New beginning !?

For the first time in a new city, I was really happy to have made friends.
Alone I would certainly not have survived a single math lesson, let alone physics lesson.
Now I looked at myself in front of the mirror in my new home.
I wondered if the outfit was cool enough for the city and I was sure that I would still attract attention, after all, I was still wearing the clothes from London.
Ah…. London….
That word again, this city.
Another picture of Nico in front of my inner eye. And again the question of why I couldn't tell him I loved him.
It was too late now.
I was on my way to my new life.
My life in Osaka.
Osaka, the city of strange people and school.
I looked at myself one last time in the mirror, turned around and walked straight to the door of my room.
Determined to leave everything behind, including Nico, and never think about it again.
I was just about to open the door when it came towards me with full swing.I fell roughly on my bottom and rubbed my nose angrily.
'Damn it!'
My mother stood in the doorway, smiling ashamed.
"Why do you stand behind the door when I come in? Can we go?"
'Yes! Just don't ask how I'm doing! I just got almost killed from my door! '
"Why do you come in when I'm behind the door? And yes. We can go!"
I was amazed myself that I was so sarcastic at my mother and at the same time I was proud of myself!
The new school showed its effect!
"Fine. Come on then!"
Of course, my mother didn't understand my sarcasm! How should she? She might not even have listened to me.
One more time I was shocked that my mother was hardly interested in me at all….
I got up and went back to my mirror.
'Great! A bright red bump! '
Again my legal guardian reported from the door frame.
"Ying! I have to go to work again!"Naturally! The work! It was always work! My mother's life was all about work.
If it hadn't been, she might have noticed that I had a red bump on my head.
Because of you!
She would have noticed in London that I had made friends. That did not want to move away!
But it was all about her better job!
Sighing, I went out, noticing that she was already on the way to the car.
I quickly put on my shoes and walked out the door.
"Close the door! Key stuck." I heard a voice call from the garage.
I closed the front door and went to the garage.
Slowly (I loved to tease her) I got into the car and buckled up.
A few minutes later we arrived in town and I slowly got out.
A quick "bye darling" from my mother's mouth and screeching tires made me suspect that she was running late.
I looked around and froze.Lots of people passed me and I stood in front of a huge building, which was probably a shopping mall.
My gaze rested on this building for a long time until I was astonished by some halfway familiar voices.
"Hey! Already there?"
Again a playful boy's face grinned at me, which belonged to Kakunu. The others also came closer and greeted me.
Yumika didn't seem as shy around her friends as she did at school and smiled at me.
"What are you doing here so early? Be careful, otherwise you will die. They like to do it here!"
I looked at Jana in amazement. How dead? Was this place here….
She stared into my face and started laughing.
"Or have you already hit you? With that bump on your face!"
Koku pushed her aside and looked at me.
"Hmmm ... looks like it!"
He started grinning again. I had to look really bad ...
"That was my mum!" I replied to her questioning looks, whereupon everyone, including Yumi, burst out laughing."What? ... your mum doesn't like you, and is that why you knock you over?"
Still snorting and grinning, Koku asked me more such questions.
I had no way of explaining myself, so I waited patiently for them to finish, smiling myself every now and then.
I hadn't felt so well for a long time! Between moving and moving in, changing school and leaving again, I rarely had such moments in which I could have fun with friends.
When they were done I tried to explain the story with the door to them and also that I really didn't like my mother that much.
"I mean, not that I don't like her! She's my mum. But sometimes she can be very incomprehensible. We'll probably move away soon anyway when she finds another job!" that we went through while I was talking.
"Your ma seems to be really screwed!" This remark from Jana made me laugh.What else should I do other than move with her?
I wasn't allowed to live alone yet, and I hadn't finished school yet!
"Well. She's real sometimes!"
We went on in silence, and every now and then that afternoon, when we had nothing more to say, I told them about my experiences in the other cities.
I never lacked anything. Except for love, as I slowly noticed myself in silence.
My mum left my father because he hadn't wanted to leave his home country because he had his own shop there.
From then on we - my mother and I - had been traveling all the time.
From China (my father's homeland) to Paris, London, Berlin, Uruguay.
