It's Sunday noon and the sun is shining again. In the shade it is 34 ° C, just the right temperature to go to the swimming pool. Kai and Ai are still there today.
"Hey! Kai! Don't spray the water like that!", Said Ai who was just sprayed full by Kai. "What is the matter with you? You're not afraid of water, are you?"
“No, but it's annoying, wait a minute!” Ai ran after Kai in the water, he then got out of the water and ran over you meadow to her berth and sat down. Ai came up slowly too.
"You're pretty lame.", Kai shouted with a laugh. "Hahaha, you ran away from me, I also tripped over a branch and fell, my knee was grazed.", She explained and sat down next to Kai. "Shall we go home?" Asked Kai. "Don't go, I don't have a key with me and my grandma isn't there either."
"Oh, where do we want to go then?"
“Can't we see you?” Kai thought for a moment. "Okay, but only until you can go home.""It's good.", Ai said happily and they tidied up their place and changed into the cabins, then they met again at the exit and walked home to the quay.
Ai had never been to Kai and was therefore very excited. They walked through narrow streets for several minutes until they came to a light brown, two-story house. Kai ran up the 4 flights of stairs to the door and unlocked it.
Ai and Kai went in. It was dark in the house and it smelled of old food and dirty laundry, there were plastic bags with garbage in them everywhere.
No wonder why Kai didn't want us to go to him, Ai thought.
They went one after the other into the living room, where Ms. Miller (Kai's mother) was ironing the clothes that she had washed before.
"Oh, hello kids, what are you doing here?" Asked Ms. Miller
"Ai hurt himself Mum and so we went here, I hope you don't mind.", Kai explained.
"But no, just go to your room."
"OK."
They went to Kai's room, it was on the second floor.It looked very different upstairs than downstairs, everything was clean and nothing was on the floor anywhere.
There was a picture on Kai's desk. She was frightened and had to look at the picture more closely.
"Hey! Kai! Who is that in the photo next to your mother?"
"What? Oh dear, this is my father, this is the only picture I have of him."
"What? Your father? A - But, that's my father too!" Ai explained, startled.
"I beg your pardon? That can't be! Then we'd be half siblings.", Said Kai.
"We'd better ask your mother."
Ai and Kai quickly ran down the stairs to Kai's mother who was still ironing.
"Mum! Mum! Tell me who this is!", Kai yelled at his mother.
"Why are you screaming like that? That's your father."
"Oh yes? But Ai says that is her father too!"
"Excuse me? Is your last name Buker?" She asked Ms. Miller.
"Yes, that's my name!" Replied Ai.
"Oh my god, then you are his little daughter? George (Ai's father) had talked a lot about you when you were very little, he loves you very much."she said.
"Yes, so much that he abused me when I was 9!" Ai yelled in her face.
"What? He really did that?"
"Oh, sorry that I got so loud, Ms. Miller.", Ai apologized.
"It's okay, I had no idea. Did he do the same with mai?"
"Mai? Who is Mai?" Asked Ai.
"Mai is your bigger sister," replied Ms. Miller.
"What? I still have a big sister?" Said Ai and then looked at Kai in astonishment.