Translation
Der schwarze Mond
Schulstress mit Hindernissen
prolog
It was a day like any other, thought Kai when he came out of math class. Once again he had beaten up a job and once again his classmates laughed at him for it. He just felt bad. Why couldn't he just stay home and sit at the computer or cuddle his cat? No, he had to go to this school. Where there are lots of wannabes and vacuum bulbs running around.
At his old school it was something like that, but there he was left alone, he wasn't laughed at, he wasn't knocked down about anything. Yes, he wanted to go back there, back to his old school. The next lesson began and Kai went back to his classroom. This lesson was just like the others, dreary, slow and agonizing. As so often, Kai sank into memories of his old school.
Like every break, he stood in the school yard under a large cherry tree and watched the petals fall. Further away from him stood a group of girls whispering to the coolest guy in school. Yes it was like every break.
Kai jumped out of his daydream when an angry woman's voice grumbled at him. "Mr. Kai Drasek. Wake up! I don't sleep in my class. So what's your defense?" Asked the teacher, very unfriendly. Well, now Kai had to listen to a lecture from a teacher again. That would be the fourth that day. He got the first one in art when a classmate 'painted' him from top to bottom with paint. The teacher had squeezed him in sports because he just didn't want to play badminton with the girls and then in math because of the wasted work. And now he should justify why he sleeps in class. Great. Can the day actually get worse, thought Kai while the teacher pissed him off in front of the class community.
Yes, the day could get worse.It only started to rain after school ended, on the way home he was sprayed wet by the passing cars and to make matters worse, Kai had forgotten his front door key this morning and was now allowed to wait for his mother for 2 hours in the pouring rain in front of the front door.
At dinner, Kai's mother told his father that the class teacher called her at the office and talked about Kai's constant misconduct and lack of interest in class. Kai's father, who was still absorbed in his evening paper, looked up. First he looked his wife in the eye and then he looked at Kai. He was just about to hold the cat down from his lap with great difficulty. "Kai. Is that what your class teacher said to your mother on the phone?" A shiver ran down Kai's spine at the deep, menacing hum of his father's voice. What should he say His parents wouldn't believe him anyway, that was 100% clear to him. He also knew that if he kept silent and didn't say anything about it, he would get into even bigger trouble. So what should he do. There was no silence and neither did you tell the truth and neither did you begin to cry. You don't cry as a 16 year old boy. But without wanting to, Kai started crying at the dining table. At first only a little, then more and more violently. He didn't want to cry, but he did and it was good for him, very good in fact. All the frustration, all the anger, just everything that bothered him vanished into thin air for that one moment.
In the middle of the night Kai woke up in his bed. How did he get here, he was down at the dining table and had cried. He only remembered his mother's voice asking him what was going on and if he was okay. He wasn't doing well, just like now, but he was a little better than at noon. Kai looked at his alarm clock, which was on a small shelf beside his bed. The alarm clock said 1:25 a.m.It wasn’t possible to fall asleep again because Kai didn’t feel tired. So he got up and went to his desk, which was right in front of the window, and sat cross-legged on the table top. He looked out the window into the night. Outside, a large, brilliant full moon shone and illuminated the area. His mother had probably put his cat in front of the door, as it was just running across the meadow. Kai watched the dark area for a while. Here and there a little owl shoed, every now and then a bat got lost in his field of vision, but otherwise that night was quiet. When he happened to look at his alarm clock and it showed 4 o'clock, Kai decided to go back to bed. He still couldn't do that not to sleep, but simply to give his body some rest. As soon as he lay down, at least it seemed so, there was a knock on his room door and his mother entered his room. Kai glanced at his alarm clock with one eye. "What already 12 o'clock!", Kai shouted almost when he saw the time, "I have to go to school. What a bummer." His mother, who watched him jump out of bed and pull his clothes out of the closet took, stopped his doing by grabbing Kai by the shoulders and holding him tight. "Kai you don't need to go to school today. You don't need to go to school for the next 2 weeks either." She pushed him back on the bed and told the puzzled boy in front of her what she and his father had discussed with his class teacher. Kai couldn't believe what he was hearing. He should go to a boarding school that should bring him back into shape. Yes, that was what his own mother had said to spruce up.
