but I really like her."
"Then take it slow and don't get loud, not yet, give her time. Good luck Alex." The door slammed.

"Let him try, Amy.He is nice and honest. He really likes her and doesn't just want to play like Max. "
"But Gabi, Inge is going uphill again, if Alex comes and hires her, she can give up completely."
"You can't always protect her, it's not nice what she already had to experience, but she has to live her own life and doesn't need anyone to do it for her. So please stay out of that. I told him about something was her parents and .. "
"You have WHAT? Everything that the father hit her for not saying hello, that she locked the mother away because she was a minute late?" Amy jumped up and walked around the room.
"No, not that, just what everyone knows. He won't hurt her."
"Not on purpose, but you saw for yourself what happened when the two were talking."
“You really wanted her to be at the party so that she could be around people again and have fun, didn't you?” Gabi also raised her voice a little at the end."That was something different, I didn't know that she would find an admirer straight away."
"But he's not Max, Amy," Gabi now spoke in a soothing voice, "Alex is nice and he will never hurt her on purpose. And if you always protect her from boys, how can she trust her again? There is pain in a relationship and when she is an adult should she learn it only then, or do you still protect her so that she cannot make mistakes that she can learn from? "
"No, but .." Amy fell down next to Gabi.
"Well, you see, if she gets hurt, then you have to pass her, but otherwise stay out of it. Promise?"
"Yes." Amy said softly.

"How are you?"
“Well, why?” Inge smiled at Amy. "I should ask you how you are before."
"Better, I can go out again in a week. But Gabi saw you with Alex yesterday and he then told her that you had been falling apart."
"No, I mean we met by chance and ..""Inge? Gabi told him that you live alone and that your father is in prison."
"Understand." Inge said quietly. "He didn't do anything bad, but I don't want him to care about me, he wants to know too much."
"Gabi says he's nice and that I shouldn't interfere. Inge, can you cope with him?"
"Yes, he's somehow different, I mean different from Max. But I think he'll leave me alone, right?" Inge went to Amy, who was lying in bed, and took her hand.
"I don't think so. But you can do it, if you have something then you come here, right?"
"Yes, I love you. I'll come back to the day after tomorrow and bring you school supplies."
"Thanks, see you."

"Hello."
"Hi."
"How are you?"
"Well."
"I'm sorry how yesterday went, Inge. I didn't mean to snap at you."
"It's okay. See you then." Inge wanted to pass Alex, but he got in the way.
"May I go with you?"
"I want to be alone, and you definitely wanted to see Gabi.""No, I was there until just now and helped her with Mahte. I just forgot my book there, but that can wait." He cleared the way for her and waited to see if she asked him to come along, but nothing like that happened.
"I don't want to hurt you, Inge." He whispered as she silently walked away. She turned around again. "Today you give up quickly. Is it because you now know that I have no parents?"
"No, because .." He walked over to her and stopped next to her. "You said that you want to be alone. And so I can show you that I don't do anything with you that you don't want." He smiled at her. "Should I go with you?"
"No, thank you. But maybe we'll see you tomorrow. I have finished at 2:00 pm. Maybe we'll run into each other." She smiled shyly.
"Ok, maybe until then." He turned around and went to get his book and Inge also went her way with the feeling that she had made a mistake. How could she just encourage him, why hadn't she just kept walking?Was she going to fall for a boy again, like she did on Max? With this thought, she unlocked her front door and went into the living room, where she just let herself fall on the sofa and, like so often lately, the past caught up with her.
She heard her scream, her parents were arguing again, then she heard a door slam. Silence. Suddenly heavy steps on the stairs, she curled up, tried to make herself as small as possible and to disappear, but the room door opened and a large figure stood in the frame. "There you are Inge. You were angry, you incited Mami to turn against me." The man stepped to her bed, where she was curled up, raised his hand and slammed it.
The next moment she faced the judge who asked her many things and then there was a woman, not her mother, the woman was nice and friendly, who took her in and explained to her that she could never see her mother again and that her father drove away.Then another leap in time, now Inge was 14 years old and was allowed to move into the apartment, alone.
She had managed to cope with what her parents had done to her and that her father was in jail for the murder of her mother. Then she got to know Max, and the horror started again, just completely different now.

So that's it for the first time, I hope you will read it and like it. Until then, HEL