Short Stories : The Attachment Partner (Chapter 14)

Short Stories : The Attachment Partner (Chapter 14)

CHAPTER 14

She hadn't wanted to believe it when her grandmother told her that Billy had left the academy after a short time to become an actor. As it seemed, with great success. Since Birgid wanted to see how good he was, she was now in the theater to watch him.

She was delighted when she thought of Molan, he was surely angry that Billy did not continue the tradition and devoted himself to space travel.

She thought it was good that the boy should do what he wanted and what he enjoyed. As far as she could tell, he was also very good. At least he liked his job because he looked very happy and she was proud of him that he had managed to prevail against his father.

So she didn't even notice how a little girl suddenly ran up to her until she called: "Mom, mom. Grandpa never told me you were here! Are you staying with us now? "

"Oh, where are you from?" I would have come to you soon, but unfortunately I have to go again then. After that we stay together again, almost like before. Do you know who that is up there? ”She asked Ivon, overjoyed to have both children with her. "Grandpa says this is my big brother, great isn't it? I have always wanted a big brother. ”Suddenly the little girl stopped and looked at her mother reproachfully. "Why did you never tell me that I have a brother?"

"Ivon, you know that I couldn't remember many things. So try to be quiet for a while, we want to watch and listen to Billy, don't we? "Ivon was just sliding onto her lap to find out." But you can't forget his children? "Biggi put her index finger on her lips to make Ivon clear that she should be silent now. Because the audience around them started to grumble, they finally wanted to follow the play and not the entertainment of mother and daughter.

"Come on, darling, we'll wait until all the other spectators are out and then we'll find your brother. Maybe your grandpa knows where we can find him, too. ”Biggi told her daughter, who was hugging her tightly, and saw her father on the way to them. Which was not that easy, because everyone else wanted him in the opposite direction.

"Hello little one, I see you got Kirling well. You look a lot better than a few weeks ago. ”She knew he wanted an explanation of why she had just left, just got home. "Daddy I'm sorry, can you forgive me again?" How should she explain all of this to him in the presence of her daughter. "Let it go, I already know. Mike explained everything to me, but I thought you had a little more trust in me, or you think I couldn't understand you. In case you are looking for Billy he will be in his dressing room, right behind the stage. "A little embarrassed, she said to her father:" Thank you Dad, but don't you come to him? "" No, I have a meeting and I think if he sees you he doesn't need his old grandfather. "

"Come on Ivon then let's see if we can find your brother." Since it was just a little Teather, she had quickly found his dressing room. When you heard someone knock on the door, she opened the door when she saw Billy in his girlfriend's arms, at least she assumed so. Did she want to withdraw for a while? But bad luck, Ivon had slipped under her arms and asked him rather old-fashionedly: "Are you my brother? You're already that old? ”Amazed that a little girl visited him in his dressing room, actually they were a bit older, he let go of Miri to take a closer look at the troublemaker. "How do you think I'm your brother, I think you're making a mistake. Maybe I just look like him. ”He tried to get something more out of Ivon and didn't notice that someone had come. "No Billy she's not making a mistake, she really is your little sister," he heard a voice say that seemed very familiar to him. "Ma, is it really you" he couldn't believe she was back. Where everyone said she would not come back, but he would have known his mother would show up again.

There she was now and apparently did not know what to do. He was just too big to just hug him, he seemed so grown up to her. But then again, seven years had passed since she last saw him, and in the meantime the boy she knew had grown into a grown young man, only a few years younger than Gillian.

"Man Ma, where have you been so long, but now you're back", overjoyed after his girlfriend had left us alone, he picked her up and whirled her across the room. "Billy please let me down again and better take your sister to whirl around. I'm not getting that very well right now. It is nice to see you again. “She was happy and thought: Externally he seems to be getting more and more like his father, tall, but not slim and the red curly head. He doesn't have the color of his skin a bit green from me. If you consider that he was already 21 years old, well children will just grow up, that was also the case when you weren't there as a mother.

The thing with children seemed to be something like that anyway, soon she would have four children, which was actually unusual enough, but also from three fathers. What the hell, she couldn't change it anymore.

"Are you very disappointed because I am no longer at the academy, to take over the Sunshine someday? Dad almost burst with rage and threw me out afterwards. "" No, Billy why should I. I am much more happy that you are doing what you enjoy and with the Sunshine, currently your uncle Mike is in charge anyway. I also don’t know if I’ll ever take over again fully because I’m pregnant again. From my own experience, I know that raising children and commanding a spaceship is not going well. "Pleased with the addition to the family, he asked his mother:" How long will it take? Where will you live At Volan, or at Grandfather's? ”He suddenly looked at her and asked,“ Where's the father from the child you expect. I assume Sam was her father? "But he was interrupted very energetically by Ivon, who stood on tiptoe in front of him, and defiantly said:" My dad is Gerd and he is very nice. The mom and I will go back to him, she just has to do something. Then they both looked at her expectantly. "Well, in a way, Billy is right and Sam is your father, but Gerd is too, because he loves you like a daughter and also cares for you, which your real dad can no longer do because he is dead.