At his old school it was something like that, but there he was left alone, he wasn't laughed at, he wasn't knocked down about anything. Yes, he wanted to go back there, back to his old school. The next lesson began and Kai went back to his classroom. This lesson was just like the others, dreary, slow and agonizing. As so often, Kai sank into memories of his old school.
Like every break, he stood in the school yard under a large cherry tree and watched the petals fall. Further away from him stood a group of girls whispering to the coolest guy in school. Yes it was like every break.
Kai jumped out of his daydream when an angry woman's voice grumbled at him. "Mr. Kai Drasek. Wake up! I don't sleep in my class. So what's your defense?" Asked the teacher, very unfriendly. Well, now Kai had to listen to a lecture from a teacher again. That would be the fourth that day. He got the first one in art when a classmate 'painted' him from top to bottom with paint. The teacher had squeezed him in sports because he just didn't want to play badminton with the girls and then in math because of the wasted work. And now he should justify why he sleeps in class. Great. Can the day actually get worse, thought Kai while the teacher pissed him off in front of the class community.
Yes, the day could get worse.It only started to rain after school ended, on the way home he was sprayed wet by the passing cars and to make matters worse, Kai had forgotten his front door key this morning and was now allowed to wait for his mother for 2 hours in the pouring rain in front of the front door.
At dinner, Kai's mother told his father that the class teacher called her at the office and talked about Kai's constant misconduct and lack of interest in class. Kai's father, who was still absorbed in his evening paper, looked up. First he looked his wife in the eye and then he looked at Kai. He was just about to hold the cat down from his lap with great difficulty. "Kai. Is that what your class teacher said to your mother on the phone?" A shiver ran down Kai's spine at the deep, menacing hum of his father's voice. What should he say His parents wouldn't believe him anyway, that was 100% clear to him. He also knew that if he kept silent and didn't say anything about it, he would get into even bigger trouble. So what should he do. There was no silence and neither did you tell the truth and neither did you begin to cry. You don't cry as a 16 year old boy. But without wanting to, Kai started crying at the dining table. At first only a little, then more and more violently. He didn't want to cry, but he did and it was good for him, very good in fact. All the frustration, all the anger, just everything that bothered him vanished into thin air for that one moment.
In the middle of the night Kai woke up in his bed. How did he get here, he was down at the dining table and had cried. He only remembered his mother's voice asking him what was going on and if he was okay. He wasn't doing well, just like now, but he was a little better than at noon. Kai looked at his alarm clock, which was on a small shelf beside his bed. The alarm clock said 1:25 a.m.It wasn’t possible to fall asleep again because Kai didn’t feel tired. So he got up and went to his desk, which was right in front of the window, and sat cross-legged on the table top. He looked out the window into the night. Outside, a large, brilliant full moon shone and illuminated the area. His mother had probably put his cat in front of the door, as it was just running across the meadow. Kai watched the dark area for a while. Here and there a little owl shoed, every now and then a bat got lost in his field of vision, but otherwise that night was quiet. When he happened to look at his alarm clock and it showed 4 o'clock, Kai decided to go back to bed. He still couldn't do that not to sleep, but simply to give his body some rest. As soon as he lay down, at least it seemed so, there was a knock on his room door and his mother entered his room. Kai glanced at his alarm clock with one eye. "What already 12 o'clock!", Kai shouted almost when he saw the time, "I have to go to school. What a bummer." His mother, who watched him jump out of bed and pull his clothes out of the closet took, stopped his doing by grabbing Kai by the shoulders and holding him tight. "Kai you don't need to go to school today. You don't need to go to school for the next 2 weeks either." She pushed him back on the bed and told the puzzled boy in front of her what she and his father had discussed with his class teacher. Kai couldn't believe what he was hearing. He should go to a boarding school that should bring him back into shape. Yes, that was what his own mother had said to spruce up.