunately, I stopped hanging out with Harry so much, he was really my good friend and we didn't get into a fight, but I just told him that I wasn't really into drinking so much (of course I had been drinking from time to time, but it was usually on some special occasions like my birthday last month for example). Harry was always up for a drink and it was really his meaning of fun, his love and even though he got into a lot of trouble because of it, he never stopped, he was always repeating the process, but then again, who am I to stop him, I loved him as a friend and it didn't bother me. I guess that one day, he would recognize what he wanted with his life. Anyways, I didn't have any plans that day, but then my mobile phone rang, it was Rosalie, she told me that her stepfather was bothering her again, he was always really mean and unfair to her. I think that he was like that because she wasn't his daughter, but he had to feed her, keep her under his roof and everything else, but then again, it was his duty as a stepfather regardless of the fact that she wasn't his child. She couldn't study because of him, couldn't read, couldn't play, he would always torture her with some chores, he would complain, punish her, yell at her etc. Furthermore, he wouldn't like when I came to visit, but then again, I respected him as a man, regardless of his behaviour, he was her stepfather and I wouldn't disrespect him, but if he starts to beat her up and phisycally harass her, that would be a different story, but I believe that he would never do that. Actually, when Rosalie told me that, an idea came to my mind, I found some job advertisements on the internet and as a student, I really needed a job to earn some money, but the fact is that I came across a perfect job for both Rosalie and I at the hotel outside the city, but the transport there was free, so it was perfect for us. After we would earn enough money, we could afford ourselves an apartment in the city where we would live together, Rosalie was more than happy when she heard about that. She would work there as a masseuse at the wellness center of the hotel and I would be a bellboy at the reception. It was a great job and we had a right to work there as long as we wish since we were students, the only problem would be studying and working at the same time, but we would manage to keep it in line. So next day we had to wake up very early since our job interview was at 8 a.m. and we met at the bus station at 7 a.m. We were very excited. As we arrived, we were searching for miss Tesch, the hotel manager. We asked the receptionist where we could find her and the receptionist picked up the phone and called her for us. She arrived pretty fast and we went directly to her office. Since Rosalie signed up for a masseuse, miss Tesch sent her to the wellness center to talk with the head mistress of wellness. As for me, miss Tesch and I had a very long conversation, I had some experience at the hotels before, but this would be my first time working at the hotel and having an actual job, other events when I was working was only on practice in the high school. I presented to her my ID card, driving license and every document she needed and I told her that I speak English and German fluently and I also spoke Spanish and Italian, but not really fluently. I got a job immediately since it seems that I had been more educated than any other bellboy there, we both laughed manager and I and I was more than happy when I heard that. As for Rosalie, she also got a job, she told me that the lady at the wellness asked her to give her a massage and after she did, she gave her a job and praised her massage and told her to come in a week time to start working. It was great. That afternoon, I invited Harry, Freddy, Tony, Percy and Rosalie to go out, to celebrate our success. I decided to get drunk after a long time, but this event really called for a celebration. It was a crazy evening just like it used to be, we got drunk and came home happy. As we were having fun outside, drinking, Rosalie and I were cuddling and imagining our future, how beautiful it would be living together one day when we earn enough money, plus, our family would help us, despite of Rosalie's stepfather who wouldn't give a penny to Rosalie, her mother was generous and she would surely help Rosalie, while I had no problem regarding my situation, but I really wanted to start living on my own, well, actually with Rosalie, but without being a hump on my parents' back anymore. It would be beautiful.