Fine dust cracked from the ancient shelf that May dusted off. Her childlike eyes scanned the old attic with curiosity.
She had never seen so many old things before. She liked the smell up here, it reminded her of long forgotten days. Below her she heard Tobias screaming for his mother. May felt a sad feeling
she couldn't even remember her mother's face, for a long time. Sighing, the little girl let herself fall on an old, worn couch.
Was there nothing to be missed? No, she missed nothing, nothing ... Tobias screamed again, Mai covered her ears. She didn't understand why he behaved like that ..
She had never screamed, no, she never said anything, she was mute, closed to people.
They weren't listening, no they were just pretending, each of them was the same, she wouldn't waste words on people who would never understand her.
May not no not them!
She knelt on the floor and looked into the overturned mirror, it looked like her ... she gently stroked it.Dust swirled through the air and fluttered around the little girl.
Mai liked the girl in the mirror.
She straightened up and wandered over to the scratched chest of drawers, a smile crossed her face, she stroked the scratches in the chest of drawers as if she were afraid of the traces of the long-forgotten children
to destroy. At some point she would line up here .. yes, at some point she would also be forgotten.
Only Mai visited the old warehouse, she wasn't even sure whether the educators could remember this place. No, they were all grown up, nobody saw the magic that Mai saw, none of them could see what this place was for Mai. Nobody understood the value of this place ...
Mai hated each and every one of these great people who sold their imaginations for a little fame.
She would never grow up ... no, she didn't want to be like her ... she hadn't loved her, she had treated Mai like a thing ... she had given her away ...This place ! Mai's hand tightened, images that she had so carefully erased shot into her head, they exploded, leaving behind her image, the image of this woman.
She screamed angrily at her not wanting to see this woman, no she should go and let her live. She should never again constrict Mai's throat and hurt her, no Mai didn't let the woman hurt her so much again. Nobody would ever hurt her again.
Tobias scream died away.
Mai's head emptied again. She went down the stairs, she would eat now, like every day, like every day, she would forget the woman and when she felt longing she would come again to see the hated woman, maybe one day to see her to say how much Mai loved her, yes one day Mai would tell her how much she loved her.