snatches the squirrel out of my hand and runs with it to his son, who has already been put on the couch."Here Taichi! Come on! Damn Taichi, open your eyes. Here !!" my dad yells so loud that I'm sure our neighbors can hear it.
He slowly opens his eyes, which now light up scarlet, and bites them greedily from one second to the next. He closes his eyes again and sucks the last drop of blood out of the poor little animal! The dead and sucked empty animal is thrown to my mother. She goes and discards it. My brother is slowly coming back from his condition and sitting up. Mum comes out of the kitchen and immediately storms towards Taichi.
"Hey darling. Are you okay?", She asks worried.
"Hmm. All right. I'm just tired now. I'll go to sleep!"
After finishing the sentence, he gets up and goes up the stairs to his room.
"Luckily he's fine," says my mother, wiping the last tear from her cheek.
"Come on, honey. We'll both go out a bit first!" Says my father, takes mother by the hand and the two of them go outside.
I go to my room, but on the way there I hear a noise that worries me very much. I go two doors down, this is my sister's room. And I don't like that sound at all. I go into her room without knocking and see her lying on her bed, crying.
"Hey. What is it ??" I ask carefully and walk towards her.
When I got to her bed, I sit on the edge of the bed and stroke her head.
"Shhhh. Don't cry! Everything will be fine."
I try to calm her down. She turns her head so that she can look at me. I red and howled eyes look at me sadly. I just can't stand it when she cries or is just unhappy!
"I-I..wi-want..n-not, .. because-that you ... all argue! I want a completely normal family!", She says sobbing, but calms down with every word a bit more.
Wait ... we're not arguing at all ?! They just hate me and avoid me as much as possible. Because I'm the strongest and not Taichi. Although that doesn't really matter, at least that's my opinion. And my grandmother thought so too. But now she is unfortunately dead.
The only thing that connects me and the others is that we are the same species!
"But .. We don't argue. We don't yell at each other either! Well, Dad yells around a lot, but that's normal."
She looks at me for a while and then says.
"You don't yell at each other, no! But sometimes I wish that you would! So that you could even talk to each other! That's not normal. But I want a normal family !!"
She starts crying again. Now I know exactly what she means!
"They just don't like me, but there's nothing you can do about it! Besides, as long as you like me, I don't care about the others!And now calm down first. I'll stay with you tonight, okay? "
She nods and clings to me, we lie down and I cover ourselves up. After a while, I hear her breathing evenly and can now fall asleep with a clear conscience!

Suddenly, in the middle of the night, someone walks into the room! I get up immediately to see who it is. It's mum ... Yeah, really it's mum and my vampire eyes don't lie!
"What is it?" I ask her in a whisper.
"What is it ?! What the hell are you doing here ??" she asks, horrified.
"She cried! Again! And I comforted her! What is wrong with that?"
Although I could actually ask her the same thing. I mean what is she doing here in the middle of the night, but I save my breath.
She comes closer and all of a sudden she says to me.
"I love you, my son! Take good care of her!"
She turns and goes again. Her tone at this sentence was so soft and gentle, but also suffering. I've never seen her like this! I just stand there and don't even know how to react to it. “I love you, my son! Take good care of her!” Those were her words. “I love you, my son!” She has never said that to me! Really never, not even when I was a toddler. “Take good care of her!” What did she mean by that? And why did she say that? So many questions...
Somehow I'm happy that she once said these words to me, but how do I get this honor ?! Oh man!
But before I worry about it all night, I decide to go back to bed and fall asleep after a few thoughtful minutes.