Wherever my mother could get a better, well-paid job, my home had been.
I used to enjoy it when I was little.
All alone with my mother all over the world. Like the people from the circus or the fair.I used to have hoped that someday we would buy a carousel and go to a fair, but the older I got, the more my dreams changed.
The merry-go-round that I had wished for had become a permanent apartment.
But when this illusion was broken, it was just someone who would ride with us.
I always wished it had been my father, but he never wrote to me. I would also have loved a sister or a brother whom I could have looked after, but nothing came of anything.
My mother never had a boyfriend.
And so I stay alone.
I tried everything to process my experiences, but since I had never found someone steadfast to talk to, it was a diary.
But I quickly gave up on this too, because half of the book was only filled with painful memories of my temporary friends.
Well, in Osaka I had made new friends and I wasn't hoping to lose them again anytime soon.I had fun with them and we spent most of our "excursion" talking and fooling around.
I enjoyed it.
Finally it got later and we went to a bar to get something to drink.
"The city here is really big! And besides the shopping center and the city center I have hardly seen anything!"
My enthusiasm was reflected in my eyes and my good mood.
"Wait! We'll show you the rest too!"
"Though that could take a very, very long time!"
Again the one phenomenon happened which I had already noticed in the city.
Yumi started a sentence and Koku added it!
As found out, Yumi and Jana were related, which is why they had the same surname.
Jana was Yumi's oldest cousin, but - as her parents always criticized - not half as smart, but rather stupid.
After all, she had already repeated a class.
But unlike her, Koku was even worse! He had already stayed seated twice and now had his last chance to do his Abitur.His remark yesterday that he would still be in 4th grade if Yumi hadn't helped him seemed realistic.
"Didn't your mother want to pick you up?" Yumi asked me with a look at the clock, which was already 10 pm.
"Hmmm…. Actually yes. I'll give you a call."
So I pulled out my cell phone and dialed my mother's number.
She also answered relatively quickly, but explained to me in an apologetic tone that she would have to stay longer at work.
I hung up.
"She still has a few important bills that she absolutely has to process today. I'm supposed to take the bus!"
Jana laughed.
"Yes, that's clear. The woman is really dead! As I said! Did she at least notice that you were on the phone?"
She grinned at me.
"I don't know. She probably thought I was unimportant to someone. You don't really know about her."
With a sardonic grin, Koku added: "I want to overhear the next conversation!Or best of all! I call and pretend to be your son! It will definitely work. "
Now I had to laugh too. It would probably work! Most likely! But suddenly my laughter disappeared.
I had just thought about the way home and the front door!
And the front door key for the front door that I didn't have with me.
Koku also fell silent. "What do you have?"
"I ... can't go home! I don't have a key!"
Yeah ... Very good! Either I would have to sleep outside until my mom came home, or I ...
"You can sleep with me! My mother won't mind."
I had hoped for this offer!
Thankfully, I accepted Yumi's invitation.
We finished our drink quickly and finally made our way to Yumi.
Koku and Jana accompanied and still, because they said they had nothing to do anyway.
After all, you have to accompany a new one and a 14-year-old home!
Luckily the house wasn't far from the center, so we got there quickly.We said goodbye to the other two at the front door.
"See you tomorrow! And tell me if your mother was surprised you weren't home!"
"It's clear"! I can tell you now! No!"
They turned their backs on us and left.
"Until tomorrow!" we called after them and then went into the house.
There we met Yumi's mother and father.
"Hello mom and dad! This is Ying. Your mother is not at home and she has no key with her. She sleeps with me today because she doesn't know anyone else in town."
She pointed to me and smiled.
I looked at her parents. They sat together in the living room and watched a movie.
"Good evening Mister and Misses Kageshi! Nice to meet you."
I tried to be as polite as possible because after all, I slept with them today.
"Good evening girl. We're happy too. It's not a problem that you sleep here! If you don't come in at home!"I could hear what she thought about my mother from her words.
What kind of woman it was who sends her child away without a key and then is not at home herself or picks them up! Irresponsible!
But that was really what everyone who knew Ying's mother thought.