Please stay

Paul

I heard Richard come in and I heard him throw something. I heard him then pound on something and then he came into the room. He sat on the floor and broke down crying.

"Richard, what is wrong?"

"Nothing at all."

I saw he had something in his hand. It was a drumstick. Schneider gave it to him for his birthday as a joke years ago. I saw he also had the picture Till gave him for his birthday. I knew something was wrong.

"Richard, don't tell me there isn't anything wrong."

Richard text someone and my phone rang. "Paul, I messed up. I got into a argument with my boyfriend. He was shot once in the right lung and once in the neck. His heart stopped four times and they don't think he will make it. We were walking. When someone shot him. He wanted me to move in and that is what we were fighting about. If he don't make it I think we are not going to have a job much longer."

"What does your boyfriend have to with the band."

"My boyfriend is Till."

I got off the phone and looked at Richard and I was crying. I was so glad I got the casts off in a few weeks. Richard cried himself to sleep on the floor. I cried myself to sleep.