But believe me, you don't need to be sad about it because you have Gerd and me. Sam wouldn't like it if you were very sad about it now. But unfortunately I have to disappoint you, we will no longer move in with dad. If you want you can go to him at any time, even for longer, believe me. But I will no longer live with him. "

"Well, the kids that are growing in me now are from a man I love very much. Yes, Ivon more like dad. But which none of you know. Maybe one day you will get to know him, believe me that would be great for me too. ”And took Ivon in her arms to comfort her, more about the fact that they would no longer be a real family than before, than about her real father no longer lived. On the other hand, you can argue about who really was her real father in Ivon case. The man who had fathered her and whom she loved, or Gerd who was always there for the Ivon and would probably always be there for her.

"Billy, do you know a place around here where Ivon can play with other games and we can have a little talk because in one of them she's right I have to go again for a few days. I want you to know this time. "

He looked blankly at his mother, but then went with the two of them to a nearby park, where there was everything possible for smaller and larger children, who were also looked after while the adults were able to do their own business. Ivon, who luckily found a direct connection, quickly disappeared with some other children.

"Ma, you are not serious that you want to go away, are you?" He asked her "actually want less, but if I don't want to kill Huron, the father of my future children, I must. He's already killed Sam and it doesn't have to happen again. "He asked her quietly:" Huron isn't a frog by accident, is he? "

"Yes." He got the answer "But, he told me that if I didn't show up, he would take on my attachment partner and he is Terran. Now don't tell me I shouldn't leave you and Ivon alone again, because you've grown up in the meantime and I'm going to take Ivon to Gerd on Terra. I just want to ask you to check your sister from time to time, if I don't come back, will you do that? ”It wasn't easy for her to tell him, because he was so happy that she had come back. "Billy, please believe me I will do everything I can to come back, and then my life will very likely change a lot.

I intend to lead a normal life then, but if I am not on Fokir in three days I can forget all of that. You should know me that far.

you know that I am not the type who first lets others fight and secondly cannot and does not always want to hide me, then prefer to do so. ”When she saw his sad look, she got a guilty conscience, but another solution came to her not a. "Billy please don't look at me like that. I can't change it either, and if you keep your fingers crossed for me it will be fine. We just have to believe in it. ”At the moment she didn't know if it might have been better to fly Ivon directly to Gerd, but on the other hand he was old enough to live with the truth. Then she stood up, hugged him and gave him a kiss on the forehead, suddenly she didn't care how grown up he was. In the first place he was her son and she would have liked to be with him more often, but it shouldn't have been that way and they both had to get along.

"It's okay Ma, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you and if need be, all my toes, but please come back."

"I will do my best, believe me. Bye my darling and annoy your father a little bit from me. ”In her thoughts she added: Sorry Billy that I have to leave you alone again. And went in search of Ivon to fly with her to Gerd.

She had finally found her and when she asked Ivon if she would like to fly over to Papa, the little girl was thrilled.

"Mom we don't fly to dad on the small plane?" Somehow, she didn't seem to be so enthusiastic about Biggi's flyer. "Why not, there is enough space for us, or do you mean the Sunshine is flying to Earth just because we both want to go there. Take care you will have fun. If you want you can also fly yourself. What do you think?"

"Can I really fly?" I could hardly believe it "Right in space?"

“Yes, where else is this a real little spaceship, I have flown much further than just from Volan to Earth. Now come on in with you. ”After about three hours of flight, of which I had the wheel in hand for half an hour, the earth came into view. "So Ivon now please sit down very peacefully next to me and please buckle up. Now I have to see that we can find a landing place where you don't run against the flyer so quickly. "Ivon looked at her as if she doubted her mother's mind and said:" Mom, your flyer is not that small, you just like that Runs against him. ”Biggi grinned at her daughter and explained to her while she landed in a meadow on which she had often walked with Toby. By the way, he was with her grandparents on the farm, most likely chasing chickens.

"I camouflaged the flyer, which means it cannot be seen by anyone else, unless it has this small device," and pulled something out of her pocket that Ivon looked like a remote control. Come on, let's take a little walk and we'll be with dad.

She looked a little wistful when she was on her way home with Ivon. Actually, she thought that it was a very nice time and if you think about it now, the doctors had been right back then, she didn't want to remember. Because she really didn't think her current life was great anymore, maybe everything would be different if Sam were still alive or Gillian was not a Terran, but as it was at the moment, she actually only felt very lonely. That was the disadvantage of being half a Volanian, Volanians were rarely alone, actually only until they met their attachment partner and then they did everything important together. At least it should be like that.

But there were also disadvantages to this story. It happened very often that a partner could not cope with the death of a bonding partner, only a love partner, and died or fled to a non-existent illusory world.

