Father

Yes, I always knew she would be a great mother. She treated me like her own son and I see her more as my mother than my own. I go to them after work at least once a week and have dinner with them and we talk. It's important to her, so I'll do it ... I think without her ... I wouldn't be anymore ... well ... back then, when I was seventeen, I woke up completely drunk in front of his workshop and he took me in with him I could sleep in on my outside and gave me something to eat before I went home. That happened two or three times before Rosi noticed. She felt somehow responsible for me, always cooked me something to eat and then I made minor repairs in her apartment to say thank you. Billy offered me a job as a temporary job only on weekends. He said to me at the time that I can never come to work drunk, with a flag or fully drunk, and as long as I keep that I can stay. When I finished school I talked to Rosi and we talked about my future, what I plan to do now, but since I didn't deal with something like that, of course I had no idea. Didn't know what I could either. Then Billy suddenly said that it was clear and that I could work for him if I wanted to. He kept turning a blind eye when he got calls from the vocational school that I wasn't there or that I was measuring. But he didn't care as long as I did the job properly. I stayed after my training. It was not a topic that I was looking for something else. In the meantime even I had customers for us and he took in enough to give me a permanent position. ”

Nick smiled again. I was just so happy that he was really telling me something about himself for the first time.

"You are really lucky that you have someone like that."

"I know that." He confirmed me. Then he smiled again.

"The best is yet to come." He then said to me.

“I told you a few months ago that Billy had stress at home. Do you remember? ”I nodded slightly.

"Where you quarreled about the assignment, when you took something on yourself, whether it wasn't you?" I saw him nod.

“Rosi was so irritable the whole time and wanted Billy to slow down and then he went abroad with me to make a few cars, there was always more stress. Billy was worried because she was so weird and sent her to the doctor ... that's when they found out that she was pregnant. "I had to smile immediately.

“At first it was a shock for both of them because they thought that Rosi couldn't have children. It is now in the ninth month. It will only take a few more weeks at most. Billy came after you to

slow down ... "Now he stopped talking " And? "I asked curiously.

"There was only the option to sell the workshop or hire a business partner ... and that will probably be me."

"You mean you will be his partner?" He nodded.

“I haven't made up my mind yet. Billy said I should get my life under control again and when I get that far, then I'll be my own boss. I talked to Rosi what she thought of it and she said that she knew I could do it and that she trusted me, that I could quit drugs and run the workshop so that Billy could be with her and the child. And ... I don't want to disappoint you. ”I shook my head and smiled.

"You already made up your mind." I laughed. And Nick just looked at me.

" What do you make of it? If I would do it. ”He asked me to my surprise.

"You have to decide for yourself whether you are ready to take on this responsibility ... but I think ... that you will make it if you really want to."

"Thanks." We both smiled at each other. Then I looked at the clock.

"We should get back slowly, we've been here for a long time." Nick stood up without answering me. Then he put the bottle back in the refrigerator.

"And why is your fridge so full?" I asked with a laugh.

"I don't know, since I don't take anything anymore I'm kind of hungry." I had to laugh again.

“I don't think that's funny. I didn't mean to get fat. But at Toni's I ate something almost every hour and when I came here yesterday and saw the empty fridge, I first got myself a pizza and went shopping this morning. ”

“ If you don't just buy unhealthy stuff then you won't get fat either. You girl. ”I really had to laugh. So that he just shook his head and then we went out of the apartment. It had really started to rain outside and it even flashed. Nick put his jacket around my shoulder so that I pulled it over my head and we ran to the car. On the way back we talked about Jess and Sven and also about the others.

When we stormed in the door of my family because of the rain I stopped abruptly when I saw my father standing in the hallway with the phone in his hand. He looked at me first and then at Nick before putting the phone down again.

"I was just about to call you, Cherie, and ask where you disappeared to." Oh, I hadn't told anyone. Now he looked back to Nick who took my wet jacket off and hung it up. My father looked at me again and then nodded in Nick's direction.

"Um ... this is my father." I said to Nick Gewand who then looked at him.

"Hi, I'm Nick ... a ... friend of Jo ... lina." He politely shook hands with my father.

"Nice to meet you, Nick. Jack Dupont. ”My father introduced himself to him.

"And ... may I know where you've been?" He asked me in his heavy accent, so I nodded.

"I went to Nick's, we picked Ines bowl there." Nick pointed it up when I said that. My father looked at me incredulously. But before I could say anything else, Nick spoke.

“I asked Jolina to come with me. So that we could talk. We haven't seen each other for a while. ”To my astonishment, my father simply nodded.

"You should get something to eat before there's nothing left." He smiled and then turned around and left us alone. Totally amazed that he had reacted like that, I stared after him.

"Your father is nice." I then heard Nick say next to me. I looked at him and nodded. Then he started grinning.

"I didn't even know that you were a little French." I rolled my eyes. So he'd noticed my father's accent.

“My father is French ... not me. Besides that, you should have noticed from my last name that he is not German. ”Nick shrugged his shoulders.

"To be honest, I didn't know what your last name was, I always assumed you had the same last name as David." I shook my head.

“I got the name from my father and David from his father. Our mothers are relatives. ”Nick nodded. Then looked towards the kitchen.

“Let's get something to eat. I'm starving. ”I shook my head and smiled.

"Not that I catch you in the toilet afterwards, puking everything up again so you don't get fat." I said laughing to him. But he didn't seem to find that funny because he looked at me in disgust.