Wednesday, July 8, 2020
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| Short Stories : The Attachment Partner (Chapter 13) |
When Gillian woke up the next day, he thought he had bad dreams at first, but little by little everything came back to him. He still didn't understand why she was gone? Above all, why forever? It could only be a joke.
Although he knew it wasn't a joke. She had meant it dead serious, why only? You could have talked to her father. The times when it was determined who the daughters were with were long gone.
As he looked around the room, he discovered her bag and got up to continue. Because he always had the feeling that she should come in and say to him at any moment.
He picked up the photo that was directly on top and had to smile immediately. She looked at him, well rather at the photographer and cheekily stuck her tongue out, but her eyes laughed. It seemed like she and her daughter wanted to pop him up.
He was still sitting on the bed, immersed in the photo, so that he didn't notice Sita coming into the room to fix everything. "Oh, Gillian, I didn't even know you were here. You wanted to be back in Miami early today. ”Something was wrong here, the way he was sitting there, his face buried in his hands. When she approached him to hack into what had happened, he raised his face and looked at her. Then Sita saw tears running down his cheeks. “She's gone, Mamusch. Just left me here as if I didn't mean anything to her. But that cannot be true. I know that. She should please come back here, she belongs here and not to her father or anyone else."
She had only seen Gillian that disturbed when his father came to Terra with the children, without the mother. Amanda Willis had refused to accompany her husband to Terra and instead filed for the separation. She had hoped that the children would come back to her, but Bob, the father, had made sure that the children grew up on Terra, except for Julian, who was born when his parents were no longer together.
As he was sitting there she wanted to hug him again, as she used to do when he was a little boy to comfort him. But the times were over. He would have to get over it more or less alone.
"Mamusch what do you think of taking a few days off? I'll take care of everything here myself, I need a few days just for myself. Just a break and to think about how to go on. “He said to her quite exhausted and she realized that it was better now to leave him alone, if only reluctantly.
The next few days passed without him actually realizing it. He walked a lot and talked to Blacky, who Birgid apparently missed as much as he did.
"You know Vera, sometimes I don't understand women," Marc said to his wife. Vera, who had just picked up a book, looked at her husband in astonishment and then asked: “Women in general or a specific one. I hope you don't mean me."
"No, I don't really mean you, but sometimes I have my problems with you too" and sat down with her
"Actually more Birgid, Gillian's ex-girlfriend. She just let him sit, although I could swear she really loved, or even still loves, him. You should have seen her say goodbye to him, at least I suppose it should be something like that, "
Curious now, Vera wanted to know what had happened in Germany.
Because Marc had only said that Birgid was gone and he had brought Gillian to his island. Since then, they hadn't heard from him except for a few short conversations when they called and he hadn't exactly sounded good.
"What did she do?" She asked curiously, so he mimicked the movements he had seen with Biggi. When he got to Vera on the nose, she held his hands in the same place where Biggi's brother had called between them.
"Don't go on until you know what that face drawing means. I suppose you wanted to reunite your index fingers under my mouth, wasn't you? "Amazed that she knew how to go on, he asked her:" And what does it mean? "
“You swear to me that you will love and desire no woman other than me until one of us dies. Did she end this oath with a kiss? "
"Yes, but how do you know that?"
"You know I was at my brother's wedding during your last tour. He married a Volanian warrior and it is still customary today to swear mutual loyalty at the end of the wedding, but both partners do it.
Did she do this drawing with Gillian? "
"No, how she gave him the kiss she left."
"Mmh, didn't even know that this custom also exists on Terra. Did you notice anything else? Was her family there? ”She asked Marc.
"Yes, her brother was there and he didn't seem to like it at all. You should have seen her looking at him when he was just trying to interrupt her, you might have thought she wanted to kill him with her eyes. Maybe not killing but somehow weird. He didn't seem to like that either, he took a few steps back and just said, then do what you want."
As he looked at Vera to see how she reacted, he was glad he was sitting. Because suddenly she looked at him exactly as Birgid had done with her brother. But only very briefly and then she smiled at him again when she noticed his look. "Don't worry, I can only look like this, the view has no effect on me, I can't do anything with it.
This look is actually just a perception that you should take seriously, at least with a warrior.
Since you actually got the idea that Birgid is not from Earth, but is one of us? "
"No, one and not in itself, because then the search for her will be even more difficult."
"I wouldn't say that," Vera explained to him: "If she is a warrior, she must have been trained in a monastery. There you can at least tell them their name. Most of them even know where their parents live or where they live, and then it shouldn't be that difficult to find them.
That would also explain why she left, even though she loves him, at least if she thinks Gillian is a Terran, although if you think about it, he's actually more of a Terran than a Pearese. How long has he been living here? "
"As far as I know, his dad was transferred to Terra as an observer when he was just three years old. So over twenty years.
The three years of training at the academy can hardly be counted and a two years later he was here again when he received the final rejection from the Sunshine. Well, for a while everyone wanted to be committed on this ship. "He told her," I tried, but unfortunately I wasn't good enough. But in retrospect, I like my current job anyway, and it is definitely less dangerous. "" Why did so many want to go to the Sunshine at this time? "She wanted to know from him:" There are so many spaceships, with the same tasks as the Sunshine. "
"Yes, but they all didn't have the youngest female Comander in the fleet and there's always something going on at Sunshine. According to stories, Comander Hinz should also look great and who can say no. I still remember that Gillian really wanted to go there, but luckily, I think it didn't work out.
And you know what my darling, I'll bring him back here tomorrow. He has now regretted enough before it becomes permanent. Because life goes on he just has to get it. But the next time you come to Volan or meet your sister-in-law, you can check if she knows anything. I will also get you a photo of Biggi."
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