It was better then that you never met your attachment partner or love partner, as he was often called, which happened more and more often. Because you couldn't miss someone you didn't know.

Ivon was thrilled to see her father again, but Biggi didn't really seem to know how to behave.

"Hey Gerd, see you again! May we come in? ”She asked him to cover up her insecurity.

He looked at her with a smile and said only: “Sure thing. Go through the living room I have a visitor that you will be happy about too ”and went to her room with Ivon.

When they arrived in the living room, Biggi could happily be heard saying: "Bee, nice to see you." "Man, it seems like an eternity when we dropped you off at the airport." She felt really wistful when she thought about the last few days on Earth. Bee pushed her away a little and said: “You don't look particularly good. Do you miss Gillian? "At first she only nodded but then said:" Yes, very much. But I can't change anything yet. Did you hear anything from him? ”She had almost whispered the last sentence. She looked anxiously at Bee and waited for an answer. "After you left him, he buried himself on his island for two weeks and the rumor mill boiled.

Now he's on tour in Mexico. I got tickets, but then I didn't fly, I preferred to be with Gerd, who surprisingly took a few weeks off. I'm with him more often now and I think I love him. ”While she opened this up to Biggi she tried to figure out how her friend was standing there. "I'm happy for you, really. I hope you will be happy with each other, "you know, so I don't have a guilty conscience towards Gerd." "What are you going to do now, Gerd said something about it that you bring Ivon to him because you may not come back? What is that supposed to mean? "

"That should mean ... well, the day after tomorrow I have a meeting with the person who is responsible for this whole mess here," she said, "and from this meeting only one will return. Now just don't say don't go there, because it's not that easy. "Bee said enough on her face not to ask any more, but then said:" Biggi, if you want my ticket for Gillian's concert, you might consider it then yes, when you see him."

"I will be happy to take your card, but I will not change my mind, believe me there is no other way. I still have to go through it, but after that I will lead a normal life like many others, I promised it to Billy and Ivon and I don’t want to continue with my previous life Player stopped doing her job and asked, "Who is Billy, a new boyfriend?" At the moment, she trusted her friend to do everything, even though she wasn't really. Biggi seemed to have changed a lot. If in the past she had looked a bit in need of protection, she now seemed more self-confident.

Birgid grinned mischievously at her and explained: "No I don't have a new boyfriend, how should I, I love Gillian more than anything else. Billy is my son and Ivon's half brother, she calms Sabine. "

When she saw Bee breathe a sigh of relief she knew that her friend was still worried about Gillian. He hadn't put up with the separation as well as she hoped, did he miss it as much as she missed him?

When Gerd joined them they lovingly changed the subject and talked about this and that. When it was late, Biggi went to her flyer after saying goodbye to the two and Ivon, she preferred to be alone with her thoughts assign. As always when Gillian was mentioned, a complete kaos seemed to spread through her.

Nevertheless, she was looking forward to seeing him again tomorrow, if only at a concert, maybe everything would change soon and she would be with him again.

Finally she had a place she liked and she had made a young woman happy when she exchanged her box seat for a place in the back row. Because she wanted to see him, but not to be seen and if she couldn't stand it anymore, she could get out of here without disturbing her. As she saw him on stage now, it was incredibly difficult for her to stay in her seat and not go forward to him. Now she only really noticed how she missed him.

Even though he was romping around on the stage, she had the feeling that this time it was more like a New York show, this supposition was also confirmed when she heard his latest song <leave and alone>. This song was aimed at her, but it also applied to her. Because she wasn't feeling any better than him, only she had a bad conscience. When he sang her song and sat on the stage alone, he really looked abandoned and alone. Anyone who only knew her a little and saw her here now knew that she couldn't go on like this for a long time, or rather neither of them.

When she saw him there so sadly, she didn't notice how intensely she thought of him: Oh my darling you don't know how much I would like to be with you now, but I still can't. I miss you as much as you miss me, my god if I could only tell you that. I love you and I will never forget you. Bye Gillian, I can't take this anymore. Wish me luck, maybe we'll have another chance. Damn it if you weren't just a Terran, but one of us, everything would be a lot easier.

And without looking back in his direction, she left the concert prematurely. The gatekeeper who saw her ready to go out thought to himself: Again someone who had fallen hopelessly in love with Willis. How did this boy do it? And watched her shake her head as she left the theater.

What happened inside was noticed only by a few people who knew Gillian very well. He stopped in the middle of the song and it was switched to playback so that the show went on. Because what Biggi did not know and might never know, he had received her thoughts and now knew that she was here somewhere, but could not find her anywhere.

When he showed the porter a photo of her after the performance, the latter said to him: "Yes, I saw her, she went about a quarter of an hour before the end." He thought disappointed why you left me alone and why should I be lucky for you to wish? Human girl why can't you even stay with me?

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