Music for Hope

Chapter nineteen

Sky

On Monday morning, Danny and I get ready and take Leo to school, then we head to school for our meeting with principal Mueller. Once there, we enter the corridors, which are still filled with students. I grab Danny's hand, who is at least as nervous as I am. We run to the director's office, where Jonas is already waiting for us. Together, we knock on the door and, after Mr. Mueller had prayed us in, enter the office. I've never been here since fifth grade. It's a spacious office, with a giant desk and two computers. Mr. Müller points to three chairs, please sit down opposite him. He says kindly what we obey and sit down on. Thank you for taking time for us I say and start stuttering with nervousness. No problem, how are you? Have you recovered to some extent? Thanks to the demand. I'm already doing better, I was able to recover well. Please excuse the inconvenience we are causing you, we were unaware that this was going to turn out. Yeah, who knows. Mr Hoffmann has told me that you will both become parents in the near future, if that is true, I do not want to cause them any additional problems. However, we need to discuss how to move forward. Yes, it is true we will become parents in about 5 months. Thank you for not wanting to cause us any other problems. Now takes the floor from Danny, who has remained silent until now. As we go on, we can now discuss, Mr. Müller, in our interest. Yes, that would be very helpful. How did you imagine it? It is certainly not easy to direct your life after a child at such a young age, but as I have noticed you are already used to this from her little brother. Yes, I am used to my life being judged by my little brother. He makes it really easy and I don't regret taking him in at the time, even though I knew it was going to be exhausting. But I owed it to him. This time, too, it will be difficult, but we have support and I will do everything I can to ensure that we can only show love and security to our child. Sky becomes a very good mum, I know that much. So, after the autumn holidays, Sky goes to school for three months and I work until a week before giving birth. Then Mr. Hoffmann takes over my lessons. After giving birth, we take a month off to look after the baby. During this time, I teach Sky at home until she goes back to school and graduates. As long as I look after the baby, then we keep seeing. Okay, I like the plan. If anything else changes, please let me know. Thank you again for supporting us in this way. Mr. Mueller. I'll take over again now. Okay already. Thanks for the conversation. They're allowed to leave. " We get up and in going I still say Ah, and Her Müller. Please treat the issue confidentially. I decide for myself who I tell something to or not. Thank you. Then we leave.

Once at home, we lie down in bed and discuss how to proceed. We can clear out your house and split up the rooms. Yeah, that sounds good. Do you already have an idea? Your house is huge. Yes our house is huge and I have already said an idea. We continue to stay above, Leo and the baby on the second floor, the guest room too. Lynn and Nick move to the basement, for now, because they belong to our funny family. What do you think, Danny? I totally agree with you Sweetheart, great idea. But what do we do with your mother's downstairs room? I thought that since we all make music, we could make a subdued music space out of it. That would be cool and what are we doing now?

Full of drive, I say, We go over and pack your stuff that we can bring over. Then we buy cushioning and turn the empty room into a music room. Sky today we rest. That's what we're doing tomorrow. I hate it when he treats me like a baby just because I'm pregnant. I am pleased that he is making such an effort and worrying. But sometimes it's just too much. For me, it's new that someone worries about me, and it bores me. But I don't say that to Danny. Let's go down and make music. Leo and the others will come home soon, too. We sat down at the piano and sang. Singing together always makes me super happy and I always remember the evening we met or evening with the big band at my favourite music club. It reminds me that this super good-looking man, next to me, belongs to me and he loves me.

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It rings and as we stand the door open, as suspected, Leo, Nick, Lynn and Uncle Jonas at the door. For me, it's still hard to call him that, after all, he's been Mr. Hoffman for me since fifth grade. I let them in and Leo first sits down to homework as we prepare the food. Spagetti Bolognese, we all love that. When eating, we plan together with the others as we make the house. And the guys decide to start with the empty space, because they are bored. Lynn and I already want to pack stuff from Leo and Danny's room. Leo desperately wants to help the guys who reluctantly let him be granted. So the men drive off to the hardware store to get everything they need, while Lynn and I walk into the house opposite packed with moving boxes. In Leo's room we start arranging toys and clothes in cardboard boxes and talk along the way. I don't know when the boys came back, but when we come home in the evening, after we also stowed Danny's stuff, the guys are already setting up the music room. They proudly present their work to us and I have to say they have succeeded in creating a super cool music space in such a short time. You all did that great. Say me and give Danny a kiss.

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I take a guitar standing in the room and start playing a song we also played in the big band. Danny sits down at the piano and gets in. The others follow. Nick on drums, Lynn on bass. Only Leo stands without anything, so I hand him the guitar, which makes him shine, and sat down to Danny's piano and sang. It sounds ready for concert and Leo has had zero problems coming in. He doesn't play the same as me, but what he plays fits just as well. It always surprises me what the little one has on it.