Hopefully

Then on Wednesday evening my cell phone rang. I was amazed when I saw that it was Sven who called me.

"Hey Sven." I greeted him.

"Hey." It didn't sound too great.

"I just met Jess, she told me how nice your weekend was," he told me.

"Yes, right, it was really great ... and ... how was yours?" Why I asked that.

"Um ... not so great ... that's why I'm calling. David didn't want it but ... “Sven didn't go on.

"What happened?" My heart rate quickened immediately. I knew immediately that something was wrong with Nick.

“Have you heard from Nick? So I mean this week? ”He asked me.

"No ... what's wrong?" I had a strange feeling.

“He ran away. Nobody can reach him, nor is he in his apartment. So he definitely won't open and his car isn't there. ”He ran away? What kind of nonsense was that.

"Were you at work with him?" I asked.

"No ... I thought I'd ask you first if you know something before I show up. Not that he gets stressed with his boss. ”He was right. But why did he run away? I didn't understand.

"What happened?" I asked again.

"Nick was in a bad mood again and argued with David when he found out that you weren't coming this weekend and that Jess and Lara drove to you. He wanted to call you that your Saturday is coming, but David didn't want that, he told him to leave you alone. Then he totally blew himself away, he was really full ... so full that he gave David a punch when he wanted to pick up Nick's cell phone because he wanted to call you at two in the morning. “Oh my God! He punched David.

" You can not be serious. He didn't! ”I didn't hear him replies so it wasn't a joke.

“David kicked Nick out after that. Jonas and I wanted to go with him so he wouldn't be nonsense, but he didn't want to and then yelled at us too, so I took his car key from him. But ... when we wanted to go home the next morning, his car was no longer there. ”

“ How can that be? ”I interrupted him.

"Noah said that he probably closed his car for a moment, that he has done that before." It was really hard to believe what Sven was telling me.

"That's not all." Oh man.

"What's next?" I asked carefully.

“In the evening we saw him again in the club and he was totally drunk and then Noah started to make fun of him that he was so in it because of a girl. Then he just sat in the corner and dumped a whole bottle of some kind of stuff in it. I realized it too late because I talked to David about him. Nick couldn't get along anymore. We had to carry him out ... he passed out on the way to see David, so we thought about calling an ambulance. But Noah and David were against it, because otherwise there would have been real stress and anger. Jonas somehow got Nick to throw up everything and then we put him to sleep and checked every half hour whether he was okay. “I couldn't believe that what Sven was telling me was all too much for me. I just didn't know what to say about it. I was speechless. Sven apparently noticed this, because he continued speaking after a short pause.

“He just sneaked out the next morning so that David drove to him to check on him. Because he was the first of us up and he called us and said that we should come to Nick immediately. David found ... he found a syringe in Nick's sink ... one that is used to inject heroin. He thought that was why he passed out. But Noah has confirmed Nick's testimony that it was still unused. But the fact that he had something like that in the apartment made David freak out. We all persuaded him that it couldn't go on, that he almost went on it. He yelled at us and ran away and since then we haven't seen him or heard from him. David says that he will report if something is wrong. Jonas and Noah see it that way. I know the three of them have known him a lot longer than me, but that he doesn't even tell where he is. ”Now I had to interrupt him, he sounded so desperate. He was really worried about Nick and that scared me.

"He'll get in touch, I'm sure of that and if something happened then you or one of the boys would have heard something long ago." I heard Sven sigh.

"You're probably right ... Um should I tell Jess about this? I don't know. ”I interrupted Sven immediately.

"Yes, you have to tell her, if she finds out later that Nick is gone then she will be mad that you didn't say anything. He's her best friend. “Oh, she'd freak out like that. I didn't want to be in Sven's shoes now.

"Should I call her or should I tell her personally?" What kind of question was that?

"No idea you have to decide that yourself." I noticed that he was uncomfortable.

"Sven, do you want me to tell her."

"No, I'll do that!" He said immediately.

"Okay, but let me know when you hear from him, please." Hopefully he was fine.

“Of course I'll do that right away. Until then, Jo. ”I paused for a moment. That was the first time he didn't call me Jolina. Nick was the only one who called me Jo or Jolie, although Jess sometimes said Jo to me when she was drunk. But no one else.

"See you then." I hung up. What a shit! What if Nick was not doing well, when he got so drunk that ... I had to stop thinking about that. He was fine! I was sure of that.

......

I was at David for the first time after two weeks. He was happy that I had come, but I still didn't see him all weekend. Jess had told me that David met someone last weekend. But she didn't know who she was. Neither of the others had met her. David had been out with his work colleagues and had met them in a bar. When I was on the train on the way home again on Sunday I thought about Nick. Jess hadn't heard from him either, so I took my cell phone out of my pocket and looked at it for a while, unsure whether I should really call him. Before I did it I suppressed my number and then dialed his number. As soon as it started to do my heart beat faster. I was kind of excited.

"Yes?" He answered. What should I say to him now? My heart beat faster and faster against my chest.

"Billy? Hello? ”Oh now he thought that I was his boss.

"Um ... no." I managed.

"Jo?" I let out a relieved breath, he didn't sound angry.

"Yes." We were silent for a moment.

"Why are you calling with a suppressed number?" He just wanted to know.

"Um, I thought you might not answer when you see me calling you." Silence on the other side of the line, so I was right.

"I ... was worried, no one tells me anything." I said without thinking. I asked David about him when I saw him briefly when I arrived. He just said that he was fine and that I shouldn't think about him any further. Sven said almost the same thing to me.

" I'm good. I'm ... with a friend. ”

“ What are you doing there? ”I wanted to know.

"I needed a little distance ... and rest to think." That didn't sound too bad after all.

"What about your work?" I asked further.

“Billy took me on leave. I still had overtime and he doesn't want me to come back until, as he said, I'm back to normal. ”He could be really happy to have such a boss.

"Do you know when you're coming back?" Oh man ... why had I asked that now? It didn't really matter when he would come back anyway, since we didn't want to see each other anyway. But I missed him.

"No, I don't know yet, it's not that easy."

"I know, but I'm glad you're okay." I was really relieved, even if I didn't know where he was now and what he was there made.

“Can ... we can see each other when I come back. I mean ... just like that- "I interrupted him immediately.

"Yes, I want to see you too." I heard he let out a relieved breath.

"I miss you and I hope that you will be fine soon." I said to him.

"I miss you too."

We only spoke briefly, then I had to get out and we hung up.