***

My dad parks the jeep in the garage.
"Come on! Out with you.", He says and laughs.
I have to grin and get out. I slam the door and go back to the trunk, where my dad is waiting for me. He pushes a bag into my hand.
"Here! You can carry this. Oh and please close the garage. Thank you!"
With the last few words he's gone and I'm standing here with the bag in my arms. Great! I put the bag down carefully and set about closing the garage door. But this task turns out to be not that easy, because the door was pushed all the way to the top and I'm only 1.65 m, that means I'm too small. And besides, this door jams very often. Now I know why I have to do this.
"Great. That's typical Dad. Leaves me here alone with the difficult tasks!" I mumble and think about how I might still be able to carry out the task.
I jump and hop, but none of that helps ..
"Well, can someone help you?" Asks a voice that is strange to me.I turn around and am amazed when I see the handsome boy with an irresistible smile on his face standing in front of me!
"Ummm, well .. Oh, I can do it, but thanks for the offer!" I say and give him an uncertain smile.
Man are you stupid! , I echo myself in my thoughts.
The Unknown Boy turns to walk.
"Natoll, someone comes along who wants to help you. And you refuse. Idiot!" I say to myself.
Oh no! Now I'm even ready to talk to myself .. It starts well, the thing with the new city .. And probably the new life too!
Well, now I can't do this stupid task! Then my dad has to do this. Suddenly I hear an amused low laugh.
"Tell me, are you really sure that you can do it all by yourself?"
I look up and there he stands again, my mysterious stranger. Well mine is not quite right!
"Please let me help you. I don't expect anything in return," he says seriously, but a smile plays on his lips anyway.
After a little thought, I accept his help.
"Yeah ok. And thank you!"
He comes to the garage, stretches and pulls the lever down with ease. The gate closes with a strange sound. Well, finally I think to myself and reward the stranger with a smile, but I don't look him in the eye.
"So and now we come to the consideration," he says to me and grins.
W-What.?! Didn't he just say without anything in return ?! That can not be true! I feel some color fading from my face and just as I was about to say something, he starts to laugh! He laughs?! Why, did I do anything wrong?
"Don't worry, it was just joking. I wanted to know if my new neighbor understood jokes.", He smiles, amused.
"Oh .. - New neighbor?" I ask confused.
"Yes, you are our new neighbor. And I your new neighbor."
"Oh, oh," I say a little awkwardly. I just don't know how to react. I went to a girls' school so I never had anything to do with boys. And I didn't ask for it either, but I'm starting to think it was a mistake.
"You're having fun, but you don't talk a lot."
He eyes me as if trying to find the answer somewhere on my body.
"Yes, that's ... because ... I'm tired. Because of the move and all that." I stutter.
He smiles and says.
"Well, if that's the case, I'd better go." He turns around and leaves.
"It was a pleasure to help you.", He says and then he has disappeared around the corner.
I just stand there for a short moment, then I take the fully packed bag and make my way into the house. I unlock the door and my dad comes towards me.
"I hope the boy next door is nice," he says and grins mischievously."I don't believe it. You sent him to me ?! Why?"
"Well, actually it wasn't planned that way, I decided that spontaneously!"
Okay, now I don't understand anything anymore, but the expression on my face must have given it away, my dad suddenly says it.
"Well. Our new neighbors rang our doorbell and I told the young man that my daughter was in the garage. And then he went to see you."
I just stare at him, put the bag down and disappear into my room. In my room I decide to take a shower now because it is 9:30 p.m. I go to my closet to see if my things are neatly sorted. But when I open it, my eyes widen, I hadn't expected something like that!
A walk-in closet, that's why it looked so small. I have to smile, my dad really tried.
Simply fantastic. I step into it and only now notice how huge it is. There's even an extra closet with underwear and my shoes, I can't believe it. Simply overwhelming!
"Got it!" I mumble when I sift through my bedding.
With my bedding in my arms, which consists of a T-shirt and shorts, I go to the bathroom and treat myself to a nice bath first.
After the relaxation bath, I brush my teeth and decide to wish my dad good night. I paddle down the stairs. My warm feet on the cold floor, strange feeling. I sneak up on my dad, but he's not startled.
"Good night, Dad.", I say, give him a kiss on the cheek and walk towards the stairs, because my bed is eagerly waiting for me on the first floor.
"I wish you that too, my darling."
I smile to myself and go back up the stairs. When I lie in bed in my room, I instantly fall asleep.

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Well, that's it for now.
The third chapter follows the next (;
Lg. Daisy